Vanilla Ice made history when he earned the first No. 1 rap song on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Ice Ice Baby,” but there seems to be a misunderstanding between the people behind the song.
During a recent visit to The Art Of Dialogue, Mario “Chocolate” Johnson —- the person Suge Knight allegedly designated as co-writer of the song—- spoke about the record and how Vanilla Ice did absolutely nothing. According to Johnson, Ice lied so much he started to believe his lies as truth.
“Every song I did on that album, he credited himself,” Johnson revealed. “He said he wrote ‘Ice Ice Baby’ at 16. He didn’t write no parts of that song, and he really believed it. So imagine that.”
He added, “People think that we had a problem with ‘Ice Ice Baby.’ We didn’t. ‘Ice Ice Baby’ was already in the can, paperwork done. We had a problem that when the record came out, I was sent to Texas to work with him on the album. I did nine songs, and he was supposed to pick five that I was getting paid for, but he ended up putting all nine on the album.”
Johnson went on to explain Suge Knight never hung Vanilla Ice from a balcony and that fans made that an urban legend. A biopic about Vanilla Ice titled To The Extreme is currently being developed with actor David Franco in the starring role.
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There hasn’t been much word on the film since Franco spoke about it during an interview with Insider in 2020. At the time, Franco said the film was “inching closer and closer to preproduction.”
All I can say is this dude looks like he spent the last 30 years using that “Ice Ice Baby” money on dope.
Fans didn’t make it an urban legend, Vanilla Ice did. Suge even said that never happened. They just pressed his as, and he gave Chocolate the money he owed him.
Lol, wtf is asking for a Vanilla Ice movie?
Everyone is always arguing aboit credit 25+ years after a record comes out..put… well guess what? You had a price you were willing to sell your soul and creativity for. Your loss for not taking the credit instead of that stack of cash. The credit is worth more than the money long term. Look at Dr Dre. Been paying people off his whole career. Hit man produced half of 2001. Daz did a lot of the chronic. Scott storch always made sure he got credits.
that one touchdown I scored in highschool ass naqqa. FOH
I don’t think this fool had any part in writing the record at all…Suge just took advantage and used him to extort Ice.