Gathering Of The Juggalos Turns 10
Time to stock up on Faygo and clown make-up. Joining Insane Clown Posse in southern Illinois next month are 50 bands that look and sound like Insane Clown Posse, plus Vanilla Ice, and the comedy...
View ArticleVanilla Ice, Salt-N-Pepa, Naughty By Nature Headline ’90s Rap Cruise
You know what's even more amusing than has-been package concert tours? Has-been package concert cruises! One of the former entities, the I Love the '90s Tour, has arranged one of the latter, a new...
View ArticleVanilla Ice Claims He Bought “Under Pressure” From Queen
Vanilla Ice got famous on the back of the monstrously huge 1990 single "Ice Ice Baby," a song that was recorded when you could still get away with releasing rap songs with uncleared samples. "Ice Ice...
View ArticleVanilla Ice Was On That Quarantined Emirates Air Flight Today
Vanilla Ice got caught in a jam on Wednesday morning (9/5) on an Emirates Air flight returning from an event in Dubai. The rapper tweeted, "This is crazy. Apparently there are over 100 people sick on...
View ArticleWe’ve Got A File On You: Insane Clown Posse
We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera,...
View ArticleACL May Be Cancelled But Austin Is Still Getting A Vanilla Ice Concert On Friday
UPDATE: Vanilla Ice has cancelled the gig. // Austin City Limits is cancelled and Austin city bars are once again closed due to a spike in COVID-19 cases, but at least Austin is still getting a Vanilla...
View ArticleVanilla Ice Cancels Austin Show Over Coronavirus Concerns
Turns out Vanilla Ice decided to stop, collaborate, and listen after all. More »
View ArticleDave Franco Is Playing Vanilla Ice In A New Biopic
Dave Franco is playing Vanilla Ice in an upcoming biopic. The actor revealed the news in a new profile with Insider, saying that the movie will be a bit like his brother James Franco's Tommy Wiseau...
View ArticleFile Those Funky Tax Forms, White Boy
He brought hip hip to mainstream America, and now he’s breaking off his considerable tax code knowledge. Vanilla Ice and TurboTax.com bring you the best wtf contest of the day, “providing fun-loving...
View ArticleIced Iced Coffee
Add coffee to Vanilla Ice’s Surreal milking of his 15 minutes. Dunkin’ Donuts is launching a campaign to raise awareness about its iced coffee (did you get your free one yesterday?), and part of its...
View ArticleIn Honor Of Tax Day
The IRS was good give us a little extra time this year, which really meant we had a little extra time to procrastinate. Get ‘em filed? Well, a couple of months ago we told you about Vanilla Ice’s...
View ArticleWhat Time Is The Best Time For An “Ice Ice Baby” Impression?
">The answer is No Time. No Time is the Best Time for an “Ice Ice Baby” impression. But of all the No Times, the especially worst time is when you are a news anchor reporting on Vanilla Ice’s arrest...
View ArticleOldStand: Rolling Stone, April 18, 1991
Take our ink-stained hands and join us at the OldStand, where Jon McMillan goes to remind everyone what an honest-to-goodness music magazine is supposed to look like. We’ve suffered through some...
View ArticleGathering Of The Juggalos Turns 10
Time to stock up on Faygo and clown make-up. Joining Insane Clown Posse in southern Illinois next month are 50 bands that look and sound like Insane Clown Posse, plus Vanilla Ice, and the comedy...
View ArticleThe Number Ones: Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby”
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
View Article“Vanilla Ice Goes Indie Rock”
The man born Robert Van Winkle has already been through so many different career reinventions since his initial wave of pompadours-and-Hammerpants popularity faded. There was the gangsta weedhead...
View ArticleVanilla Ice Arrested For Stealing Furniture
Vanilla Ice aka Robert Van Winkle has been hanging out in the periphery of "the spotlight" for years now, despite the fact that he's been almost painfully irrelevant in the realm of popular culture...
View Article“Self Destruction” Rappers Will Reunite And Perform With Vanilla Ice At BET’s...
"Self Destruction" was a 1989 posse cut one-off that did what it could to curb gang violence in the black community. At the time, the song felt historic, since heavyweights like Public Enemy, Boogie...
View ArticleThe Week In Pop: From The Earliest MP3 To The Latest Britney Spears, A Pop...
"Tom's Diner" is one of those songs you know even if you don't realize it. Suzanne Vega's signature song -- written about the same NYC diner they used for exterior shots in Seinfeld -- has been...
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