{"id":30509,"date":"2017-09-30T18:23:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T17:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=30509"},"modified":"2017-09-30T18:48:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T17:48:25","slug":"yesterday-is-history-tomorrow-is-a-mystery-we-speak-to-vanilla-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2017\/09\/yesterday-is-history-tomorrow-is-a-mystery-we-speak-to-vanilla-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday Is History Tomorrow Is A Mystery – We Speak To Vanilla Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vanilla Ice – Photo Credit Lisa Hafey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first hip hop artist to top the Billboard charts, with his 1990 single, ‘Ice Ice Baby’, Vanilla Ice, real name Robert Van Winkle, is credited with helping to diversify hip hop, and introduce it to a more mainstream audience. Lisa had the chance to speak to Vanilla Ice ahead of the first date of the I Love The 90s Tour in the UK, at SSE Arena Wembley.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

EP:\u00a0 Hello Rob!<\/strong><\/p>\n

VI: I was stretching! Stretching while I’m flashing…<\/p>\n

EP: Now I was going to say, my first question was, you might not remember, but I’ve met you before, in Chatham in 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n

VI: Peter Pan! Captain Hook!<\/p>\n

EP: That’s right! And there were all these Jedward girls who were hanging out at the stage door every night and I came along once and gave you a kiss (deep sigh)!<\/strong><\/p>\n

VI: YESS!<\/p>\n

EP: Anyway…<\/strong><\/p>\n

VI: And you’ve never washed it off!<\/p>\n

EP: Well I got home and I told my husband, “I kissed Vanilla Ice” and he said “you’re allowed to kiss him!”<\/strong> [VI: Alright!] I’m not allowed to kiss John and Edward…<\/strong><\/p>\n

VI: He gave you a pass!<\/p>\n

EP: So anyway, at the end of this I’m going to ask for some updated selfies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So you’re in the UK at the moment for the ‘I Love The 90s’ Tour, which starts tonight here at Wembley, and I’ve never been here before, what are you looking forward to most of all tonight, and the tour? Apart from talking to me, that’s probably the most important thing!<\/strong><\/p>\n

VI: You really want to know what I’m looking forward to? I’m looking forward to being the oldest teenager in town, enjoying life, and dancing! You know? It keeps you young, it makes you feel good, and it makes you remember the 90s and how great it was.<\/p>\n

EP: Yup! They were, they were incredible!<\/strong><\/p>\n

VI: We’re going to be doing The Running Man, the Ninja Turtles…<\/p>\n

EP: We’re going to be doing The Running Man tonight?<\/strong><\/p>\n

VI: Oh absolutely! Good times! [EP: well you can…<\/strong>] Go Ninja go!<\/p>\n

EP: So I can’t interview you without mentioning ‘Ice Ice Baby’, and when it came out in 1990 it was the first hip hop single to make it onto the Billboard charts. How cool is that?<\/strong><\/p>\n

VI: Oh it’s incredible…<\/p>\n

EP: You were a groundbreaker, a trailblazer…<\/strong><\/p>\n

VI: I look back on it and I’m like, wow this is amazing that all this has happened you know, but it goes to show, if you follow your dreams and you believe in yourself, and if you believe it you can achieve it. It’s amazing, I wrote that song when I was 16 years old, and I never could have imagined where my life was going when I was writing it, I love poetry, I was just writing poetry and putting it in the form of hip hop music because I was influenced by that. So when it was time for me to make music, I put it in the form of hip hop, and it’s still all poetry, I love it.<\/p>\n

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