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LET'S START WITH THE OBVIOUSE, VANILLA ICE. VANILLA IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST JOKES IN MUSIC HISTORY. BUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS EVERYONE WAS BUMPIN' HIM 10 YEARS AGO. VANILLA STARTED AS A GROUP CALLED, VIP(VANILLA ICE POSSE). HE WAS DUBED VANILLA BY NEIGHBORS CAUSE HE WAS THE ONLY WHITEBOY AROUND WHO COULD RAP. HE GOT HIS BREAK IN 1988, AND RECORDED THE ALBUM CALLED, HOOKED. HOOKED LATER BECAME HIS CLASSIC TO THE EXTREME. VANILLA BROKE OUT IN SEPT. OF 1990 WITH "ICE ICE BABY." IT WENT TO #1 IN ABOUT A MONTH. THEN WITH IN A 2 MONTH RADIUS, TO THE EXTREME WENT 4X'S PLATINUM. VANILLA ICE WON AN AMERICAN MUSIC AWARD FOR BEST NEW ARTIST IN JANUARY OF 1991. WHILE HE WAS RIDING HIGH, IT WAS ALSO COMING OUT THAT VANILLA HAD MADE UP HIS PAST ABOUT BEING INVOLVED IN GANGS AND STUFF. AT THE AMA'S HE MADE IT CLEAR THAT HE DIDN'T CARE BY STATING, "THEY CAN KISS MY WHITE ASS." SOON VANILLA RELEASED HIS NEXT PROJECT, A MOVIE CALLED COOL AS ICE. THIS PRETTY SEALED THE END OF ICE'S CARREER. WHILE GANGSTER RAP ARTIST SNOOP DOGG AND DR. DRE WERE COMING IN, THERE WAS NO ROOM FOR POP/RAP. SO MUCH IN THE FORM UP MC HAMMER, VANILLA DISAPEARD. BUT THINGS HAD ONE LAST TWIST BEFORE VANILLA WENT, AFTER ALLEGEDLY BE SIGNED TO DEATHROW RECORDS(HOME OF SNOOP AND DR)VANILLA WAS ATTACKED BY DEATHROW CEO SUGE KNIGHT, AND HELD OVER A BALCHONY UNTILL HE AGREED TO SIGN OVER THE RIGHTS OF "ICE ICE BABY." SO VANILLA DISAPEARED FOR WHAT EVERYONE THOUGHT WAS FOR GOOD. BUT ICE RETURED IN A HARDCORE FORM IN 1994. INSTEAD OF RAPPING ABOUT BEING COOL AS ICE, HE RAPPED ABOUT WEED AND FOUGHT BACK AGAINST 3RD BASS. THE BROOKLYN WHITEBOYS DISSED VANILLA IN HARDCORE FASHION ON THEIR 1991 TRACK, "POP GOES THE WEASEL." BUT THE ALBUM FLOPED AND VANILLA WAS GONE AGAIN. SO AFTER THAT, ICE GOT OFF A 3 YEAR DRUG(OTHER THAN THE GOOD 'OL HERB)STINT, CUT HIS HAIR IN GEAORGE CLOONEY FASHION, DYED IT BLONDE, AND GOT ALL TATTOOED UP TO RELEASE HIS NEXT IMAGE, A SKATE/ROCK IMAGE. THE ALBUM CAME OUT IN OCTOBER OF 1998 AND WAS RECORED IN KORN AND LIMP BIZKIT FASHION. SALES WERE ACTUALLY DOING WELL COMPARED TO HIS PAST 3 RELEASES. IN CLOSING, VANILLA ICE DID MAKE UP HIS LIFE, BUT HE IS AN IMPORTANT FIGURE IN RAP HISTORY. EVERYBODY CAN REMEMBER WHEN THEY FIRST HEARD "ICE ICE BABY" AND PROBABLY MISS THOSE GOOD 'OL DAYS. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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HOOKED:THIS WAS ICE'S FIRST ALBUM. IT WAS INDEPENDENTLY RELEASED WITH THE VIP. ALL IT IS IS TO THE EXTREME. WHEN HE SIGNED TO SBK RECORDS, THEY JUST TOOK IT AND REWORKED THE BEATS. BUT ALL THE SONGS WERE THE SAME. IT WAS RELAESED BETWEEN 1988 AND 1989. IT'S NO LONGER AVANLIBLE | TO THE EXTREME:THIS WAS VANILLA ICE'S FIRST OFFICIAL ALBUM. IT WENT TO #1 FOR 16 WEEKS AND WENT 11X'S PLATINUM. THIS ALBUM IS(COUNTING WORLD WIDE SALES)THE BIGGEST SELLING RAP ALBUM OF ALL TIME. IT RELEASED THE #1 SINGLE "ICE ICE BABY" AND THE #2 HIT "PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC." ALTHOUGH THE SUBJECT MATTER MIGHT BE ODD, FOR 1990, THIS WAS A GREAT ALBUM. IT ALWAYS WILL BE A CLASSIC. EXTREMELY LIVE:THIS IS ONE OF THE ONLY LIVE RAP ALBUMS. IT WAS RECORDED ON VANILLA'S WORLD TOUR AND HAD SEVERAL EXCLUSIVE TRAX AS "ROLLIN' IN 5.0" AND THE COMMERCIALLY RELEASED SINGLE, "SATISFACTION." IT ALSO FEATURES THE HITS "ICE ICE BABY" AND "PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC." THIS ALBUM WAS PRACTICALLY UNKNOWN. FOR HAVING NO PRODUCING IN THE VOCALS, THIS ALBUM ISN'T REALLY THAT BAD. COOL AS ICE(ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK):THIS WAS THE TRUE END TO ICE'S MUSIC CARRER. ALTHOUGH I THINK IT HAS SOME HOT TRAX, IT ONLY LASTED ON THE CHARTS FOR 15 WEEKS. TO THE EXTREME WAS AT #1 LONGER THAN THAT. IT FEATURED NAOMI CAMPBELL ON TEH TITLE TRACK SINGING THE CHORUS. THAT WAS THE ONLY "HIT" ON THAT CD WHICH ALSO FEATURED ANOTHER "I LOVE YOU " LIKE TRACK WHICH IS ACTUALLY A GOOD R&B SONG. MIND BLOWIN':THIS LP WAS VANILLA ICE'S ATTEMPT TO SAVE HIS CARRER. HE WENT HARDCORE GANGSTER RAP. AFTER BEING DISSED BY 3RD BASS, VANILLA RETALLIATED 3 YEARS LATER ON MOST OF THE ALBUM. IT ALSO FEATURES ALOT OF REFERNECES TO WEED IN A CYPRESS HILL MANOR. IF YOU DIDN'T SEE VANILLA'S NEW LOOK, HE CAME SPORTIN' DREADLOCKS AND A FEW TATOOS, PLUS THE TYPICAL HIP HOP CLOTHES. HARD TO SWALLOW:VANILLA ICE REINVENTED HIMSELF ONCE AGAIN IN 1998 WITH THIS ONE. FIRST, HIS HAIR IS LIKE ALL GONE. HE HAS MANY TATOO'S, AND IS SPORTIN' THE SHORTS AND TANKTOP LOOK. THE ALBUM(DESPITE HAVING THAT NO TALENT KORN SOUND)IMPROVED ICE. HIS LYRICS AND FLOW ARE EXCELENT. ON TRACK 13 "FREESTYLE",(THE ONLY RAP SONG) ICE PUTS A QUALITY SONG DOWN. HE DOES IT WITH ZERO AND CYCO. ICE'S PART IS ONLY ABOUT 35 SECONDS, IT'S A GREAT SONG. IF THIS WAS A RAP ALBUM, IT WOULD BE GRAMMY MATERILA. HE STILL HAS THE WEED THING, BUT IT'S A GREAT ALBUM LYRICALLY. THE ONLY PROBLEM IF ICE DOES DROP A RAP ALBUM LIKE THIS, EVERONE PLAYA HATE CAUSE IT'S VANILLA ICE. HE COULD DROP A SONG WORTHY OF 2PAC AND Y'ALL WOULD SAY IT SUCKED.  
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