Vanilla Ice says he took rap mainstream, Broke down barriers

[Street Knowledge]

"Sampling barriers, I broke down, they made a spectacle out of it and it made it okay for Puff Daddy and everybody else to go make music. They figured it out. There was nobody before me that I could use as a guideline. took rap mainstream. I had the first Rap song that had ever been #1 on the Pop charts. The most-sold Rap record in the history of the world, and that’s extreme. 160 million. The fastest-selling [Hip Hop album] of all time, and it still stands today. I don’t think it will ever be broken at this point."

http://dopefuse.com/vanilla-ice-says-he-took-rap-mainstream-broke-barriers/

 

[Nomad1]

Now he is an irrelevant trash artist. Kids today think Vanilla ice is an ice cream flavour.

 

[PaperEnterprise]

Men Lie, Women Lie, Numbers Don't. GOAT with that logic.

 

[King Poetic]

And Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill Is greater than everything or anything he ever made.

fukk the records you sold
'cause if you go platinum, it's got nothing to do with luck
it just means that a million people are stupid as fukk

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

Uhhh...

Except 'Cant Touch This' which sampled Rick James 'Superfreak' came out like 3-4 months before this did and was a bigger record.

CAC trying to re-write history.

 

[JuvenileHell]

Ice I ce Baby

 

[No_bammer_weed]

hes got a point.....Him and hammer were the first true pop superstars of rap, and his money over substance and quality approach became the pulse of hip hop after the 90s

 

[Big Blue]

He's right

 

[Ziggiy]

Yea broke down barriers for Wack Cacs like Caclemore and Rhan Lewis to make a mockery of the culture and for Cacinem to be the most overrated MC on the PLANET

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

He's right

No he isnt.

 

[Miggs]

Hes the dumbest most cluless person ever to be in the music industry....i suppose his next claim is he was a pioneer in rapper starring in feature film as well....I will never take anything this fakkit says seriously on anything,hes a habitual liar and spin doctor when it comes to his career in music...

 

[Miggs]

Yea broke down barriers for Wack Cacs like Caclemore and Rhan Lewis to make a mockery of the culture and for Cacinem to be the most overrated MC on the PLANET

Eminem had actual talent...Vanilla Ice was a marketing parody...

 

[Ultimate Warrior]

***snorts 28seconds***
15million sold

After Ice sold all of those records, how many white rappers came close, it took 10yrs for another white rapper to come do it again.

Say what you want about the content, but he sold albums, more than the beasties, 3rd bass, house of pain and all the other woods

 

[Miggs]

***snorts 28seconds***
15million sold

After Ice sold all of those records, how many white rappers came close, it took 10yrs for another white rapper to come do it again.

Say what you want about the content, but he sold albums, more than the beasties, 3rd bass, house of pain and all the other woods

His album sales does not make him any kind of pioneer or revered individual in hip hop...Not one legend past or present would name drop him as an influence or innovator that inspired them to do it...

 

[NvrCMyNut]

It's 2013, we can stop hating Vanilla Ice now, there are plethora of wacker rappers.