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Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.

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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Even in a bad market, location, location, location is a way to still buy and sell property.
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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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If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
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It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.
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I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.
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I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!
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I don't know all the certain words to word it.
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More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.
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What makes critics dictate what is cool and what is not. What gives them the pass to say that their opinion on music or movies or anything is what should be cool and what shouldn't. I don't think it should be up to one person.
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I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.
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I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine.
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Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.
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When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit!
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My main thing is music it's what I do.
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If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate.
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To the extreme I rock a mike like a vandal.
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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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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. Ice Ice Baby is about that area.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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I don't have any reason to hate anybody I believe in good karma and spreading good energy.
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