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Frozen milk ice crystals and only one song comes to mind for this one...... Vanilla Ice's 1990 'toon, "Ice Ice Baby": www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp-is6S_b_g - the video is a HOOT:)

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Vanilla Ice

Birth name Robert Matthew Van Winkle Also known as V-Ice, The Iceman, Bi-Polar born October 31, 1967 Dallas, Texas, U.S. Genre(s) Hip hop, alternative metal, nu metal, rap rock Occupation(s) Rapper Singer Actor Years active 1988–present Label(s) SBK Website VanillaIce.com

Robert Matthew Van Winkle (born October 31, 1967 in Dallas, Texas), best known as Vanilla Ice, is an American rap artist known for the 1990 smash hit "Ice Ice Baby.

His debut single from the record, "Play that Funky Music," failed to catch on with listeners, and both Van Winkle and the album remained in obscurity until a Georgia DJ decided to flip the twelve-inch single and play the B-side, which was "Ice Ice Baby," a track about Van Winkle's rhyming skills, the Miami street scene, and a gunfight on A1A/Beachfront Avenue. The overnight success of the single was enough for SBK Records to sign Van Winkle and buy the rights to Hooked for $300,000.

In 1990, SBK rereleased Hooked as To the Extreme, which consisted mainly of new versions of the same songs. Van Winkle's manager and financier, Tommy Quon, chose a limited release for the single, but it nonetheless became the first rap single to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. SBK rushed Van Winkle onto the road to promote the album, with a sixteen-year-old Alanis Morissette as his opening act. To the Extreme was not released on vinyl so that fans bought the pricier CD instead, therefore becoming the first #1 album in the U.S. without a vinyl counterpart release; it went on to sell over eleven million copies. On November 1, To the Extreme ended M.C. Hammer's 21-week run at the top of the Billboard Top 200 en route to serving a sixteen-week stay of its own. During the tour, Ice's label had also molded him into a pop star, consisting of a flashy wardrobe similar to that of Hammer.

Van Winkle's success also brought legal and personal problems. "Ice Ice Baby" sampled the 1982 Queen and David Bowie collaboration "Under Pressure" without permission, acknowledging credit, or paying royalties. There was no public court case over the issue, but the copyright holders of "Under Pressure" considered a lawsuit and settled out of court with Van Winkle for an undisclosed sum. Van Winkle recalled in 2008, "What happened is I was trying not to get sued and it didn't work. So yeah, they're the same songs, in case you were wondering." According to his Behind the Music, feature, Van Winkle and his ex-manager explained that it took a few phone calls to settle the matter.

In addition, Van Winkle's debut single, "Play That Funky Music," had sampled the 1976 Wild Cherry hit of the same name; however, Wild Cherry singer-guitarist Rob Parissi was not credited as the writer of Van Winkle's version of the song, which was instead credited to Ice and DJ Earthquake. According to an interview for VH1's 100 Greatest One Hit Wonders in 2002, Parissi discovered that he had not been credited as a writer on Play That Funky Music. He was later awarded $500,000 in damages.

His 1991 biography, Ice by Ice: The Vanilla Ice Story in His Own Words, chronicled a false background story in an attempt to give Van Winkle street credibility, claiming that he was a gang member from the ghetto of Miami Lakes, Florida, and had attended the same predominantly-black high school as 2 Live Crew's Luther Campbell. The biography also erroneously claimed that Van Winkle, an actual Motocross enthusiast, had been a national champion. Although the biography was attributed to Van Winkle, he later stated that he himself had no part in its authorship, and that its contents had actually been penned by Tommy Quon.

In March 1991, Ice wrote and recorded a single titled "Ninja Rap" for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, and also performed the song in the movie. Rapper Tim Dog replied with "[Rap] is not you can put into a movie with a bunch of turtles" on the single "I Ain't Having It," from his November 1991 album Penicillin on Wax.

• • • I have to admit my daughter and I waited 4 hours to see him in concert here one evening, as he was delayed coming from a show in Tampa....LOLLLL