Defend the Indefensible: Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer...

fucking classic.

-- Geir Hongro (geirhon...), April 29th, 2006.

I think someone here feels a little threatened by these two Gods of music.

I don't know where either Vanilla Ice or ICP get off sledging Eminem. At least he's a real fucking rapper! (and I'm hardly an Eminem fan, but god, them's the facts)

-- latebloomer (posercore24...), February 4th, 2004.

Omigod yes!! Go Ninja Go Ninja Go!!! I went to see this movie when it came out in the theater and on the marquee his name was in big letters right under the Turtles. I was so happy.

It's too bad Hammer's Addam's Family song isn't more infamous. I remember listening to it alot when I was a little kid (my name's Adam) and he keeps saying "To the bridge" and I had no idea what he was talking about. I imagined the song was taped live and they were all walking across some steel bridge on stage, knees bent, hands pumping in the air...

Hammer: Proper

him and early Mix-a-Lot are also probably a super underrated infl. on dudes like Timbaland and Pharrel, they were sticking with electro type beats all thru the boom bap era.

http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/490/491733.jpg

rofl.

jesus god this one is worse

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Platinumunderground.jpg

I pity Vanilla Ice.

I saw Chuck D. on a lecture tour in 1991, and someone in the audience asked him about about both these guys and he had nothing but positive things to say about either. Hammer he praised for his business sense, the size of his operation, how many people he was able to employ, which Chuck admired (guess we didn't know then that he was actually going bankrupt). He actually called Vanilla Ice the Elvis of rap or something, said he liked him because he brought more people to hip-hop, which was a good thing. So there you have it.

"ice ice baby" is a great pop song.

well, Hammer brought me to rap, but I don't think he's owed any retroactive props for that, because the group that got me SERIOUSLY into rap was N.W.A. (years later)

"Ice Ice Baby" is good despite the wack flow. Vanilla Ice is probably the must unlucky & pathetic man in the music business.

The only thing I can say to their defence is it is a myth that they were supposed to be so much worse than other rappers. They are all the same.

lol

hahahaha

A rap expert writes there.

Between the two of them, they left behind so many unintentional (and pathetic) comic gems, that you've got to cherish their legacy if only for that. Of course theres Hammer's gangsta turn, but Ice is surely the winner in this regard. Cool as Ice should be sought out and seen in its entirety, as it offers consistent comedic gold, but here's the infamous rampless fence-jumping scene. And, of course, there's his love rap and his first post-To The Extreme comeback attempt, when he wanted to be taken seriously as some sort of dreadlocked, pot-loving Das EFX disciple.

I always wanted to hear from whoever won MTV's Give Hammer A Hand contest, whose grand prize was getting to be Hammer's valet for a day.

"The Addams Family Groove" is better than "Addams Family (Whoomp!)".

I was checking the the latter song title and came across the track list for the Addams Family Values soundtrack:

"It's Your Thing", performed by H-Town – 3:59
"Be Thankful for What You Got", performed by Portrait – 4:37
"Express Yourself", performed by Roger and Fu-Schnickens – 5:31
"Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get", performed by RuPaul – 4:50
"Family Affair", performed by Shabba Ranks, Patra, with Terri & Monica – 4:29
"Night People", performed by Brian McKnight – 4:29
"Supernatural Thing", performed by Charles & Eddie – 4:35
"Do Your Thing (Love On)", performed by R. Kelly and Mad Cobra – 4:35
"Do It Any Way You Wanna (It's on You)", performed by Guru – 4:28
"May You Always Drink Bizarre", performed by P.M. Dawn – 3:23
"Addams Family (Whoomp!)", performed by Tag Team – 3:50

Harmless chart pop. What's the big deal?

"Ice Ice Baby" is good despite the wack flow. Vanilla Ice is probably the must unlucky & pathetic man in the music business.

-- Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, December 9, 2007 5:48 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

I think he still actually has his money though, unlike Hammer!

but it's true, he'll never escape the stigma of being Vanilla Ice

Had this been a "taking sides", Hammer was obviously way less pathetic than Vanilla. I mean Vanilla was this pathetically "cool" hip-hop-wigger type, while Hammer had sort of a novelty image, really.

Plus Hammer credited the ones he stole music from, unlike Vanilla.

but don't you see (as Anthony Miccio noted upthread) "their song goes dee-dee-dee diggy dee-dee. His goes DEE-dee-dee-dee diggy dee-dee. It's totally different!"

Play that Funky Wii!

^^ omglol at that mashup

Wii Sports > V-Ice

"Express Yourself", performed by Roger and Fu-Schnickens – 5:31

(!)

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.

"I seriously did win a motocross championship, dammit!"

i don't even think the rap is bad on ice ice baby. that song rules.

mc hammer was pretty great for awhile.

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?

I had more money than he did a few years ago!

i don't even think the rap is bad on ice ice baby. that song rules.

the problem is that when the beat drops out he loses the rhythm and rushes his lines