When he stops getting in front of cameras telling ppl he funded death row and the careers of Suge and Pac then i'll stop...
Vanilla Ice says he took rap mainstream, Broke down barriers
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When he stops getting in front of cameras telling ppl he funded death row and the careers of Suge and Pac then i'll stop...
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nikka u dont know what some of these legends would do,chuck d name dropped em and gave him props
in a old issue of vibe
some of the very rappers you nikkas hate on, ya favorite rappers love, if ya favorite is 30 and up 9 times out of 10 they were dancing and shyt to vanilla ice in the 80s n 90s at the their sockhops n school dances.
Majority of em can quote and hell even rap his song from the turtles movie. Just like nikkas clowned on hammer and he was the butt of all broke jokes, pac fukked with hammer big time, and alot of nikkas favorite corner back fukked with hammer big time
bet all 96coli cash i own that if you ask any of these legends u referring to mom's aunts or granny did their own run around singing n rapping vanilla ice songs along with hammer growing up bet money they did and a good amount would say they wanted to be like them growin up
we talking about a industry where everybody in it take that back 80% of em , if asked who did they grew up on or influenced them, you would get the same answer 80% of the time and the exact order 75% of the time. nikkas give the same cliche answers every single time.
industry always been monkey see monkey do, nardwuar the only interviewer than can catch alot of these cats off guard, because he goes beyond the cliche shyt
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Blondie - Rapture took rap mainstream if u wanna be technical about it
Not really....rap was still considered a disco like fad until the late-80s, when Public Enemy, Rakim, Krs-one, NWA, etc started establishing it as an artistic and cultural force to be reckoned with. Hammer and Ice were the first to blow the doors open to the pop world in a financially significant way. The blondie joint was just a novelty record for hipster NY'ers of the 80s
What i really wanna know, is how he went broke?
he should be set for life
he should be set for life
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Ice and Hammer broke is different than common folks broke
Hammer- he couldnt been too broke he still owned race horses and funding mtv movies and shyt and own a piece of the a's, then found god and made religous money
Ice- he had a habit, sold everything became involved with motorcrossing n jet ski racing, and got a kawasaki sponsorship in the process,got into real estate renovated houses and flipped em in the market.
they didnt get poor house broke, they still got long money
leo throwing up the roc way before Jiggaim just being technical.... the song Rapture was number 1 on the Billboard charts and she was rapping on the song. not good rapping but it was rapping
but i really think rap music went mainstream when Run Dmc - Walk This Way blew up.. that opened the doors for Beastie Boys and everybody after