Did you know...
Vanilla Ice's real name is Van Winkle. That's Robert Van Winkle to you, sir.
As a scrawny 13-year old, Van Winkle liked break dancing.
He was the only white boy on th' block with moves.
Thus, his African-American brethren dubbed him Vanilla Ice.
The name stuck.
At 16, Ice wrote his theme song. ("Ice Ice Baby" for you Mongol warriors in the back.) Yet it wasn't 'til he signed with Ichiban Records nine years later that the song released, it got airtime and Ice blew up like a sparkler in a Roman Candle factory.
Lessons in fame, fortune & selling out from the Ice man:
"[The Record Company] told me, we want you to wear these baggy pants because the young kids like it and it's all glittery and polished and everything, and I said, 'Fuck no, I'm not wearin' this gay-ass shit,' and they said, 'Well here's a million dollars, man, will you do it?' And I said, 'Fuck yes.'" -Robert Van Winkle
Well said, Ice. Well said.
Now go back to remedial third-grade English.
See Ice on Arsenio wearing a lunar module space suit here:
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