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I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?

Vanilla Ice

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Vanilla Ice
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: October 31
Actor
Film Actor
Rapper
Real Estate Entrepreneur
Record Producer
Singer
Songwriter
Dallas
Texas
Robert Matthew Van Winkle Rodriguez
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Hips
Turned
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Class
White
America

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