Released in 1990 and heavily sampling the Queen-David Bowie collab “Under Pressure”, the single “Ice Ice Baby” proved to be a massive hit for rapper Vanilla Ice (a.k.a.
Rob Van Winkle). While the rapper shares writing credit on the song with Mario “Chocolate” Johnson, the latter is now claiming that Vanilla Ice’s contributions in creating the song were non-existent. “He lies so much… He’s a liar, bro,” says Johnson in an interview with “The Art of Dialogue” (his comments can be seen just after the 3:40 mark in the video above). READ MORE: Vanilla Ice Releases ‘Ice Ice Baby’ To Sell Samsung Fridges “He said he wrote ‘Ice Ice Baby’ at 16 — he didn’t write no parts of that song!” Johnson adds.However, Johnson’s role in the making of Vanilla Ice’s To the Extreme album has been murky due to an urban legend that he and Death Row Records founder Suge Knight hung the rapper upside down from a balcony until he agreed to give Johnson writing credit (all three have offered varying accounts of what actually happened).
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