I'd never heard about the Jim Carrey routine. Great story, thanks for the post OP!
I was in stitches watching that. So good. Never knew about it either! That would have gone so viral if social media was a thing back then. Absolutely classic.
The Mostly True Story of Vanilla Ice
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#42I was 10 when "Ice Ice Baby" came out, and thinking back to that time reminded me of an old memory I haven't recalled for a long time. One time someone played a cassette of To The Extreme from the beginning (I forget the setting; maybe I was hanging out with a friend from school), and I remember hearing an ascending sequence of tones (probably sine waves), each one an octave higher than the previous, before the first…
Whoa. This is fascinating.
Also, the existence of XDR was also fascinating to me.
Did vinyl ever have such a calibration equivalent?
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#43'The question of selling out is so obsolete that Travis Scott—who never met a beat, ad-lib, or nickname that he couldn’t steal—can do a nihilistically shameless cross-promotional deal with McDonald’s. And rather than catch flak for partnering with a soulless corporate behemoth, millions of teenagers treat his pseudo Happy Meal like the holy grail'.
Great article, Ice could have been the show bizzy Elvis of Hip Hop with his natural talent at the time but management totally screwed up his presentation, he reminded me of the Gary Glitter of rap at his heights...
Just goes to show how important presentation is in the music world...
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#44I read this and enjoyed it, especially the parallels for me as the music producer who found the first popular white girl rapper: "Kreayshawn" and produced her first few tracks ("Bumpin Bumpin", "Gucci Gucci", etc).. After working with lots of artists over the years I tend to just think of them as instruments in an overall track, and their stories and narrative of the timelines is unreliable at best. I would really ha…
Appreciate your perspective, and thanks so kindly for your post. As a classically trained vocalist, that perspective makes me feel you are not the kind of person who I would like to work with; or a person I could
When I produce my own music, I have the privilege of treating my own vocals as...somewhat 'just another instrument' is a blessing and a curse. I often end up doing anywhere from 30-50 takes for a verse, and 'Kubricking' myself like that is just part of my process that I have the luxury and privilege of going through because I live the studio I also produce other artists out of.
I can get much more into their stories and narratives by treating them as a little bit higher in focus than the rest of the track.
This is totally spoken out of personal experience and in total respect for what you do. Just saying that I really make a specific effort to treat vocalists as the real people they are since most of the other instruments in my track are often electronic.
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#45Sound like he was a bit oh a hacker!
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#46Vanilla put on a helluva show last summer at the PNE in Vancouver. He got about 50 girls from the crowd onstage to dance for Ice, Ice Baby. He's a very good showman. Can get the crowd laughing and having a good time
He came to South Africa a few years ago too, after doing an ad for a beer company here. I believe it was a big success.
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#47I read this and enjoyed it, especially the parallels for me as the music producer who found the first popular white girl rapper: "Kreayshawn" and produced her first few tracks ("Bumpin Bumpin", "Gucci Gucci", etc).. After working with lots of artists over the years I tend to just think of them as instruments in an overall track, and their stories and narrative of the timelines is unreliable at best. I would really ha…
Appreciate your perspective, and thanks so kindly for your post. As a classically trained vocalist, that perspective makes me feel you are not the kind of person who I would like to work with; or a person I could When I produce my own music, I have the privilege of treating my own vocals as...somewhat 'just another instrument' is a blessing and a curse. I often end up doing anywhere from 30-50 takes for a verse, and…
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
He has an interview with Joe Rogan that’s pretty interesting. You may enjoy it.
Link? Can't find any immediate search hits
I couldn't find this Joe Rogan podcast (don't think he ever recorded one) but this interview with Dan Patrick is pretty good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyIcu-mpWA0
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#49My brother-in-law, who has Down Syndrome, went to see him in Radio City Music Hall a couple of years ago. What? Vanilla Ice is performing in 2019? He gets no media exposure and scores no points with the critics by going out and performing his cheesy early hits for a few thousand fans, so at the time I assumed he needed the money. We dropped my brother-and-law off and next thing you know, there's a video on Facebook w…
"we dropped my brother-and-law off"
This made me want to read the rest of your comment ;)
Hope you meant __brother-in-law__ though
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#50Great guy. He played himself in That's My Boy (2012) together with Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg. One of the funniest movies I've seen. Vanilla Ice was working at a fast food counter. Here's a scene where he's introduced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-ea8diZ5M8