Vanilla Ice 1st REACTION to Ice Ice Baby Music Video after 34 years!
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Thank you for the music ! I was watching cool as ice yesterday and that brang me here :) from london
Vega woofers.....💯💯🔥🤘
Can you talk about your venture into hard alternative music? Too Cold was freaking sweet
I was in high school, wish I can go back to the 90's. I saved all my pocket money just to buy your album. Greatest purchase ever!
Saludos Vanilla ice . Te hablo en español por que no hablaba inglés viendo escuchaba tu música . Tenía yo 15 años en Morelia Mexico en 1990 cuando iba al CBTis 149 . around that time I moved to the USA and now I understand what you were talking about but Back in the day your music was it and it’s still good today
I'm a full-time professional DJ and to this day this song STILL packs my dance floor everywhere I go! THANKS for creating this MASTERPIECE!!!
It is pretty obvious in your name that you are rocking with 90s quite a lot 😄
It always packs the floor, doesn't matter the age group.
@@iTheGeo2legit. 2 legit to quit (hey heeeey)
@@ahwhite2022 Eeeeexactly 😅 ✌🏻 🫷🏻✌🏻🫳🏻
He didnt create the beat, it was originally done by Queen in 1981 while his released in 1990.
As a 90s kid, I’d like to apologize on behalf of my generation for how we treated you. We thought we were too cool for you. You were too cool for us. Vanilla Ice is immortal.
Why was not considered cool?
@@NoRockinMansLand It’s hard to explain if you weren’t there, but I’ll try. Around 1991-92, there was a dramatic, sudden shift in popular culture in the US. Suddenly, the flamboyant, outrageous style of music and fashion from the 80s was replaced by more raw, serious, and dark aesthetic. In black music, you saw the shift to gangsta rap from new jack swing. The fluorescent, over-the-top clothing and crazy choreographed dance moves from the MC Hammer/Bobby Brown era suddenly seemed acutely corny compared to Dr Dre, Wu Tang, A Tribe called Quest, and many others. A parallel phenomenon happened in white music at the same time with grunge and alternative replacing flamboyant pop metal almost overnight. If you were a teen in 1994, getting called “80s” was one of the worst insults you could get. There was a similar shift at the end of disco era, and ironically 70s styles only became cool again in the 90s.
Due to death of the monoculture, there hasn’t been another cultural shift that dramatic since then and there may not ever be one again.
@@nicky2coats thanks a lot for this, very insightful. I always figured there was a cultural shift, I just didn't know it was that dramatic. As a younger guy I can say we've had some of our own but it's nowhere near as sudden, more of a gradual thing. For example, the move to social media like instagram and snapchat in the mid 2010s, the popularity and cultural dominance of tiktok in the early 2020s recently, increased tension between genders. But as far as I know there has not been that big of a shift in music, in fact that shift to gangsta rap seems to have only grown and spread and only became worse with genres like drill. But I feel like a lot of people are tired of the constant negativity, I have some optimism about where things could go
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I was 10 years old and I was a fan I liked it. My brother was 18 and in his gangster hiphop mode and for him this was wack😂
Even Eminem thought Ice was dope deep down
Cool to see him enjoy himself, not embarrassed, no regrets, just pride. Love it
I agree 100% very cool :)
I can really respect it. I don't really know why anyone would be bitter about something they did that became a cultural landmark decades ago, you kinda just have to embrace that it happened in order to truly be at peace with yourself.
Hey, he's just along for the crazy ride just like everyone else
He also did the greatest ever dance routine of dancing with the stars , the crowd went wild , but the show is rigged
Right? Seeing him smile and bop to this is affirming.
The 90s ABSOLUTELY was the last great decade. The whole world changed in the 2000s, and it wasn’t by accident.
Indubitably
Yooooooo Dennis KNOWS.
Sure wasn't by accident. Whoever has the power in this world released the internet so we could test it out, but they sure didn't like the way we started collaborating and bypassing their systems, all around the world, so they had to bring in "terror attacks."
Dennis Dear, I totally agree with you on that statement. I was an 80’s Teenager & my kids were 90’s kids growing up & Loved this song and they say the Exact same thing. I Loved Vanilla Ice 🧊 Especially his Ninja 🥷🏼 Turtle 🐢 Rap. Priceless 🥳🎉👏🏼🥳🎉👏🏼 Go ninja 🥷🏼 Go Ninja 🥷🏼 Go 🐢🐢🐢🐢 Gotta Love the Ice 🧊
definitely feels different. The last time the world felt'somewhat' normal was the '90s
You did not write a song. You wrote a new memory for millions of people everytime they hear it. Be very proud of that.
Hi bro
I’m a big fan of urs I used to memorized the songs and the dance moves. The girls went nuts over the tunes and moves. Tysvm bro
Mine is doing the freak at a school dance😊
Word to your mother!
Yes! Dancing in front of bedroom my mirror in middle school. I was in love. Lol
Definitely created a core memory for all us 90s kids!
Rob, this song got me out of a speeding ticket a few years ago. Cop asked why I was going 20 over the speed limit. I turned up my radio (with this song playing) and I said "Sorry, I was jamming". He laughed and let me off with a warning 😂🎉 This song will forever bring me back to amazing memories of my childhood. Back when kids played outside and didn't spend all day watching tictok. Thank you, word to ya mother!❤
Being a female helped you also just saying
Now thats a awesome story.
That's so awesome!
Kids still play outside all day, mine do anyway. Yes they also watch tic tik and UA-cam, but during the day if it isn't raining they're outside playing with the neighborhood kids. All the kids in the neighborhood do actually. Also there was an equivalent to those in the 90s, SNES, Genesis, N64, PS1 and TV, so there were lazy kids in the 90s that didn't go outside either.
It's the best jam!!!!! 🎉
Born in the 70s, raised in the 80s, partied in the 90s. Definitely the last of the great decades. Feel so fortunate to have grown up during this time!
Facts!
Agreed 👍🏻
SAME Girl.... GREAT times for sure and praise GOD there were not any cameras around cuz ...... ;)
Agreed
Same here i was born in 77 lived the 80s and 90s i sure do miss them days
I remember my little boy cut his hair like you, dressed like you, and memorized the dance and words to ice ice, baby. He was 9 years old and the coolest kid at the roller rink. God bless
You are a Legend Vanilla Ice 👍🏻
LIVING LEGEND!
And still looking excellent if I may say so
Legend?
They read your comment! nice
Absolutely !!! I came to write that here and you did it for me 😄!!! totally epic .
Yea, he's so right, the 90s was the last great decade. So glad, that I grew up in that time.
Same here
100%
Yep! You're not wrong
Everything changed after 9/11 😢
Same! Graduated from high school in 99 and sometime wish I could go back to those days!
I am 57 yr old black dude and this was FIRE when it hit the air waves. Ice had that swag way back then. Brother could dance his a## off.
I'm just 11 yrs older than you, living on the Island of Guam; but, what I find so impressive about it was that it was enjoyable to everyone - race, politics wasn't even a thought. It was like motown - anyone can enjoy, regardless.
Why bring up race? Music doesn't have colors.
Ice-T, Ice Cube and Vanilla Ice! Definitely it was a refreshing era. Ice Ice Ice 🍹🧊🍦
Girrrl, how dare you align the greats, the true legends of Hip Hop with .with with.... With .... I'm peeing.... 😆
Bless y'all little ole heart
It sounds like a nice drink...
Some ice tea, with ice cubes and some vanilla ice I guess 👍 refreshing.
🧊
Vanilla, you are 100% right about the 90s being the last great decade. Yes, the dance moves were flawless too. Respect 🙏
These days the kids look more like monkeys jumping around.
The ebbs and flows of time
The 90s was the beginning of the corruption era and this was part of it. You sit there and crap on the music industry and then you wonder why I kept going the way you started to go.
100000% right. The 90sbwere the absolute best.
I'm actually wearing a sweatshirt at this moment that says "it was better in the 90s" 😂
@@NameUnimportant it was way better in the 80s the 90s sucked compared to the eighties especially for music. There's no comparison.
he really doesn't deserve the crap the industry put on him, nowadays he seems really humble, and it's nice to see that. Great song, always love it.
but he lifted himself up! and does what he loves, really humble down to earth dude.
i like the part where they line up hand on the arse and jump JUMP
well he lied alot
He was always humble
a brand new invention from David Bowie lol
I am 46 years old today, and I still remember all the lyrics from this song. I always rap/sing along when this classic comes on 🤗 LOVE YOU ROB!! 🤗
im 58 today!! Happy Birthday Bro....well met
@@richardcox8409happy bday. Have a blessed day 😊
Happy bday!! Have a blessed and wonderful day
I'm 43, from Romania, such great memories! Thanks ❤
Happy Blessed Birthday ✝️ 🙏 🎂 🥳
I was a cop in Dallas, TX when this song came out. My partner and I would blast it from the cruiser and hit Harry Hines blvd. just wave "hi" to the girlies on standby. When we saw the video, we were like "Miami? WTF, Robby is from South Dallas!" You can see the rooftop shots that it's clearly the Dallas skyline with the NCNB bank building. Love you man! I miss the 90's!
Hundreds would use HH Blvd to go from Manana Dr to Newberry St . To make " nitrous passes " & no one getting hurt . Good ol days.
That's such a cool Lil story Man, I appreciate reading it, I can only Imagine must've been so cool. Respect to you Man
Harry Hines hasn't changed much.
The 90's was indeed the last great decade. I was in my 20's. What a time to be alive.
80's bro
I was in my 20s in the 90s also. I didn’t know how great it was until looking back later.
Not True The 2000s was the last great decade, you'd forgot Californication,Bring me to life and Fireflies just a few awesome example.
When you get old like me you realize it wasn't the time itself. It's how you felt during that time that you miss. Today has bangers, 10 years ago had bangers, 60 years ago did too : P
@@bobothebob4716, agreed. I'm not quite 40, and I often think my era was one of the best (90s to early 2000s). However, I do feel like the early 2000s and earlier decades felt more distinctly their own than recent ones. I do think we tend to be partial to the eras that influenced us up to our mid-20s though. I grew up with 60s to 80s being glorified by the people around me while experiencing the 90s and 2000s firsthand. I very much enjoy the music and clothing from those decades. We look back on pre-computer and social media times as awesome even looking at times from before we were born as something to desire. Kids today might experience anxiety at the thought of living in those times, though lol.
U.S. Navy Recruit Training Command, Orlando Florida, October 1990, Company C186. We hadn't been allowed to listen to music for 5 weeks, and somebody tuned a boom box to a local radio station. This was the very first non-military music we'd all heard in 5 weeks. It came on, and 86 dudes danced and jammed to the best damn thing we'd heard in 5 weeks, Ice Ice Baby. The feeling was like finding cool water served by a beautiful woman in the desert. I don't care what's been said about it in the last 34 years, I'll never forget how good this song was in that moment. And for that, me and the recruits of Company C186 thank you.
Unfortunately, there is only one rtc left. In great mistakes, Michigan. c193 Sandiego
@@proudnavyveteran Yeah, I know. I did a tour there as an RDC (formerly Company Commanders). Definitely a place I was glad to see in a rear view mirror.
Yep, you were def Navy.
Every single rapper that talked shit about this man's career is broke and forgotten about. Vanilla Ice is still here and doing well.
Eminem isn't broke and forgotten about
Ice Cube is doing pretty good
@@andrewd9556 did cube talk crap about Vanilla Ice?
@@MrMeech76 did Eminem talk crap about Vanilla Ice?
@@BazookaIke yes on a few occasions
I'm almost 50 yrs old and I can still rap along! Btw, this man is aging spectacularly! 😍
Vanilla Ice is cooler now than ever. Love him.
He was" Always cooler"
Good to see you embrace your past. Nothing to be ashamed of. You can be proud about this hit that brought people of all colours together. A funky white boy getting everybody and their mommas moving.
Well said
This song just makes people happy. :)
Yes, I loved it.
He knows he should be proud of this no matter what any hater says. If they were alive when this song was popular, they loved it whether they admit or not. I sure TF did! Still kind of do. Not like I used to but...
Liga 👍👍👍👍wychowalem się na tym
We don't deserve someone like you. You matured, you learned, you owned up. You are a cultural icon to us 90s peeps. Keep being you.
I'm 45 and am so grateful to be able to say i grew up in the 90's!! What a decade!!
45 here too, miss 90's so much...
This song will never get old.
werd
@@tjellis1479from a person who cannot spell (weird).😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@themeanhornet1070lol, they were not intending to spell “weird”.
Werd to yo motha, I’m outta here
Never gets old!
Dude, when I was in the Air Force at Sheppard Air Force base in Texas 1990, this local radio station got so tired of people calling in for this song that they played it straight for 20 hours if I remember correctly. I will never forget that!
LOL, Yup...
i was in the Army Fort Sill OK... just graduated "90"... great times
I was stationed there in 87! We had LL Cool J BAD at that time! Ice was still a baby at that time LOL!
Funny, in Michigan they played it for I believe 12 or 24 hours straight until new years day at midnight. As soon as it would end it would start again. I remember driving to the college where we were going to party with my friends and I heard it and I was like, ok, I like this song. Me and my buddies didn't know the gimmick yet, and after like the third time I'm like did the DJ fall asleep? Then we kind of figured it out. But I never wanted to hear it again after that because it was on at my friends apartment when we got there and I must have heard it 10 more times before everyone couldn't take it anymore. Hilarious memory.
😅🤣🤣🤣🤣 Did the requests stop after?
You are absolutely right Rob. The 90's was truly an awesome decade.
Best ever!!
I've always felt sorry for him for falling out of favor but he's done well and he's got a great attitude. He won at life.
Yea he was ribbed on for quite a while.
“It’s so hard not to sing along…”
Agreed!
True dat!!
He should be very proud of this! Ice Ice Baby has been remixed, bootlegged, integrated in DJ sets, and featured so much in pop culture. It still holds today. Such an iconic hit.
It's a classic for sure I loved it back in the day Ice, Ice baby... and the sample is even more classic "Queen/David Bowe Pressure"
And Jim Carrey's White White Baby parody which was hilariously cringe.
Still bumpin it 2024 and more.. love ya bro, great memories and great song that will never die! 👍🇺🇸
If you didn't live through that era you really don't understand how big that song was. It went to #1 in the country in 1990. I was 21 so I had just started going to clubs and when it came on everybody freaked the hell out and was dancing like crazy trying to imitate those dance moves. It will always be ingrained in my memory and that was a great time of my life. The 90s were unreal.
The best times of our lives
What was also amazing was his dancing abilities. The man can move!
Those were the days. I was 21 as well.
1990 I was in AIT in the Army when this came out. We sung it and did the "rabbit dance". In the Bay of The Barracks. Man those were some fun days. 80s and 90s. 😀
1990 I was 13 and the 90s was the best era to be a teenager and young adult
Hearing you actually break it down is dope. Play this song in any bar to this day and everyone is singing along. Thanks for making people all over the world feel good
I’m 42 and some of my best memories are from the 90’s. Thanks for creating such iconic music!
I just turned 42. I miss the 90's so much.
I'm also 42, 90's were the best times of my life! Life was so much better back then!
Thank John Deacon
40, and you fine as hell
42 here as well, 90's 4 life baaaabaaayyy
I’m 45 and this was my jam when I was a kid. I remember getting bricks shaved in my hair . Too this day I still listen to ice ice baby and it’s cranked.Go ice!
I'm also 45 😊😊 and thise were the best days of my life 😊😊
For every person who speaks poorly of this song, there are a million who will always hear this and smile from general happiness or the memory it envokes from youth.
Well, he did not own the music. ask Queen and Bowie
@@greatlife2763Your comment has one like and OP has 99 so tnx for proving the point 👍
@@Annieareyouokayshamone Your point is you being a jerk?
@@greatlife2763 so he is the only one who has ever done this? Even Eminem Used Abracadabra
@@ettiennemalan8487 exactly..and its like all djs around the wolrd they just copy steal without any conscienceness..why crying about this this its been 30 years and its simply a good memory his moves was real dancing and more flawless then most of dancers ive ever seen and for boys band at time rap industry was not even known on muchmusic ..he made it throught..happy for him
Love the humility, attitude, and enthusiasm, man. No denying what you accomplished.
My husband and I are in our late 40's. We still turn this song up and belt it out when it comes on. It reminds me of a simpler time. Thank you, Rob, for the wonderful memories ❤️
I'm right with you and your husband! My 23 yo daughter loves it too! I miss the those days. Don't miss being that age but sure miss the times.
Same here! I was a DJ back in the day, and this song smoked the dance floor in 91, 92 and even 93. Now, it's retro to play and 2 new generations still get down to it, even seeing Gen Z replicate the dance moves. Yes, I've shed a tear. It's so nostalgic and means everything to me.
Same
Jim Carry’s imitation will have you laughing , I promise- check it out!
He's a awesome guy. He's CORRECT about the nineties too, in my opinion. Number One of all time. That's cool as well. Thanks Rob for the good WORDS. Blessings to you and yours, always. -❤☀️
Thank you for going over this. It was fun hearing the story behind it!
That dude really got his -ISH together. Went into real estate and is doing some serious things in Florida. People gave him crap over the years but that song was hot. It was a hit. And nobody and can take that away from him. And unlike other people (who are broke today), he’s still relevant and doing other things that are just as good (if not better) than his most memorable single. Lighting has struck multiple times for this dude and I’m proud of him
Fair to say 🤷🏾♂️
Agreed! That song was all over the place when it came out and it’s still known today. Rob has nothing to be ashamed of when it comes to this song.
Enter's Surge Knight
This song was sick! The stupidity of people made him feel this way.Why would you feel embarrassed about being rich and coming out with one of the biggest songs ever at that time. Mc hammer went through the same thing. Very true... of any of those rappers are still even alive I would say the vast majority are flat broke. I always liked that song and Rob.👍🏽👍🏽brotha!
@MysTicBiGz Ice ain't the only wrapper that Suge Suged lol..he tried the same ish on Em at an awards show and went after fiddy at his studio! Dude was a literal gangster with Death row records 💯
Being a white boy myself and going to high school in the 90’s In Oakland California this song saved me. I would watch MTV and record on my VCR this exact video as it came on and practiced those dance moves religiously. I did a spirit week dance competition in high school and killed it! Everyone was calling me vanilla ice! I even had the same hairstyle and Cavaricci’s pants to go with it. Thanks for the memories and inspiration man! You were definitely a legend to me! People to this day still call me vanilla ice 😂
Cool. Vanilla Ice rules in early 90s. -NY
They called you "Vanilla Ice"? YOU WISH.
@@eatsmylifeYT
Not to be taken serious we all know who the real vanilla ice is bro. Take it easy
They played it on MTV? That sounds about WHITE
My story is similar. Grew up in Pontiac, Mi. Went to mostly black school. They didn't like me much. They showed me every day what a despicable individual I was for making the mistake of being born white. Yeah... 90's were rough but they were awesome too!
I really like Vanilla Ice’s energy and vibe now. During surreal life and around that ERA he seemed very angry and trying to run from his past. Now it seems like he’s grown and embraces all of it. Love it 💯
Yea too bad Marky mark doesn't embrace the past that made him
Well that was before he got huge in real estate, and a struggling musician and an addict.
i'm glad this man looks at peace. he was one of my favorite artists as a kid. it was unfortunate all the flak he caught but he bounced back..
He just seems like a cool guy. He looks great, im glad to see he escaped the music industry and led a normal life. Nothing but love for Vanilla Ice!
Certified, classic banger. No matter how much people tried not to like this track, they can’t help it. It comes on, you jam with it.
well said
hell yeah
On my playlist NOW..😁
You gotta give it to him. 34 years back in time, video footage. Not many could sit smiling and enjoying the footage. He's extremely proud to realise how timeless the track is.
This is the most wholesome thing I've seen, what a LEGEND you are!! Thank you for this song, generations will be dancing to this!!
80's and 90's was the best!
30+ yrs later and everyone recognizes that beat immediately. I was a teenager when this came out. Impossible to explain to young folks how much this was hitting.
I recognize this beat from Under pressure by Queen
Yes we all know it’s sampled from Queen 🤦♂️
They should. Queen and David Bowie used it first on the song Under Pressure. Robb got sued for using it without their permission.
Everyone is aware where the beat comes from.
And more than the original one. I don't even remember which song it was that they sampled.
I remember all the people that hated on this song. Here it is 33 years later and almost everyone still knows this song. Man, I miss the 90's! You look great brother.
Everyone loved it at first. Then it became cool to hate it. Lol
They said they hated it, but the played tge hell out of it.
This guy is such a class act!! Man I miss the 90s
I was in a bar with a karaoke night last week. A guy got up and did this flawlessly (minus the dance moves) and half way thru the whole bar was participating. It was so cool. You have moved a couple generations. I am 74 and I was one of the participants. Rock On!
Party on Pawpaw! :)
👍👍👍
74!? Nice sir
I'm 53 now and STILL love this song!! ❤🤘
Class of 89 bro!
Class of 90. Vanilla Ice rocked our house every weekend during my parent's poker parties at what Dad called Slick's Bar 🙌 (Slick was my Mom 😁)
@@trinadingus2634 I miss the 80s and 90s
@steve3054usmc Yes, the 80's was a blast also. Good times growing up & the best of tunes..;)
@@trinadingus2634 In the 80s and 90s the music was real and this country was united
I'm so blessed to say I was part of the Gen X who lived their high-school years in the 90s . I got the Vanilla Ice tape on my 8th grade birthday . My friends and I stayed up all night playing it while dancing the running man. To this day anytime I hear this song I know every single word . I'm pretty sure I'll be that 90 yr old in a nursing home still jamming Ice Ice Baby too cold too cold...... word to your motha😂😂
Love your take on life stephaniee8909.
Me too but I was more into the grunge scene. 90s was the last time for true icons
Definitely.....miss those days
LoL!! I'm 1 yr older than Vanilla Ice and I sing this word for word also! Made it on the jumbotron at a PBR Event singing with Flint Rasmussen who calls himself Vanilla Shake, ha ha!! I love singing this at karaoke.
Oh I feel you. Also gen X here from the UK. In 1993 for our secondary school Music coursework before I chose GCSE's me and two mates performed this live for the class, we took a verse each, good times!
We were all kids in those days. We all absolutely loved the song. I’m 52 now and the song has aged so well… it still hits. He wrote this when he was 16! Respect!
Love, love Rob Van Winkle’s collaboration with the Bloodhound Gang, the song is called “Boom”. It’s another beat that needs the Rockford subs to bl0w up the block. Vanilla Ice never lost it and only got better. He was cool as Ice then and even more so today.
I was today years old when I found out what VIP meant
I met Rob way back in 2003 at a small show he did. Dude was so humble and kind to everyone. He actually chilled out with us at our table and talked about his career/life for like 1/2 hour. It was a great experience and I'm super grateful he took the time to talk with us fans. Need more people like Ice these days.
I met him too! At the Meadowlands! I somehow managed at 13 to find his tour bus and was invited in. He was playing Sega and was very nice like you said. Polite and kind. Signed 8×10 picture of himself he gave me,hugged me and my best friend and we left! I was SOOO proud and excited to show it off at school!
Word❤
Thank you, ice. I was a lil boy when this came out, and I loved it. Happy New years buddy
Congratulations man! I'm 44 and all of my friends and I walked around with our little Walkmans in 1990 just absolutely wearing out your tape. The 90's definitely were the last of the great decades.
Walkman, old times😂
@@jenniferlau200the best times too😁🤘!!
Great times!
Walkman was SO cool! I remember riding my bicycle around St. Pete with my Walkman and little head phones. No earbuds back then.
@@Stray..miss dem days
After all the crap you went through, it's awesome to watch you smile through this whole thing. I personally loved the song. Lyrics were great, with that kickin beat.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. Dude was embarrassed of this for the longest time. Little did he know then, he would have a timeless record that all generations love.
It's similar with actors that get typecast. I remember reading James Doohan lamenting getting acting work after Star Trek, and he said his dentist told him he was going to be Scottie forever, so he might as well embrace it. And he said he was glad he did, because he ended up having a lot of fun with it. I think he was the first one to start appearing at conventions because the other actors were still trying to distance themselves for the sake of their careers. But Jimmy just became even more beloved and he earned love, even if he didn't earn a lot of money (until the movies came out, obviously). And there was the unexpected side effect that a lot of people credited him with inspiring them to go into engineering. Colleges heard that from students so much, I know at least one of them (MIT?) had him as their commencement speaker and gave him an honorary degree for making engineering so cool that it sparked a revival in the discipline.
I think Vanilla is in the same stage of his life. He has made a success for himself in other areas, so the typecasting isn't harmful to him anymore, and now he can look back (as the other Star Trek actors eventually did) at the impact he had on the culture at the time and the nostalgia he inspires in people even today, and he can enjoy it.
I remember VI was huge for 2 weeks, then everybody hated him. Some of it due to Arsenio hall. And vi' s agent pimping him out ruthlessly.
Guess he got the last laugh.
Everyone still goes crazy when this song comes one. One of the best of all time!!!
I'm 51 years old and I'm the PA Announcer for my son's high school baseball team. I love it when i play this song and all the players on both teams and people in the stands start dancing and singing just like we did 33 years ago. Just goes to show that good music is timeless!
Dude, you killed it.
Every club,bar honky tonk and dance hall played your tune every night. Not many can say that.
Great times we had. Many thanks!
I’m in my 40s and really do feel the 90s is the last of our best decades. Thanks Vanilla Ice for contributing to the culture. I’ve passed on your music to my son. He watched you in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. You are an OG man!! 👏🏽👏🏽
You know every older generation says that about their youth decade? lol
@@feelincrispy7053 Every generation says it since the 50s, and everyone's right when they say the 90s was the last great generation. There's really a small pocket of time where the ideological "american dream" took place, from the 50s to the 90s. Most people who grew up in the 90s would go back to the 80s, or 70s, or 60s, or 50s... but wouldn't want to go near growing up in the 2000s, or 2010s, or 2020s.. So while yes, people do say their generation's decade was the best... I'm not so sure that kids born after the 90s will be saying that theirs was the best. What is there to look back to? We're in the equivalent to the depression. Nobody looked back to those days with fond memories. And before the 1900s, most people didn't live long enough to look back at anything.
Every generation says this BUT I actually loved everything about 90s music. I was way to young to get it in the 90s as I was 16 in 1999 but it was just cool time for music. Also, no social media which was a magic time to be alive lol.
How is it that 90’s hip hop and r&b still sounds good but the new ice spice song is whack after the first listen?? Yep.
@@feelincrispy7053 For today's twentysomethings, watching Stranger Things makes them nostalgic of an era they never lived! In the 90s, NOBODY was already nostalgic at 20. Proves how shitty this era is. Don't tell me you love today's Bidenomics and post-PLANdemic. Or people with their face on their phones all day? (1:40) "We never thaught that computers were coming and would just ruin the world and the way we did everything"
I am just seeing this now, I really wish I would have seen it when it came out. Me and my wife (46 and 44) grew up with your music. She, more than me loved the music from our youth. She had a stoke and passed an early in 2024. She would have really enjoyed this. Since her passing I had a great interaction with our youngest (12). Ice Ice Baby came up, not on the radio but in conversation. Me and my best friend went into a full replay of the song and he was amazed. Yes, I know every word and it blew his mind. If I could only dance like you did it would have been perfect. Seems like you’re doing good, good luck in the future.
I'm 51 now and this is STILL one of my favorite songs. You can't help but be in a good mood while you listen to it ❤
Same!
This is very true. It is an infectiously happy song.
Song still hits soo hard. I'm from the mid 80s and it still hasn't gotten old.
Neither has he. Looks like a young dude
his brand new invention from David Bowie 😂
Vanilla Ice was a phenomenon. The hair, the dance moves. Iconic 90s. I put this song on some house party CDs back in college in the 2000s kinda as a joke, but when it came on, that's when everyone would dance and rap the whole song. Great memories.
this aint no lie. its really wild..its really wild. he should be soooo proud and it seems he is which is great.
I never hated on Ice, I lived in Atlanta where ice ice baby was first played by a DJ who decided to turn the album to the B side.
Atlanta a predominantly black city EveryBody was bumping ice ice baby.
The gate keepers of pop culture decided you got to go then they will get you gone.
Any young man regardless of race,creed or color has millions of dollars thrown at you to do what you love ? You gonna do it 99% of the time.
Vanilla will never die!
My dad listened to country music. He got deployed to Desert Storm and came back with this cassette for me. I was shocked because it was so unlike him. Can't help but love this song thru the decades. Glad to see you doing well
Ah! Nostalgia is hitting me hard. I loved this album when I was 15. Now as a 48 year old I’m rocking it again. The 90’s were the best!!
I will be 47 in a few days, I hear ya man. I can actually picture being on the bus on the way to a basketball game when I was 14.
2000s man
48 year old here! The 90s were the shit!!! Music, people, hanging outside or at the mall, driving around and just kicking it!!
He was doin his thing... had he come out now he would have had more respect and a sustainable career... I was 9 when this Came out my cousin and i made a dance to it😂 seriously tho I didnt know he write this at 16.. very impressed
This tune aged very well. Just love it!!!!!
Robert has aged very well too 😉
I was not even 10 when my teenage brother was blasting this song, and it got ingrained in my DNA. I introduced my 6-year old gen Alpha kid to it, and he is now jamming along with it. The legend will live on.❤
I was a dork for Vanilla Ice in the 90's, my very first concert was Vanilla Ice with C&C Music Factory opening up in Stockton, CA.
I practiced the dance moves at home and I looked just like him, hair style and everything. I was king at the school dances, for a white boy 🤙
Great memories, thanks Ice 👌
I couldn't dance at the time.
i saw a move that he did half way through the video clip and i spend hours copying it.
i finally learned how to dance while everyone was doing that "side step" thing that we did when we didn't know how to dance
All it really took was to start with a move , after that i added my own moves and before you know it , i was dancing.
i didn't go as far as the Hairstyle though
I love how humble he is. He never forgets where he came from and will let you know. That's awesome
The beat is sick, the lyrics are brilliant, and the dance moves are sick. Absolutely CLASSIC.
*****UPDATE******The Originators of this fantastic beat/bassline are Queen & David Bowie, and they deserve the credit for their Artistry. That said, I think it's genius what Ice was able to 'do' with the beat. Queen and David Bowie were both Phenomel Artists, and I was a huge fan of Bowie when I was a teen. Later, I became a fan of Queen. There was no master of the stage like Freddie Mercury. Nonetheless, I am definitely a fan of 🧊 ICE.
Queen & Bowie did the beat 1st and best
Yeah, but to be fair, the beat is only sick because they used Queen's bass line 😂
@mikemcway6555 I looked up Under Pressure and was amazed by that awesome Bassline. I realized I had heard that song before a long, long time ago (probably back in the days of Night Trax on MTV). I was a fan of Queen and a huge fan of David Bowie in my teens. Whoever wrote that bassline was a genius.
I still remember when my old man used this track to teach me about plagiarism, and how you should never forget to credit your sources.🤷
The music was stolen from Queen and David Bowie and I believe they had a law suit because they didn't have permission.
So yeah,, well stolen, great creativity to take someone else's hard work.
Every year, all I want from my husband and son, is for them to sing and dance this song for my birthday. They have never done it.
When this song came out EVERYONE was playing it. My father had the side sliding door on his van open bumping this when he would pick up kids in the neighborhood for baseball practice. It's a song that every time it comes on you have to listen to it and sing along. Love how he's smiling while watching his video.
Wow, it's really awesome how he turned out to be such a down to earth, just positive dude. I'm really glad this hit my feed. I wore this tape out btw. Me and my best friend at the time used to just flip this tape over and over again. As he was listing off those songs, they all started playing in my head.
Yea. I've just watched this in the UK & remember when it was no1 in our music charts... What a nice guy. 🙏❤️❤️
I remember him become irritated about this song and go off in a frenzy about it, I think it was some VH1 special. But it seems now he's finally been able to embrace it for what it was.
The only time I've been around anyone who "wore a tape out" was a roommate I had that listened to lady gaga 24 hrs a day. Not on a tape of course but good golly, I wanted to buy that guy some nice headphones.
@@maxhatty 😂😂
I had his cd!
The 90 was awesome man. I was a teenager in the 90s and I'm so glad I got to experience that decade. There's just no way anybody that is Young these days will ever understand it completely but it was just a beautiful time.
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The beginning of the end for racism was back in the late 80s early 90s and we put it to rest for the people, racism was hard to find unless you really looked hard for it and yet, this day and age, you wouldn't be able to tell it.
@@joshhughes6316Such a beautiful sentiment but not true. I’m assuming you are American but most of the world isn’t and even in the USA racism is still rampant because we can see the news and Donald trump
I believe there was a real, bonafide, spiritual revolution in 1994, and people reacted to it in different ways on many levels.
The occasion of the 2,000th birthday of Jesus.
'94 to 2000 was absolutely sublime!!
There wasn’t any gunfire on south beach in the 80’s and 90’s
Vanilla ice im 53 years old from tassie australia and ice ice baby rocks always has man always love listning to this song still good as it was back then mate thanks for the music and memories
Vanilla ice 👍 cheers trev 🤙
His obvious love of this song is contagious. Watching him relive his memories is a pure vibe. 💕 love it
This song still gets me moving and I’m 73 years old. You are iconic, Rob, and this song still rocks! It’s generational. Thank you!
He was right the 90s were the best ever, so glad I was a part of it
yes he is absolutely correct. the 90s were the best. before the world turned to shit
"90's the last of great decades" - Vanilla Ice
The 80's gave me 3 sons, The 90's gave me fun!
70s, 80s, and 90s were the best. Great music came out in this 30-year period. A lot of the music from these years is still being played daily.
80s ruled but the 90s was the last decade before things went sour
here a turk born in germany (west berlin) grew up with this mf song. man you're a living legend. KEEP IT UP BABY!!!
30 years later I’m still quoting lyrics from this classic. Rob, you are an extraordinary artist in so many levels. Thank you 🙏 for your visions ❤
How can one NOT start dancing when that song plays? It's consistently made me dance for 30+ years!
sexy stacy :)
I’m 52 and can’t imagine life without this song. The popularity, the ridicule, and now the reminiscing, this is an American icon. Amazing.
Yes the last of the great decades for sure!
I am a 71 year old woman. This is my favorite song EVER! I love it, I still watch it. My favorite memory was when you were on SNL (I think) and me and my then 8 yr. old son watched it and we went a little nuts. We still talk about it. That kid is now 43 and we still agree it was one of our favorite memories.
I love how he is so successful inside and outside the industry. I love how he’s so grounded and really seems like an amazing dude! Just a cool guy you’d like to talk to regardless of who he is or what he’s done in the past.
Ice, Ice Baby will live on as a timeless classic. Not all songwriters can do that, the beat, the flow, the hook it embeds itself into your brain!
Thank you! You're a cool and nice guy!! Cheers from switzerland ✌️💪😎
I'm 45 and this was stone cold killer back then and how you described the 90s was DEAD ON! I graduated in 96 and that was the decade. Everyone was out.....out doing stuff. People getting together. We couldn't party enough. So fun.....so fun.
Yesss I'm 46 yrs old and everything he said bout the 90s was absolutely right plus what he said about computers ruining things has alot of truth to it also.
We had the 80's before the 90's, both have memories to cherish!!!
The 80’s were better than the 90’s but the 90’s was the last great decade. So glad I got to grow up in the 80’s and in Brooklyn no less. I feel bad for kids these days and what they’ll experience.
Boomer thread
@@willwrite3675 You'll get there someday. God willing.
This song withstands the test of time. Still a JAM to this day!!
Wrote it when he was 16 and it’s a song generations can sing along with word for word. Absolutely an ICON!
90's were the LAST GREAT decade!!!!!! AGREED!!!!!!! I graduated HS in 1997! WHAT A TIME to be a teen! It was SO fucking cool back then. I love this blast into the past, dude!!!!!!!!
You wrote the most iconic song of the 90s. No one can ever take that from you. I loved my red ring Cerwin Vegas! Thanks for the memories Rob.
80's and 90's were the best years to grow up in. I remember when this song hit the air, and cranked it cruising Fri/Sat nights.... perfectly perfect!!!
100%. Born in 1980 and those two decades were the best of my life.
@@sonicmoj1 '75 and the 90's to mid 2000's were the best of mine.
Home life was a sad one, otherwise I'm sure I'd agree.
What's gone now is freedom, of just about everything. A slow to fast drip. smh.
It just so heartwarming to see an artist looking back at what he did, sing along, tell a few fun facts and correcting some misconceptions (lyrical and otherwise).
ikr, I have been incorrectly singing Detroit Avenue
❤❤ 💯✌🏼
He looks really good, too!
This song also reminds me of the Teenage mutant ninja turtles!!!
He’s getting into it. He was trying to not sing along. This song was on the radio yesterday and I was singing it while driving. I’m sure I looked crazy lol. I was in high school when this song came out and it’s one of those songs that reminds me of high school dances and parties. For a few minutes I forgot I was 50 and was a kid again in the Target parking lot 😂
Love to see someone who has survived fame, and still so chill, down to earth, and appreciating life.
I noticed that as well, he's super chill xx