Vanilla Ice Ghostwriter Breaks His Silence: “He Is A Liar, He’s Wack, and I Wrote Ice Ice Baby”

Mario "Chocolate" Johnson breaks his silence on Vanilla Ice and details how Vanilla Ice lied about his upbringing and details how he met Vanilla Ice and wrote his hit record "Ice Ice Baby"
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[@leesmith813]

Written by Chocolate, produced by Strawberry, and rapped by Vanilla

[@dtbredhalf5823]

🤣

[@justlikebck5162]

The Neapolitans

[@DNL0712]

2 funny

[@yonelyon2607]

Extorted by Sugar aka Suge.

[@dtbredhalf5823]

@@yonelyon2607 lol...dam..Death Row ice cream 🤐🤷🏾‍♂️🤣

[@AmarYahu]

*It would be a dude named Chocolate who would be a ghostwriter for a fool named Vanilla Ice. What a coincidence…* 😂

[@00sbabyoldschoolspirit80]

😂😂😂😂

[@champsvizion7801]

😂

[@babyboyy207]

Lol

[@mresblacklover1449]

They just wanna bring the white man down

[@shenglongisback4688]

🤣🤣🤣

[@brooklynkingsize3340]

So let me get this right, Chocolate wrote for Vanilla?!

[@oldsoul4884]

🤣😂😂

[@omegawicked1]

Lol

[@vinnysaccount]

😂😂😂

[@lespuitsdhaydentheshow7113]

😂😂😂

[@masterp5444]

🤣🤣🤣

[@josephconway8682]

I like how the interviewer is straight to the point.

[@morbidchid]

He really isnt. He brings up debunked rumors from the 90s. Ice never said he had an apartment in the hood nor did he say he went to school with Luther Campbell. This is some shitty fucking journalism.

[@masterj4777]

@@morbidchid Facts 👏🧠

[@apexone5502]

@@morbidchid Vanilla did speak on coming up in the hood and eventually got called out for it back then.

[@morbidchid]

@@apexone5502 He performed in the hood for five years before making it big. He slept in his car before he got his own apartment. He met Chocolate in South Dallas. Thats what he meant and its all true.

[@apexone5502]

@@morbidchid I remember him making it seem as if he was from the hood compared to being in it for a few years.

[@michaelharrison-wpmabl8288]

Disclaimer: I am White dude, in my 40's... After watching this 1st part of the interview, I figured I'd go back and watch/listen the Ice Ice Baby Video, after like 20 years. Man, the 90's could never be imitated or duplicated. Shxt got serious but we still knew how to have fun!!!

[@tonystarke9820]

Why would anyone care that your a white guy in your 40s what does that buy you here 🤔

[@elijahwilson1422]

Yup, disregard these haters, they are butthurt that Vanilla Ice is popular again and a genuinely nice dude and down to Earth.

[@garionbush5906]

Art can probably find 2pac's 3rd grade girlfriend lol

[@00sbabyoldschoolspirit80]

😂😂😂😂😂😭😭☠️

[@NajSinghs]

LOL❤💯

[@trapmuzik6708]

@@jalenaverylloydaveryiisson8862 cut it out loser

[@yeceniasanchez]

@@jalenaverylloydaveryiisson8862 u shouldn't be talking much, looking at your profile picture You look like both your wrists are broken🤣🌈

[@yeceniasanchez]

@@jalenaverylloydaveryiisson8862 You may want to get those wrists checked.

[@TroyHutch]

Chocolate, wrote vanillas shit. Strawberry knew all along!

[@champsvizion7801]

That was neopolitan

[@OGKUSHOGKUSH]

😆🤣😂

[@shawnorjiakor]

😂😂😂

[@josef186]

lol I’m ded bro

[@masterp5444]

😂😂😂

[@markukpokolo6774]

He got that MJ "I took it personal " expression Lmaooooo

[@thegeorgiaaquarius]

Lmaoooo

[@b.o.1951]

😂 hell yea he do

[@trapmuzik6708]

Facts

[@tatfthsog]

Vanillas label told him to say he was from Miami because Dallas wasn’t marketable for hip hop acts back in 89/90

[@KtotheG]

Miami is also East Coast and cocaine central... Ice wanted a hard image.

[@shetales8095]

Ok if he lied about being from Dallas but why did he need to lie about going to school with luke…. I bet Luke was like leave me out yo lies

[@aldonova4082]

Yep, the label out out a fake bio on him without his knowledge.

[@morbidchid]

@@shetales8095 he never said he went to school with Luke. Ice actually did move back and forth from Miami to Dallas. And one of the high schools he went to in Miami was the SAME SCHOOL as Luther had attended. Somehow the media got it mixed up and made up the story that they had been in school together. It was fake news but Ice never said it. Ice says its bullshit on Arsenio.

[@morbidchid]

@@KtotheG he did actually sell drugs while in Miami.

[@derrickmallory8877]

I STILL HAVE HIS DEBUT ALBUM IN 1993'S CHOCOLATE 🍫 "A LIFE N A DAY " ON CASSETTE. BANGING ALBUM!!!

[@caine4376]

That's gotta be worth some money.

[@WestCoastGfoelife]

Same here

[@stacknsat]

Where did you get it?

[@WestCoastGfoelife]

@@stacknsat a while back a friend of mine gave me a copy.

[@stacknsat]

@@WestCoastGfoelife blunt got me faded im like why some random person replying lol I didn't see your comment

[@leandrebrwn95]

I remember when Mob James said on Vlad Choc lied and didn't have shit to do with Ice Ice Baby... I don't know what the fuck to believe anymore 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@MrKing8050]

Vanilla Ice has changed his Suge Knight story multiple times

[@Hellseventeen]

well duh

[@charlieg4732]

I lied and told the world I got stabbed in the butt but it was a toilet paper cut ooouuuuuh !!! 😖 - vanilla ice

[@roclang9118]

@@charlieg4732 😂😂😂 classic skit!

[@princewins88bw]

My question would be why waste time on a white rapper that can't even rap?

[@roclang9118]

@@princewins88bw $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[@Donnelius]

"He lies so much he started believe them lies" 😂

[@Tirrell25]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@gangstamack8397]

Dammmnnnn😂😂💀💀

[@whywomenhatemyforeskin2121]

Yeah cause everybody know Suge Knight wrote that song

[@Supremmo]

I believe Mario.

[@edp3202]

"It's not a lie if you believe it." -- George Costanza

[@thekorsh4230]

Chocolate and vanilla always go together

[@jonny-hdadon614]

Vanilla ICE ICE BABY! Was catchy as he11 😂

[@MrScrooge1980]

Classic 🤣🤣🤣

[@NajSinghs]

It was the beat for me 💯😂

[@brandonbennett7337]

Rolling in my 5.0. That’s my favorite part in ice ice baby.

[@Larry_187]

He contradicted himself he 1st said he met Rob in the club and then said he was making a diss song and Rob's manager said why don't you all work together then he said he met him when they sat down at the table together he can't keep his own lies straight. If he was this great artist why is he a nobody

[@netonlinecc]

Facts

[@MaryLou913]

I can’t say. I just watched Rob say he wrote it when he was 16 but then Rob has been known to lie too and flip flop on things. Example, Suge hung him from a balcony, then he didn’t, then he did, I think he now didn’t but I can’t keep up but someone’s lying there’s no way ‘Vanilla’ and ‘Chocolate’ is a coincidence. One came up with their name after the other.

[@RelentlessPedigree]

His story didn't change. Tf you on about? Nerd

[@worldsdumbesttrumpturd....3143]

Bro vanilla is the greatest rapper of all time. You blacks just don't get it​@@RelentlessPedigree

[@RelentlessPedigree]

@@worldsdumbesttrumpturd....3143 shut up, nerd

[@rmmarch285]

Lol everytime I think about vanilla ice I can't help but think about Jim Carey

[@marcellusbeasley9749]

😂 ‘In Living Color’ that 90s era

[@champsvizion7801]

Dupid 😂😂😂

[@1tmproductions]

LOL yeah when he tried to do that move and kicked his shoe off over his head.

[@yvette5827]

Me too 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MyNewYorkCity.]

In living color 🤣🤣

[@805oxnardsocal]

Vanilla ice still a legend

[@kahlilboi]

Yeah Based of his song he wrote for him😂

[@gee2661]

@@kahlilboibut buddy could never write a hit song for himself 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@kahlilboi]

@@gee2661 vanilla ice never had a hit after ice ice baby 😂

[@gee2661]

@@kahlilboi you should do ur research before hating on people…

[@kahlilboi]

@@gee2661 nobody is hating on vanilla ice lol you sound lame for defending dude

[@JJHcars]

Art they using your clip from this video on mainstream television. Entertainment Tonight. Congratulations on the hard work

[@princegullahgeechee2174]

Mario Johnson aka "Chocolate." Congratulations on your ghostwriting skills bruh. I was totally unaware of you. However, people usually go unnoticed when they aren't the type that jumps in front of the camera! ✌️👈

[@alonzosmith485]

The lyrics was wack

[@princegullahgeechee2174]

​@@alonzosmith485 That's the problem, I'm NOT referring to ONE of his many songs. I am referring to his ENTIRE catalog of songs! 🤔

[@jasondawson92]

He only had one song lol 😂

[@rafa7622]

Vlad is somewhere punching the air right about now.

[@PJ-po7fu]

🤣🤣🤣good

[@qdukez]

Funniest shit I heard all day 😂😂😂😂😂

[@streetlifestarz7314]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@LankyJay601]

Missed his chance to ask Suge Knight questions 😂

[@rmmarch285]

Lol Vlad doesn't even deserve a suge interview, suge probably wouldn't do a vlad interview after all the things he says about suge, vlad interviewing suge would be annoying because it would be 100 parts and vlad would be doing most of the talking like usual

[@sheilad7324]

You're the new must watch channel

[@desmondhoward6253]

That's why suge hung vanilla ice over the balcony like big red from big red records

[@dkhafre444]

Shout out to Mario Johnson! This is a good brother. He let me and my rap partner come to his house in the hills and do some recording, back in 93 or 94. He was always cool and layed back. May The Almighty continue to bless and protect you my brother!

[@slimjimmy4070]

@@DentistCarter He's listed on the credits as a writer of the song. What more proof do you need?

[@edieselentertainment]

@@slimjimmy4070 it's just better not to respond to a lot of these minions.

[@geneares5063]

@@DentistCarter Yes. Been a known fact since 1990.

[@dkhafre444]

@@DentistCarter I don't remember asking him about that. I just remember him having a nice house in one of the hills in or around Hollywood. Other famous people lived up there as well.

[@ashleycolangelo2962]

Just Cus someone is listed on writers credits doesn’t mean they wrote the song. Producers are listed on writers credits, it can be anyone involved with the song to do with the sound, structure and lyrics.

[@JoeKyser]

Listen to lyrics, its so hard to believe chocolate wrote that

[@chitownbred6821]

Part 1 is 🔥 can’t wait for the rest Art!

[@DreiSkins101]

he look like he's lying

[@JoshuaMitchell-bey7]

Vanilla Ice is Dallas by ways of Florida. He grew up in Garland small suburb edging Dallas. I’ll give Ice this credit, he didn’t grow up in the hoods here in Dallas. But that’s where he was getting his fam. Specifically at the Black Forest Theater in South Dallas. If you know anything about South Dallas, you know it’s the slum of slums.

[@mr.burlbattle2233]

🎯

[@sharkkillag6380]

Carrollton fam.

[@JoshuaMitchell-bey7]

@@sharkkillag6380 No he was also living in Garland.

[@sharkkillag6380]

Where did he graduate high-school then fam?

[@sharkkillag6380]

I hung with him.....You saying he grew up in Garland.....he might've lived in G Town for a split sec, but he grew up in the Carrollton/Lewisville area... anyway, be safe fam. These streets salty my bruh..

[@heatspitta]

Art is not playing with these guests!!

[@rayjonest.v7258]

So far Mario is telling the truth,I met him and all the other fellas with fila fresh crew at keist park in Dallas,he was here,with Dr.rock,d.o.c and fresh k,and dJ Earthquake,mid 80's. For real.

[@TuckFinn831]

So that's "evidence"? Haha you're dumb AF

[@Down2Marz]

Wow, just jogged there this morning lol.

[@gangstamack8397]

Damn that early death row connection

[@squirmygrubbs6240]

Dang you went back!!! "Man I hate to go to work" remember Nemesis? And what the hell happened to Ron C??? "Do that dance"?

[@fightgamer8311]

Wow that’s dope art 🔥getting chocolate 🍫

[@deshonebonyrowland-ward4552]

If anyone ever believed that Vanilla Ice wrote Ice Ice baby they need to relinquish their hip-hop card 😕 Nobody believes or believed anything about Vanilla Ice 😒😕🙄🙁

[@datniggaeazye.5968]

interesting you say that cause while everyone was going at dude Pac was one of the only ppl sticking up for him lol

[@Hellseventeen]

homie said “relinquish” 😂😂🤣🤣 I’m done

[@dwreck157]

@@datniggaeazye.5968 interesting

[@SunnyReignz]

I knew he didn't write ice ice baby when he was confused when D. Brown ask him if he knew it was a frat chant. How could u have in that time be lover of black culture & not know that was hbc frat chant.

[@Flinstone_Edible]

@@dwreck157 also interestingly enough 2pac dissed him in this one unreleased song back in '91.

[@NYBedStuy]

I know this interview about to be epic man 😂

[@njjjjjjjjhhhs]

when he mentioned Soecial Ed, Special Ed also did a song with 2Pac. Special Ed from Brooklyn

[@DOTHERIGHTTHING1989]

Oh well...

[@reggiekaz4147]

Yo art of the dialogue on the whole nother level for this 1

[@erwinrogers9470]

Great interview 🔥

[@HoldenMuhKnutz]

I don’t think anyone here believes Vanilla Ice wrote anything.😂

[@leonleon2276]

Who cares.did you buy the cd or listen to music to see who the ghost writer is or to listen to vanilla ice? Everyone has ghost writers my guy. The mass audience don’t care. Personally I never heard of this guy, apart from knowing suge got money from vanilla ice for someone….happens to be this dude 😂

[@MD-DLive]

He didn't!

[@janadrianbettard8822]

@@leonleon2276 But he still gets paid royalties for the song he wrote. So.

[@leonleon2276]

@@janadrianbettard8822 so well done to him man. Good. Fact of the matter is…..if you hear a track and like the track….regardless who it is….then you go to buy the cd or download it or whatever…..then you find out the artist in question didn’t write it himself….it’s not putting you off from listening. Whatever artist you are a fan of today, if you found out they don’t write their own lyrics… It’s not going to stop you bumping the tracks. Fans of music don’t care about the ghost writers. Fact.

[@HoldenMuhKnutz]

@Brandon Thomas 😂😂.

[@HazeyCazeyTv]

The ice ice baby lyrics still 🔥

[@b.o.1951]

Who needs Gladtv when you got The AOD 🔥🔥

[@zachosborne6577]

Respect this guy. Got his money and didn’t have to take the fame with it

[@christophercomitini8619]

He got a Benz. SUGE got the bag

[@brownrecluse3526]

Buullshish comes with the price of faaame ANYWAY! Giiive ME my Privacy, keep Rumor report, Wendy Williams Hot Topics & Paparazzi OUT MY FACE!

[@intenseninja8241]

Suge got paid, that guy probably got royalties.

[@edp3202]

​@@intenseninja8241smart

[@ronaldgreenjr1423]

They tried to say back in 1990 that Vanilla Ice was better than MC Hammer. Vanilla Ice was the first Drake

[@shonuffLA]

💯

[@colossus112785]

The original Drake yes lol

[@smokindatshit8268]

Drake never got hung from a balcony 😂 Drake never bragged about being a gangster and getting stabbed in his butt 😂

[@nathanamazin8464]

whatcha mean the first drake lol

[@ronaldgreenjr1423]

@@nathanamazin8464 That nigga was a lyrical imposter...just like Aubrey Graham

[@ZimLanfire]

So then Chocolate copied "Under Pressure", not Ice? Whew and to think I've been hating on Vanilla Ice for over 30 years. Crazy!

[@DOTHERIGHTTHING1989]

DJ Earthquake copied, this guy supposedly wrote the lyrics.

[@edp3202]

​@@DOTHERIGHTTHING1989thank you.

[@PoeticAce]

Love the Choclair - Let's Ride in the background :)

[@JayBelafonte]

I don’t think anyone actually believed he “wrote” that song

[@kris2shawn]

Man, me and Mario go way back, he knows what I'm talking about aka the riots. But he's actually telling the whole truth about this whole thing with vanilla ice!!!

[@morbidchid]

He really isn't.

[@drumarsdeodorant5375]

How come he didn’t write another hit 🤣

[@kris2shawn]

@@drumarsdeodorant5375 he mainly started being a studio musician for Suge Knight..

[@kris2shawn]

@@morbidchid explain if you can please? Maybe you know something I don't..

[@morbidchid]

@@kris2shawn its really disputed how much he wrote. Some say D.O.C. wrote the things Chocolate claimed to write. Apparently one thing they said in Death Row when they were working on his 1993 album was; "Vanilla Ices ghostwriter needs a ghostwriter". Hes probably a swell guy, I have nothing against him, but Ive heard enough conflicting stories that I doubt just how much involvement he had on the record. I doubt he wrote 100% of the album or 90% of the album. Ice was already rapping when he met Mario. It seems like he had him look over his lyrics to see if he could make them better and he took credit for all of it when it blew up.

[@brothajamessd1670]

Mob James said, that Chocolate did not write the songs, and Suge just strong armed Vanilla Ice.

[@ms-iz9ye]

He sounds like a principal talking about one of his bad students that got famous.. 😂

[@Kinnakeeter]

"Vanilla Ice don't like me, said some shit in Vibe to spite me and then went and dyed his hair just like me" Eminem

[@Moody3863]

That's rich coming from Eminem, since he copped the blonde hair style from Beastie Boy Mike D.

[@sonnylambert4893]

Eminem the more “ real” crackhead version of vanilla ice…😂😂😂

[@partsunknown33]

@@sonnylambert4893 let's them bang his girl too!

[@ZeroFace]

But Vanilla had blond hair first..

[@datniggaeazye.5968]

the most random shit

[@cornbreezy83assasin37]

Lol. Your right. Now that was funny

[@edwin99901]

Next thing you know diddy come out saying he ghostwrote fack by eminem.

[@apollosungod2819]

Crazy how they just gave everything to vanilla so quickly... from just one album

[@aldonova4082]

Jealous??? LoL

[@Panther-]

@@aldonova4082 its clowns like people like you who know nothing about the culture are the ones who helped destroy it

[@morbidchid]

Its a bullshit story. Chocolates story changes every time he does an interview. First he helped write one song, then it was five songs, then it was 8 songs. Now its 9 songs! Vanilla did take credit for all the songs once he got big but you can see the credits on his original album. There are a couple of songs not written or produced by Ice. He gives credit where credit is due. Mario is even credited - for co-writing Ice Ice Baby! Thats it though. He even talks about him in his autobiography. Whats interesting is that they break this down in the documentary on Ice Ice Baby. Chocolates roomate at the time was D.O.C. and every lyric proposed by Mario actually came from him. Mario, despite getting credited and paid, didnt contribute shit.

[@LurnWell]

@@morbidchid Virgil Roberts said it was multiple songs as well...and Vanilla Ice has done plenty of interviews saying he was forced to give Mario credit, and that Mario had nothing to do with those songs. They.... did a documentary. I'm not going to ignore his statements, because "they" said it.

[@morbidchid]

@@LurnWell it wasnt Vanilla Ices team that made the documentary. The dancer who Mario uses as a source in this interview as someone who knows he wrote the song is one of the people who claim Chocolates part were written by D.O.C.

[@centralcal6604]

R is always doing a great job with these interviews thank you

[@averydarkguy5296]

"So is vanilla ice from the hood" "Hell naw " lmaoooo

[@edp3202]

Robert Van Winkle grew up in wealth.

[@davonbrooks228]

Big win for art

[@nataliepratt6447]

Wow so this is why Suge did what he did. I thought suge randomly picked vanilla ice but now it makes more sense

[@jamilgreene4780]

My big bro @mrchoc finally got on here. I love you watching the whole thing right now.

[@edwardrichard2561]

Rob Vanwinkle on the Bloodhound track “Boom” was pretty hard. Probably his best flow. That was years after Ice Ice Baby.

[@dailynnsp.o.v]

For the ones who reads this just know this is only the beginning keep pushing, grinding, and fighting. Whatever it is in life you want to do to go after it life is to short. Life is a marathon not a sprint so go out there and live it up I hope all is well and goes well for you peace and one love! ✌🏽

[@charlottelinder4868]

Amen You do the same 😇😇

[@smokey3570]

👊

[@DeeDerry]

I rate Art so much...I unsubbed from a certain other interviewer a while back as I wasn't feeling their approach/intentions. But TAOD has nailed it 👌🏼, great questions, great reactions and he never let's a question go without getting to the facts 😉 👏🏼

[@loco323fool4]

Just When I Thought I Was Out…They Pull Me Back In

[@morbidchid]

this interviewer fucking sucks. He didn't ask any real questions, just dragged up a bunch of garbage from the 90's and claimed Ice said it when he never did.

[@Dill_dough]

Cough cough vlad

[@jasonclarence6921]

Vlad TV 😂😂😂 I never subbed to him due to the same fact

[@DWeb0414]

So now I can hear it from the other side I been waiting on this for years since I was a kid #IITheExtreme #90skid

[@caine4376]

He went and found this man. This is the equivalent of digging in the crates For D j's!

[@SimusSays.....]

Looks like them royalties are all dried up.

[@taytayrazors9033]

🤣🤣

[@MrScrooge1980]

Bogus asf

[@IllDawgable]

Ghostwriters get royalties? I thought they get a once-off payment.

[@SimusSays.....]

@@IllDawgable he did more then ghost writing....listen to him say "he worked with....". Yall gotta listen....he produced music too

[@roclang9118]

How’d you draw that conclusion?

[@nWo7178]

You know they always complain about stuff we do then want to copy it 😂 ( Paul Mooney)

[@blacksunshine7485]

Great interview Vlad

[@Only1Shelvonte]

Everybody was listening to Ice, Ice Baby back in the day until he went on the Arsenio Hall show 😭💯😂🤷🏾‍♀️

[@trapmuzik6708]

His life story started getting exposed he wasn't who he said he was

[@Only1Shelvonte]

@@trapmuzik6708 Right, I remember that. I was young as hell like 12 back then 😭🤷🏾‍♀️😂

[@vinnysaccount]

We was forced to cause that’s all they played on the radio back then! 😂

[@tekbeatz]

Facts

[@Only1Shelvonte]

@@vinnysaccount Right him and New Kids On The Block 😭😂

[@TFRANCHISETHERILLA]

He says Vanilla didn’t have it, but he had something. People forget how BIG ice ice baby was. Vanilla ice faded out quick but for the 4 or 5 month run he had or whatever he was - he was number 1. On the planet. And for that - Vanilla Ice is a legend bro. This guy Mario wrote a hell of an album but it was Vanilla Ice that got it over. Period.

[@LurnWell]

Yea, the song was huge. It was right during the MC Hammer era, which I think helped it a lot.

[@HenryPueb]

Ice Baby was big b/c of the song. You could given hammer that song or Bobby brown or LL Cool J that song and it would been just as big.

[@WestEnd48]

If he had some talent he would've kept making hits. Dude was a fraud

[@donjohnson2758]

That “something” was being white tbh. This is early 90’s bruh let’s be honest.

[@aconater]

lol the song was good but the fact that he was a white dude rapping had nothing to do with it right, yet the song’s popularity did nothing to boost the god awful Cool As Ice movie that bombed at the box office lol 😂

[@KingMeL334bama]

Ice ice baby was my song n till is

[@freezeizit]

This is a good one!

[@densincomprehend8879]

Choc: if you listen to it he's off beat (Me go back and listen to and hears a perfectly good song)

[@edp3202]

Offbeat where in song?

[@beyondbeleef1013]

Several people close to the situation have already said Chocolate didn't write Ice Ice Baby. Suge just extorted money from Vanilla Ice using him as an excuse

[@smokindatshit8268]

This explains why vanilla ice’s style and flow changed up so much from album to album 💿 He had ghost writers 😂

[@roclang9118]

🤔… a lot of artists today change up completely diff sounds from album to album… cough (Drake) … stay woke 😂

[@smokindatshit8268]

@@roclang9118 I’m not talking about today’s artist I’m talking about vanilla ice

[@roclang9118]

@@smokindatshit8268 yeah I read who you were talking about. I stated it applies to todays artist as well 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@shepardkings]

@@roclang9118 Drake switches his flow an cadence to coincide with the beat even with a pre written lyric not like Vanilla ice who's whole style changed from song to song

[@slimjimmy4070]

@@roclang9118 Exactly you can replace Vanilla Ice's name with Drake and the comment still makes sense.

[@judah105]

DAMN Salute Chocolate 🍫that song 🎵👌🏿is still big today timeless music 🎶💯

[@identityMF]

Not the Vlad intro, “iight, here we go!” 🤣🤣🤣

[@NebulousNova]

It would have been perfect if he said "let's start from the very beginning"

[@identityMF]

@@NebulousNova 💯🤣🤣🤣

[@cnote9233]

As a kid we use to ride motorcycles with Van Winkle (vanilla ice)

[@kiwess1]

What I'm surprised about as being a writer myself, is why Mario never said anything until now and why didn't he sue Vanilla Ice before the album came out? He had to see a preview of what songs Vanilla chose on the discography and publishing and credits would have also been known. The money is always in the writing, so there's no f*ckin' way I would have written any songs for that man and not get my royalties from it. I'm not sure what Mario was paid for being the ghost writer, but he most certainly got a bum deal for it to have turned out this way. Did he miss something in the fine print? Ain't No way!!!!!! I'm astonished that he took that for so long. He's a much better person than I. God bless you!

[@pcangeldust]

The deal was 5 songs but Robby used all 9 for the album, that's seems to be the problem here.

[@SunnyReignz]

The price of doing business with Suge. An he has complained for years. None of the old hiphop platforms really pushed his story.

[@KingJT80]

his name comes up in the credits on ice ice

[@MD-DLive]

The business was very manipulative during that time! Also many of those guys did not read and/or understand contracts!

[@mexia23]

He did you ever watch Welcome to Death Row

[@davidpeaston8443]

Dude lived in Carrollton Texas. Not DTown. He performed in the south side at a club back in the day called City Lights where it goes down. South Dallas all day everyday.

[@pkizzlebeats]

That’s crazy I didn’t know he helped with talking to my diary for Dre that’s one of my favorites on the soundtrack u can definitely hear the D.O.C. influence in there!!!

[@AH-uu4db]

It’s been 30 years. Time to forgive or forget. If u did write it, sorry u did not get the credit u deserve but too late to take legal actions.

[@essencetoney933]

That song stills makes money so there no let it go

[@kingman1330]

I don't think I would ever admit to being Vanilla ice Ghostwriter!!!😱😪🤣😪

[@williewilliams9988]

I promise you. That shit was so wack man

[@guesswho217]

Hey, if the check cleared the bank, that's all that really matters.

[@tyshum2010]

​@@guesswho217 facts tf they talking about 😂

[@cortezmiller1899]

@@williewilliams9988 It wasn’t wack back then. People loved that song.

[@victornewman3268]

Yes u would for that money ..kut it out

[@leonherve4555]

Yo Art you should be expecting some royalties too for contributing vocals on the chorus. "Vanilla" "baby"

[@Panther-]

That Hell Nawwww hahahahahahah is @3:08 says it all really lol

[@deshonebonyrowland-ward4552]

I mean zero disrespect but I hear NO similarities between the legend that is the D. O. C. and ice ice baby or anything that came from Vanilla Ice.. Regardless of who wrote it 🙁

[@drumarsdeodorant5375]

Both from Dallas both popped around the same time One went to the west coast .. the other did the chitlin circuit N battled other mcs .. within the state of Texas .. ask willie d about vanilla ice coming to battle rappers at the rhinestone in houston J prince didn’t listen to willie …bout signing him …next thing u kno vanilla ice is 100million sold

[@lionheart4529]

@@drumarsdeodorant5375 due to the 75% of white people in America helped get Vanillas numbers up!

[@mspennyisaac]

That’s the point of a ghostwriter. They’re supposed to write raps in the style of their performer, not their own or the next performer.

[@KtotheG]

You have no idea what ghostwriting is all about or about how an artist can translate many styles. There are many ghostwriters who are underground nerd rappers that you probably would never like who write hits for artists that you bump on the daily.

[@CodeRed1991]

Biggie smalls wrote Kim first bars that made her famous; all those sexually explicit bars came from Biggie.

[@mustafaahali3474]

I would have kept that DOC info to myself 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ciuciulala8888]

yeah that was biting

[@omegawicked1]

Correct

[@aldonova4082]

Yeah definitely.

[@propaneoaklane8781]

😭💀

[@tonydisabatino]

It's not true

[@bgizzle6546]

This bout to go viral.....

[@BadTV1993]

I met him before in Louisiana after a show with Above the Law Spice 1 and KoKaNE IN THE EARLY 90S and I even bought his life N a Day album it was bangin

[@keenkingjames]

I used to have an underground mixtape with chocolate on it rapping with snoop.

[@Orbitary]

There was a 2016 Dallas Comic Show interview with Kenn Scott (actor who played Raphael from TMNT), where he went into detail about how for the TMNT 2 nightclub dance sequence, they had to perform it at least fifteen times because Vanilla Ice couldn't remember his own lyrics to Ninja Rap.

[@shootermcgavin214]

Lol how when it was a back drop of the song so he didn’t really need to remember

[@Sign_Your_Will]

To be fair, he said on the Arsenio Hall show he and Luke went to the same school and the incident with Suge he said Suge looked over the balcony implying that he could/would hang him over the balcony

[@space_dogg]

that thumbnail scared me

[@cvo7617]

People may be shocked by this but I mean you really think rappers just go in there and come up with hit songs or songs in general by themselves most of your favorite rappers have help even if it's not them completely writing it they bounce ideas off each other and everything like that

[@roclang9118]

A very select few do it for dolo. That’s the problem rn.

[@cloudyriver]

He said he worked with all those ppl, he didnt say he wrote for them

[@edp3202]

Production staff is massive.

[@adangbe]

The Infamous Mario Lavelle Johnson! He changed the music business in more ways than one!

[@harrissr.615]

How so? (Genuine question) I’m not familiar with him

[@LonokeCountyResearch501]

Facts iykyk ‼️‼️‼️

[@Z3nHolEminD]

@@harrissr.615 cuz u been “ entertained “ ,, 🍿 popcorn over to the left

[@emeyeare]

Thaaaaaaank you art. This is why you number 1. Gladys there basically crediting ice for death row and shit

[@nathanhansford76]

Maybe he was a ghostwriter for vanilla ice, but Rob performed ice ice baby and hes’ the one that made the magic happen.

[@LeoCharles]

Mad respect for this dude! A legend!

[@leonleon2276]

You probably didn’t even know who dude is ffs. Legend in what?

[@brandonraynor21]

@@leonleon2276 right mfs love saying legend most ppl don’t even know who tf this is

[@LeoCharles]

@@leonleon2276 ...... what? You dont even know WHO I AM to begin with, why are you coming to conclusions about how much i know about the dude or hip hop in general? God damn you are stupid o_0 GTFO, please!

[@ShiestyPLOWuTang]

@@leonleon2276 In ghost writing G

[@leonleon2276]

@@ShiestyPLOWuTang a legend in ghost writing hahahaha. He a bum. And a salty bum.

[@francoisobasi1310]

Facts. I watched Vanilla Ice doing a rehearsal for BET in Vegas of Ice, Ice baby. He couldn't get through the rehearsal without messing up. This interview clears up a lot.

[@francoisobasi1310]

@DavezMentaltees That's your prerogative, but I amsure there is footage out there somewhere. The producers were so frustrated. I honestly thought he was high or something.

[@tonydisabatino]

@@francoisobasi1310 I believe you 100%. Van Winkle starting doing drugs around the end of the To The Extreme era and that is what led to the night and day difference between To The Extreme and Mind Blowing.

[@francoisobasi1310]

@Tony DiSabatino I didn't pay attention to if he was High or not, just kept hearing the director having him start over. Got ridiculous.

[@tonydisabatino]

@@francoisobasi1310 He may have been high or coming down from a high. He became a heavy user as his Cool as Ice persona started to fade.

[@francoisobasi1310]

@@tonydisabatino possibly

[@gerald6919]

Chocolate & Vanilla Ice was great team.

[@Jaysqn]

I would love to read this brother’s book if he has a book out or it’s on the come up. Cool dude. 💯

[@scros8891]

I met Choc about 12 years ago and kicked multiple times. This is the same story he said then. It’s all true. He also has a nephew that was signed to Aftermath named Slim da Mobster. Wrote a bunch of stuff for Dre. 10 gat commandments is a must listen.

[@youneverknowwhoisconnected312]

Yo i heard slim da mobsta back in the day... Heads dont even know who that is, nowadays these oldschool cats discussed in random comment sections.... It's crazy i could never picture this back in time. Shout to real og rap legends tho: S.C.C Murdersquad n Young Murder Squad... Spice 1 E-40 etc...

[@soulhoppaz]

Didn’t know slim was related to hin..Slim is a talented gangster

[@1Deep43VA]

You act like 12 years is a long time. He’s been saying this BS for longer than that. Doesn’t make it true

[@mikescott3899]

He might have written ice ice baby but I bet he couldn’t perform it like vanilla ice did. Like him or hate him Vanilla ice dropped a classic song

[@dtbredhalf5823]

yeah

[@cbmpire]

Damn yo, niggas been foolin us like Drake lol. Mfs be actors reading scripts in the booth 🤣

[@o.g.laylowru7940]

This is first interview i seen him do.🤘🏽👌🏽 🚩.