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Vanilla Ice - Why The Hate?

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I'm not gonna lie, when "Ice, Ice Baby" came about I thought it was pretty tight, lol, the beat was pretty dope & the lyrics, even though he didn't pen them alone, were still pretty good. I never bought the single or his album but none the less I still liked the song. But why do peeps still hate on him? I was watching his Behind The Music the other day on VH1 & that boy has been through some shit in his time, especially after the whole rap thing blew up in his face. He tried commiting suicide due to the backlash & he's been looked at as a joke ever since, even to this very day in many peoples eyes.
Even though Eminem was obviously not inspired by him, Ice was still the first real solo white rapper to really blow up. Maybe it's the hair/dancing/costumes that people still hate about him, maybe it was the fact that he over-acted on the whole 'wanting to be black' thing, I dunno. He knows he sold out though, maybe thats where the backlash started, because he used to have all black crowds before he become big & he never used to dress in those gay costumes. He even said back then it was all about the money. The one thing that made him sound like a dick is back a few years ago when he said Suge held him over that balcony, but then a few years later he denied it when they even had it on tape as evidence!
I think another thing people didn't like about him was the fact he lied (or as he said his record company lied) about his background. They said something about him being gang affiliated, & he wasn't, lol.
I don't think any of that was bad enough for the backlash he's had to live with though, all the hate that he still gets from the press & people in general. No matter what he does now he's still gonna be known as Vanilla Ice, that white boy who tried to rap, the joke etc.
What does everyone else think about him though? Him as an MC? I don't think he was that bad of an MC considering, I mean he was just as good (or as bad, however you wanna look at it) as some of the shitty rappers that were around at that time.

Matty_C:
Obviosuly the whole Ice Ice Baby saga was selling out and a mistake, but everyone makes mistakes. He's been through alot of shit and i dont personally think hes that bad an MC, he's also alot into that rap/rock stuff and i think his stuff is pretty good, his newest cd had a few decent cuts on it.

He doesnt deserve all the hate he gets, but he will always get it, just because he's Vanilla Ice, back when i was into that shit, i loved his Hard Rock/Rap cd Hard To Swallow, but yeah, i got no problem with Vanilla Ice, takes alot of determination to push through all the hate he gets and still make music, and pretty decent music too.

West Coast Veteran:
I liked the song but I hated Vanilla Ice because I was an MC Hammer fan when I was a kid. The shit back then was you either pick one of them at my school so it was like a horrible parody of a Pac VS. B.I.G./Nas VS. Jay feud. I always looked at Vanilla as a cheap Hammer clone since then.

KVB:
That "Ice Ice Baby" track is wack as fuck IMO... I can't really speak on Vanilla Ice, but I heard A LOT of hiphop fans + other rappers disrespect him in songs/interviews, so I guess he wasn't respected in the hip-hop community... I personally don't care about him.

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S.G.V.:
on the real i have a copy of the vanilla ice cd....personally i liked vanilla...i still like him....i liked hammer....i still like hammer too....his new album was good...hell even vanillas rock cd was good.....LONG LIVE VANILLA ICE!!!!!!.....(hes the true ice, thats why he whooped ice-t and ice cube on celebrity deathmatch...lol)

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