Vanilla Ice

Vanilla Ice: To The Extreme (SBK Records)

Review by Push, Melody Maker, 15 December 1990

UNTIL he hit number one with 'Ice Ice Baby', Vanilla Ice's major claims to fame were going to school with 2 Live Crew and looking ...

Vanilla Ice: Licensed To Chill

Interview by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 15 December 1990

Having enjoyed Number One success on both sides of the Atlantic with 'Ice Ice Baby', VANILLA ICE, on the eve off the release of his ...

Hooked on Rap

Comment by David Toop, The Face, January 1991

David Toop on the rise of Hammer and Ice ...

Vanilla Ice: To The Extreme (SBK LP/Cassette/CD)

Review by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 12 January 1991

MENTION VANILLA Ice to most "serious" music fans, especially elitist connoisseurs of rap, and their reply will most likely be brief and unprintable. Have they ...

Vanilla Ice: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by 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 ...

Vanilla Ice: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, Melody Maker, 6 July 1991

WHAT IS IT that makes Vanilla Ice simultaneously a great among pop's icons and one of its classic punchlines? I suspect it's the Robert Van ...

Vanilla Ice: Extremely Live (SBK)

Review by Chuck Eddy, L.A. Weekly, 18 July 1991

FACE THE fact, Jack — Vanilla Ice got a bum rap. Give or take Cool J's 'Boomin' System', 'Ice Ice Baby' is as catchy and ...

How to get hip to rap

Guide by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 21 November 2003

EMINEM IS in trouble again, this time over lyrics he wrote a decade ago. The owners of the American hip-hop magazine The Source have outed ...

I Love the '90s: Wembley Arena, London

Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 3 October 2017

It may have been a carnival of naff nostalgia, but thousands of middle-aged ravers came to party like it was 1995. ...