Vanilla Ice | Haters, Lies About His Childhood, Drugs, Did Suge Knight Really Threaten His Life?

His story really does sound like a classic case of overnight success. One day, Vanilla Ice was a regular local nightclub performer and the next he had a number 1 album, an army of devoted fans and could buy anything he wanted with his new found wealth. He also had a lot of critics accusing him of everything from lying about his background to ripping off a genre of music that didn’t belong to people who look like him. The hate got so bad that it even drove him to wanting to end it all. Then, after the lights dimmed on his career, he was forced to create a new life and figure out who he was without the fame.
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[@danavixen6274]

Still can't forget about Jim Carrey's parody of Vanilla Ice on In Living Color.....🤣😂🤣😂

[@lizstanton2727]

Shoot I think about Jim Carrey's version of him before him😂💜

[@thickbrownlegs1859]

@@lizstanton2727 facts 🤣🤣

[@ytallowskids2seedepravityb219]

@@lizstanton2727 omg me too girl🤣🤣

[@nataliemscrzysxycoolharris]

😂😂😂😂😂 My side is hurting from laughing so hard…again! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@kristabell5887]

@@lizstanton2727 big facts

[@beaniegee5129]

Jim Carrey's parody of Vanilla Ice on In Living Color is still hilarious to this day

[@carlettecannon8716]

Yes yes you are right all the way from Baton Rouge Louisiana 2023 please be careful and safe 😅😅😅

[@DJAUDIO1]

Side Note: Jim Carrey's back up dancers on his Vanilla Ice parody were none other than the members of LA hip-hop group The Pharcyde. Small world.

[@Enirutas]

Classic!

[@sburight]

I recorded it on a VHS tape that I still have 😅

[@bigrudd9346]

Honestly if you were roasted on In Living Color, that's an honor.

[@thetruesoulofanaquarius9302]

I had the biggest crush on Vanilla Ice back in the day. 🤣 I don't care I did/still will jam and dance to Ice Ice Baby. I don't know why people always trying to act like that song didn't go hard back in the day.

[@JuicyPopEntertainment]

Yes! People really be acting like the don't know every word.

[@taureanmay1411]

​@@JuicyPopEntertainment true.

[@amandadunn7678]

It did but, it's been 32 yrs. and and over the yrs., I've been conveinced that he didn't write that song.

[@feleciagrasty3880]

I actually saw him in concert when he opened for Hammer in the early 90's in Roanoke VA! My Dad actually liked the performance. He was really good!

[@MightMouse2174]

When people front I always say that album didn't go 7x platinum by itself

[@ErickMuzone]

The Jim Carey skit killed that man’s career, he roasted Snow too in that video parody😂😂😂

[@Dman425]

His career was pretty much over by the time that In Living Color skit came out. He still has a career. He tours casinos all the time with other stars from the 90’s

[@nataliemscrzysxycoolharris]

I give Vanilla Ice his flowers 💐 because he stood with the big dogs and did his thing. Like, love or hate him.

[@beaniegee5129]

Vanilla Ice's appearance on The Surreal Life was great

[@4wchitstands]

Vanilla Ice did very well for himself. After everyone was paid their share, including suges extortion, he cleared 6 million and he invested it wisely instead of blowing it like MC Hammer. Even though his music career failed he accomplished what most musicians never will, financial freedom. My hats off to him, he did good for himself and i think that was the problem most people had. Envy is a deadly sin.

[@damnright1766]

If he was more humble about his success and sympathize with those who thought he was appropriating and stealing opportunity from them, he would have been perceived better. Maybe not liked by everyone but at least more respected.

[@saj8]

I said it before and I will say it again. Hip Hop will never get the last word on how Vanilla Ice will be properly remembered.

[@thebrownbaldy]

The main reason we all saw TMNT 2 back in the day was Vanilla Ice 😅. His home renovation show was good too, definitely showed it's always good to have a backup plan after the music is over with.

[@lexkanyima2195]

He was a plan B instead of Mc Hammer

[@MightMouse2174]

He said back then when he talked about flipping houses they didn't take him seriously

[@ah_libra]

90s must have been a really awesome time 😆

[@need-to-know-]

You have no idea!

[@crmlcutie16]

It was!

[@angelgregory9445]

The 90s was a whole vibe. Y'all really missed out on an amazing decade.

[@chancest.thomas5160]

Maaaan...lemme tell 'ya

[@lightsoutmedia7370]

By far the best decade

[@lune78]

I admit it, I was a HUGE Vanilla Ice fan back in the day. I still listen to To The Extreme on a regular basis. It's really sad how people saw him as a joke, he was just doing his thing, and he was a talented rapper and dancer.

[@PHSDM104]

As an 80's kid who grew up in the 90's, I agree 100% with what he said about the decade.

[@lexkanyima2195]

What ?

[@cutandgo]

Ice ice baby was so popular in my country we even sang it in our various languages.

[@orlandoyero7151]

Does it still ryhme ?

[@beaniegee5129]

SBK Records had a lot of great acts on there such as Vanilla Ice, Technotronic, Jon Secada, Riff and Wilson Phillips

[@stevewilson5749]

That jam from Technotronic... "Pump Up The Jam" Love that jam🤩😃🎶🎶🎶💯

[@pa.encema2821]

Juicy Pop needs to do an episode on Technotronic

[@jessicaaudate]

That's a shame about his career. I couldn't have cared less where he was from. He was just fun! Adults really be sucking the joy out of things sometimes...

[@namirelez6739]

Ask his wife how “fun” he was. 🤕

[@christianheidt5733]

Dude is a legend!

[@vu4uboo582]

Madonna knows how to get what she wants.

[@lexkanyima2195]

She is like Sharon Stone

[@chancest.thomas5160]

She sucks da SOUL outta These Men.

[@rasberrybombay2]

He played in a Adam Sandler movie called that's my boy and was hilarious in it.

[@NellieKAdaba]

I didn't know that, I know he was in one of the Ninja Turtles movies.

[@linnettemcneal8788]

Then came Eminem

[@Fraxinus_a]

Everytime I see Clips from the Arsenio Hall show, I miss it even more. He had everybody on there and he always asked the uncomfortable questions.

[@pa.encema2821]

Hall was hating extra hard on Vanilla Ice. Even the audience started to boo on Hall

[@saj8]

​​@@pa.encema2821That was an outright lie.

[@RoseRose-hp4rq]

I think Arsenio Hall made himself look like a jealous, arrogant jerk on that episode. He was treating Vanilla Ice that way just because he was white. That’s racism pure and simple.

[@saj8]

@@RoseRose-hp4rq No. Vanilla Ice should have been called out for his lies a long time ago. Arsenio did the right thing.

[@soulwailer3394]

Ice is still more popular than Arsenio to this day.

[@beaniegee5129]

Love these stories so much

[@carlettecannon8716]

So do I All the way from Baton Rouge Louisiana 2023 please be careful and safe 🕺🕺

[@beaniegee5129]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze is a classic movie

[@Rawnervzz]

It's interesting, he did make a mark on music

[@AquariusSoul]

Arsenio held nothing back chile 🤣 I miss those days people weren't afraid of telling things as it is

[@lexkanyima2195]

Why ?

[@MightMouse2174]

​@@lexkanyima2195 a newspaper was spreading lies about Ice and Arsenio believed it and was trying to catch him in the lies

[@pa.encema2821]

@@MightMouse2174 but Ice out finesse Hall

[@michaelotieno6524]

What did he want Vanilla Ice to do about the success of his album sales. The accusations that Vanilla Ice brought an obligatory black friend was just as ignorant as Vanilla Ice was much closer to MC Hammer who he says helped his career much more

[@saj8]

​@@MightMouse2174Stop.

[@carlettecannon8716]

Hello fam I had forgot Jim Carrey performance in living color🤭 right now I am here In Baton Rouge Louisiana 2023 please be careful and safe 🤗 watching KZbin and enjoying this commentary 🤭😄🕺

[@carlettecannon8716]

🤭😄😀 ಠ ͜ʖ ಠ 😅 🕺🕺

[@cleftheart1969]

Great story overnight success is a jinx IMO glad he's well. And he's the 90's was laid back and all about fun...so glad I lived it 👌🏾 👍🏾 😊 😀

[@errolthomas9426]

You forgot to mention Vanilla Ice getting exposed dissed by 3rd Bass with Pop Goes The Weasel in 1991

[@saj8]

And on Ace In The Hole from the same album.

[@nickfernandez829]

If he had strong associations like Eminem did with Dr dre maybe they would of taken him seriously

[@vondei5939]

No they are nothing a like Em is a emcee

[@rafaelc2029]

@@vondei5939 so was Ice back in the 80s. True definition of MC is Master of Ceremonies- which is someone who is crowd oriented and trying to get everyone to have a good time. Not some brooding kid from a trailer park rapping about how he wants to unalive his baby moms haha

[@vondei5939]

@@rafaelc2029 Contrary to how you feel about Eminem ,Vanilla Ice doesn't come close to Em. Me not liking a artist doesn't take away from my ability to see their talent.

[@need-to-know-]

@@rafaelc2029 He wishes he could be a percent as good as Eminem.

[@beaniegee5129]

Ice Ice Baby is a still a great song

[@amandadunn7678]

I often think about all the hate MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice both got. They would've been able to thrive today in the age of social media. Ppl talk about this "cancel culture " b.s. but, nobody ever really gets canceled unless they truly do something terrible (i.e. R. Kelly, Harvey Weinstein, etc.). However 30 yrs ago, if you didn't fit in and ppl didn't like you for it, your career was over.

[@need-to-know-]

That’s the way it should have stayed!

[@amandadunn7678]

@@need-to-know- In other words, you think it was right for ppl like MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice to get cancelled simply because they were overexposed pop stars?

[@need-to-know-]

@@amandadunn7678 No. I think it’s okay for them to be sent packing because they were wack and perpetratin’!

[@lexkanyima2195]

​​@@amandadunn7678 but they would be destroyed

[@amandadunn7678]

@@lexkanyima2195 I disagree. They'd fit in somewhere nowadays.

[@ebed-ifemcgriff1686]

I just love your channel! You have awesome background music 🎶

[@JuicyPopEntertainment]

Thank you so much!

[@KingstonTV334]

Is it me or has this channel changed names at least 3 times? or am i tripping?

[@beebee__]

The only other name I saw before was "Let's Get To The Root." What was the name before that?

[@Fraxinus_a]

Yes, i think as the channel grows, they're trying to find their brand identity. Or, there could've been branding issues behind the scenes for the other names.

[@cadillacdeville5828]

He's a nice looking guy, too bad his attitude doesn't and personality doesn't match it.

[@medeucaa]

Imagine making it in rap with a name like VAN WINKLE

[@NellieKAdaba]

I know.

[@leelee185]

Ice ice baby

[@NellieKAdaba]

My favourite song.

[@tonyoliver5537]

"Chocolate" had proof that he had wrote half off the hit songs from Vanilla Ice's Diamond selling album " To the Extreme" a signed vinyl album by Vanilla Ice when the record was still on Ichiban Records before SBK bought Vanilla's rights to his music and it said "Thanks for co-write" made out to "Chocolate" from Vanilla.

[@stevewilson5749]

Ice Ice Baby.....yeah... I'll admit.... I was so into it!!!🤔😁🎶🎶🎶

[@thecloud9effect765]

Thank you 🙏

[@ArchangelsBookClub]

Vanilla ice was a National morris Cross champion. That’s not a lie. Also, he was a child of divorced parents, so grew up in Dallas and Miami, as many children of divorced parents do when their parents live in separate states. So, it wasn’t “all lies.”

[@nicolesherman8974]

Ice, ice baby 💃🏾

[@vu4uboo582]

He looks like Aaron carter.

[@angelgregory9445]

Remember without Vanilla Ice there might not have been a Death Row records.

[@louisianacookingwithkay]

10:04-10:13 WOW SMMFH 😔👎🏾 It's sad when a grown ass man like Suge Knight has to bully another grown ass man to eat!! 🤯 Extorting folks it's PITIFUL!!.

[@suewilliams7661]

Right tho I can’t stand his ass I hate bullying

[@lolafairchild88]

Yesss!!! We gon talk about the Suge Knight shakedown 🤣🤣🤣???!!! Love this channel ❤️!

[@JuicyPopEntertainment]

Suge don't play about his money. 😂

[@taureanmay1411]

​@@JuicyPopEntertainment he don't.

[@thickbrownlegs1859]

I love me some Vanilla Ice but I still can’t forget he did that god awful movie Cool As Ice 🤣🤣🤣.

[@stevewilson5749]

.....Drop That Zero And Get With The Hero....🤔😁😁

[@thickbrownlegs1859]

@@stevewilson5749 🤣🤣🤣🤣 what a cornball line 🤣🤣🤣

[@MightMouse2174]

It was but people were saying that way before Ice did

[@simonark1176]

So glad he's come full circle and gets the credit he deserves! Was a really talented youth and every bit as good as his contemporaries! ❤

[@bruceaskew2107]

Never knew we had the same birthday lol🦂💯

[@raydn23]

He was ahead of his time. Jack harlow is a star today lol, Harlow would have spent most of his life stuck in a locker in the 90s.

[@Hakeem990]

Deep down eminem knows ice paved the way for him

[@ytallowskids2seedepravityb219]

Facts! I give more props to Ice tho cuz at least he didnt go around cryin about people not liking his music like Eminem did

[@carlettecannon8716]

Yes you are right all the way from Baton Rouge Louisiana 2023 please be careful and safe 🤭🤗🤗

[@need-to-know-]

Please because of how vanilla wafer flopped, people like Eminem and Everlast had to try even harder to show that they weren’t the same way.

[@ytallowskids2seedepravityb219]

@@need-to-know- Not Vanilla wafers🤣🤣🤣Vanilla Wafers and Slim Jims🤣🤣

[@need-to-know-]

@@ytallowskids2seedepravityb219 That’s what 3rd Bass called him.

[@ericgaskins571]

Believe it or not he is one hell of a drummer. Saw him on the i love the 90s tour. He stole the show

[@teenamichaud7114]

Open your eyes Vanilla Ice is still rocking this world

[@terrywrightjr4545]

Once again suge knight pops up!

[@suewilliams7661]

Suge ant shit but a bully I hope somebody humble that dude foreal tho

[@hiddengemz955]

His whole career felt like an SNL skit

[@tarksen5772]

Vanilla ice was always good.. especially MIND BLOWIN album was legend

[@beaniegee5129]

Vanilla Ice shares the same birthday as the late John Candy, Willow Smith, Pharoahe Monch, Rob Schneider and Michael DeLorenzo on Halloween

[@pa.encema2821]

My birthday is in Halloween too

[@kevinford3189]

Like white try do hip hop and r and b vanilla ice george michael elvis justin timberlake robin thicke jon b justin bieber halls and oats wanna go uban.

[@KIKROX86]

Vanilla ice is amazing. If it weren’t for him Eminem wouldn’t be where he is today. He did just fine after the music business he’s built mansions for God sakes he’s the man.

[@Maplemama12]

Mr. Rob Van Winkle II, aka Vanilla Ice Cream! I'll just say May He Live On as a 90s Icon 😂😊❤😎👍✌️

[@taureanmay1411]

I miss Vanilla Ice 😅🍦.

[@taureanmay1411]

Best known for his #1 hit song, 🤣😂 ice, ice, baby 🤣🌍🚭😴✅🛑🥺😣😳😲😊👍😊😭😢.

[@fra593]

The Dj in Georgia that played his record was in Macon, Georgia, not Columbus.

[@vondei5939]

Just don't know why it had to be said that all his siblings had different dad's 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@tarksen5772]

I always love him

[@garybrown7047]

That man ice has a 50 million dollar car collection he didn't fall off if anything he got bigger 🤣

[@user-ng2kn3xt2b]

I Play Ice when im in the the hood... He gets all respect by the Gangstas

[@dizzyrisse3115]

It’s 2023 and I still listen to Ninja Rap ❤️❤️

[@nelsonortas818]

The Guy is a GOAT....

[@mewesquirrel6720]

My mom had a crush on him

[@DiegoMartinez-nm8hz]

Do the Hansons

[@patrickwalker6037]

Word to your mother!?!? What does that even mean🤔

[@durandparkerjr9502]

Vanilla Ice 🧊 took the bullets he has alot rap kids outhere

[@angelnyambio5704]

As pretty messed up for lying about his early background, I can definitely get why he did that. I mean, he was the first white rapper at a black male-dominated ground. Listening to Ice Ice Baby, he was pretty good

[@JenoFletter]

50 cent did the same thing and no one gives a shit. The bias is strong against Vanilla Ice

[@angelnyambio5704]

@@JenoFletter daang, that’s messed up

[@marc-andremarcoraymond2242]

Some fact and some BS Let says this, i never get 1M for a slow song, the song(i love you) was already produced on his first album (Hooked) sold 40 000 copies.

[@keepernyu-kc6xy]

Show those teachers! Wondered whatever happened to this star performer! Show them!

[@cincymutt]

For all the crap he gets from people, he has actually gotten props from a few major rappers. And history has been rewritten a bit with regards to the genuine cred he had leading up to his debut.

[@shawnaiszak4032]

Vanilla Ice is🥵

[@isatherebel1520]

U knew this guy just wasn't invested in the artform like that, he'd be down to play the corporate puppet as long as money's involved, the definition of what people would say is a culture vulture, for many rappers this wasn't just a way to become rich and get fame but a way to make it outta the streets, allow them to make money without the dangers of street life, but also having talent and passion for the artform to make quality music, hip-hop was Eminem's way outta poverty, Game and Boosie's way outta the gangsta life, and saved 50 from death

[@pambrown6319]

🤔4got about the theft that ended his real estate/ renovation t.v show??😬😲

[@MightMouse2174]

It didn't end his show it ran 4 more years after it happened

[@pambrown6319]

@@MightMouse2174 but none of that was mentioned 🤔

[@ChassityNOubre_88]

The first white man I ever had a crush on and JC played him well on ILC😂 OAN: Justin Bieber should play him if they ever make a movie about him.

[@andyhughes1776]

Ice Ice Baby has over 550 million views now. Ice is back with Superbowl Half time shows, sold out concerts, even his own energy drink in recent years. Who gets the last laugh again?

[@brianhardy612]

Checkerboard Bams are from the 80's notnthe 90's ICE

[@aaronj.brooks1977]

Vinocchio Ice

[@lovelymelanin9336]

Why do people not like him? He was magnificent and talented ! Is it because he did black music ?

[@chapterblaq]

7:49 Arsenio was speaking facts. Real talk. Mr. Van Winkle always came off like a weirdo to me. I was born in '91... so i only ever saw him after he was washed up and on shit like "I love the 90s" talking crazy about how ice ice baby wasnt a straight bite 🤡😂

[@RWAC685]

Arsenio Hall Trying To Act Tough. Bro Needs To Chill.

[@RavenBlaze420]

until they saw a vanilla face on the album. Beastie Boys Hold My Beer smh I hate Vanilla Ice got the ur white u can't do hip hop blacklash when one of one of the pioneering groups in hip hop was white Beastie Boys but Arsenal all of a sudden forogot about them smh

[@bruceaskew2107]

Comparing white white baby to hit em up is crazyyyyyy , but fuckin hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MightMouse2174]

A rapper lies about their childhood..... nonsense

[@cythefreakhouse7196]

Eminem is what Vanilla dreamed to be

[@jackjonson2696]

Whats that interviewers problem

[@stefansimpson7678]

🤎🤎🤎👍👍👍

[@RoseRose-hp4rq]

He dealt with a lot of hate and jealousy because of his colour. Arsenio Hall made himself look ingnant

[@kimberley8902]

Arsineo hall is a race baiter

[@bellawaifu3296]

No One: Nobody at all: *Madonna* 😂😂 Like she is a real succubus. And still that way today

[@Vasquez.213]

Ofc 🙄 why am I not even surprised that he never even knew his dad, and that his mom gave him a bunch of half-siblings and married a lot. Every single time a white person breaks into black music genres (r&b or rap), they ALL "coincidentally" had some type of trauma growing up? 🤨🤨

[@gleeglee1352]

Yes