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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
Hips
Turned
Middle
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White
America
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I like Cleveland. I like the Cavaliers. Nothing wrong with Cleveland. I have lots of friends there.
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I'm a random guy. I shake a hand and make a friend. I don't do egotistical things.
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I just kind of shoot the finger to the critics. I don't give sh - what a critic says. To me a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions.
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All my friends were black and Mexican. I was the only white kid in our group and had to work hard to be accepted. Year after year, we'd breakdance and we all became close and they labeled me Vanilla - like Hey, Vanilla and they knew I hated it, so of course they kept calling me it.
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And all the zig-zags and lines in my hair? I used to do that myself. I just thought it was cool that you could actually do that with your hair.
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