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Vanilla Ice: Wembley Arena, London

Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 25 June 1991

THE TOUTS on Empire Way were peevish. Entire blocks of seats for Vanilla Ice's London debut were still empty and no one was buying. Much of the arena eventually filled, but it was a pretty feeble showing for a rapper whose hobby is cookin' other MCs like a pound of bacon.

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