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Vanilla Ice
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Vanilla Ice

Vanilla Ice was a white rapper. He was famous for one song, 'Ice, Ice Baby', which contained possibly the silliest lyrics of the decade - 'Cooking MCs like a pound of bacon'.

Children up and down the land learnt his songs and thrust their hands out in strange contortions to show they were street and breakin'.

They even had strange tramlines cut into their hair like Ice himself. Although luckily no-one seemed keen to emulate his bizarre off-centre quiff.

In a tragic twist, Vanilla could not cope with his sudden rise to fame and equally sudden sink from it, suffering bouts of depression. Fortunately for us all Ice is now back, bearing his miseries on stage in new rapmetal direction.


1990 Music: Top of the Pops | Vanilla Ice | MC Hammer






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