No one actually has choreography and dances and sings and rhymes like this anymore. The guy is full of talent you can’t deny it. And he made a song it’s been iconic since I was a teenager and this was what everybody was listening to.
No matter what is said about this song, it is a classic that will never go out of style. It was one of the most popular songs of the 90s. Vanilla Ice in da house.
We all joked when it came out. But this song was on in every club from Miami to LA. If it came on the radio we were all moving. In real life Ice is a stand up guy..does TONS for his Florida community and beyond with charity work. Guy is a good man inside.
Yeah I agree 💯 he's smart to when things in gangsta rap got heavy and heated he got out. He could ride motorbikes professionally to pretty sure. Im a rider myself :) did you know he was friends with Pablo Escobar? I only just learnt this haha pablo would land his chopper at vanillas house. Watched the movie Blow? He raced boats and was friends with most of those guys. Internet wasn't a thing back then. He didn't know truly who they were as in drug lords 😂 what about the ninja turtles lol he was a cool cat for sure and still is. He's money helped build DeathRow records. A teenage star who didn't turn out a complete mess. That's what's crazy hahah
Its funny when someone makes it big with a catchy pop song everyone loves it but once they get tired of it everyone hates it. It didn't help that it was lifted from Queen but many artist lift from older songs. If the artist is respected and liked people are happy to brush it off. However if not then you'll never live it down.
This song is credited to seven songwriters! The Queen/Bowie suit was settled out of court and "Ice Ice Baby" had to add five additional writing credits to its label (four members of Queen & Bowie).
this song came out in 1990, Eminem's very first album was in 1996, while he didnt get popular until 1999, so he very little competition because he wasnt even around yet
Vanilla Ice has a UA-cam channel. He has a video of him watching and reacting this video and song himself. Pretty cool listening to his commentary. The meaning of things, lawsuits, Miami in the 80s etc.
I was raised in Inglewood, California. This song came out around 1990, when I was about 20 years old. The streets, clubs, dances and even backyard boogies were banging this song. It was on and poppin. And as far as I'm concerned, it will always bang. But your critique of him, and the song is correct. It was a party song, a story that got a little graphic at the end. But that is exactly what mostly happened back then. The jackers, jacked!
Vanilla Ice always hang out with friends from the streets and had many gigs in very dirty and underground locations and had to deal a lot with the streets, so nothing fake about him, just people's jealously back then, on a hard working man, who wasn't from the streets but always was connected to them and had to face them daily later on.
I lived in Miami and this song came out when I was 17 and it's hard to describe the impact this song made. It was like the Miami Anthem, LOL! Blessings to you!
This was a whiteboy in the 80s he was ahead of his time, like Rakim, Kane, Eric B, LL, etc y'all tripping that hate on this man... This is stamped classic his bars were tough af from the 80s...
He talked tough and did hip hop dance because back then, white folk really _were_ "guests in the house of hip hop", and had to be deeply assimilated into Black culture to be regarded as "legit". Unfortunately Rob Van W. here was a suburban silver spoon kid, so it was all a facade, and he got called out for it. Took a few decades (and artists like former white trash Eminem, who had a genuine ghetto upbringing) to broaden the culture, and even now there are gatekeepers in the genre who insist that anyone not Black in hiphop is an "appropriator"...while other White hiphop artists like Mesus fire back with "hiphop is a culture, not a color".
The little girl Ice is holding in the video is actually his Goddaughter. She's all grown up now. There is a video of Rob talking about the song and video.
Except he has multiple hits and his ALBUM is multi-platinum... ALBUM, not song. He still does World Tours. He is still very much relevant in the music industry and out. Check out Vanilla Sprite Remix. ua-cam.com/video/zRVlh5V3_3U/v-deo.html
@401Impala That's right. And fortunately for us, the aging ones, the stars of the eighties and nineties continue to sing and tour. Even now, it's a great experience for us to see and hear them live - especially if it's the first time!
@@baron7755 Ice Ice Baby. Get Wit' it. Play That Funky Music. Roll 'Em up. Rollin' in my 5.0. Cool as Ice. Hooked. I love you. Now, feel free to run into a wall face first.
If you want to get into old school 80s rap, one that people now overlook is Sir Mix-A-Lot. His most famous song is Baby Got Back, but before that one came out there was Possy on Broadway and Square Dance Rap. Of course, you should also listen to the big names like Run-DMC and Grandmaster Flash too.
He was 16 when he wrote this. He had the bars and the dance moves/talent. They don’t have that now. He was sued by Queen and Bowie for its “Under Pressure”beat. He’s also smart. After the suit he bought the rights to Under Pessure so he gets paid royalties now if his song or their song is played so he recouped his loss. He’s also a rich multimillionaire in real estate.
@@Dismembering_ManOMG... He *_does not_* own rights to "Under Pressure." He claims he does to save face. You know, you can just Google the answer, right?
LOL then explain why Queen and DB own shared rights of "Ice baby" you make no sense. You say he bought "Under Pressure" but Queen shares ownership of "Ice baby" too 😄😄
@@RoverWatersDavid Bowie and the members of Queen own the rights to this song because the main hook is from Under Pressure, which they wrote. Google 'music plagiarism'.
Something that you have to remember about hip-hop in the late 80's and early 90's is that mainstream hip-hop back then was completely different than the underground stuff. Hip-hop was just making it's way into the mainstream at this time.
you gotta remember the era too and that rap wasn't as mainstream then. his "vanilla" lyrics was partly why he broke into the mainstream. keep in mind, Will Smith had hit rap songs around the same time. Listen to Will Smith's stuff and you'll understand where on the evolutionary line of rap this era was.
@@JamesBrendon-h4r How can there be "tons" going mainstream when it was only Run DMC's albums that were setting records in the late 80's? Ice Ice Baby was 1990. Rap was just starting to hit mainstream in the 90's, thanks to guys like LL Cool J, Beastie Boys, MC Hammer and yes Vanilla Ice. Run DMC set the stage for those guys, but there was certainly not "tons" going mainstream when Run DMC was doing it, it was only after them.
If you want to continue down the trippy train of 80's and 90's rap, check out Snow - Informer, MC Hammer - U can't touch this, Run DMC ft Aerosmith - Walk this way, Beastie Boys (any song), Sir Mix-a-lot - Posse on Broadway or Baby got back. The list goes on, too many to mention.
Listening to this song on the Alpine 7909 pull out and Alpine equalizer with the Rockford Fosgate subwoofers linear power amps making the pavement move with bass while in the parking lot of the gas station playing hacky sack with friends is how it was back in the early 1990s.
I saw an interview with Vanilla and he was asked about sampling Queen. He said everyone sampled back then. They only came after you depending on how many records you sold.
I love how 99% of Reactors who go into this song with an open mind & don't have all that cultural weight to not like it. Just shows why it was so popular when it came out. But then there was the sampling controversy, which was the early days of sampling & only became a problem because of how successful it became. He later settled with Queen & acquired the rights where he receives royalties when Ice Ice Baby or Under Pressure is used
"He later settled with Queen & acquired the rights where he receives royalties when Ice Ice Baby or Under Pressure is used" to get royalties you need to be listed as a writer or co-writer on that specific song. I checked google on Under Pressure and did not see Van Winkle credited as a writer I checked google on Ice baby and did see Queen and DB share writing credits with Van Winkle.
You gotta remember this was 1990, rap was different back then, not to mention he wrote this song when he was 15 or 16 yrs old, everyone thought it was a thoway track it was side b on his promo cd that all the radio station had, side a was play that funky music, one day a dj in Georgia decided to see what this ice ice baby song on side b was, he played it and the phones everywhere blew up wanting this song to be played,if not for that dj we might not have ever got vanilla ice, ice ice baby is one of those very few and far between songs that you can play and instantly remember what you were doing wen it was on, it stands the test of time,
Vanilla Ice is the greatest living musician alive today who's still alive and still the greatest and also a musician. It's a cone world. Long live the cone. If there's a problem, he'll solve it 😎✊🍦🧊
This is a song that anyone can dance to. I cant dance anymore to eminens songs with my 3 year old. If you observe the tone of the video, it showed unity, the purpose of 50% of the song. Yes, he absolutely earned his place in history.
You gotta keep in mind Rob aka Vanilla Ice wrote this song when he was 16 and it came out in 1990. Hip hop was still not mainstream yet and a lot of great old school rap would be cheese now a days.
It's helpful to know that this song was considered "album filler" and was put on the B-side of his first single, which was a cover of Play That Funky Music (White Boy). A Miami DJ didn't care for the single, so he flipped it over and listened to the B-side, which was Ice Ice Baby, and decided it had a good beat (stolen, of course, from the Queen/David Bowie collaboration "Under Pressure") and a good hook, so he started playing Ice Ice Baby on the air. The phones lit up, other stations started getting requests for the song, and it became a surprise hit all around the globe. Though he was several years older when the album was released, Ice apparently wrote this song at 16, depicting an imaginary Florida gangsta life that he didn't actually lead, and recorded it for his album because he didn't have enough material to fill it. And while the lyrics are definitely cheesy and braggadocios, the song definitely had people dancing, and can still fill a dance floor to this day.
You have to remember that this came out at a transition in Rap. I used to call it "Happy Rap". MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice. This was before the advent of what at the time was labeled as "Gangsta Rap" which is more what you're used to these days.
He was 1st rapper to get #1 on Billboard. Trivia - at one point he was signed by Psychopathic Records & he is a Juggalo, on his tv show you'll see him often wear Juggalo shirts & he's got hatchetman tatt
Eminem and Vanilla Ice are only spoken about in the same sentence because of their skin color...they are miles apart in style, skill, and lyricism. But if it's a dance off, my money's on ol' Rob Van Winkle.
Just FYI he was Born and Raised in Dallas TX and actually graduated from RL Turner High School in Carrollton-Farmers Branch area of Dallas County TX. So wasn’t in Florida like he always liked to portray.
I joke now but back when I was in high school if you had a hatchback car with a nice sounding system in your car vanilla ice was playing in your CD player. A friend of mine back then liked him so much he had the wardrobe and the haircut to look just like his.
The Piano/Bass bit was "Inspired" by David Bowie's "Under Pressure". Today's Rap can get away with A LOT more than we could back in the 80's. Open lyrics about Sex, Drugs and Gun Violence was prohibited and Soon after Rap made those three things their Mantras they had to put warning labels on their recordings.
it only seems like today's rap can get away with a lot more because they are just following the rules established after the artists of the 80s and early 90s caught the attention of the mainstream and were made examples of by the courts
he has apparently realized that people now love this song and don't make fun of it and he has fun with it - apparently in random karaoke bars (that was a few years ago)
No, you're fine. A *lot* of us thought it was cheesy even when it was freshly released. That doesn't mean we wouldn't think it's hilarious to put "collaborate and listen" on or below a high traffic stop sign.
People make fun of this song but here we are listening to it 35 years later. I would call that a success.
You have to realize that he was only 16 when he wrote this which is very impressive
No one actually has choreography and dances and sings and rhymes like this anymore. The guy is full of talent you can’t deny it. And he made a song it’s been iconic since I was a teenager and this was what everybody was listening to.
❤ i absolutely agree
Ummmm, Chris Brown
@ true but he’s not a rapper.
100!👍
The song was already iconic when it was called "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie which was the underlying beat and melody.
No matter what is said about this song, it is a classic that will never go out of style. It was one of the most popular songs of the 90s. Vanilla Ice in da house.
We all joked when it came out. But this song was on in every club from Miami to LA. If it came on the radio we were all moving. In real life Ice is a stand up guy..does TONS for his Florida community and beyond with charity work. Guy is a good man inside.
I remember when this song came out of my God five times a day on radio, I was in the navy at the time
Yeah I agree 💯 he's smart to when things in gangsta rap got heavy and heated he got out. He could ride motorbikes professionally to pretty sure. Im a rider myself :) did you know he was friends with Pablo Escobar? I only just learnt this haha pablo would land his chopper at vanillas house. Watched the movie Blow? He raced boats and was friends with most of those guys. Internet wasn't a thing back then. He didn't know truly who they were as in drug lords 😂 what about the ninja turtles lol he was a cool cat for sure and still is. He's money helped build DeathRow records. A teenage star who didn't turn out a complete mess. That's what's crazy hahah
I remember trying to learn the dance moves in my livingroom when no one else was around! I think secretly everyone loved this song.
Its funny when someone makes it big with a catchy pop song everyone loves it but once they get tired of it everyone hates it. It didn't help that it was lifted from Queen but many artist lift from older songs. If the artist is respected and liked people are happy to brush it off. However if not then you'll never live it down.
Yes Robert's a badass!!!
❤
This song is credited to seven songwriters! The Queen/Bowie suit was settled out of court and "Ice Ice Baby" had to add five additional writing credits to its label (four members of Queen & Bowie).
He even had to re-record the beginning since the original was the actual Queen/Bowie singing 'Under Pressure'
Vanilla Ice now owns the song-Under Pressure-he bought it a while ago.
@@kerry-j4m false
@ TRUE.
@ you better google some writing credits on "Ice baby"
let me know what you find. 😄😄
Vanilla Ice peaked early 90’s, Eminem late 90’s and 2000’s, different music and scene.
this song came out in 1990, Eminem's very first album was in 1996, while he didnt get popular until 1999, so he very little competition because he wasnt even around yet
Came here to say this as well...
Every time I hear this song I can’t help but think of Jim Carey In Living Color lol.
Or John Cena 🤣
I am getting ready to suggest she react to that........
Hell yeah I remember that song long time ago he didn't last long neither Vanilla Ice had a short career
Not to mention he also got sued because of that song because of the Beat from the Under Pressure song
"White, white baby!"
That chorus is the genius of Queen and David Bowie. Under Pressure.
Chorus? You mean bass line?...
Miami was pretty extreme back in the 70s, 80s, & early 90s.
Miami drug wars in the 80's... They had the highest murder rate in the country at that time.
Vanilla Ice has a UA-cam channel. He has a video of him watching and reacting this video and song himself. Pretty cool listening to his commentary. The meaning of things, lawsuits, Miami in the 80s etc.
He wrote this song at 17 years old.
**16 years old
And it shows
You can tell...😅
I can’t wait til Snow blows her mind with “Informer.”
I was waiting for this comment...
Imposterrr😅
😂
I was raised in Inglewood, California. This song came out around 1990, when I was about 20 years old. The streets, clubs, dances and even backyard boogies were banging this song. It was on and poppin. And as far as I'm concerned, it will always bang. But your critique of him, and the song is correct. It was a party song, a story that got a little graphic at the end. But that is exactly what mostly happened back then. The jackers, jacked!
Cars, they " jacked," cars. It's the 90s.
@@JamesBrendon-h4r Oh yes! The late 70's, 80's and 90's.
Vanilla Ice always hang out with friends from the streets and had many gigs in very dirty and underground locations and had to deal a lot with the streets, so nothing fake about him, just people's jealously back then, on a hard working man, who wasn't from the streets but always was connected to them and had to face them daily later on.
I lived in Miami and this song came out when I was 17 and it's hard to describe the impact this song made. It was like the Miami Anthem, LOL! Blessings to you!
This was a whiteboy in the 80s he was ahead of his time, like Rakim, Kane, Eric B, LL, etc y'all tripping that hate on this man... This is stamped classic his bars were tough af from the 80s...
He talked tough and did hip hop dance because back then, white folk really _were_ "guests in the house of hip hop", and had to be deeply assimilated into Black culture to be regarded as "legit". Unfortunately Rob Van W. here was a suburban silver spoon kid, so it was all a facade, and he got called out for it. Took a few decades (and artists like former white trash Eminem, who had a genuine ghetto upbringing) to broaden the culture, and even now there are gatekeepers in the genre who insist that anyone not Black in hiphop is an "appropriator"...while other White hiphop artists like Mesus fire back with "hiphop is a culture, not a color".
I haven't heard this in like 30 years. This was a refreshing reintroduction.....nice reaction
The beat for the whole song or the hook it's from. Freddie mercury and david bowie song called under pressure
It's a little different Ice changed a couple tones to not get copyright
@@johns3153 He got sued and settled out of court. He paid them a lump sum and he had to give David Bowie and Queen songwriting credits on the track.
@@Roland_Deschain677 oh I didn't know that I just remembered a interview with ICE saying there was a difference in a couple notes
@@johns3153 it was a little bit different, but legally speaking it wasn't different enough to avoid copyright
Queen and David Bowie. Writing credits list all four members of Queen (Brian May, Freddie Mercury, John Deacon & Roger Taylor) and David Bowie.
You are talking about that song more than 30 years after it was released, enough said.🔥
The little girl Ice is holding in the video is actually his Goddaughter. She's all grown up now. There is a video of Rob talking about the song and video.
Thanks to Queen, for the inspiration!!! 😃
You mean FOR CREATING THE MUSIC.
Fun fact he still has that 5.0 mustang it's now worth 3 million
overpriced
You asked, here's my choice. It took me a while to warm up to Digital Underground. Check out Humpty Dance. Tupac got his start with them.
Sex Packets entire album is a masterpiece 💯
check out the movie "Nothing But Trouble" for the DU connection
Thank you for the trip down memory lane, love your enthusiasm and reactions to the oldies, nice to see you back. Rock on
Lived through this real time. It was everywhere. It's become an absolute classic.
Sometimes a single hit is enough to secure your place in music history. Amazing! 👍
Except he has multiple hits and his ALBUM is multi-platinum... ALBUM, not song.
He still does World Tours.
He is still very much relevant in the music industry and out.
Check out Vanilla Sprite Remix.
ua-cam.com/video/zRVlh5V3_3U/v-deo.html
@401Impala That's right. And fortunately for us, the aging ones, the stars of the eighties and nineties continue to sing and tour. Even now, it's a great experience for us to see and hear them live - especially if it's the first time!
@@401Impala”multiple hits” lmao 😂
@@baron7755
Ice Ice Baby.
Get Wit' it.
Play That Funky Music.
Roll 'Em up.
Rollin' in my 5.0.
Cool as Ice.
Hooked.
I love you.
Now, feel free to run into a wall face first.
@ wow, all because I disagreed with a comment you want me to hurt myself? What is wrong with you? Please seek help.
If you want to get into old school 80s rap, one that people now overlook is Sir Mix-A-Lot. His most famous song is Baby Got Back, but before that one came out there was Possy on Broadway and Square Dance Rap.
Of course, you should also listen to the big names like Run-DMC and Grandmaster Flash too.
Don't forget My Hooptie!
Now let’s do some Ninja Rap!
Go ninja Go ninja Go
@@juandemarko8348 I made another funny!
Oh hell yes
Yes!
He was 16 when he wrote this. He had the bars and the dance moves/talent. They don’t have that now. He was sued by Queen and Bowie for its “Under Pressure”beat. He’s also smart. After the suit he bought the rights to Under Pessure so he gets paid royalties now if his song or their song is played so he recouped his loss. He’s also a rich multimillionaire in real estate.
Because HE STOLE THE MUSIC DIRECTLY. He had to pay. HE DOES NOT have the rights to Under Pressure, you're parroting FICTION.
@@treetopjones737 actually. he did buy the publishing rights to Under Pressure for 4 million dollars.
@@Dismembering_ManOMG... He *_does not_* own rights to "Under Pressure." He claims he does to save face. You know, you can just Google the answer, right?
LOL then explain why Queen and DB own shared rights of "Ice baby"
you make no sense.
You say he bought "Under Pressure" but Queen shares ownership of "Ice baby" too 😄😄
@@RoverWatersDavid Bowie and the members of Queen own the rights to this song because the main hook is from Under Pressure, which they wrote. Google 'music plagiarism'.
You have to understand that when this song came out, the lyrics you don't wanna call cheesy, was the slang and how we all talked back then.
This song funded Death Row record's.
If ya know ya know.
Something that you have to remember about hip-hop in the late 80's and early 90's is that mainstream hip-hop back then was completely different than the underground stuff. Hip-hop was just making it's way into the mainstream at this time.
This song was the literal breakthrough of hip hop into the mainstream...
My best friend had a Vanilla Ice poster on her wall when we were in 5th grade. 😂❤
you gotta remember the era too and that rap wasn't as mainstream then. his "vanilla" lyrics was partly why he broke into the mainstream. keep in mind, Will Smith had hit rap songs around the same time. Listen to Will Smith's stuff and you'll understand where on the evolutionary line of rap this era was.
Will Smith also samples everything. All his hits are samples. Like, all of them.
So not true. Grandmaster Flash and Run DMC, there's tons going mainstream right down to Blondie.
@@JamesBrendon-h4r How can there be "tons" going mainstream when it was only Run DMC's albums that were setting records in the late 80's? Ice Ice Baby was 1990. Rap was just starting to hit mainstream in the 90's, thanks to guys like LL Cool J, Beastie Boys, MC Hammer and yes Vanilla Ice. Run DMC set the stage for those guys, but there was certainly not "tons" going mainstream when Run DMC was doing it, it was only after them.
Never heard of " rappers delight?????" Stop crediting white artists for what black artists did in rap.
If you want to continue down the trippy train of 80's and 90's rap, check out Snow - Informer, MC Hammer - U can't touch this, Run DMC ft Aerosmith - Walk this way, Beastie Boys (any song), Sir Mix-a-lot - Posse on Broadway or Baby got back. The list goes on, too many to mention.
Yeah !!! ICE ICE BABY !!!
Robert Van Winkle AKA Vanilla Ice was a backing Dancer to M.C Hammer AKA Stanley Kirk Burrell the third before this ☺️
Happy new year Lilly
You have to understand that this was almost ten years before Eminem. This was big.
Thank you for watching and I hope you have a great day as well. :)
The fact that we're still listening to this 35 years later and can't remember what song was a "hit" 3 months ago, says something.
Not gonna lie, this is still on my Friday night playlist. It also has a permanent place on my local radio's weekend loop.
This song was in the TMNT movie for crying out loud! There was nothing more mainstream than that at the time. This was peak popularity worldwide.
Just realised that he rhymed "poet" and "know it"!😂
Listening to this song on the Alpine 7909 pull out and Alpine equalizer with the Rockford Fosgate subwoofers linear power amps making the pavement move with bass while in the parking lot of the gas station playing hacky sack with friends is how it was back in the early 1990s.
I saw an interview with Vanilla and he was asked about sampling Queen. He said everyone sampled back then. They only came after you depending on how many records you sold.
That is not what sampling is.
@@treetopjones737 There is a good video of him reacting to Ice Ice Baby.
7th grade, this song was everywhere
12th grade for me.
Hi Lilly, great to see you again! I hope you had a great Christmas and have a fantastic New Year. I hope the studying is going well. Stay Beautiful.
NF was an artist I was skeptical of at first. Now, he became one of my favorite rappers.
I love how 99% of Reactors who go into this song with an open mind & don't have all that cultural weight to not like it. Just shows why it was so popular when it came out. But then there was the sampling controversy, which was the early days of sampling & only became a problem because of how successful it became. He later settled with Queen & acquired the rights where he receives royalties when Ice Ice Baby or Under Pressure is used
DIRECTLY STEALING THE ENTIRE BEAT, zero changes, is THEFT. That is NOT what sampling is.
"He later settled with Queen & acquired the rights where he receives royalties when Ice Ice Baby or Under Pressure is used"
to get royalties you need to be listed as a writer or co-writer on that specific song.
I checked google on Under Pressure and did not see Van Winkle credited as a writer
I checked google on Ice baby and did see Queen and DB share writing credits with Van Winkle.
My son played this song over and over. 😂😂😂😂
He was so big he got his own theatrical release movie, Cool as Ice, and it's as glorious cheese as you can imagine
I dialed this up. It was on my screen. I am sorry, I can't relive this again. Kudos to you for dealing with it.
Now is time to react to jump around
You gotta remember this was 1990, rap was different back then, not to mention he wrote this song when he was 15 or 16 yrs old, everyone thought it was a thoway track it was side b on his promo cd that all the radio station had, side a was play that funky music, one day a dj in Georgia decided to see what this ice ice baby song on side b was, he played it and the phones everywhere blew up wanting this song to be played,if not for that dj we might not have ever got vanilla ice, ice ice baby is one of those very few and far between songs that you can play and instantly remember what you were doing wen it was on, it stands the test of time,
Vanilla Ice is the greatest living musician alive today who's still alive and still the greatest and also a musician. It's a cone world. Long live the cone. If there's a problem, he'll solve it 😎✊🍦🧊
This is a song that anyone can dance to. I cant dance anymore to eminens songs with my 3 year old. If you observe the tone of the video, it showed unity, the purpose of 50% of the song. Yes, he absolutely earned his place in history.
The bass line is Queen’s “Under Pressure”
Believe it or not, he's a better rapper now than he was when he was a youth.
dont get it twisted, he can absolutely spit bars that ruin people off the top of his head. he just never needed to during his career.
You gotta keep in mind Rob aka Vanilla Ice wrote this song when he was 16 and it came out in 1990. Hip hop was still not mainstream yet and a lot of great old school rap would be cheese now a days.
Yeah its Queen's cord
This song is burned into my brain. Played at every basketball game in school
It's helpful to know that this song was considered "album filler" and was put on the B-side of his first single, which was a cover of Play That Funky Music (White Boy). A Miami DJ didn't care for the single, so he flipped it over and listened to the B-side, which was Ice Ice Baby, and decided it had a good beat (stolen, of course, from the Queen/David Bowie collaboration "Under Pressure") and a good hook, so he started playing Ice Ice Baby on the air. The phones lit up, other stations started getting requests for the song, and it became a surprise hit all around the globe. Though he was several years older when the album was released, Ice apparently wrote this song at 16, depicting an imaginary Florida gangsta life that he didn't actually lead, and recorded it for his album because he didn't have enough material to fill it. And while the lyrics are definitely cheesy and braggadocios, the song definitely had people dancing, and can still fill a dance floor to this day.
Saw him in concert at a small club half rap half metal set. So impressed. ICP was supposed to open but they never showed.
You have to remember that this came out at a transition in Rap. I used to call it "Happy Rap". MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice. This was before the advent of what at the time was labeled as "Gangsta Rap" which is more what you're used to these days.
still know this by heart.
He was 1st rapper to get #1 on Billboard. Trivia - at one point he was signed by Psychopathic Records & he is a Juggalo, on his tv show you'll see him often wear Juggalo shirts & he's got hatchetman tatt
Still love this song! 😍😂♥️
My very first CD
I still can’t hear this without singing Under Pressure
This song was HUGE back in the 90's! Came out in 1990! I was in High school! 🎧🎶🎶🎶🎶
My kids were young when this came out and I had to listen to at at full volume 100s of times!
Under pressure!
This was one of the songs in play many times way back in the 90's cruising in my Mustang. I even had the shaved side bits in my hair .
Eminem and Vanilla Ice are only spoken about in the same sentence because of their skin color...they are miles apart in style, skill, and lyricism. But if it's a dance off, my money's on ol' Rob Van Winkle.
I heard this classic tune in Dexter: Original Sin's first episode, cool reaction as always Lilly 🥰❤️
ahahahah. I am now 50 years old but this was fire to us at the time 😂😂😂😂
Just FYI he was Born and Raised in Dallas TX and actually graduated from RL Turner High School in Carrollton-Farmers Branch area of Dallas County TX. So wasn’t in Florida like he always liked to portray.
Yesss!!!! It's just a fun song, no deep meaning ❤
Excellent reaction yea this song was everywhere back in the day later beautiful.❤️😎🇺🇸
My friend stripe/shaved his eyebrows when this came out. You know who you are!
One of the greatest earworms in music history
I know it sounds like he's saying los Vegas is jumping but he's saying vegas he's talking about the Vega subwoofer speaker
Don’t forget that ICE truly did move a lot of weight back when coke was king
Eminem was not around when this dropped. - That was 6 years later.
😂😂😂I actually lived through this!!
You have to watch Jim Carey spoof Vanilla Ice on the TV show In living Color!
I joke now but back when I was in high school if you had a hatchback car with a nice sounding system in your car vanilla ice was playing in your CD player. A friend of mine back then liked him so much he had the wardrobe and the haircut to look just like his.
This was just pure fun ❤
The Piano/Bass bit was "Inspired" by David Bowie's "Under Pressure".
Today's Rap can get away with A LOT more than we could back in the 80's. Open lyrics about Sex, Drugs and Gun Violence was prohibited and Soon after Rap made those three things their Mantras they had to put warning labels on their recordings.
I think you'll find it's Queen featuring David Bowie
@@MorbidCrow666 I think you'll find that Queen and David Bowie made the song together. David Bowie wrote the song and the band performed it.
it only seems like today's rap can get away with a lot more because they are just following the rules established after the artists of the 80s and early 90s caught the attention of the mainstream and were made examples of by the courts
Such a goofy song that everyone laughs at YET EVERYONE knows the words to it! 😂😂
Welcome back I hope you okay and you heal Soon ❤ love you
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The original beat was used by David Bowie in under pressure
"That line was a little extreme!"
the album was called "To The Extreme" lol
he has apparently realized that people now love this song and don't make fun of it and he has fun with it - apparently in random karaoke bars (that was a few years ago)
No, you're fine. A *lot* of us thought it was cheesy even when it was freshly released.
That doesn't mean we wouldn't think it's hilarious to put "collaborate and listen" on or below a high traffic stop sign.
He wrote this when he was 16 so that explains the lyrics.