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The chilling drama behind ‘Ice Ice Baby,’ 30 years after its release
Dave Franco starring as the rapper.But there was a lot of drama behind “Ice Ice Baby” before it rode that bass line all the way to the top of the pop charts.It all started when Brown was DJing at a Dallas club called City Lights, where Vanilla Ice — who then was known as just Ice — would enter dance contests. Tommy Quon — the club owner and Vanilla Ice’s future manager — saw a budding star, and the search was on to find some material for him.“The first song that I did for Ice was ‘Play That Funky Music,’” Brown says.
