Turns out it was Brown’s former collaborator, Mario “Chocolate” Johnson. Then there were questions about who actually wrote the lyrics. Vanilla Ice at the 1991 American Music Awards. They had to settle a deal on the publishing with Queen and David Bowie, who are all credited as co-writers of the song. Although “Ice Ice Baby” was originally the B-side to “Play That Funky Music,” it took on a life of its own.Īs the song took off, though, problems arose because they didn’t clear the “Under Pressure” sample at first. I said, ‘That’s my song!’”Įventually, Brown worked out a production deal with Quon, mended fences with Vanilla Ice and became his road DJ on tour with the likes of MC Hammer. “And then,” Brown says, “all of a sudden I heard it on the radio, with lyrics on it. Quon kept the tracks anyway, though, and one day Brown heard another DJ playing the beat of “Ice Ice Baby” at a club. But I wasn’t agreeing with that type of situation because when I’m working on something, I like to have finished product before I let anybody hear it … There were words exchanged between me and Ice, and I told Tommy that I wanted all my tracks erased.” He claimed he wanted to ride around and write to it.
“Ice comes into the studio, and he asked me to make a cassette tape of just the beat so he could ride around and listen to it. “I was adding some more elements to it,” he says. The most divine inspiration, however, came from sampling “Under Pressure” on “Ice Ice Baby.” But tensions between Brown and Vanilla Ice almost killed the magic before it had a chance to happen. “I just took that and then I put a black beat behind it.” Vanilla Ice, circa 1990.
“The first song that I did for Ice was ‘Play That Funky Music,’” Brown says. Tommy Quon - the club owner and Vanilla Ice’s future manager - saw a budding star, and the search was on to find some material for him. It all started when Brown was DJing at a Dallas club called City Lights, where Vanilla Ice - who then was known as just Ice - would enter dance contests. 22, 1990 - is the main reason there is a biopic, “To the Extreme,” being made about Vanilla Ice, with Dave Franco starring as the rapper.īut there was a lot of drama behind “Ice Ice Baby” before it rode that bass line all the way to the top of the pop charts.
“Ice Ice Baby” even landed the artist, born Robert Van Winkle, a movie-star vehicle - remember “Cool As Ice”? And the song - which debuted Aug. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and turned Vanilla Ice into a pop sensation who brought hip-hop from the streets to the suburbs. Thirty years after “Ice Ice Baby” was released, the song - co-written by Brown, who also served as its uncredited producer - is now a classic in its own right. “I just kept looping the eight bars and then I put a beat behind it … And when I let Ice hear it, he flipped out on it.” “That song caught my ear right off,” says Brown of the 1981 classic that he discovered while searching for samples to use on tracks for Ice. Singing Florida school cafeteria workers get surprise celebrity visitĪnd Floyd “DJ Earthquake” Brown is the man responsible for its sample, one of the most memorable in ’90s hip-hop: the bass line from Queen and David Bowie’s “Under Pressure,” which he used as the funky foundation of the Vanilla Ice smash “Ice Ice Baby.” Vanilla Ice drags Miranda Lambert live after fan's selfie embarrassmentīrooklyn rapper Lil Dee is ready to go viral after praise from hip-hop greats What does the cheapest Blue Ridge Rock Festival ticket cost?
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