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I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

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Vanilla Ice
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: October 31
Actor
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Dallas
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Robert Matthew Van Winkle Rodriguez
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