Comments: 46

• Greg K from Walnut Creek CaPersonally, the riff is ripping. At least Ice is an entertainer. Queen's "Under Pressure" is needlessly esoteric and tedious listening. Ice is just goofy fun. Queen and Bowie should be grateful to Ice for giving their "work" some exposure. Without the riff Queen isn't worth listening to, while Ice remains sophomoric good fun. Rap has become mysogonistic, violent and ugly. In the beginning it was just goofy stuff. There hasn't been a note which hasn't been played before, but Miles or Coltrane could lift your spirit with the same few notes that rap choads will bore you to death with...after they're done insulting you.
• Ben from GroningenI love this song. I don't like Under Pressure. Never been a Bowie. I do like Queen though.
• Curtis from Waco KySo I'm guessing some of you prefer the shyt mumbled rap of today. I much prefer the rap of the 80s and 90s.
• Jd from Rochester NyTo all the haters...It's a 3 chord rock n roll world out there. Do know how many songs songs I can play upside down and sideways with the same chords, progression and beat? 100's. How many times have you heard a song start and think it's something and then it's something else. Buy the way, He's not broke and is doing fine. Seems like a good guy.
• John from Binghamton, NyIT is kind of funny to see how many people either weren't even alive back then, or don't remember the deal about the song. First off, Vanilla Ice was joking when he said it was different. He said that in an interview after the settlement. Second... HE didn't do anything. IT was his record label that should have mentioned Queen and David Bowie. A singer doesn't write his own album notes... And why do people get so annoyed at THIS, when it always was (and especially still is, done all the time? Despite the sampling Under Pressure, it was an entirely different song. And Nathan... a song is considered to have debuted when it is released as a single, not when its album was released. The album may be an 80s album, but the song is a 90s song.
• Erika from West Band, WiI like Glee's versoin better. You all should check it out on YouTube if you haven't seen it. It's worth it. Trust me. :)
• Neal from Hooterville, MiThis song is a shameless ripoff of Bowie and Queen. Vanilla Ice ruined his reputation with this song! At least, when Grandmaster Flash sampled Queen, he gave credit where credit was due!
• Kenny from Remsenburg, NyHe also released it on a hardcore album with a re-make of Ice Ice Baby in the 1998.
• Garrett from Pittsburgh, PaUmmm... Avery from Bucksport... You say you like the "rappers" MC Hammer, whos barely a rapper he is a pop artist and how can you call your self a Pac fan if you can't even spell his name... It's O.K. you probably live in a fenced plan on the eastside.
• Mike from Santa Barbara, CaVanilla Ice's publicists should have kept him away from the camera without a script. He talked himself into being a monumental joke and his career never recovered.
• Marc from Bakerton, PaSee there's goes ding ding da da ding ding, ours goes ding ding da da ding ding ding, it's not the same
• Robert from Zanesville, OhAs if that weren't enough,
  check out
  Former Fat Boys-
  Ice Ice Baby (Ben Folds Remix)
  2005, I think
  Genius!
  
• Michaela from Usa, NyIf only there were more rap songs like this!
• Avery from Bucksport, MeI not into Rap but i Like this song I have no clu what its about but their are only 4 rappers i like, Markymark,MC hammer,Vanilla Ice and tupac Shukor!! Old Skool...Word to yo muthas!!
• Joe from Chicago, IlThis is the first C.D. single not to have a 45 counterpart.
• Mikala from Sacramento, CaWHHOOOO this song is kool!
• Nora from Small Town , Flhmmm, funny how he had just the one hit...now days he can be found with a guitar...playing metal !!!!! what a weirdo. some people will do anything to grasp onto hollywood, sad really they never can really let it go....he and a buch of others form the "one hit wonders" or "15 minutes of fame" kinda thing wind up on reality tv....sad for as popular as they once were.
• Mark from Byrdstown, Tnthe thing I always hated about Robb Van Winkle is that he made millions of dollars as Vanilla Ice but then when he wasnt selling any more CDs he acted like the whole thing was stupid and that that wasnt what he was about and he hated all of that stuff.Then he tried to go all gangsta and ended up the big joke that he is today.He sure wasnt hating being Ice when the money and pu**y was rolling in ,Im sure.
• Margaret from Buellton, CaThe sampling of the Queen/Bowie bass line annoyed and upset many people when this was released. On the tv show "Saturday Night Live", on the episode in which Vanilla Ice was the featured musical perfomer, Dennis Miller made the gutsy move of playing the first verse of the original Queen/Bowie song at the opening of his "Weekend Update" segment and saying, "God, I love Bowie." The audience cheered like crazy.
• Sally from South Orange, NjFunny, I always thought David Bowie was the one who held Vanilla Ice out of the window by his ankles...
• Brian from Mountlake Terrace, Waactualy becouse he sampled "under pressure"and all the publicity it made there's popular again and there not complaining they settled out of court with him.what are you guys making a big deal about.if I had written a song and it was already a hit and years later i'm missing a few zeros at the end royalty check.go ahead and steal my base line and pay me $500,000 dollars I'll gladly accept
• Joe from Bellingham, WaF*ck vanilla ice and his damn note changing! I mean, damn dude! couldn't he have just given a little props to Queen!? Ice is a terrible rapper. ice ice baby isn't even a good song. #1? how the hell did that happen! if this guy isn't hosing down public bathrooms and begging for cigarets in a bus station within the next ten years, then there is seriously something wrong...
• Luke from Manchester, EnglandCheck out the mash up of this and bon Jovi's Livin' On A Prayer
• Erik from Bloomfield Hills, MiI don't have a problem with him using the riff from David Bowie and Queen, I just think its messed up that he didn't even have the decency to so much as acknowledge them on the album, after all the riff he used was half the song. If he didn't have such a snotty and an I'm-too-hip-to-give-credit-to-anyone attitude, he would have lasted longer. He dug his own grave.
• Obzcure from Auckland, New ZealandI'll be the first to say its messed up that he stole the bass riff from under pressure. but why.. no really WHY does it effect you? are you david bowie? are you the remaining members of queen? are you even their close friends and family? no. so take this sogn for what its worth. it opened doors for a genre you may not appreciate but millions do. and i give him all the respect in the world for that. I'm not a huge fan of rap. especially stuff today. but like i said, its making millions of people happy. Whats wrong with that? Vanilla ice is still rocking shows. people still go them then and its worth every cent to them, they have a good time. who are you to disagree with what this man does. It was settled a long time ago. let it go. v-ice, bowie and queen all have. i fail to understand how people who have never met them in their life still have the right to bitch and moan about this.
• Joshua from Twin Cities, MnOne day in 1992 when I was still in college, the campus radio station played "Under Pressure" and afterward the DJ said "That was Queen and David Bowie with 'Under Pressure' - whatever happened to Vanilla Ice, anyway?" I laughed my @$$ off at that comment (this was just two years after "Ice Ice Baby" and already VI was a has-been) and still get a chuckle out of it each time I hear "Under Pressure" and am reminded of that moment.
• Brandon from Peoria, IlI hate this song. The only noteworthy Vanilla Ice performance was in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze" where he sang "Go ninja Go ninja go..." That was actually pretty cool.
• Caitlin from Upper Township, Njat a school dance, we had a dance off contest to this song. it was boys vs. girls. Girls won, but it would have been more enjoyable had it been to another song.
• Nathan from Defiance, OhIf he was lying about being a gangsta, does that mean he can't wax a chump like a candle? Say it ain't so Ice!
• Brian from London, CanadaVanilla Ice is a criminal. Making him more "gangsta" then half the wannabes out there. Still Queen and David Bowie are some of the greatest song writers of the 20th century. Ch-ch-ch-changes!
• Nathan from L-burg, KyBesides this song being released as a single in 1990 it is technically an '80s song (the album the song was originally released on came out in 1989)
• Kori from Presque Isle, MeOnce again rap has to step in and ruin a good song. I like rap.... it's great. So I should rephrase that... once again, Vanilla Ice steps in and ruins a good song. The sad thing is, most kids recognize that little tune from Ice Ice Baby, not Under Pressure, when Queen is clearly the more talented performer here.
• Sarah Floyd from Bloomingdale, Ili like this song because there is a cute guy singing in the song. and i know who sings it. i dont know his original name but i know his nick name which is vanilla ice! cool huh!
• Jackh from Spokane, WaThey didnt have icecubes so i brought vanilla ice.
• Eric from Cincinnati, OhIn fact, a lawsuit was filed. Vanilla Ice claimed the opening riff was written by himself, Earthquake, and Mr. Smooth. Bowie and Queen disagreed and filed suit. It was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.
• Matt from Millbrae, CaI love that interview circling around with Vanilla Ice saying "there's a little bitty change...it's not the same". And now he's hanging out with porn stars and pissing off Gary Coleman.
• Jared from North Bend, Waok. if hes going to write a song, write a good one and write your own music! he shames queen by using this with his crappy lyrics
• James from Bridgeport, CtUnder Pressure is most excellent and Queen is one of the greatest bands ever.
  Vanilla Ice can never even begin to compare with their true talent and creativity.
• Michael from Reseda, CaIm cooking mcs like a pound of bacon. Wow inventive.
• Eroc from Anniston, AlOh my gosh!!! The Flames of this are amazing!!!
  This song was written was when Rob was a teenager. Better lyrics than probably any of you could come up with. I do not know a single person that does not know the words to this song. More people know the words to this than they do JOHN 3:16. This album sold around 18 million songs. To this day Vanilla Ice still puts out music and has a huge following. www.vanillaiceundergound.com in addition to www.VanillaIce.com . Rob became a product of the mainstream media and MTV at his debut and was something and a way musically he did not wanna go. Just because his music is not mainstream, does that make him a one hit wonder? Mainstream and top 40 only. Otherwise no. Check out his newer music. His style has changed. You may like it.
  ON A MAIN NOTE: Hip Hop started in the 70s and early 80s. The music was started and solely based on sampling of other music. Every rapper to this day samples music. This does not make it wrong. Look at it like this: you see an ad of a guy wearing a pair of awesome DIESEL JEANS. He is wearing a ZOOYORK shirt and some KENNETH COLE SHOES. You go buy the same jeans...instead you have your own way of wearing the clothes and add a VonDutch t-shirt and some Doc Martens. That is your approach. But you cut the knees out of those same jeans to make your jeans a little different from the original....ya get it???
  Stupid analogy i know, but how much more stupid is it for you to come post and flame a song you dont like...why waste your time!!
• Tom from Melbourne, AustraliaI'm 15 and I've been looking for somewhere to write up my thoughts on MODERN DAY MUSIC and I thought this site would be the perfect place. If you can't be arsed listening to some guy winging about the good old days (when he wasn't even living in them)then stop reading NOW!
  I'd just like to say that I HATE this song, the only reason for this being that they stole the tune from Queen's "Under Pressure". I know you're thinking "get over it" but I tell you what, I can't even listen to this song any more. I went to a disco the other night where they played this song and I just sat in another room complaining to the guy running the canteen. Needless to say he got sick of it after a while.
  I'll shut up soon, but to add one more thing, I hear year 9s walking around the place humming the bass tune to "Ice Ice Baby", and they don't even know where it came from. God it infuriates me.
• The Jorge from Hell, OtherWhen his credibility was questioned V-Ice had this serious message to say "I'm real to the tee, to the extreme, and this is the V, the Vanilla Ice posse" It was incredi-corny.
• Luke from Manchester, EnglandVanilla Ice also featured on the Bloodhound Gang song 'Boom!', taken from the album 'One Fierce Beer Coaster'
• Phil from Rochester, NyActually, Ice was a two-hit wonder. "Play that Funky Music" was also a hit, though not as big. Of course, he borrowed liberally from "Play That Funky Music, White Boy" by Wild Cherry (1975, I think).
• Virna from Santo Domingo, OtherThat is totally true! no wonder he became a 1 hit wonder cuz he couldn't find another song to rip off!!!
• Krie from Ft. Drum, NyThis song is infamous for Vanilla Ice not giving songwriting props to David Bowie and Queen. He claims it's totally different because of one rhythm change and an added note. Wow, what a HUGE difference that is...[sarcasm]

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