Suge Knight had his fingers in the Ice Ice Baby pot, although it’s not entirely clear how. 7 | Why did the song make Suge Knight want to kill him? But I couldn’t find my Uber-niche Early ’90s White Rapper Slang-to-English dictionary as I was writing, so I can’t answer this one. They’re jealous of Vanilla Ice, we know that. They have enough money to drive Lamborghinis, we know that. I searched and searched but couldn’t find a definitive answer. I’m going to guess manager of a Jamba Juice. I searched quite a bit but couldn’t find any info on what D-Shay is up to today. But the shoutouts still remained, keeping D-Shay eternally relevant. Everyone sided with Earthquake, including Vanilla Ice, so D-Shay stopped working with them. 5 | What ever happened to D-Shay?Īpparently right before Ice Ice Baby hit big, another one of Vanilla Ice’s DJ friends (and the song’s co-writer) named Earthquake got into a physical fight with D-Shay. You can always tell just how big a Vanilla Ice fan someone was by whether they still remember when to switch from “DJ revolves it” to “D-Shay revolves it” when rapping along. D-Shay gets several - almost too many - shoutouts during the song (“Shay with the gauge” / “Shay plays on the fade”) but this one stands out because you’re expecting him to say “DJ” like he does in the previous verses. That’s a reference to D-Shay, one of his friends and DJs early in his career. 4 | Why does he say “D-Shay” instead of “DJ” in the lyric “check out the hook while D-Shay revolves it”? Or at least asking yes or no questions and then waiting to see how that little blue triangle inside of their eight balls responded. Maybe we thought the chumps were playing pool. “Shay with a gauge and Vanilla with a nine / ready for the chumps on the wall / the chumps acting ill because they’re full of eight balls” meant absolutely nothing to us. 3 | Did kids (or their parents) notice Vanilla Ice was rapping about guns and cocaine?Īs someone who knew every word to this song at age 11, I feel comfortable speaking on behalf of kids and saying… no, we had no idea we were rapping along and making references to guns and cocaine. You mean besides daily and nightly? This is one of those “jibberish” lyrics I was talking about. Your beloved David Bowie has his name on Ice Ice Baby. Vanilla settled, and now Mercury and Bowie get songwriting credits on Ice Ice Baby. It never went to court - probably for the best, since having all three of those guys in court would’ve been some kind of amazing weirdness vortex that might’ve consumed us all. He even sings little bits of both songs to prove it - but what he sings for each one sounds identical to the other.Įventually Freddie Mercury and David Bowie sued Vanilla Ice. There’s a great interview - that, inexplicably, isn’t on YouTube or anywhere else online - where Vanilla tries to explain the songs are different because he added a note. Word to both of your parents… 1 | Did he steal the melody from “Under Pressure”?Ībsolutely. Here are 11 answers to deep questions about Vanilla Ice’s legendary Ice Ice Baby. That experience sent me down an Ice Ice Baby rabbit hole… which brings us to this. For some reason, this time, I actually found myself listening to the lyrics - and realizing what I was saying. In the past 21 years, as Ice Ice Baby plays, everyone always raps along. My first concert was actually seeing Vanilla Ice in Cleveland. I owned Vanilla Ice’s To the Extreme album. It came out when I was in sixth grade - so right as I was forming my first musical opinions. It’s sort of embarrassing to admit this, but that was once the big song in my life. On Sunday, I was at a bar that played Ice Ice Baby. A deep dive into the lyrics, nuances and backstory of one of the most iconic ’90s songs.
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