@SOUL BYTHEPOUND Indeed. Vanilla claims he (unwillingly) funded Death Row and thank him for The Chronic, Doggystyle, 2Pac, etc. Good on him trying to spin it to some kind of positive.
This song was completely insane in 1990. EVERYONE was bumping it. Does not matter what color you were or what you listen you. You were bumping Ice Ice Baby.
When somebody is just listening to this old song without knowing all the negative hype Vanilla Ice got back in the day, they can just appreciate. Based on reaction videos I've seen, it's more appreciated now. It's a hot song, for sure.
It became very trendy to mock and bash him, as epitomized by a "In Loving Color" sketch with Jim Carrey. Within a matter of years, people went from avid fans to denying they had ever bought his albums. By 1993 he was a punchline. As such, his impact and influence has been forgotten. I would argue he was a sort of crossover act, not for his race but for bridging the 1980s to the "gangsta" era of the 1990s, and fell victim to the obsession for "street cred" and such that The Fat Boys, Run DMC, Beastie Boys, and others never had to contend with.
@@ahwhite2022 In Living Color also mocked Snow with Imposter also Jim Carrey and the funny thing is Snow actually came from a real violent and tough area and did time but since he was white was mocked whereas a lot of the rappers from the 90's rapping about gang stuff came from nice upstanding two parent Black homes and cultural mixed high schools but they rap like they were coming from the violence.
@@ahwhite2022 I also gotta say 80's and early 90's hip hop had some deep lyrics but also a lot of party music and that's okay. The world in the 90's went and made everything dark with Grunge and Gangsta rap but truth is some of us did prefer the older fun or like you said Beasties and Run. So many rappers including Rza and Genius did late 80's Big Daddy Kane style rapping prior to becoming the Wu so they were doing the old too.
@@dannynhl9441 I was dogpiled elsewhere here on RUclips for pointing out how "In living Color" treated white rappers (and R&B singers). It bled well beyond comedy to vile "how dare you" hatred at times. Definitely a bit of a double standard, but I suppose it captured a bit of the zeitgeist.
@@ahwhite2022 Look at D'Angelo. He was bashed for years for gaining weight and not looking like he did on the Untitled music video. They all hate. Hatred and jealous. Look at the world we live in nowadays. All the popular things are violence, killings, videogames with violence. The way music was back then was fun, good times, just like colorful shows, clothes, videogames, arcades. Not saying the world back then was good and perfect. I lived it. It had violence and issues, racism, hatred I just meant nowdays if you try to be outside the evil box you called like Gay, beta, simp, weird for wanting to be happy, laugh or just be.
I love when I come across a true reaction to *(Ice Ice Baby)* without the cultural baggage pressure. Every time the reactor loves it showing why it was such a big hit when it came out
@@toddwynn3397 Well it was in the early days of sampling and the laws were not so much understood or defined. It wasn't so much his fault as a 23 year old kid and more the fault of his management and record company that released the track without sorting the legalities.
@@Uvray It wasn't even the legality of it. Other rappers had no problem talking about sampling. Vanilla Ice did. ruclips.net/video/6TLo4Z_LWu4/видео.html
Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer, 2 Live Crew,Run DMC, beastie Boys, Fat Boys, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, and many more. Rap that ruled the airwaves of 80's and 90's. I knew their songs as well as any country song I grew up with. Now, the rap that's played can barely be understood either due to mumble or the background beat covers the lyrics.
THIS will explain Why this song sounds so familiar to you ~~~ The biggest controversy of “Ice Ice Baby,” was the fact that it lifted the bass line from Queen and David Bowie's 1981 song “Under Pressure.” , seeing that the rapper did not pay any royalties to Bowie, Freddie Mercury.
Sure, but at first Queen didn't care. They only sued him after the song went to no1, Then Vanilla Ice bought the rights to Under Pressure from Queen for 4 million. He said it was the best investment he ever made.
@@TonyMontanaDS I can't believe that anyone is still repeating these thoroughly disproved lies. It doesn't even make any sense. Why would Queen or David even think of selling the rights to ANY of their songs? Think about it.
@@TonyMontanaDS I did not say that he did not lie about it. Show me a video of any member of Queen or David confirming the lie. When Dr. Brian May was asked about VI's interpretation of the settlement, his response was "He's mistaken." There is absolutely NO logical explanation you can conjure which could make the claim sound plausible. VI just piled lies on top of lies every time he tried to explain the theft.
I recall the first time I heard this song, it was on the radio a show called "Open House Party". Can't remember the DJ, but it came on Saturday night and the guy played new artists/songs and this one caught my ear right off the bat. I believe this was 1989 or 90...yes, I'm old. Keep up the great work 🤙
It was the Miami beat, not the song. I've heard tons of these songs, even booty and bass. Lot's of female samples/artists too, We used to listen to Miami bass in Detroit.
He is/was very talented, and widely popular for a period. Unfortunately, he had bad management which led him to getting made fun of, getting clowned by other hip hop groups. He was brutally threatened by Shug Knight. He went threw some tough times, although he was able to make a bit of a comeback in recent years on TV and on the music scene.
Vanilla Ice sampled Queen's song 'Under pressure' for 'Ice ice baby' and didn't give them songwriting credit back in 1990... he got sued and lost. After his 1st record 'To the extreme' was a hit, he got clocked out and couldn't get another hit... Once gangsta rap took over in 1993, rappers like Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer, Biz Markie, Kool Moe Dee... were out of business.
@@fc1873 it was actually John Deacon’s bass line (Queen’s bassist) that if you watch any “making of Under Pressure” video the band members say John came up with the bass line, then they all went out for pizza & drinks & when hey came back John had forgotten it but luckily, drummer, Roger Taylor remembered it. The song was built by Queen & Bowie from this bass line. Vanilla Ice tried to claim his bass line wasn’t the same as Under Pressure...he lost.
There was no “sampling.” VI stole from Queen/Bowie until a lawsuit forced him to pay for the right to use the bass line, which he should have done in the first place, before he took what wasn’t his and tried to pass it off as his own.
Vanilla reinvented himself in the 2010s renovating houses in HGtv. The show was called Tree Vanilla Ice Project and it ran for 9 seasons. It was pretty good and he was interesting and engaging.
Growing up in Miami in the 80's, this hip-hop sound was so unique and contagious it really defined an era. Such a shame the genre has crumbled to nothing. Loves your reviews and God bless!
That's nice to know. I was sad that he'd given up on is music after the raw deal he got for not understanding the rules about sampling and no one else looking out for him.
Such an amazing song. The times we had dancing to this as 19 year olds at the clubs in Dallas!!! This was definitely part of the soundtrack of my youth. Best times. And the song stands the test of time. It is a classic, I don't care what the haters say!
Real hip hop has been DEAD since about 2000…hip hop now is fucking embarrassing …men in woman’s clothes who can barely mumble, let alone rhyme cleverly, tell a story etc….
He brought a lot of the clowning onto himself though. He sampled the bassline from "Under Pressure", and not only DIDN'T credit Queen and David Bowie, but tried to pass it off as original. He got rightly sued for it and ridiculed. He also tried to play off that he was from the hood, when he was raised in the suburbs, and got ridiculed again. Those two things alone caused everyone to not take him seriously anymore.
@@strangeworldsunlimited712 Wrong. The studio selected samples for him to use. It was their responsibility to clear all samples. No, he did not try to pass it off as original. He said that it had been changed. No, he did not try and play it off as if he was from the hood. The label released a fictional history for him, but didn’t tell him. When he went on the Arsenio Hall Show, he had no idea and did he ended up getting ambushed with questions that he wasn’t prepared for. Accuracy is very important.
Man this reminds me of my childhood. Was in 7th grade and my friend was going to see vanilla ice and I was so jealous!! He was a great rapper but the world wasn't ready for him. Even Enemin says so.
Who is Enemin? Eminem never said anything like that about Vanilla Ice. I will say he was an excellent dancer....but greater rapper and Vanilla Ice should not be in the same sentence. Two of the greatest, Kane and KRS, recently did a versus. Peep that if you want to see true emcees.
7th grade for me too. Around that same time was the other rap fad kris kross. And that's also around the time the will smith showed up too as DJ jazzy jeff and the fresh prince.
Every time my sister takes me to her local pub and they have karaoke, she puts this song in with my name. Because she’s a punk and knows I can do the whole song.
I took this right of the internet. "Ice Ice Baby" was the first hip hop single to top the Billboard charts and has been credited with helping to diversify hip hop by introducing it to a mainstream audience. He won 2 AMA's and a People's Choice award for this song.
I still get shocked whenever someone listens to this for the first time lol I was 7 years old when this came out and I absolutely LOVED it!! I know people made fun of him but I still love this song today lol And yeah, like others have said, pretty much a one-hit wonder so no other recommendations for Vanilla Ice. But here are some other suggestions: 1) Snow - Informer 2) House of Pain - Jump Around 3) Cypress Hill - Insane in the Brain 4) Kris Kross - Jump And here’s a random one that has nothing to do with anything above 😂: Xavier Naidoo ft RZA - Ich Kenne Nichts It’s a German artist (ft. RZA from Wu-Tang) and the song’s lyrics are in German and English. I was living in Germany when this song came out, that’s how I came across it. Love this one too!! Edit: Ooh, you also gotta check out Marky Mark - Good Vibrations!! Knew I was forgetting something 😃
I'm the same way I love when I randomly come across somebody reacting to *Ice Ice Baby* for the first time with no background knowledge & they always love it just like the people when it first came out He already did *MC Hammer* but I guess you could add *Salt & Pepper (Push it) (Shoop) (whatta man) (let's talk about sex)* to your list
Every white kid in the suburbs loved this song 😄 And even the people who didn’t like him and complained about a white rapper playing on MTV...yeah they still knew all the lyrics.
What Steve said. I went to mixed high school and I was on the tuba line as the only white boy. I assure you this transcended race when it hit. Yes it did become cool to later hate on this but facts are facts. Everyone was playing this when it hit.
@@scorchogrey2385 I should’ve explained a bit better what I meant. I did not mean that only white kids liked the song. I went to high school in a suburb that was 98% caucasian. All the kids there were listening to the typical 80’s music. Much more into the glam rock and pop stuff. “Walk This Way” did well a few years before, but we weren’t listening to pure early rap like NWA where I lived. But this…this was the song that broke through. It was the gateway song to the rap genre in my area 😄
Hgtv, Vanilla had his own tv show called the vanella ice Project where he rebuilt old Mansion for the rich and famous, for almost 10 years and he still travels world doing his Classic music around the world. and he never stop selling his classic music. The man is a multi millionair.
Thanks for this, great memories of being young! I will never forget the skit on SNL when Chris Rock was interviewing him. He said "mannn Im from the streets!" Chris Rock said, "what street? Sesame Street???!" 🤣🤣🤣 I enjoyed your reaction!🔥
The loop in the background is a queen/bowie loop from "under pressure". There were a lot of court battles over this song. Still, Vanilla Ice killed this. Artists do this all of the time now a days.
I seriously thought this was a fake video ! LOL I was like, "Who hasn't heard this song???" But I was born in 1982 so this song was popular when I was growing up. My generation can recite every word LOL! But yes there was controversy around the hook on this song being from Queen's "Under Pressure" but Rob claims there's ONE beat difference, an extra beat. ANYWAYS! Rob is VERY talented, always was. He was never really taken as seriously as he should have been. The dancing was RIGHT on target for the times, too. Everyone was recreating it and my best friend still karaoke's this song word for word from time to time lol. GREAT song. Timeless.
If you like this style, you should check out a Canadian gem from around the same time. Maestro Fresh Wes - "Let Your Backbone Slide".... Give it a shot!! Love your reactions!!!
I must be old. Cause it surprises me when someone has not heard this.....LOL I used to love cruising and bassing out to a different song of Vanilla Ice called "Life is a fantasy" .
It’s hard to imagine anyone not knowing this song. But I can say I was around when it came out lol and it was crazy how popular it was. It was hot hot 🔥
I'm going to say it, mashups in any capacity were not common at the time. The back beat is Freddy Mercury & David Bowie Under Pressure. Vanilla Ice was a KID. I'm sure it didn't occur to him to ask permission to use a back beat. That being said, I don't have a problem with them saying to him, it's not cool to do this without permission. But suing him like that was not cool at all. He didn't intentionally disrespect anyone. It's considered a compliment & bumps the original artists work these days it's quite common. Back then, not so much. He is humble, kind, hard working, smart & still made his way in the world. Total American Dream success story. LUV ur reaction! I don't know anyone to keep still when this comes on! It was so fun! ❤❤❤
This song is still 🔥 even though it's sampled, it still has a flavor of its own. The only other song I know from him is I guess it's called Ninja Rap from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 Secret Of The Ooze.
He used their baseline and changed it up a bit but not enough for it to be his...that was the final determination. It still sounded to much like the original.
this was the jam when it came out.... he ended up getting a lot of hater after a while but for a while he was really big. he went on tour with MC Hammer and did a song for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. he even made a movie he starred in called Cool as Ice. i actually saw him in concert back like 7 or 8 years ago, it was a bunch of 90s stars like him and Salt N Peppa and he was still pretty good, he was one of the best performers of the night.
I remember when this song came out. Everybody was playing it. Girls really loved Vanilla lol. You might have heard the "hook" before as it is a Queen song.
Every reaction to this video, that I’ve viewed so far, as soon as the bass begins, the person reacting ALWAYS says “I’ve heard this before”, until the talking starts then realize it’s not something they’ve heard before. Except they probably have. That brilliant bass was done by John Deacon, original bass player of Queen, song is Under Pressure
I grew up in this era, song cool but poor guy got disrespected soooooo bad back then! He got sued for stealing this beat too🤦🏽♀️ ...He's a legend tho, everyone knows him
@@ThePWHustle we considered the Beastie boys a boy band, along with Mike and the Mechanics. I am aware of when the Beastie boys came out and when Vanilla Ice came out. The Beastie boys were a group of boys in a band. Vanilla Ice was singular like a lot of early hip hop artists. I'm not telling you that you are wrong or I am wrong. I think this is about a cultural difference. Not one of color but of lifestyle. I'm a Southern California native, NYC seems to see the with frenetic, angry energy and I didn't care for it. I did Heavy Metal, Hard Rock and when I did listen to early hip hop it was skating music. It was energetic and fun for movement. I was a big fan of Rappers Delight and a few others too, but if I wanted the anger or the edge it's always Heavy Metal, even thirty years later
That's right, if it wasn't for him we wouldn't have been able to enjoy the aural delights of Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch: ruclips.net/video/MkIUa8YlVec/видео.html Wish they had a sarcasm font on here.
@@blacktanner2757 I have no idea who taught you to hate, but my parents protested for Civil rights in the 60's. My dad was a Marine and went when it was time for him to go. My ex husband, brother in law, father and even I was willing to serve. I had been hired by the Red Cross to help evaluate and treat mental health while in the theater. When it's about music, it's not about color, If the guy next to you in a foxhole is black, white or blue. You honored ppl instead of trying to pick a fight.
I lived in homestead Florida when he came out. We would go out and dance in the late 80s and early 90s. Between him and Mohammer and a lot of other ones we had so much fun
I don't know, this is kind of a guilty pleasure song for me, and I think he was underrated. He had it rough. Being sued by Queen was on the list, as I understand it, he wasn't exactly truthful there.
God! I love your reaction to these videos. Like I said before, you were born in the wrong generation. You appreciate all the old music. You would have really enjoyed it more if you grew up with it. You mentioned about his energy & dancing, remember the view you did on MC Hammer, Can't Touch This? There was some crazy dancing & you loved every second of it. Love you man, your one of a kind!
I live in Deep Ellum, TX where this video was filmed. I walk past these video locations almost daily, although I haven't broke out into the dance yet....yet.
As someone who was just going into high school when this song was made, it is hard to express how popular it was. Literally everyone young, regardless of music genre they listened to, knew this song and there was no internet push like you get today, it was all via word of mouth. Suge kind of ended his career from what I understand but his entire first album was decent and he made a fortune off of it. It is 30 years later and dude had like 2 songs go to hit status and everyone still knows his name *shrug*
If you compare the "hook" to the opening on "Under Pressure" by Queen, they similar. In fact, Queen later tried sued for infringement unsuccessfully. It's a catchy hook.🙃
That dance move was sick for the time aswell . Kid don't play line was also referring to Kidd n Play who were popular at the time with a string of movies & I think had a music career or attempted aswell .
Vanilla Ice was one of those other "guilty pleasures" back in the day. Not sure if he is still in the music scene but he does home renovations today and has a show on the #HGTV ..
You also have to remember he wrote this when he was 16. It was meant to be a b-side but a dj flipped it over and it took off. It’s really a great story to hear him talk about those days now.
This came out when I was in elementary school and it was fire back then too. I used to do dance exhibitions and competition. The first exhibition me and my friend Tytus did, our first ever routine, was to this very song. It was one of the best days I had as a kid, entertaining so many people and they loving it. The song really made it all come together and got the crowd into it.
2:41 that girl in the striped shirt, she was my best friend's big sister. She was "seeing" one of the band members, that's how she got in the video. Another reason that everyone hated Vanilla Ice, he claimed to be from Miami. But he was born and raised in Texas..
This song made Vanilla Ice a superstar. Love him or hate him now, you know you liked this song when it came out.
I still jam it in my car lol
No one will admit that track was so hottt suge night try to steal it 😂😂😂
@SOUL BYTHEPOUND Indeed. Vanilla claims he (unwillingly) funded Death Row and thank him for The Chronic, Doggystyle, 2Pac, etc. Good on him trying to spin it to some kind of positive.
Fuck yea,this songs the bomb
The man had talent. It's a shame the music industry did him dirty
This song was completely insane in 1990. EVERYONE was bumping it. Does not matter what color you were or what you listen you. You were bumping Ice Ice Baby.
When somebody is just listening to this old song without knowing all the negative hype Vanilla Ice got back in the day, they can just appreciate. Based on reaction videos I've seen, it's more appreciated now. It's a hot song, for sure.
It became very trendy to mock and bash him, as epitomized by a "In Loving Color" sketch with Jim Carrey. Within a matter of years, people went from avid fans to denying they had ever bought his albums. By 1993 he was a punchline. As such, his impact and influence has been forgotten. I would argue he was a sort of crossover act, not for his race but for bridging the 1980s to the "gangsta" era of the 1990s, and fell victim to the obsession for "street cred" and such that The Fat Boys, Run DMC, Beastie Boys, and others never had to contend with.
@@ahwhite2022 In Living Color also mocked Snow with Imposter also Jim Carrey and the funny thing is Snow actually came from a real violent and tough area and did time but since he was white was mocked whereas a lot of the rappers from the 90's rapping about gang stuff came from nice upstanding two parent Black homes and cultural mixed high schools but they rap like they were coming from the violence.
@@ahwhite2022 I also gotta say 80's and early 90's hip hop had some deep lyrics but also a lot of party music and that's okay. The world in the 90's went and made everything dark with Grunge and Gangsta rap but truth is some of us did prefer the older fun or like you said Beasties and Run. So many rappers including Rza and Genius did late 80's Big Daddy Kane style rapping prior to becoming the Wu so they were doing the old too.
@@dannynhl9441 I was dogpiled elsewhere here on RUclips for pointing out how "In living Color" treated white rappers (and R&B singers). It bled well beyond comedy to vile "how dare you" hatred at times. Definitely a bit of a double standard, but I suppose it captured a bit of the zeitgeist.
@@ahwhite2022 Look at D'Angelo. He was bashed for years for gaining weight and not looking like he did on the Untitled music video. They all hate. Hatred and jealous. Look at the world we live in nowadays. All the popular things are violence, killings, videogames with violence. The way music was back then was fun, good times, just like colorful shows, clothes, videogames, arcades. Not saying the world back then was good and perfect. I lived it. It had violence and issues, racism, hatred I just meant nowdays if you try to be outside the evil box you called like Gay, beta, simp, weird for wanting to be happy, laugh or just be.
I love when I come across a true reaction to *(Ice Ice Baby)* without the cultural baggage pressure. Every time the reactor loves it showing why it was such a big hit when it came out
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He took so much flak for this, got treated like a clown. But the truth is, it's a top-notch tune.
Naw he took flack for claiming street creds he couldnt confirm. That overshadowed a truly great song
He also refused to acknowledge that he took the beat from Under Pressure.
@@toddwynn3397 Well it was in the early days of sampling and the laws were not so much understood or defined. It wasn't so much his fault as a 23 year old kid and more the fault of his management and record company that released the track without sorting the legalities.
@@Uvray It wasn't even the legality of it. Other rappers had no problem talking about sampling. Vanilla Ice did. ruclips.net/video/6TLo4Z_LWu4/видео.html
@@toddwynn3397 All songs come from other songs.
Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer, 2 Live Crew,Run DMC, beastie Boys, Fat Boys, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, and many more. Rap that ruled the airwaves of 80's and 90's. I knew their songs as well as any country song I grew up with.
Now, the rap that's played can barely be understood either due to mumble or the background beat covers the lyrics.
YES!All thoes!
Dont forget Snow- informer
Rap was fun and upbeat, back then.
Ton-lok needs to be added to the list also....wild Thang and funky cold madina ...great songs
Red head kingpin
Vanilla Ice was only 16 years old when he wrote this song!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I miss rap like this too. Just lighthearted and fun. The dancing is still fire!
Yep. Gangster rap and grunge killed it. ☹
He was still talking guns.
Loved the Mustang 5.0 part when I was a kid, lol.
The song is about shooting coked up chumps with a shotgun and a 9mm and running from the cops. No one ever listened to the verses, just the hook.
Its not a rap song. Is a rap over Queen song
THIS will explain Why this song sounds so familiar to you ~~~ The biggest controversy of “Ice Ice Baby,” was the fact that it lifted the bass line from Queen and David Bowie's 1981 song “Under Pressure.” , seeing that the rapper did not pay any royalties to Bowie, Freddie Mercury.
Sure, but at first Queen didn't care. They only sued him after the song went to no1, Then Vanilla Ice bought the rights to Under Pressure from Queen for 4 million. He said it was the best investment he ever made.
@@TonyMontanaDS I can't believe that anyone is still repeating these thoroughly disproved lies.
It doesn't even make any sense. Why would Queen or David even think of selling the rights to ANY of their songs? Think about it.
@@linusromey561 ruclips.net/video/ju8Np2nxVzU/видео.html now F-off
@@TonyMontanaDS thanks for the link, that was not only fun to watch but educational (as to what happened and when).
@@TonyMontanaDS I did not say that he did not lie about it. Show me a video of any member of Queen or David confirming the lie.
When Dr. Brian May was asked about VI's interpretation of the settlement, his response was "He's mistaken."
There is absolutely NO logical explanation you can conjure which could make the claim sound plausible. VI just piled lies on top of lies every time he tried to explain the theft.
I’m a 53 year old grandma and sing along every time this comes on the radio…even in the car when windows are down 🤣
Same here I'm 63 and still love to beat to this song.
I recall the first time I heard this song, it was on the radio a show called "Open House Party". Can't remember the DJ, but it came on Saturday night and the guy played new artists/songs and this one caught my ear right off the bat. I believe this was 1989 or 90...yes, I'm old. Keep up the great work 🤙
It was the Miami beat, not the song. I've heard tons of these songs, even booty and bass. Lot's of female samples/artists too, We used to listen to Miami bass in Detroit.
Williston, surprised to see you here. Been following you for awhile
DJ's name was John Garebedian
Yup, me too.
THANK YOU FOR KEEPING IT REAL!👑 When this came out it was played NONE STOP!!! And it's the first rap album to ever go diamond 💎!
He is/was very talented, and widely popular for a period. Unfortunately, he had bad management which led him to getting made fun of, getting clowned by other hip hop groups. He was brutally threatened by Shug Knight. He went threw some tough times, although he was able to make a bit of a comeback in recent years on TV and on the music scene.
I heard Shug Knight held him off a balcony by his feet. Poor guy. 😒
He also after rap and before the HGTV stuff, went back to doing Motor Cross and had a good career there as well.
@@user-or1ye3iz6d heard the same thing. Wouldn't surprise me tbph.
And you always question it when people that "talented" never seem to come up with, say, a second hit that wasn't lifted from somewhere.
Shrug Knight I guess was jealous ? Who knows. Apparently he didn’t want anyone else to succeed
This song is an underappreciated masterpiece
Except it would be utterly nothing without the bass line that he stole from Queen/Bowie, so there’s that.
@@jazzlefettie stole/sampled....it's a fine line
how is it underappreciated? I'm pretty sure the record books says otherwise, Ice Ice 🧊 Baby Is the #1 Selling rap song of all-time.
Folks ain't knowin how talented this foo really was. He could spit, dance his azz off and perform
Appreciate the young bucks learning the classics, I'm 50, I'm by no means a rap expert, but I love this song, never understood the hate
Vanilla Ice sampled Queen's song 'Under pressure' for 'Ice ice baby' and didn't give them songwriting credit back in 1990... he got sued and lost.
After his 1st record 'To the extreme' was a hit, he got clocked out and couldn't get another hit... Once gangsta rap took over in 1993, rappers like Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer, Biz Markie, Kool Moe Dee... were out of business.
Dang I never knew that
Yes and No - Biz Markie collaborated on Beastie Boys hits that were huge hits all the way though the 90s
Queen and 'David Bowie' song.. Lets give them both credit where it's due.
@@fc1873 it was actually John Deacon’s bass line (Queen’s bassist) that if you watch any “making of Under Pressure” video the band members say John came up with the bass line, then they all went out for pizza & drinks & when hey came back John had forgotten it but luckily, drummer, Roger Taylor remembered it. The song was built by Queen & Bowie from this bass line. Vanilla Ice tried to claim his bass line wasn’t the same as Under Pressure...he lost.
There was no “sampling.” VI stole from Queen/Bowie until a lawsuit forced him to pay for the right to use the bass line, which he should have done in the first place, before he took what wasn’t his and tried to pass it off as his own.
Vanilla reinvented himself in the 2010s renovating houses in HGtv. The show was called Tree Vanilla Ice Project and it ran for 9 seasons. It was pretty good and he was interesting and engaging.
@@leighsaldivar4439 he's trumpster, unfortunately
@@leighsaldivar4439 lol, ok
@@aserij49848 He must had "grabbed her by the ...".
@@aserij49848 He’s a Republican, which means that he’s one of the adults. You don’t have to be afraid.
@@michaelshultz1590 you poor thing
Vanilla is finally vindicated with all of these positive reaction videos.
Growing up in Miami in the 80's, this hip-hop sound was so unique and contagious it really defined an era. Such a shame the genre has crumbled to nothing. Loves your reviews and God bless!
He did a freestyle battle with a couple of radio personalities from the UK a few years ago and he's still got it. Great in the movies, too!
He was funny in "That's My Boy" with Adam Sandler
@@rickyallen7176 Hell yeah, he was! Brilliant movie.
That's nice to know. I was sad that he'd given up on is music after the raw deal he got for not understanding the rules about sampling and no one else looking out for him.
A lot of people don't know he has genuine bars.
@@michellewheatley2007 he has made music recently.
Such an amazing song. The times we had dancing to this as 19 year olds at the clubs in Dallas!!! This was definitely part of the soundtrack of my youth. Best times. And the song stands the test of time. It is a classic, I don't care what the haters say!
made rap a big thing.
Yeah I was in jr high in San Diego
Lo Kath do you remember the Basement in Dallas
We were probably at the same clubs. :-) Good times!
@@dankingjr.2088 you from Dallas
This song reminds me of my son when he was about 12 it was his jam !! And momma still likes it!
Fire! Everyone loved this song and everyone who didn’t--secretly loved this song.
In retrospect, he was very talented. The rap style and the dancing is really outdated, but it was FIRE for the time. He got clowned on way too hard.
Agree- but the dancing is still pretty fly to me!
Real hip hop has been DEAD since about 2000…hip hop now is fucking embarrassing …men in woman’s clothes who can barely mumble, let alone rhyme cleverly, tell a story etc….
He brought a lot of the clowning onto himself though. He sampled the bassline from "Under Pressure", and not only DIDN'T credit Queen and David Bowie, but tried to pass it off as original. He got rightly sued for it and ridiculed.
He also tried to play off that he was from the hood, when he was raised in the suburbs, and got ridiculed again.
Those two things alone caused everyone to not take him seriously anymore.
@@strangeworldsunlimited712 Wrong. The studio selected samples for him to use. It was their responsibility to clear all samples. No, he did not try to pass it off as original. He said that it had been changed. No, he did not try and play it off as if he was from the hood. The label released a fictional history for him, but didn’t tell him. When he went on the Arsenio Hall Show, he had no idea and did he ended up getting ambushed with questions that he wasn’t prepared for.
Accuracy is very important.
And was laughing all the way to the bank.
Man this reminds me of my childhood. Was in 7th grade and my friend was going to see vanilla ice and I was so jealous!! He was a great rapper but the world wasn't ready for him. Even Enemin says so.
Who is Enemin? Eminem never said anything like that about Vanilla Ice. I will say he was an excellent dancer....but greater rapper and Vanilla Ice should not be in the same sentence. Two of the greatest, Kane and KRS, recently did a versus. Peep that if you want to see true emcees.
7th grade for me too. Around that same time was the other rap fad kris kross. And that's also around the time the will smith showed up too as DJ jazzy jeff and the fresh prince.
I saw vanilla ice, mc hammer in concert in 90-91
This one never gets old for me - an automatic feel-good song! Word to your mother, baby.
Oh WoW I am a 83' baby,and I feel so old..but these were good times,bringing me back to those memories😊
Every time my sister takes me to her local pub and they have karaoke, she puts this song in with my name. Because she’s a punk and knows I can do the whole song.
😂🤣😂🤣 Lol! Right?! 🕺🏼
I don't know any other Vanilla Ice songs, but check out Snow, Informer!
I just thought the same thing, Informer by Snow !
Yes!
Yesss
I took this right of the internet. "Ice Ice Baby" was the first hip hop single to top the Billboard charts and has been credited with helping to diversify hip hop by introducing it to a mainstream audience. He won 2 AMA's and a People's Choice award for this song.
He was the bomb! Bringing it all together! Wrote that in 1983! He made it a color blind fun loving dancing time. MISS those times!
I still get shocked whenever someone listens to this for the first time lol I was 7 years old when this came out and I absolutely LOVED it!! I know people made fun of him but I still love this song today lol And yeah, like others have said, pretty much a one-hit wonder so no other recommendations for Vanilla Ice. But here are some other suggestions:
1) Snow - Informer
2) House of Pain - Jump Around
3) Cypress Hill - Insane in the Brain
4) Kris Kross - Jump
And here’s a random one that has nothing to do with anything above 😂:
Xavier Naidoo ft RZA - Ich Kenne Nichts
It’s a German artist (ft. RZA from Wu-Tang) and the song’s lyrics are in German and English. I was living in Germany when this song came out, that’s how I came across it. Love this one too!!
Edit: Ooh, you also gotta check out Marky Mark - Good Vibrations!! Knew I was forgetting something 😃
Don't forget about Go, Ninja, Go
I'm the same way I love when I randomly come across somebody reacting to *Ice Ice Baby* for the first time with no background knowledge & they always love it just like the people when it first came out
He already did *MC Hammer* but I guess you could add *Salt & Pepper (Push it) (Shoop) (whatta man) (let's talk about sex)* to your list
I watch his concert here in the philippines,i loved those so talented.Gb
Every white kid in the suburbs loved this song 😄 And even the people who didn’t like him and complained about a white rapper playing on MTV...yeah they still knew all the lyrics.
White who??? Your average joe of ANY race likes this song because it's clearly catchy.
What Steve said. I went to mixed high school and I was on the tuba line as the only white boy. I assure you this transcended race when it hit. Yes it did become cool to later hate on this but facts are facts. Everyone was playing this when it hit.
@@scorchogrey2385 I should’ve explained a bit better what I meant. I did not mean that only white kids liked the song. I went to high school in a suburb that was 98% caucasian. All the kids there were listening to the typical 80’s music. Much more into the glam rock and pop stuff. “Walk This Way” did well a few years before, but we weren’t listening to pure early rap like NWA where I lived. But this…this was the song that broke through. It was the gateway song to the rap genre in my area 😄
@@walkofnails2923 sounds like we remember it the same and are about the same age. GenX!!
@@scorchogrey2385 Gen X forever!! 🙌🏼😄
This song was my ENTIRE freshman year is high school and I still remembered EVERY word. 😂😂
Hgtv, Vanilla had his own tv show called the vanella ice Project where he rebuilt old Mansion for the rich and famous, for almost 10 years and he still travels world doing his Classic music around the world. and he never stop selling his classic music. The man is a multi millionair.
The 90's were legendary for sure.
Thanks for this, great memories of being young! I will never forget the skit on SNL when Chris Rock was interviewing him. He said "mannn Im from the streets!" Chris Rock said, "what street? Sesame Street???!" 🤣🤣🤣
I enjoyed your reaction!🔥
It's Queen and David Bowie together , called Under Pressure. Amazing song! He Sampling
What I love is that early rappers were expected to have many skills : dancing being the most notable.
It's originally Queen bass line ! ...in Under Pressure song
Yes, it is. He was also offered a nice legal situation for this one. Thanks for sharing this.
Barry got the first Thumbs Up! hell to the yeah!
I see you Barry 💪
😂
My sister and I bumped into Vanilla Ice at Stone Mountain, GA years ago when he was on vacation with his family. He was really cool and so nice.
Love that old music, fun and unforgettable 💪👏👍, please bring that back.....and coming from a 63 year old metal harley biker ☝️
The loop in the background is a queen/bowie loop from "under pressure". There were a lot of court battles over this song. Still, Vanilla Ice killed this. Artists do this all of the time now a days.
Queen sued him and Won
You should watch the In living color spoof on this song! Jim Carey as Vanilla Ice killed it lol!
Rob Van Winkle AKA Vanilla Ice the song Ice Ice Baby was sampled from a song from the band Queen with Eddie Mercury from a song called under pressure
Yes this song is FIRE! My 13 yr old butt knew every word to this song in 7th grade. The good ol days!
This reminds me of my step bro dancing around the house with his walkman singing this song at full throttle!! Made it to the end dog!! You rock! 🤗💜🤗
I seriously thought this was a fake video ! LOL I was like, "Who hasn't heard this song???" But I was born in 1982 so this song was popular when I was growing up. My generation can recite every word LOL! But yes there was controversy around the hook on this song being from Queen's "Under Pressure" but Rob claims there's ONE beat difference, an extra beat. ANYWAYS! Rob is VERY talented, always was. He was never really taken as seriously as he should have been. The dancing was RIGHT on target for the times, too. Everyone was recreating it and my best friend still karaoke's this song word for word from time to time lol. GREAT song. Timeless.
My first concert ever...Vanilla Ice and M.C. Hammer !!
Everyone rocked out to this back then. He had a remodeling show a few years ago.
If you like this style, you should check out a Canadian gem from around the same time. Maestro Fresh Wes - "Let Your Backbone Slide".... Give it a shot!! Love your reactions!!!
I must be old. Cause it surprises me when someone has not heard this.....LOL I used to love cruising and bassing out to a different song of Vanilla Ice called "Life is a fantasy" .
This Song was Sampled from Queen - “under pressure” The song with Queen featured David Bowie
You should see Jim Carrey doning this video, hilarious for sure xx
This was fire when I young 😍😍
I love the 80s.
Definitely check out the rock band Blondie and their song *Rapture* you'll get blown away by it.
It’s hard to imagine anyone not knowing this song.
But I can say I was around when it came out lol and it was crazy how popular it was. It was hot hot 🔥
I'm going to say it, mashups in any capacity were not common at the time. The back beat is Freddy Mercury & David Bowie Under Pressure. Vanilla Ice was a KID. I'm sure it didn't occur to him to ask permission to use a back beat. That being said, I don't have a problem with them saying to him, it's not cool to do this without permission. But suing him like that was not cool at all. He didn't intentionally disrespect anyone. It's considered a compliment & bumps the original artists work these days it's quite common. Back then, not so much. He is humble, kind, hard working, smart & still made his way in the world. Total American Dream success story. LUV ur reaction! I don't know anyone to keep still when this comes on! It was so fun! ❤❤❤
This song is still 🔥 even though it's sampled, it still has a flavor of its own. The only other song I know from him is I guess it's called Ninja Rap from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 Secret Of The Ooze.
I think people are being too generous to this man. He didn’t “sample” Queen’s baseline, he stole it. Lied about it, got sued and lost.
Who gives a shit? He made this beat famous, not the pole smokers
He used their baseline and changed it up a bit but not enough for it to be his...that was the final determination. It still sounded to much like the original.
this was the jam when it came out.... he ended up getting a lot of hater after a while but for a while he was really big. he went on tour with MC Hammer and did a song for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. he even made a movie he starred in called Cool as Ice. i actually saw him in concert back like 7 or 8 years ago, it was a bunch of 90s stars like him and Salt N Peppa and he was still pretty good, he was one of the best performers of the night.
Yes! T U R T L E power 😀
The back ground music is from Queen and David Bowie's song 'Under Pressure'. That may be where you heard it before.
This song went from cheesy to good to great over the last few decades
You gotta hear the Rap Metal version of this and it's also by Vanilla Ice you gotta check it out man it's called Too Cold
"WORD TO YOUR MOTHER" PRICELESS
Vanilla ice was soooooooo amazing; the rhymes & his dancing is off the hook; back in the day the rappers danced
I definitely had the cassette tape playing in the car in high school
I remember when this song came out. Everybody was playing it. Girls really loved Vanilla lol. You might have heard the "hook" before as it is a Queen song.
If he hasn't heard of Vanilla Ice chances are he hasn't heard of David Bowie or Queen
@@DavidMajorz lol vanilla ice is way less popular than Bowie or Queen
The late 80's and the 90's was lit,from brake dancing to rap🕺
Every reaction to this video, that I’ve viewed so far, as soon as the bass begins, the person reacting ALWAYS says “I’ve heard this before”, until the talking starts then realize it’s not something they’ve heard before. Except they probably have. That brilliant bass was done by John Deacon, original bass player of Queen, song is Under Pressure
I grew up in this era, song cool but poor guy got disrespected soooooo bad back then! He got sued for stealing this beat too🤦🏽♀️ ...He's a legend tho, everyone knows him
It's a shame he's never been given the credit he deserves that helped other non African American Artists to transition into hip hop.
maybe that's because the beastie boys were already doing that.
@@ThePWHustle we considered the Beastie boys a boy band, along with Mike and the Mechanics. I am aware of when the Beastie boys came out and when Vanilla Ice came out. The Beastie boys were a group of boys in a band. Vanilla Ice was singular like a lot of early hip hop artists. I'm not telling you that you are wrong or I am wrong. I think this is about a cultural difference. Not one of color but of lifestyle. I'm a Southern California native, NYC seems to see the with frenetic, angry energy and I didn't care for it. I did Heavy Metal, Hard Rock and when I did listen to early hip hop it was skating music. It was energetic and fun for movement. I was a big fan of Rappers Delight and a few others too, but if I wanted the anger or the edge it's always Heavy Metal, even thirty years later
That's right, if it wasn't for him we wouldn't have been able to enjoy the aural delights of Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch: ruclips.net/video/MkIUa8YlVec/видео.html
Wish they had a sarcasm font on here.
Michelle Wheatley
"Finally, the white man is gonna teach the black man how to rap"
-Anthony Anderson Scary movie 3
@@blacktanner2757 I have no idea who taught you to hate, but my parents protested for Civil rights in the 60's. My dad was a Marine and went when it was time for him to go. My ex husband, brother in law, father and even I was willing to serve. I had been hired by the Red Cross to help evaluate and treat mental health while in the theater. When it's about music, it's not about color, If the guy next to you in a foxhole is black, white or blue. You honored ppl instead of trying to pick a fight.
When they would play this song at a club, everyone hits the floor.
I lived in homestead Florida when he came out. We would go out and dance in the late 80s and early 90s. Between him and Mohammer and a lot of other ones we had so much fun
You may want to check of the song “pop goes the weasel” by 3rd Bass. It really clowns some of the mistakes he made.
3rd Bass…good group to react to.
I don't know, this is kind of a guilty pleasure song for me, and I think he was underrated. He had it rough. Being sued by Queen was on the list, as I understand it, he wasn't exactly truthful there.
Keep in mind the original song ICE is "borrowing" from is DAVID BOWIE's (Freddie Mercury as well) UNDER PRESSURE...
I’m from Dallas and he was big in Dallas…Dallas is where this video was shot…but Rappers never wanted to give him his props this was perfection!
I love this!! It’s a classic ☺️
God! I love your reaction to these videos. Like I said before, you were born in the wrong generation. You appreciate all the old music. You would have really enjoyed it more if you grew up with it. You mentioned about his energy & dancing, remember the view you did on MC Hammer, Can't Touch This? There was some crazy dancing & you loved every second of it. Love you man, your one of a kind!
I live in Deep Ellum, TX where this video was filmed. I walk past these video locations almost daily, although I haven't broke out into the dance yet....yet.
The intro was sampled from Queen/Bowie "under pressure". thats why it sounds so familar.
As someone who was just going into high school when this song was made, it is hard to express how popular it was. Literally everyone young, regardless of music genre they listened to, knew this song and there was no internet push like you get today, it was all via word of mouth. Suge kind of ended his career from what I understand but his entire first album was decent and he made a fortune off of it. It is 30 years later and dude had like 2 songs go to hit status and everyone still knows his name *shrug*
If you compare the "hook" to the opening on "Under Pressure" by Queen, they similar. In fact, Queen later tried sued for infringement unsuccessfully. It's a catchy hook.🙃
The musical tune is from Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie.
That dance move was sick for the time aswell .
Kid don't play line was also referring to Kidd n Play who were popular at the time with a string of movies & I think had a music career or attempted aswell .
Watching your face light up is priceless! First time I heard this on the radio station I was hooked for life!🤣
The song is sampled from a Queen song. You may have heard that song which is why it sounds familiar.
Vanilla Ice was one of those other "guilty pleasures" back in the day. Not sure if he is still in the music scene but he does home renovations today and has a show on the #HGTV ..
You also have to remember he wrote this when he was 16. It was meant to be a b-side but a dj flipped it over and it took off. It’s really a great story to hear him talk about those days now.
This came out when I was in elementary school and it was fire back then too. I used to do dance exhibitions and competition. The first exhibition me and my friend Tytus did, our first ever routine, was to this very song. It was one of the best days I had as a kid, entertaining so many people and they loving it. The song really made it all come together and got the crowd into it.
2:41 that girl in the striped shirt, she was my best friend's big sister. She was "seeing" one of the band members, that's how she got in the video.
Another reason that everyone hated Vanilla Ice, he claimed to be from Miami. But he was born and raised in Texas..
Your face changed so fast when the beat kicked in ! This track is FIRE ! Nice to see you enjoying it 🤗 thanks for sharing 👍
The sample is from Queen "Under Pressure".
Don't forget he circled in the Juggalo crowd and was/is a fan favorite.
This came out when I was a teenager & not everyone admitted it, but EVERYONE liked this song 😂
I remember this. I was in the 12 grade when this came out. Funny how time goes by🎙🎤🎵🎶
Yeah!! HOW Bout that bass line !….. magic ! Thanks for sharing 👍
Ice is getting more love now then he did back in the day. He was treated mercilessly but there was so many loving this when by themselves.