Posted by  leflaw in on March 20, 2007 at 10:17 PM
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Who is Vanilla Ice? Would you like to Party with Vanilla Ice?
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Rob Van Winkle's first foray into the music industry is the little-known rap album Hooked, released in 1989 on an independent label. Just 48,000 copies were sold, making it a rarity and something of a collector's item among fans.
His next album: To the Extreme, released in 1990, contained mostly the same songs as Hooked. The album featured his best-known single, "Ice Ice Baby", a rap song about his MC skills, the Miami scene, and a gun-fight on A1A/Beachfront Avenue. Van Winkle's manager and financier, Tommy Quon, chose a limited release for the single, and no vinyl release for the album, so that fans bought the more expensive CD instead. As a consequence, To The Extreme became the first #1 album in the US without a vinyl counterpart release. It went on to sell over 11 million copies, making him one of the most commercially successful rappers of all time. "Ice Ice Baby" was credited by Casey Kasem's top 40 radio show as being the first number one rap single in history.[citation needed] Van Winkle toured during 1990 with Alanis Morissette as his opening act.
Van Winkle's success also brought problems. "Ice Ice Baby" sampled the 1981 Queen and David Bowie collaboration "Under Pressure" without permission. Van Winkle was sued by a California undergraduate chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first African-American fraternity, claiming he was using words and moves similar to the fraternity's step-show routines. He was also sued by Wild Cherry frontman Rob Parissi, for not crediting him as the writer of Ice's cover of the disco classic, "Play That Funky Music."
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User Comments
 sinai
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Date: March 21, 2007 @ 12:28 AM
you know he's sitting around his house like "fuck y'all, i'm still paid!"
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 ChillinBuzz
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Date: March 21, 2007 @ 1:15 AM
"claiming he was using words and moves similar to the fraternity's step-show routines"
note the word similar as in NOT THE SAME... obviously someone there needed some fame and money.
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 Jazzmary2U
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Date: March 21, 2007 @ 9:44 PM
no.
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 DeadraveN
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Date: March 21, 2007 @ 10:36 PM
god yes. I want to learn how to rock the mic like a vandal.
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 ShadowMom
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Date: March 22, 2007 @ 8:12 AM
no.
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independentm...
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Date: March 22, 2007 @ 12:54 PM
Is he an indie now? If not, then no.
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 INeedAlover
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Date: March 22, 2007 @ 2:55 PM
No never even if he was an indie.
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saienc
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Date: March 22, 2007 @ 5:54 PM
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saienc
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Date: March 22, 2007 @ 6:00 PM
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 AthenasGhost
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Date: March 22, 2007 @ 6:59 PM
Haha Van Winkle...
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fireball87
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Date: March 23, 2007 @ 3:25 AM
There are better people to party with then VI... like, my friends... or... random homeless people! Ice Ice Baby wasn't bad, but it only went down from there ^^.
I tend to wonder how many people in his family have van as their middle name, and first names starting with R.
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 CodeWarrior
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Date: March 23, 2007 @ 7:59 PM
"Would you like to Party with Vanilla Ice?"...
Sure, can I bring Suge Knight along?
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