The most divine inspiration, however, came from sampling “Under Pressure” on “Ice Ice Baby.” But tensions between Brown and Vanilla Ice almost killed the magic before it had a chance to happen. “I just took that and then I put a black beat behind it.” Vanilla Ice, circa 1990. “The first song that I did for Ice was ‘Play That Funky Music,’” Brown says. Tommy Quon - the club owner and Vanilla Ice’s future manager - saw a budding star, and the search was on to find some material for him. It all started when Brown was DJing at a Dallas club called City Lights, where Vanilla Ice - who then was known as just Ice - would enter dance contests. 22, 1990 - is the main reason there is a biopic, “To the Extreme,” being made about Vanilla Ice, with Dave Franco starring as the rapper.īut there was a lot of drama behind “Ice Ice Baby” before it rode that bass line all the way to the top of the pop charts. “Ice Ice Baby” even landed the artist, born Robert Van Winkle, a movie-star vehicle - remember “Cool As Ice”? And the song - which debuted Aug. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and turned Vanilla Ice into a pop sensation who brought hip-hop from the streets to the suburbs. Thirty years after “Ice Ice Baby” was released, the song - co-written by Brown, who also served as its uncredited producer - is now a classic in its own right. “I just kept looping the eight bars and then I put a beat behind it … And when I let Ice hear it, he flipped out on it.” “That song caught my ear right off,” says Brown of the 1981 classic that he discovered while searching for samples to use on tracks for Ice. Vanilla Ice shares his secrets for never going out of styleĪnd Floyd “DJ Earthquake” Brown is the man responsible for its sample, one of the most memorable in ’90s hip-hop: the bass line from Queen and David Bowie’s “Under Pressure,” which he used as the funky foundation of the Vanilla Ice smash “Ice Ice Baby.” There's so much going on in this Rob Gronkowski, Vanilla Ice video Singing Florida school cafeteria workers get surprise celebrity visit Brooklyn rapper Lil Dee is ready to go viral after praise from hip-hop greats
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