What is the biggest misconception about Vanilla Ice?
Vanilla Ice: The biggest misconception was that I was a novelty act because I never was. I write my own music. I produce my own music. When I first came out, the impact was so huge that they crossed it over to the pop market. I didn’t even know what pop music was, man. I was a little 14-year-old breakdancer that made 40 bucks a day spinning on my head. I don’t know anything about it and I just saw money, and they paid me millions of dollars. I was on tour with The Stop the Violence Tour with Ice-T, Stetsasonic, EPMD and Sir-Mix-A-Lot and I didn’t know anything about pop music because at that time, hip-hop was not pop. So if you could bring it back to those days, radios just did not play hip-hop! So here I am like the guinea pig white boy thrown out there. And at the time, I think there was “New Kids With Snot” was on the charts, or some shit, right? LL Cool J had that slow rap song and Hammer, so we where all hitting that pop thing at the same time. You can see today how artificial it
