― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 16:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Jole, Wednesday, 4 February 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago) link
Whats yer name?Robert Van Winkle!Yo, Why'd ya change it?Nuthin rhymes with Winkle!
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago) link
Vanilla Ice does small guest vocal part attesting to size of johnson on Betty Blowtorch album.
― George Smith, Wednesday, 4 February 2004 17:23 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 17:27 (twenty years ago) link
Didn't Vanilla survive a shooting/stabbing (besides allegedly being held out of a window by Suge Knight) or was that Snow?
― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 17:43 (twenty years ago) link
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 17:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Mirov (nick), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 19:00 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 19:09 (twenty years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago) link
That's it.
That's my "defense of the indefensible" -- the stories made me laugh, therefore Ice's musical career is worthwhile
My thinking, too.
― George Smith, Wednesday, 4 February 2004 19:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Stupid (Stupid), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 19:50 (twenty years ago) link
"Ice Ice Baby" is fantastic. You play that song when DJing and it's like you're the second coming of ... i dunno... the second coming of someone really awesome.
Don't play like you dont know all the words to either of these songs either, cause you do. And if you dont, you're probably looking them up right now.
― Sarah Natalie (Running from Taxes), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 19:52 (twenty years ago) link
in Hammer's defense, 'Pray' is fucking fantastic (partial Prince credit)
-- stevem (bluesk...), February 4th, 2004.
You don't have to get all defensive about not being rockist when what you said was completely 100% true.
Also, Hammerman wasn't the WORST cartoon of its time, and featured the voice of the greatest actor EVER, Clark Johnson. -- Huckadelphia (handsomishbo...), February 4th, 2004.
No way, it came on right after the New Kids on the Block cartoon. I loved them both.
Vanilla Ice looks like Jim Carrey! WTF?Back when In Living Colour was on, Jim Carrey did a hilarious parody of "Ice Ice Baby" called "White White Baybay"Whats yer name?Robert Van Winkle!Yo, Why'd ya change it?Nuthin rhymes with Winkle!
-- Lord Custos Omicron (l.custo...), February 4th, 2004.
That doesnt sound very funny.
― David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 19:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 20:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 20:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Jim Janse, Wednesday, 4 February 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago) link
I like how in the second Ninja Turtles movie as soon as the Turtles burst through the club where Vanilla Ice is performing, Ice tells his dancers "Fellas, I have an idea...". Without him saying anything else they immediately start dancing in perfect choreography to Ice's supposedly improvised "Ninja Rap". I guess they had a ready-made song prepared just in case giant, man-sized mutant turtles burst through the walls of the club.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 21:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 22:30 (twenty years ago) link
― sym (shmuel), Thursday, 5 February 2004 01:34 (twenty years ago) link
While I'll love him forever for making Cool As Ice ("Yo, Kat! Words of wisdom! Drop that zero and get with the hero!"), which I showed to every friend I could back in high school, I don't think I'll ever forgive him for saying that he would lick his grandma's asshole for a million dollars. Such a moral quandary should not be introduced.
See, their song goes dee-dee-dee diggy dee-dee. His goes DEE-dee-dee-dee diggy dee-dee. It's totally different!
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 5 February 2004 01:41 (twenty years ago) link
SPIN's Jonathan Bernstein gave that video the "Please Hammer, Don't Hurt Me!" award.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 5 February 2004 01:43 (twenty years ago) link
Has Eminem ever gone that far?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 February 2004 01:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 5 February 2004 01:47 (twenty years ago) link
I'd also like to throw that time he appeared on MTV's 12 Angry Viewers and personally took the baseball bat to the master copy of his video into the mix for contention. Also the time a couple years later he took the bat to a bunch of other crappy videos on MTV's Worst Music Videos Ever That We Will Never Ever Show Again dealie.
― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Thursday, 5 February 2004 01:48 (twenty years ago) link
― sym (shmuel), Thursday, 5 February 2004 01:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 5 February 2004 01:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Thursday, 5 February 2004 01:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 5 February 2004 01:53 (twenty years ago) link
― sym (shmuel), Thursday, 5 February 2004 01:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 5 February 2004 01:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 5 February 2004 02:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 5 February 2004 02:01 (twenty years ago) link
― sym (shmuel), Thursday, 5 February 2004 02:12 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 5 February 2004 02:18 (twenty years ago) link
fucking classic.
― heywood jablomi (heywood), Thursday, 5 February 2004 02:25 (twenty years ago) link
― heywood jablomi (heywood), Thursday, 5 February 2004 02:27 (twenty years ago) link
― adamth, Thursday, 5 February 2004 05:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 5 February 2004 05:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Aja (aja), Thursday, 5 February 2004 05:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Speedy, Saturday, 29 April 2006 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 29 April 2006 21:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Miguel, Saturday, 29 April 2006 21:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Saturday, 29 April 2006 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 29 April 2006 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link
"Express Yourself", performed by Roger and Fu-Schnickens – 5:31
(!)
― The Reverend, Monday, 10 December 2007 03:21 (sixteen years ago) link
In the Vanilla Ice movie (forget what it's called), he rides up to the girl on his motorcycle and says "lose the zero, and get with the hero".
I always thought that was awesome.
― Nate Carson, Monday, 10 December 2007 11:38 (sixteen years ago) link
"I seriously did win a motocross championship, dammit!"
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Monday, 10 December 2007 12:58 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't even think the rap is bad on ice ice baby. that song rules.
mc hammer was pretty great for awhile.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 10 December 2007 22:05 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm pretty sure hammer is on the thank u list for both it takes a nation of millions to hold us back AND straight outta compton, what the fuck have u done?
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 10 December 2007 22:06 (sixteen years ago) link
I had more money than he did a few years ago!
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 03:28 (sixteen years ago) link
the problem is that when the beat drops out he loses the rhythm and rushes his lines
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 03:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I kinda feel that Hammer was more genuine (although he did modify his style with the times on Funky Headhunter)...but neither have any staying power and Ice just turned into a joke.
"Hard to Swallow"......haha
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 03:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Saw MC Hammer last night at Universal Mardi Gras. Now, let me explain...
I wasn't really into music much as a kid, but I loved MC Hammer. At least the Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em and 2 Legit 2 Quit albums. So part of me wanting to go was for the novelty of reliving my youth a bit - I figured that even though now I'm not really into this music, the show would be fun and entertaining.
My fucking God, now I know why he left the limelight. The dude just can't put on a show anymore. He didn't even look like he was prepared to perform.
His 'dancers' entered a lit stage in awkward silence, and then Hammer walked onstage in front of a silent crowd (who probably didn't believe a concert would begin with such little fanfare). He then launched into something from Turn This Mutha Out, and after the song ended, he and his entire entourage left the stage...he went to the man operating the Mac computer to ask him what song was next.
Except he did this after EVERY SONG (left the stage, that is). There were long gaps between each song, and an unintentionally hilarious 5 minute monologue intro to "Pumps and a Bump". The crowd was largely white and family oriented and they turned on Hammer within 20 minutes, some even chanting "Hammer sucks", and many leaving.
The choreography...maybe my memory has been nicer to the past than it should, but, uh....I don't remember it being that bad. His backup dancers moreso than him.
He performed for a little over an hour, and then gathered about 100 people to dance to U Can't Touch This on stage with him....in silence, for about ten minutes.
Wow. Glad I got in free with my annual pass.
― III IV V (Bo Jackson Overdrive), Sunday, 5 April 2009 22:09 (fifteen years ago) link
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Sunday, 5 April 2009 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^^^ classic
― III IV V (Bo Jackson Overdrive), Sunday, 5 April 2009 22:29 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAZz3c6WC7M
omfg. what is up with those pants? and his horrible attempt at beat boxing?
― estimate the percent chance that i break my foot off in your ass (Neanderthal), Saturday, 9 July 2011 13:00 (thirteen years ago) link
i heard/read way back when that Vanilla Ice was loaded ... that he invested his royalties wisely and shit. if it's true, it doesn't make his music better or his musical persona any less pathetic -- but unlike Hammer, he's at least avoided visiting the bankruptcy court (AFAIK).
― KARLOR CAN FUCK ANYTHING! AND HE WILL AND HAS!!! (Eisbaer), Saturday, 9 July 2011 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
i always thought 'ice ice baby' was a terrible single. too long, plodding, repetitive to no good effect, bad flow.
'u can't touch this' on the other hand is great: unforgettable hook, funny, bouncy, everything a classic single should be.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 9 July 2011 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Bo Jackson, maybe some trickster had gone and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhmiR18iGVg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Sunday, 10 July 2011 07:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Woops, pressed send too early. Anyway you get the idea
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Sunday, 10 July 2011 07:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Flavor Flav & MC Hammer To Join Charlie Sheen At Insane Clown Posse Festival
besides, i still i love thishttp://s1.directupload.net/images/110710/temp/l2x8fmar.jpg
― meisenfek, Sunday, 10 July 2011 08:08 (thirteen years ago) link
this is still true 7 years later. very very popular song at nightclubs, weddings, parties, i get requests for this every time i play out. i understand the songs weaknesses, and also what a complete goof mr. winkle is, but this song is a classic. and frankly i don't think it would still be as popular if v ice hadn't been so stupid looking and unintentionally funny either, that's built into it's ongoing appeal.
same goes for "can't touch this" but tbh i don't think it's quite as good a song, and it's still popular but not on the level of ice ice baby. however hammer does still get consistent props from any and all bay area rappers to this day
― messiahwannabe, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Ice Ice Baby is one of my Dad's favourite songs, and he's 64.
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Still like "Ice Ice Baby." Remember the first time I heard it. I was driving around Detroit with Mr. Fine Wine and some DJ just kept playing it over and over and wouldn't play anything else.
― Twenty Flight Rickroll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
ha ha - oh my that seriously made me laugh!
xpost to dog latin
― karma's ruthless invisible (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
HAMMER takes it. U Can't Touch This >>>>>>>>>> Ice Ice Baby
― I'm A Genius, Too! (Jamie_ATP), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
O_O
― HOOBASTANK is my co-pilot (DJP), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 16:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Hammer - cos it's Hammer yo Hammer MC Hammer Go Hammer
and the rest can go and play
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 01:11 (six years ago) link
When Hammer grunts 'YEEEAAH, BOYYYYEEEEE' in 'Let's Get it Started' it sounds like he's pinching one off.
If I'm honest in reappraising his skills, he's really not that much better an MC than Blazin' Hazen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXb6bjCCtuY
― Gregory Horsemelt (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 13:31 (six years ago) link
that's unfair
you missed the part where he smoothed out his rapping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haxYckO6-ok
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 13:32 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFCv86Olk8E
the video for "2 Legit 2 Quit" is beyond insane and is LEGIT amazing. yes it features James Brown throwing Hadoukens of energy at Hammer.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 15:34 (six years ago) link
It took me forever to notice it for some reason but, once I did, Hammer's tendency to randomly sprinkle his rhymes with rolling 'r' sounds (often when there was no 'r' to roll) started driving me batshit. It's all over this track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwshr5uAlOA
― Gregory Horsemelt (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 15:54 (six years ago) link
yea the 2 Legit video is pretty awesome - love how it's a not-so-subtle attempt to one-up Michael Jackson
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link
OL i definitely picked up on the rolling r's
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 17:32 (six years ago) link
btw the Rifftrax crew has tackled "Cool As Ice" and it is hilarious. it really is one of the great bad movies.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link