Former Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight is currently incarcerated, so perhaps Vanilla Ice is feeling somewhat emboldened. During a recent interview with The Art of Dialogue, Mario “Chocolate” Johnson, who has co-writing credits for the Vanilla Ice Billboard Hot 100 smash “Ice Ice Baby,” claimed he had nothing to do with the writing of the song.
Clearly bothered by Johnson’s comment, Vanilla Ice fired back via Twitter on Wednesday (June 8), shortly after an article was published on TMZ. He wrote, “Suge Knight garbage. Now put your fanny pack on and dancin shoes and let’s kick it @TMZ.”
“Ice Ice Baby” was released in 1990 and became the first rap song to land at No. 1 on the Hot 100. Outside of the United States, “Ice Ice Baby” topped the charts in Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland and United Kingdom,
Centered around the bassline of “Under Pressure” by Queen and David Bowie, who didn’t receive songwriting credit or royalties until after it blew up. As for Johnson, he claims he wrote multiple songs for Vanilla Ice’s debut album To The Extreme.
“Every song I did on that album, he credited himself,” Johnson said. “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. People think that we had a problem with ‘Ice Ice Baby.’ We didn’t. ‘Ice Ice Baby’ was already in the can, paperwork done.
'Ice Ice Baby' Co-Writer Calls Vanilla Ice A Liar
“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.”
Suge is garbage. Nothing wrong with that statement.
Ice Ice Baby holds up. Run it down right now. Shit slaps.
Suge done him wrong and alot of other people so he got every right to say what he said.
All these random old men coming out the woodwork with tall tales, grasping for significance. This dude should write a next hit if true. Good luck.
vanilla ice lied about his orgins said he was from the hood in miami and yall ate him up. what makes you think he aint lying
If Vanilla Ice wrote Ice Ice Baby by himself he would have had a long career as an entertainer and rapper instead of being a one hit wonder. But I guess his attitude got in the way. Maybe he had a bit of an idea about a hook or a rhyme then chocolate did the rest. instead of understanding how important good collaborators are vanilla got greedy and never had another hit. Ice Ice Baby was a fun song and Vanilla Ice did a great performance with the dancing and rhymes. let it be a fun thing that happened back in the day I guess
I don’t think what you said is necessarily true. One hit wonders in the day were soooo common. Far more common than people who stayed relevant. Nowadays it’s different because nobody has to buy an album for it to be popular. We’ve likely all clicked a Lil Nas X song at least once, right? But how many of us would have bought his album if there was no digital like back then? Lil Nas X would be a one hit wonder, but due to the digital world, he’s lasted more than that. Because when people don’t have to buy your music to hear it, you can stay relevant much easier.
your reply makes no sense. it assumes Vanilla Ice has a catalogue full of Ice Ice Baby type tracks people have ignored for whatever reason. He does not. I actually watched the movie Cool as Ice and heard the soundtrack. Both were terrible. Looking back it may be Vanilla Ice had a little too much Jake Paul in him not enough Eminem.
Ninjas white and black always talk stuff when Suge is locked up, but when Suge was younger, healthier and free Ninjas was scared to breath too loud. Legend has it that Suge hung this MF upside down over a balcony in Vegas, not certain if it is true or not, but this dude was silent like a lil’ batch. Having said that I don’t even like Suge so I ain’t no Stan.
Ive posted this elsewhere, but never heard anyone notice it…
I guarantee Vanilla Ice did not write Ice Ice Baby. There is a line “Gunshots ranged out like a bell”. If you were reading the word ranged you would read it as Vanilla Ice raps it as a past tense of the word range. The context of the line though is that it should be a past tense of the word rang and should be rapped to rhyme with the word banged. He clearly raps it as sounding like the word range or strange which means he doesn’t even understand what he is rapping.
Great point.
Ive posted this elsewhere, but never heard anyone notice it…
I guarantee Vanilla Ice did not write Ice Ice Baby. There is a line “Gunshots ranged out like a bell”. If you were reading the word ranged you would read it as Vanilla Ice raps it as a past tense of the word range. The context of the line though is that it should be a past tense of the word rang and should be rapped to rhyme with the word banged. He clearly raps it as sounding like the word range or strange which means he doesn’t even understand what he is rapping.
Lol. “Ranged” isn’t even a word and nobody heard that. It’s clearly “rang out”. You need to get some Hooked On Phonics. 🤡