Vanilla Ice - IMDb IMDb Soundtrack | Actor | Writer Vanilla Ice was born Robert Matthew Van Winkle on October 31, 1967 in South Dallas, Texas. He was raised by his mother, Camilla Beth (Dickerson). His father left when he was four years old and since then, he has had many stepfathers. He has German and English ancestry on his mother's side. In his teenage years, Robert was a poor student who got ... See full bio » Born: a list of 39 people created 31 Mar 2011 a list of 37 people created 19 Jul 2011 a list of 33 people created 03 Jan 2012 a list of 46 people created 14 Jul 2012 a list of 25 people created 17 Mar 2013 Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Vanilla Ice's work have you seen? User Polls 1 win & 3 nominations. See more awards » Known For Who's Doing the Dishes?

(TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes, 2016) (writer - 2 episodes, 2016) - Jayne Torvill (2016) ... (performer: "Ice Ice Baby" - uncredited) / (writer: "Ice Ice Baby" - uncredited) - Edele Lynch (2016) ... (writer: "Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby)" - uncredited) - Sean Wilson (2016) ... (performer: "Ice Ice Baby" - uncredited) 2016 Go for It (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) - Episode #1.6 (2016) ... (performer: "Ice Ice Baby" - uncredited) The X Factor (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2016) (writer - 1 episode, 2009) - Six Chair Challenge 2 (2016) ... (performer: "Ice Ice Baby" - uncredited) - Episode #6.21 (2009) ...

(writer: "Under Pressure/Ice Ice Baby" - uncredited) - Aicelle Santos vs. Rodjun Cruz (2016) ... (writer: "Ice Ice Baby") 2016 Hollywood Express (TV Series) (1 episode) - #676 (2016) ... ("Ninja Rap (Go Ninja Go)") Britain's Got More Talent (TV Series) (performer - 2 episodes, 2016) (writer - 2 episodes, 2016) - Episode #10.12 (2016) ... (performer: "Ice Ice Baby" - uncredited) / (writer: "Ice Ice Baby" - uncredited) - Episode #10.10 (2016) ...

(performer: "Ice Ice Baby" - uncredited) / (writer: "Ice Ice Baby" - uncredited) 2016 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (performer: "Ice Ice Baby") / (writer: "Ice Ice Baby" - as Robert Van Winkle) / (writer: "Ninja Rap - Go Ninja, Go Ninja Go" - as Robert Matthew Van Winkle) One Hit Wonderland (TV Series documentary) (performer - 7 episodes, 2012 - 2015) (writer - 6 episodes, 2012 - 2015) (arranger - 1 episode, 2014) (lyrics - 1 episode, 2014) - Hooked on a Feeling by Blue Swede (2014) ... (performer: "Ice Ice Baby") / (writer: "Ice Ice Baby") - Informer by Snow (2014) ...

(arranger: "Play That Funky Music") / (lyrics: "Play That Funky Music") / (performer: "Play That Funky Music", "Ice Ice Baby") / (writer: "Ice Ice Baby") - Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow & Hailee Steinfeld/The Filharmonic (2015) ... (writer: "Ice Ice Baby" - uncredited) Todd's Pop Song Reviews (TV Series documentary) (performer - 3 episodes, 2014 - 2015) (writer - 3 episodes, 2014 - 2015) (arranger - 1 episode, 2015) (lyrics - 1 episode, 2015) - The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 1991 (2015) ... (arranger: "Play That Funky Music") / (lyrics: "Play That Funky Music") / (performer: "Play That Funky Music", "Ice Ice Baby") / (writer: "Ice Ice Baby") - Ewan McGregor/Charles Barkley/Wilco (2014) ...

(writer: "Ice Ice Baby" - uncredited) 2014 Mike & Mike (TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes) - Episode dated 4 February 2014 (2014) ... (writer: "Ice Ice Baby" - uncredited) Dancing on Ice (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2014) (writer - 1 episode, 2014) - Week 10: The Grand Final (2014) ... (performer: "Ice Ice Baby" - uncredited) / (writer: "Ice Ice Baby" - uncredited) 2014 Tu cara me suena (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Episode #3.13 (2014) ... (writer: "Ice Ice Baby") 2013 Saturday Night Live (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Justin Timberlake (2013) ...

(writer: "Ice Ice Baby" - uncredited) Moone Boy (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2012) (writer - 1 episode, 2012) - Bunch of Marys (2012) ... (performer: "Ice Ice Baby") / (writer: "Ice Ice Baby") Atop the Fourth Wall (TV Series) (1 episode, 2010) (performer - 1 episode, 2012) (writer - 1 episode, 2012) - Rock and Roll #31: Vanilla Ice (2012) ... (performer: "Ice Ice Baby", "Ninja Rap", "Too Cold") / (writer: "Ice Ice Baby", "Ninja Rap", "Too Cold") - Nolan Ryan #1 (2010) ...

("Polka Your Eyes Out") 2012 That's My Boy (performer: "Ice Ice Baby") / (writer: "Ice Ice Baby" - as Robert Van Winkle) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2012) (writer - 1 episode, 2012) - Stealing Home (2012) ... (performer: "Ice Ice Baby" - uncredited) / (writer: "Ice Ice Baby" - as Robert Van Winkle, uncredited) 2011 Kinect Sports: Season Two (Video Game) (performer: "Ice Ice Baby") / (writer: "Ice Ice Baby" - as Robert Van Winkle) - The British Grand Prix (2011) ... (performer: "Ice Ice Baby" - uncredited) 2011 Mr. Popper's Penguins (performer: "ICE ICE BABY") / (writer: "ICE ICE BABY" - as Robert Van Winkle) - The Roommate Transmogrification (2011) ...

(writer: "Ice Ice Baby" - uncredited) Tosh.0 (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2011) (writer - 1 episode, 2011) - Evolution of Dance Guy (Dance-Off) (2011) ... (performer: "Ice Ice Baby" - uncredited) / (writer: "Ice Ice Baby" - uncredited) Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2010) (writer - 1 episode, 2010) - Joey Wheeler Ace Attorney (2010) ... (performer: "Ice Ice Baby" - uncredited) / (writer: "Ice Ice Baby" - uncredited) 20 to 1 (TV Series documentary) (performer - 2 episodes, 2007 - 2010) (writer - 1 episode, 2010) - Greatest Sports Movies of All Time (2010) ...

(performer: "Ice Ice Baby" - uncredited) / (writer: "Ice Ice Baby" - uncredited) - Party Songs (2007) ... (performer: "Play That Funky Music") 2010 Glee (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode) - Bad Reputation (2010) ... (writer: "Ice Ice Baby" - uncredited) Live from Studio Five (TV Series) (writer - 7 episodes, 2009 - 2010) (performer - 5 episodes, 2010) - Episode #1.138 (2010) ... (performer: "Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby)") / (writer: "Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby)") - Episode #1.125 (2010) ... (performer: "Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby)") / (writer: "Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby)") - Episode #1.124 (2010) ...

(performer: "Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby)") / (writer: "Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby)") - Episode #1.93 (2010) ... (performer: "Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby)") / (writer: "Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby)") - Episode #1.79 (2010) ... (performer: "Ice Ice Baby") / (writer: "Ice Ice Baby") 2009 CHIKARA: King of Trios 2009 - Night I (Video) (writer: "Ice Ice Baby") 2009 Cyprien (performer: "Ice Ice Baby (radio edit)") / (writer: "Ice Ice Baby (radio edit)" - as Van Winkle) Talkshow with Spike Feresten (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2008) (writer - 1 episode, 2008) - Vanilla Ice (2008) ...

(performer: "Ice Ice Baby") / (writer: "Ice Ice Baby" - as Robert Van Winkle) 2008 Death Racers (Video) (performer: "Swallow This Nut") / (writer: "Swallow This Nut") 2008 Step Brothers (performer: "Ice Ice Baby") / (writer: "Ice Ice Baby") 2007 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s (TV Mini-Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode) - Episode #1.4 (2007) ...

(performer: "Ice Ice Baby") 2005 I Love the 80's 3-D (TV Series documentary) (performer: "Ice Ice Baby") / (writer: "Ice Ice Baby") 2005 AMV Hell 3: The Motion Picture (performer: "Ice Ice Baby") 2004 Little Black Book (performer: "Ice is Workin' It") / (writer: "Ice is Workin' It" - as Robert Van Winkle) 2004 AMV Hell (Short) (performer: "Ninja Rap") 2004 13 Going on 30 (performer: "Ice Ice Baby") / (writer: "Ice Ice Baby" - as Robert Van Winkle) - Liveshow 4 - Filmmuziek (2003) ...

(writer: "Ice Ice Baby") 1999 Tuftsablanca (performer: "Ice Ice Baby") / (writer: "Ice Ice Baby" - as Robert Van Winkle) Behind the Music (TV Series documentary) (writer - 2 episodes, 1999) (performer - 1 episode, 1999) - Vanilla Ice (1999) ...

(performer: "Ice Ice Baby", "Too Cold", "S.N.A.F.U.", "Hooked", "Ice Is Workin' It", "Play That Funky Music", "Stop That Train", "Fame", "Ninja Rap", "Cool as Ice (Everybody Get Loose)", "The Wrath", "Zig Zag Stories", "A.D.D.", "Fuck Me") / (writer: "Ice Ice Baby", "Ice Is Workin' It", "Play That Funky Music", "Stop That Train", "Fame", "The Wrath" - as Robert Van Winkle) / (writer: "Too Cold", "S.N.A.F.U.", "Hooked", "Ninja Rap", "Cool as Ice (Everybody Get Loose)", "Zig Zag Stories", "A.D.D.", "Fuck Me") 1998 Disturbing Behavior (writer: "Ice Ice Baby" - as Robert Van Winkle) Beavis and Butt-Head (TV Series) (performer - 3 episodes, 1993 - 1997) (writer - 1 episode, 1993) - Butt Flambe (1997) ...

(performer: "I Love You") - Babysitting (1996) ... (performer: "I Love You") - True Crime (1993) ... (performer: "Ice, Ice, Baby") / (writer: "Ice, Ice, Baby" - as Robert Van Winkle) 1995 Clerks. (TV Short) (writer: "Ice Ice Baby") 1992 Alyas Boy Kano (performer: "Ice Ice Baby") / (writer: "Ice Ice Baby" - as Robert Van Winkle) 1991 Cool as Ice (performer: "Cool as Ice (Everybody Get Loose)", "Johnny Rox the Box", "The People's Choice", "Never Wanna Be Without You", "Get Wit' It") / (writer: "Cool as Ice (Everybody Get Loose)", "Johnny Rox the Box", "The People's Choice", "Never Wanna Be Without You", "Get Wit' It") Vanilla Ice - Music on Google Play Vanilla Ice About the artist Robert Matthew Van Winkle, known professionally as Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper, actor, and television host.

Born in South Dallas, and raised in Texas and South Florida, Ice released his debut album, Hooked, in 1989 on Ichiban Records, before signing a contract with SBK Records, a record label of the EMI Group which released a reformatted version of the album under the title To the Extreme. Ice's 1990 single "Ice Ice Baby" was the first hip hop single to top the Billboard charts. Although he was successful, Ice later regretted his business arrangements with SBK, which had paid him to adopt a more commercial appearance to appeal to a mass audience and published fabricated biographical information without his knowledge. After surviving a suicide attempt, Ice was inspired to change his musical style and lifestyle. While his later, less mainstream albums failed to chart or receive much radio airplay, Ice has had a loyal underground following. In 2009, Ice began hosting The Vanilla Ice Project on DIY Network. His latest album WTF – Wisdom, Tenacity & Focus was released in August 2011. Ice is currently signed to Psychopathic Records.

Vanilla Ice (Rapper) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News Vanilla Ice Rapper Male Robert Matthew Van Winkle, best known by his stage name Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper. Born in South Dallas, and raised in Texas and South Florida, Van Winkle released his debut album, Hooked, in 1989 through Ichiban Records, before signing a contract with SBK Records, a record label of the EMI Group which released a reformatted version of the album under the title To the Extreme.… Read More related links Weather Experts To Skeptics: Evacuate Before Hurricane Matthew Hurts You Yahoo News - Oct 07, 2016 ' Weather forecasters have a clear message for all residents of areas in the path of Hurricane Matthew: evacuate now.Â While conservative voices like The Drudge Report\'s Matt Drudge have suggested that the U.S. government is over-playing the strength of the storm to make a point about climate change, weather experts across TV and the internet are urging citizens to not underestimate the hurricane\'s damage. It has already led to at least 280 deaths in Caribbean. SEE ALSO: A weather geek\'s l...

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… Read More After breaking his ankle during a race, Ice was not interested in racing professionally for some time, using his spare time to perfect his dance moves and creating his own while his ankle was healing. Ice used his beatboxing and breakdancing skills as a street performer with his friends at local malls during this time. One evening he visited City Lights, a South Dallas nightclub, where he was dared to go on stage by his friend Squirrel during an open-mic. He won the crowd over and was asked by City Lights manager John Bush if he wanted to perform regularly, which he accepted. Ice would be joined on stage with his disc jockey D-Shay and Zero as well as Earthquake, the local disc jockey at City Lights. The Vanilla Ice Posse or The V.I.P. would also perform with Ice on stage. As a performer for City Lights, Ice opened up for N.W.A, Public Enemy, The D.O.C., Tone LÅc, 2 Live Crew, Paula Abdul, Sinbad and MC Hammer. Read Less 1987 19 Years Old In January 1987, Ice was stabbed five times during a scuffle outside of City Lights.

… Read More After spending ten days at the hospital, Ice signed a contract with the owner of City Lights, Tommy Quon and his management company, Ultrax. Two years later, Ice would open for EPMD, Ice-T, Stetsasonic, and Sir Mix-A-Lot on the Stop the Violence Tour. Quon saw commercial potential in Ice's rapping and dancing skills. Buying studio time with Quon's earnings from City Lights, they recorded songs that had been perfected on stage by Ice and his acquaintances with various producers, including Khayree. The two year production was distributed by an independent record company called Ichiban Records in 1989. "Play That Funky Music" was released as the album's first single, with "Ice Ice Baby" appearing as the B-side. Tommy Quon personally sent out the single to various radio stations around the US, but the single was seldom played and when it was, it did not get the reaction Quon was hoping for. When disc jockey Darrell Jaye in Georgia played "Ice Ice Baby" instead of the single's A-side, the song gained a quick fanbase and other radio stations followed suit.

Quon financed $8,000 for the production of a music video for "Ice Ice Baby", which received heavy airplay by The Box, increasing public interest in the song. Read Less TWENTIES 1989 21 Years Old … Robert Matthew Van Winkle (born October 31, 1967), known by his stage name, Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper, actor and television host. Read Less Born in South Dallas, and raised in Texas and South Florida, Ice released his debut album, Hooked, in 1989 on Ichiban Records, before signing a contract with SBK Records, a record label of the EMI Group which released a reformatted version of the album under the title To the Extreme. … Read More Ice's 1990 single "Ice Ice Baby" was the first hip hop single to top the Billboard charts.<br /><br /> Although Vanilla Ice was successful, he later regretted his business arrangements with SBK, which had paid him to adopt a more commercial appearance to appeal to a mass audience and published fabricated biographical information without his knowledge. After surviving a suicide attempt, Ice was inspired to change his musical style and lifestyle.

While his later, less mainstream albums failed to chart or receive much radio airplay, Ice has had a loyal underground following. In 2009, Ice began hosting The Vanilla Ice Project on DIY Network. His latest album WTF â Wisdom, Tenacity & Focus was released in August 2011. Ice is currently signed to Psychopathic Records.<br /><br /> Robert Matthew Van Winkle was born in Dallas, Texas, on October 31, 1967. Van Winkle has never known his biological father; he was given the family name of the Dutch man his mother was married to at the time of his birth. When Van Winkle was four, his mother divorced. Afterward, he grew up moving between Dallas and Miami, where his new stepfather worked at a car dealership. Hip hop affected Van Winkle at an early age, saying "It's a very big passion of mine because I love poetry.

I was just heavily influenced by that whole movement and it's molded me into who I am today." Read Less Show Less On the basis of Ice's good looks and dance moves, Public Enemy tried to convince their producer, Hank Shocklee, to sign Ice to Def Jam, but Ice later signed a contract with SBK Records in 1990. … Read More SBK remixed and re-recorded Hooked under the title To the Extreme. The reissue contained new artwork and music. According to Ice, SBK paid him to adopt a more commercial, conventional appearance. This led Ice to later regret his business agreements with SBK.<br /><br /> To the Extreme became the fastest selling hip hop album of all time, spending sixteen weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 and selling eleven million copies. SBK Record executive Monte Lipman stated that he received calls from radio stations reporting over 200 phone calls requesting Ice Ice Baby. SBK wanted Ice on the road as soon as possible. MC Hammer, an old acquaintance from his club days, had Ice on as an opening act on his tour. Reviews of To the Extreme were mixed.

Entertainment Weekly reviewer Mim Udovitch gave the album a B, citing "Ice Ice Baby", "Play That Funky Music", "Dancin'" and "It's a Party" as the album's highlights. Robert Christgau gave the album a Câ rating, writing that Ice's "suave sexism, fashionably male supremacist rather than dangerously obscene, is no worse than his suave beats". Criticizing the technique and style of Vanilla Ice, Allrovi reviewer Steve Huey wrote: Read Less In late 1990, Ice began an eight-month relationship with Madonna, and appeared in photographs for her book, Sex. … Read More In the height of Ice's popularity, SBK licensed a 12" doll which was made by THQ. Read Less Vanilla Ice dated Madonna for eight months in 1990. Show Less In January 1991, he was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live. … Read More Ice branched out into the film industry with an appearance in the film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, which he later called "one of the coolest experiences" of his career.

Ice was very secretive about his personal life, with the intention of protecting his family. When a Dallas Morning News reporter asked Ice what his mother's profession was, he replied "None of your fucking business". In an attempt to rectify this, his former label wrote a fake biography in his name and tried to pass it off as his official life story without his knowledge. Read Less While on tour in 1991, Ice found out that SBK had instigated the publication of the biography which detailed false biographical information, including claims that he had attended school with Luther Campbell and exaggerating his living conditions in Miami, which Ice later had to debunk by himself. Ice's second major release was the live album Extremely Live, released in March 1991. … Read More The album was a live recording during Vanilla Ice's performance in Miami during his To The Extreme tour.

Premiering new songs like Rollin' in My 5., Road To My Riches and Satisfaction, the album peaked at #30 on the Billboard 200, but it received mainly negative reviews, with Entertainment Weekly reviewer David Browne calling it "one of the most ridiculous albums ever released", comparing it to The Best of Marcel Marceau, an album which consisted of two sides of silence opened by brief applause. According to Browne, Extremely Live "affords you the chance to hear inane stage patter and unaccompanied drumming, during which, one assumes, Ice and his posse are onstage dancing." Monte Lipman later stated that SBK only released the live disc to make more money from Ice's fame. Read Less In April 1991, Ice began to film the SBK produced Cool as Ice, in which he played a leading role. Cool as Ice opened on October 18, 1991 in 393 theaters in the United States, grossing $638,000, ranking at #14 among the week's new releases. … Read More Reviews of the film were negative.

Film website Rotten Tomatoes, which compiles reviews from a wide range of critics, gives the film a score of 8%. Ice received a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst New Star. SBK stated that they overexposed Ice and Ice decided to stop taking their business advice as well as distancing himself from the image that SBK was trying to create for him. Read Less In late 1991, Ice appeared in the Circus of the Stars and Sideshow, driving his motorcycle through a wall of fire. … Read More While his fame in the United States had severely dropped, Ice continued touring in 1992, playing in South America, Europe, Australia and Asia, premiering new songs like "Get Loose", "The Wrath", "Now & Forever", "Where the Dogs At? (All Night Long)", "Minutes of Power" and "Iceman Party". After a performance in Acapulco, the city honored Ice with a medal that represented "all the respect and admiration to Ice's music and to him as an artist from the Mexican people". Read Less Ice also served as a spokesperson for Nike and Coca-Cola throughout 1991 and 1992.

… When asked about his darker sound in 2002, Ice replied; "Music is about reflection and Iâm just reflecting my life and everything itâs been and thereâs no way Iâm going to be able to stress what I want and mean over a break beat, you know, itâs too emotional and itâs too intense, so you have to have the intensity of the band, itâs like a symphony, you know, you have to build on the intense parts, and so it just wasnât going to happen, to come extreme over some hip hop record, so to exorcise my demons I had to have the band." <br /><br />Along with Beastie Boys, 3rd Bass, and House of Pain, Ice was one of the earliest white rappers to attain major success. Chuck D has credited Ice as a regional breakthrough, stating "He broke through in the mid-South, in a Southern area in Texas, in something that was kind of indigenous to that hip-hop culture down there.

He just doesnât get credit for it." In 1991, 3rd Bass released a single called "Pop Goes the Weasel", and in the lyrics comparing Ice unfavorably to Elvis Presley. The song's music video featured Henry Rollins as Ice, who is depicted as being assaulted by 3rd Bass. Ice responded to "Pop Goes the Weasel" with his 1992 song "The Wrath". Read Less Del tha Funkee Homosapien referred to Ice in the lyrics of "Pissin' on Your Steps", which appeared on his 1991 debut album I Wish My Brother George Was Here. … Read More Similar to 'Pop Goes the Weasel', the song negatively makes a connection between Ice and Elvis, while saying Ice alongside MC Hammer are mocking hip hop by being commercial. Vanilla Ice answered back to most of his critics in the song Hit 'em Hard. Read Less Show Less In 1993, Ice toured Eastern-Europe again and premiered songs off his upcoming album in St. Petersburg, Russia in front of President Boris Yeltsin.

After almost non-stop touring for the previous three years, Ice took a break from music in 1993 and began competing in jet skiing (becoming the 6th best jet ski racer in the world and obtaining sponsorship from Kawasaki) as well as resuming Motocross racing. … Read More Ice was interested in responding to his critics by having his next album surpass his earlier and popular work. In 1992, he started writing response songs aimed at 3rd Bass and Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. Together with his disc jockey Zero, the new album started production yet again, scrapping a lot of finished songs and re-doing others. Read Less Show Less By 1994, Ice received less publicity and became removed from the public spotlight. … Read More After becoming more interested with the Rastafari movement, Ice became a vegetarian, grew dreadlocks and talked more openly about smoking cannabis. Read Less On March 22, 1994, Ice released his second studio album, Mind Blowin'. … Read More Reviews were unfavorable. Entertainment Weekly reviewer James Bernard called the album "more clunky than funky".

Rolling Stone reviewer Danyel Smith praised the song "Get Loose" as "snappy", writing that although the lyrics are "inane", "the song is a thumping party, one of the few places where Ice loosens up. He sounds solid at the beginning of 'The Wrath' as well... In 'Now and Forever,' a wet dream kind of song, Ice goes back to goofy lyrics." Allrovi reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that "There isn't a single moment that establishes a distinct musical identity, and the whole thing is rather embarrassing." Primus bassist Les Claypool stated in response to Ice's cannabis-oriented lyrics: "That's all fine and dandy and cute, but it could be misconstrued and manipulated by the wrong people." When asked about the drug oriented sound years later, Vanilla Ice said "A lot of the record is drug oriented because I was doing a lot of drugs at the time". Shortly afterward, SBK went bankrupt. Read Less … At around this time, Ice began using ecstasy, cocaine and heroin. During periods of heavy drug use, Ice received many tattoos from artist acquaintances. According to Ice, he "was in his binge days.

He didn't even realize how many he was getting". Read Less Ice attempted suicide with a heroin overdose on July 4, 1994 but was revived by his friends. … Read More After being revived, Ice decided that it was time to change his lifestyle. As a symbol of his attempt to begin anew, he got a tattoo of a leaf on his stomach. Read Less Show Less Vanilla Ice was a member of the softball team The Hip Hop Stars alongside Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Method Man in a 1999 game shown on MTV Rock N' Jock. Later in 1999, MTV asked Vanilla Ice to join their cast to "retire" the music video for "Ice Ice Baby" on the MTV special 25 Lame, in which Ice himself was asked to destroy the video's master tape. … Read More When Ice was given a baseball bat, he ended up destroying not only the film but the show's entire set as well. In 2001, DJ ReAnimator remixed "Ice Ice Baby" with Vanilla Ice re-doing his vocals for the track.

Ice Ice Baby 2001 was released as a single and music video for the European market spawning a wave of new overseas interest in Vanilla Ice.<br /><br /> Having attracted a following outside of his former mainstream audience, Ice began recording independently, despite still being signed at Universal. During a recording session, Ice met the all-female American hard rock band from Southern California, Betty Blowtorch. The late Bianca Halstead bonded with Ice and asked if he wanted to contribute a rap interlude to their track Size Queen. On Ice's collaboration with the band, lead vocalist and bassist Halstead was quoted saying "I asked him if he could rap over track and he said he can rap over anything. And he could!" Per his stepfather's request, Ice started working with his former manager Tommy Quon again, while hoping to re-create some of the magic that they worked hard on in the early 90's, Ice denied any interest in trying to become big again and that his only passion was music, not fame.

Read Less Show Less In May 2000, Ice wrestled in a match promoted by Juggalo Championship Wrestling, then known as Juggalo Championshit Wrestling, filling in for Insane Clown Posse member Shaggy 2 Dope, who had been injured during a match. … Read More MTV News reported that Insane Clown Posse would make an appearance on Ice's next album, tentatively titled Bomb Tha System. Read Less In October 2000, Ice announced that his next album would be titled Skabz, and that Chuck D was confirmed to appear on the album. … Read More It was initially planned as a double album featuring a disc containing rock-oriented material and a disc of hip hop songs. In July 2001, Ice performed at the second Gathering of the Juggalos. On October 23, 2001, Skabz and Bomb Tha System were released as a together as Bi-Polar. The album also featured La the Darkman, Perla, Insane Poetry and Bob Kakaha.

Read Less Bradley Torreano of Allrovi disliked the album, criticizing it as "wildly uneven and at times hilariously bad", but also stating "Vanilla Ice is still better than a lot of the rap-metal bands that erupted in 2000/2001." and the rap beats on Bomb Tha System "are surprisingly solid". … Read More In The New Rolling Stone Album Guide, Rob Kemp gave the album one out of five stars, calling the album "utterly listless". According to a Sony BMG executive, sales of Bi-Polar were "not bad for Vanilla Ice. That's pretty respectable. Seriously." Read Less 2001 33 Years Old Vanilla Ice appears as a video game character in Championship Motocross released in 2001 on PlayStation 2. … Read More The hairstylist character in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is also molded after Vanilla Ice. Former Ultimate Fighting Championship light heavyweight champion Chuck 'The Iceman' Lidell used Ice's song Too Cold for his entrance to the ring. In 2007, Nike released Vanilla Ice shoes for their Fallen Heroes pack.

Rapper G-Child, best known for her appearance on ego trip's The (White) Rapper Show, has credited Ice as being a major influence on her work. After meeting Ice in 2000, G-Child performed freestyle raps at six of Ice's performances, and opened for him four times. The late rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard appeared on stage with Vanilla Ice during the 2004 Gathering of the Juggalos and expressed interest in working on a song together after stating that he was Ice's "greatest fan". Read Less Show Less On April 10, 2008, Ice was arrested in Palm Beach County on a battery charge for allegedly kicking and hitting his wife. … Read More He was released the following day after she declared that her husband had only pushed her. In court, the couple's neighbor, Frank Morales, stated that it was merely a verbal argument. Ice was ordered by a Florida court to stay away from his wife following his arrest, and to communicate with his children only if Morales accompanied him. The judge told Ice that he could only contact his wife via telephone.

On April 29, 2008, Ice's lawyers, Bradford Cohen and Joseph LoRusso, were able to get the case dropped after providing the state attorney with evidence that conflicted with what was originally reported. Read Less In September 2008, Ice signed a contract with Cleopatra Records, recording the cover album Vanilla Ice Is Back! at the label's request. … Read More The album was released on November 4, 2008, and contained covers of songs by Public Enemy, House of Pain, Bob Marley, and Cypress Hill. IGN reviewer Spence D. called the album "an embarrassing endeavor that sounds like it should have stayed locked inside Ice's studio (or at the very least leaked on YouTube and passed off as a piss take)." Read Less Show Less On February 27, 2009, Ice performed as part of a joint performance with MC Hammer in Orem, Utah called "Hammer Pants And Ice", which featured twenty four dancers and a full choir. In March 2009, Ice participated in a Virgin Mobile advertising campaign titled "Right Music Wrongs", apologizing for his 1990s image.

… Read More As part of the campaign, Ice was placed on "trial", and was voted innocent by users of the campaign website. He also appeared in a commercial for the South African light beer Castle Lite. Read Less In August 2009, Ice announced on his official Twitter account that he had signed a contract with StandBy Records; however, Ice later left the label. Show Less Ice was a special musical guest at the 2010 National Television Awards in January, performing with Jedward for their remix and debut single "Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby)". … Read More Ice also recorded his verse for their album Planet Jedward and appeared in the music video. Read Less Vanilla Ice was a part of The Back2Kool concert tour with Turbo B and MC Hammer, playing worldwide in late 2010. … Read More Ice reunited with his former DJ; Floyd 'Earthquake' Brown for the shows overseas. Read Less In 2010, Vanilla Ice was featured on the debut single of the Irish duo Jedward, a mashup of "Under Pressure" and "Ice Ice Baby".

"Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby)" was released in the United Kingdom on January 31, 2010 via download and as a physical single on February 15, 2010. … Read More In 2010, Serbian musicians SlaÄa DelibaÅ¡iÄ and Shwarz released the single and music video Dizel Power. The music video and song feature various references to Vanilla Ice, including the performers dancing next to a graffiti mural of Ice. The video has reached two million views on YouTube.<br /><br /> After signing with Psychopathic Records, Violent J mentioned that Insane Clown Posse were longtime fans of Ice's work; âWe were bumping him way before "Ice Ice Baby" blew up. We were bumping him when he had his first record out on Ichiban. Shaggy had the vinyl and we used to bump that shit up in his room. It felt like two summers before that shit blew up.â "Thanda Thanda Pani" (Cold Cold Water) by Baba Sehgal was inspired heavily by Vanilla Ice's music and style.

Rapper Riff Raff has mentioned in interviews that Vanilla Ice was one of his biggest influence. Read Less How Much Is Vanilla Ice Income - Vanilla Ice Net Worth How Much Is Vanilla Ice Income Read more... Vanilla Ice Vanilla Ice Net Worth is $18 Million. Rapper Vanilla Ice was born Robert van Winkle and has a net worth estimated at $18 million. Growing up between Dallas and Miami, Vanilla Ice began writing and performing songs and breakdancing in his mid-teens. A. Robert Matthew Van Winkle (b... Vanilla Ice Net Worth is $18 Million. Vanilla Ice Net Worth is $18 Million. Rapper Vanilla Ice was born Robert van Winkle and has a net worth estimated at $18 million. Growing up between Dallas and Miami, Vanilla Ice began writing and performing songs and breakdancing in his mid-teens. A Robert Matthew Van Winkle , best known by his stage name Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper, extreme athlete and home improvement television personality.

Born in South Dallas, and raised in Texas and South Florida, Van Winkle released his debut album, Hooked, in 1989 through Ichiban Records, before signing a contract with SBK Records, a record label of the EMI Group which released a reformatted version of the album under the title To the Extreme. Van Winkle's single "Ice Ice Baby" was the first hip hop single to top the Billboard charts. Although Van Winkle was successful, he later regretted his business arrangements with SBK, which had paid him to adopt a more commercial appearance to appeal to a mass audience and published fabricated biographical information without his knowledge. After surviving a suicide attempt, Van Winkle was inspired to change his musical style and lifestyle. While later albums by Van Winkle haven't charted or featured much radio airpla... YO! 90s Hip Hop Party in Dallas at The Bomb Factory View All Artists YO! 90s Hip Hop Party w/ Vanilla Ice! 5 of the top acts from The Golden Age of Hip Hop all share our stage for one epic night!

Vanilla Ice Robert Matthew Van Winkle (born October 31, 1967), known by his stage name, Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper, actor and television host. Born in South Dallas, and raised in Texas and South Florida, Ice released his debut album, Hooked, in 1989 on Ichiban Records, before signing a contract with SBK Records, a record label of the EMI Group which released a reformatted version of the album under the title To the Extreme. Ice's 1990 single "Ice Ice Baby" was the first hip hop single to top the Billboard charts. While his later, less mainstream albums failed to chart or receive much radio airplay, Ice has had a loyal underground following. In 2009, Ice began hosting The Vanilla Ice Project on DIY Network. His latest album WTF – Wisdom, Tenacity & Focus was released in August 2011. Ice is currently signed to Psychopathic Records. Coolio Coolio, is an American musician, rapper, chef, actor, and record producer.

Coolio achieved mainstream success in the mid to late 1990s with his albums It Takes a Thief (1994), Gangsta's Paradise (1995), and My Soul (1997). He is best known for his 1995 Grammy Award-winning hit single "Gangsta's Paradise", as well as other singles "Fantastic Voyage" (1994), "C U When U Get There" (1997) and "1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New)" (1996). He was also known for rapping the theme song for the late 1990s Nickelodeon series Kenan & Kel. Coolio has since gone on to release albums independently, as well becoming a chef, creating a web series titled Cookin' with Coolio and releasing a cookbook. Tone Loc Anthony Terrell Smith (born March 3, 1966), better known by his stage name Tone Lōc or Tone-Lōc is an American rapper and actor. he is known for his deep, gravelly voice and his million-selling hit singles, "Wild Thing" and "Funky Cold Medina”.

Tone Lōc is also a voice actor, having voiced characters in several cartoon series. He voiced the character of "The Goanna" in the 1992 movie FernGully: The Last Rainforest.[3] He also voiced Fud Wrapper, the host of the animatronic show Food Rocks, which played at Epcot from 1994 to 2004. In this latter role, he sang the song "Always Read the Wrapper", a parody of his own song "Funky Cold Medina." His song "Ace Is In The House" features in the films Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) and Ace Ventura Jr: Pet Detective (2009). He provided vocals for FeFe Dobson for a track called "Rock It 'Til You Drop It" on her first album, 2003's Fefe Dobson. 2 Live Crew The 2 Live Crew was an American hip-hop group from Miami, Florida. They caused considerable controversy with the sexual themes in their work, particularly on their 1989 album As Nasty As They Wanna.

Although seen as a main fixture in the Miami hip-hop scene, actually got their start in California & was created by DJ Mr. Mixx (David Hobbs) with fellow rappers Fresh Kid Ice (Chris Wong Won), and Amazing Vee (Yuri Vielot). The group released its first single, "Revelation", in 1985. "Revelation" was popular in Florida, so The 2 Live Crew (sans Amazing Vee) relocated to Miami. Rapper Brother Marquis (Mark Ross) joined The 2 Live Crew for its next single "What I Like". Local rapper Luke Skyywalker (Luther Campbell) gave The 2 Live Crew a record deal and worked as the group's manager and then lead vocalist. Members Vanilla Ice facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about Vanilla Ice Sources Vanilla Ice, the white boy who recorded the first rap single to hit Number One on Billboard’s Hot 100 pop chart, was controversial from the moment he arrived on the music scene.

Accused of inventing his image as an urban rapper, the Iceman, whose real name is Robby Van Winkle, lowered his pants on Rick Dees’s TV show to display scars he claims he received in a knife fight. He informed his critics in his acceptance speech as favorite new artist at the 1991 American Music Awards Ceremony that they could kiss his white posterior. With a hit single, “Ice, Ice Baby,” that catapulted sales of his first album, To The Extreme, to five million in three months, Vanilla Ice is a hot new performer who seems to defy categorization. “So who is he,” questioned People, among others, “fibber or phenom, street kid or star…?” Ice answered them all in Newsweek: “I’m 100 percent original.” Robert Matthew Van Winkle was born on Halloween in 1967 in Miami , Florida . His father left his mother, Beth Mino, a music teacher and classical pianist, while she was pregnant with Van Winkle. “I will not say anything about my father. Period, “Ice told People.

“I don’t have a dad.” His mother raised him and an older half-brother in culturally and ethnically mixed neighborhoods of Miami. When Van Winkle was five years old he became interested in music and dance. “I picked up the dance steps from what I saw the black kids doing in the streets,” he related in his autobiography Ice By Ice. “The streets of Miami—that was my dance school.” As a youngster Van Winkle shunned formal music lessons, never learning to play an instrument. His childhood dream was to become a motocross champion. Eventually he won a few amateur regional motocross titles; at one point in late adolescence he broke his ankles in a race. Not a Model Child Van Winkle was a difficult child, moody and temperamental, who used to play truant from grade school. His mother tried in vain to modify his behavior by seeking counseling and changing addresses frequently. When Van Winkle was eight his mother married Ecuadorean Byron Mino, whom she met when he sold her a car. Although family economics improved, the marriage broke up after three years. The couple got back together for a time after the divorce, but did not remarry.

In his teens Van Winkle moved with his family, which now included a younger sister, to a middle-class suburb of Dallas where Mino had landed a better auto sales position. Van Winkle continued to rap and dance; he was also hanging out on weekends with gang members who took joy rides and picked fights. At a hospital after one skirmish in which he was stabbed several times, For the Record… Born Robert Matthew Van Winkle, October 31, 1967 (one source says 1968), in Miami, FL; son of Beth Mino (a music teacher and classical pianist). Education: Attended R. L. Turner High School; received high school diploma through correspondence course from the American School. Discovered in 1987 at the City Lights Talent Show, Dallas, TX; opened for City Lights opening acts, including Tone-Loc, Public Enemy, and Paula Abdul; City Lights owner Tommy Quon became his talent manager in 1988; formed Vanilla Ice Posse (VIP) with City Lights disc jockey Earthquake (Floyd Brown) and dancers Hi-Tec (Jay Huffman), E-Rock (Everett Fitzgerald), and Juice (Marc Grinage).

Recording artist and touring performer; film appearances include cameo role in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Secret of the Green Ooze; television appearances include Into the Night with Rick Dees, Friday Night Videos, Saturday Morning Videos, MTV’s Hot Seat, Saturday Night Live, American Music Awards, The Arsenio Hall Show, and MTV Tailgate Party for the Superbowl; has made endorsements for Nike and Coke. Awards: Favorite new artist award from the American Music Awards, 1991. Addresses: Record company —SBK Records (distributed by CEMA), 1750 North Vine St., Hollywood , CA 90028. Fan Club— Vanilla Ice Fan Club, P.O. Box 261117, Plano, TX 75026-1117. Van Winkle found God and gave up gang life. Dropping out of suburban R. L. Turner High School in his second year, he worked as a lot attendant at the car dealership where his stepfather was employed. An IROC Camaro Z28 became Van Winkle’s next obsession.

When he parked his car under the marquee one evening in 1987 at City Lights, a 2,000-seat club in Dallas, the owner of the club, Tommy Quon, went out to tell Van Winkle to park elsewhere. “He looked like a rich white kid—and he looked like a star,” Quon told Dave Handelman in Rolling Stone. After Van Winkle convinced Quon to let him keep his parking place, he won the club’s talent show. Quon confessed to Handelman, “He wasn’t that great as a rapper, but he had that charisma, style.” Quon signed him to a contract at City Lights where he performed before the club’s opening acts, which included rap and pop acts Tone-Loc, Public Enemy, and Paula Abdul. When Quon became the rapper’s talent agent in 1988 he backed Van Winkle with all black, male dancers to make him stand out. Dubbed “Vanilla” in seventh grade because he was the only white boy around rapping with blacks, Van Winkle became Vanilla Ice—purportedly because he was smooth as ice—and named his back-up group VIP, or Vanilla Ice Posse.

Mix Up Sent “Ice, Ice Baby” to the Top The group included Ice, writer-DJ Earthquake (Floyd Brown), and dancers Hi-Tec (Jay Huffman), E-Rock (Everett Fitzgerald), and Juice (Marc Grinage). When Quon could not interest record companies, he independently made the album Hooked, which featured “Ice, Ice Baby.” To promote the group Quon released the single “Play That Funky Music” with “Ice, Ice Baby” on the B-side. DJ Darrell Jaye in Columbus, Georgia , meant to air Ice’s “Play That Funky Music” when he flipped the record over accidentally. Overnight the song went to Number One on Southern channels and became a top request on pay-per-view Video Jukebox. Consequently the album was remixed and reissued by SBK Records in October of 1990 under its new title, To the Extreme. Ice had unprecedented success with the single “Ice, Ice Baby.” When the song topped Billboard’s pop chart, SBK executives made the single available only on the album.

The strategy worked; To the Extreme was the first album to reach all five certification levels in one month, and Ice was handed gold, platinum, double-platinum, and triple-platinum album awards on November 19, 1990. The next day he received a quadruple-platinum award, and subsequently, a multi-fold persona problem with his SBK bio. Accused of Faking “Street” Credentials A skeptical press hooted at the discrepancies in his stories—especially over those concerning the loss of half his blood when he was stabbed five times and resultant religious conviction. When they discovered that Ice had given three different locales for the incident, they intimated that the singer—with his Z28 and home in a Texan suburb—was a rich kid who fibbed. Critics of To the Extreme wrote scathing reviews accusing the model-handsome rapper of creating a streetwise background to more effectively appropriate a black art form. “Rap lite,” Newsweek called Ice’s work, summing up reviewers’response to the lack of profanity and political substance in his lyrics.

The magazine questioned whether a black rapper “with little vocal technique or rhythmic sense, largely inarticulate and devoid of wit” could sell millions of records, unless like Ice, he had “the right clothes, the right look and the right moves, and the right recycled hits to rap to.” People reported that the album “mostly thumps on mindlessly,” but John Rockwell defended “the looker with attitude” in the New York Times. Interpreting To the Extreme as a new mainstream musical style, Rockwell called the album “a triumph for Vanilla Ice a triumph for rap.” Proof of Ice’s “street” past and some vindication came with the warrant issued for his arrest in 1991 by Dallas police—which dated back to a 1988 unpaid fine for a parking lot incident where Ice had maced a kid and beat him over the head—and the publication of his autobiography Ice By Ice. Despite that legal entanglement, the future is bright for the star who maintains that he allowed the press to be misled to protect his family’s privacy. His cameo role in the sequel to the movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has led to a film project about a motorcycle gang, entitled Cool as Ice.

Though he opened the M. C. Hammer 1990 fall tour, he went solo on his own world tour in 1991. A new album, Ice Capades, is in the works for the bad-boy-turned-role-model, who will be endorsing Coke and Nike. “I always set new goals,” Vanilla Ice told Sanders, emphasizing that his success is no novelty, “and that’s my new goal, to be here, keep it goin’! The media can try and break me all they want, but the bottom line is it’s up … to … me.” Born: Robert Van Winkle; Miami Lakes, Florida , 31 October 1968 Genre: Rap Best-selling album since 1990: To the Extreme (1990) Hit songs since 1990: "Ice Ice Baby," "Play That Funky Music" In the late 1980s Miami-born and Dallas -raised Robert Van Winkle emerged from obscurity with his hit "Ice Ice Baby" (1990). One of hip-hop's first "great white hopes," his success on the pop charts and his meteoric rise later compromised his credibility in the hip-hop community.

"Ice Ice Baby"—which originated as a B-side of his debut single, "Play That Funky Music" (1990)—was a surprise runaway hit throughout the South. Re-released by SBK records, Ice's single rose rapidly on the charts. Built on his cool delivery and an obvious sample of David Bowie and Queen's "Under Pressure" (for which he was later sued), the single spent sixteen weeks at number one and helped his debut album, To the Extreme, sell more than 7 million copies. Though the Beastie Boys had already established a fledgling place for white rappers in the mid-1980s, what made Ice unique was his apparent street credibility as a troubled youth who had dabbled with gang life as a teen. Despite his play for class authenticity, Ice's soft raps and unimpressive beats were savaged by hip-hop's hard-core fan base. Critics accused him of repackaging an African-American musical style for safe consumption by suburban white audiences, the same sort of number that Elvis Presley had done on R&B four decades prior. Worse yet, accusations swirled that Ice's hardscrabble childhood had been a fabrication.

This last point was a contentious one, with Ice insisting he had experienced the trials of a fatherless household and a childhood spent in the streets of Miami and Dallas. Although Ice's sketchy background did not lead directly to his downfall, it contributed to the overexposure that led to the demise of the great white hype. In early 1991 Ice released Extremely Live, an obvious ploy to capitalize on his sudden fame with a hastily arranged set of live hits. That year he also appeared in two films, first in a cameo role in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (to which he contributed the soundtrack cut, "Ninja Rap") and then in his own star vehicle, Cool as Ice. By the time Cool as Ice debuted, it was clear that Ice's moment had passed; the soundtrack barely cracked the charts. Rather than fading into obscurity, Ice spent the remainder of the 1990s trying unsuccessfully to reinvent himself, first as a loping, marijuana-obsessed rapper in the image of Cypress Hill, later as a hardcore gangsta, and still later as a rap-rock specialist fusing heavy metal's sonic aggression with his own angst-riddled lyricism.

As the pop ambassador marshalling hip-hop's early-1990s rise through the commercial charts, Ice was a ubiquitous if ephemeral presence. By the late 1990s his career was spoken of mainly in the past tense when it was mentioned at all. SELECTIVE DISCOGRAPHY: Hooked (Ichiban, 1990); To the Extreme (SBK, 1990); Extremely Live (SBK, 1991); Cool as Ice (SBK, 1991); Mind Blowin' (SBK, 1994); Hard to Swallow (Republic, 1998); Bipolar (Liquid, 2001). hua hsu Vanilla Ice Real Name - Vanilla Ice Net Worth Vanilla Ice Real Name Read more... Vanilla Ice Vanilla Ice Net Worth is $18 Million. Rapper Vanilla Ice was born Robert van Winkle and has a net worth estimated at $18 million. Growing up between Dallas and Miami, Vanilla Ice began writing and performing songs and breakdancing in his mid-teens. A. Robert Matthew Van Winkle (b... Vanilla Ice Net Worth is $18 Million.

Vanilla Ice Net Worth is $18 Million. Rapper Vanilla Ice was born Robert van Winkle and has a net worth estimated at $18 million. Growing up between Dallas and Miami, Vanilla Ice began writing and performing songs and breakdancing in his mid-teens. A Robert Matthew Van Winkle , best known by his stage name Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper, extreme athlete and home improvement television personality. Born in South Dallas, and raised in Texas and South Florida, Van Winkle released his debut album, Hooked, in 1989 through Ichiban Records, before signing a contract with SBK Records, a record label of the EMI Group which released a reformatted version of the album under the title To the Extreme. Van Winkle's single "Ice Ice Baby" was the first hip hop single to top the Billboard charts. Although Van Winkle was successful, he later regretted his business arrangements with SBK, which had paid him to adopt a more commercial appearance to appeal to a mass audience and published fabricated biographical information without his knowledge. After surviving a suicide attempt, Van Winkle was inspired to change his musical style and lifestyle.

While later albums by Van Winkle haven't charted or featured much radio airpla... stumbleupon More StatsView More About Vanilla Ice American rapper and home improvement television personality, Robert Matthew Van Winkle, best known by his stage name Vanilla Ice has an estimated net worth of $18 million. With his hit single “Ice Ice Baby” and its accompanying album, To the Extreme, Vanilla Ice became the second white rapper to top the charts. “Ice Ice Baby” became a number one hit late in 1990, thanks to the pulsating bass riff from David Bowie and Queen’s “Under Pressure.” To the Extreme also went to the top of the charts, spending 16 weeks at number one and selling over seven million copies. Ice began filming a feature film, Cool as Ice, in the spring of 1990, but by the time the film came out in the fall, his star had fallen dramatically. In 2009, Van Winkle began hosting The Vanilla Ice Project on DIY Network. His latest album WTF – Widsom, Tenacity & Focus is set to be released sometime in 2011. Vanilla Ice was born Robert Matthew Van Winkle was born in Dallas, Texas.

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Question: Born Robert Matthew Van Winkle in Dallas, Tx, what rapper had his best known hit with 1990s Ice Ice Baby?
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