Vanilla Ice Lets Fans Decide Where His Rap Legacy Ranks in Hip Hop

Vanilla Ice isn't inserting himself in any hip hop convos or debates like some rappers -- he's giving fans free reign to make the decision for him!!!

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00:00So I was listening to Ice House Baby the other day and I was like, man, this seems like it

00:06could be a hit today almost as well.

00:08What sort of impact do you think you've had on the entire genre of hip hop?

00:13Oh my God, I've never been asked that question.

00:15I don't know, man.

00:16I just, you know, the song took on a life of its own and it's, uh, it's an anthem for

00:20the nineties and every time I hear it, I even, you know, it never gets old.

00:24So I just instantly want to go back to the nineties, you know, give me my blockbuster

00:28video again, give me, give me, you know, Beavis and Butthead again and, and let's go

00:32back to the, you know, before computers were in the world, let's, you know, and that's,

00:36that's kind of the last of the great decades, the nineties and that's it, you know, computers

00:41with the smartphones and everything.

00:43I'll even take my flip phone and I'll just, you know.

00:46Your old soul.

00:47Oh, but you gotta be, man.

00:48Look at the world today.

00:49I mean, even the people that weren't born in the nineties, they know how great it was,

00:54you know, they want to go back and relive it.

00:56So do you think you did have an impact in some way on the industry and leave it up for

01:01my fans?

01:02I leave it up for you guys to decide that.

01:03I don't have an ego.

01:04I lost it a long time ago.

01:05I just have fun with life, man.

01:06And Ice Ice Baby gets you dancing and, you know, I think you're a lot happier when you're

01:12dancing.

01:13Where's the last question?

01:14I'll leave you alone.

01:15Where's the strangest place you've heard that song come on?

01:17It comes on everywhere.

01:18Oh man, I mean, I've been at a place in Turkey, Rixos Resort in Antalya, Turkey, and of all

01:24places, they're jamming out to it and it's a Russian resort in Turkey.

01:28And I'm like, man, and nobody speaks English and I'm running around on segways and I'm

01:32like, everybody's Ice Ice Baby.

01:33I'm like, what?

01:34Do they recognize you?

01:35How do you guys even know me?

01:36That's amazing.

01:37It's a world phenomenon, man.

01:38I'm just riding the wave, enjoying it, you know.