![]() It may also be safe to say that most of the people familiar with “Ice Ice Baby” don’t know what Ice is actually talking about in the verses. It’s all just like “ice, ice baby”, which is in fact a cool a*s hook. Or put differently, in the grand scheme of the track, what he’s saying isn’t really that important anyway.Īnd this is not meant to be a diss against Vanilla Ice. Well technically, Vanilla Ice had two hits. But we would venture to guess that even 95% of the readers who actually know “Ice Ice Baby” can’t name what his other hit was (answer to be found in the bottom section). For even way back in 1990 there were some highly-skilled, non-White rappers in the game, such as Big Daddy Kane, Kool G Rap and even Eazy-E, who weren’t nearly as successful as Vanilla Ice was, not off of just one hit song at least. Yes, part of his success would logically be due to his skin color, as back in those days White rappers were still by and large viewed as novelty acts. But still, the barrier was broken nonetheless, and thus it can be said all professional rappers who followed may have been beneficiaries.īut at the same time, it’s easy to see why this song was hated by rap-music purists. Pop music history is full of tributes, riffs and echoes that make us turn to the radio and go: "Haven't I heard this song before?" Sometimes, it turns out, we have.In other words, he was the first rapper to top the Billboard Hot 100. So it’s like he was the one who initially broke the barrier where now you see these mega-rappers like Drake accomplishing such feats as if it is nothing. Then there's the shady, mysterious land that occupies the area between what we'll call "inspiration" and "coincidence." Here's where things get contentious. (Think of cover songs as extended interpolations.) Sometimes, an interpolation can be so close that it's hard to tell if it's any different at all - think of Vanilla Ice's famous denial that " Ice Ice Baby" was sampled directly from Queen and David Bowie's " Under Pressure." If it's really a new performance, permission is not needed, but the writer of the original song gets credit and, if there are royalties, a share of the money. The re-created element can be a nearly exact replica or just vaguely similar. ![]() ![]() If a deal can't be reached, or the sound of the original recording isn't quite right, the musician can re-record an element of the song she loves, say a little snippet of melody or a particular drum pattern. (You can trace our current understanding of the copyright laws around sampling to a 1991 suit by Gilbert O'Sullivan against Biz Markie for the use of O'Sullivan's "Alone Again (Naturally)" in Biz's song "Alone Again.") Releasing the new song requires the permission of whoever owns the original recording and, often, a financial agreement. If a musician takes a song she loves and incorporates all or part of the actual recording into a new song, that's sampling. ![]() Sometimes intellectual property laws are involved. This got us thinking about the different ways musicians act as mimics.
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