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ARTIST..: Vanilla Ice               ENCODER.: Lame V3.90.3
TITLE...: The Best Of               K/BITS..: VBR
LABEL...: EMI-Capitol Music         MODE:...: Joint-Stereo
GENRE...: Rap                       TRACKS..: 10
TIME....: 46:13 min
RIP DATE: 02/25/2004                SIZE....: 64,8 MB
REL DATE: 03/13/2001                SOURCE..: CDDA

Vanilla Ice - The best rapper of all time next to Will
Smith. The worlds introduction to "The Ice Age" began with
"To The Extreme - one of the number one selling rap albums
of all time.  In 1990, Ice sold 10 million copies of "To The
Extreme, and by the year 2000 -he hit 17 million.   This
record has yet to be topped by another hip-hop artist.
Vanilla seems to be everyones favorite weather you wanna
admit it or not.

That’s right, V-Ice -- the artist also known as Vanilla
Ice—returns with a brand new album and a brand new attitude.
Hard-nosed and harder-edge, this time, says Ice, "It’s all
about keepin’ it real."   Bi-Polar, a double CD packaged as
one and presented in two parts – Skabz and Tha System – is
Ice’s first disc in three years, and the proof is in the
industrial strength grooves he’s laid down.   It’s a massive
attack: the Iceman is back.  With a vengeance.
It was just over a decade ago that Ice first stormed the
music scene with his monster debut album, To The Extreme,
which was certified 7x platinum a mere four months after its
release and went on to sell 15 million records worldwide.
One of those just-right-for-its-time pop culture
phenomenona, Extreme topped the charts at #1 for 18 weeks.
The ever-present "Ice, Ice Baby" was a platinum-plus single,
another single, "Play That Funky Music White Boy" went solid
gold, and MTV was lovin’ it all.  Black or white,
GRAMMY®-nominated, People’s Choice-awards laden Ice was the
hottest rapper in the land, on top of the world.
Or so you would think.    Soon enough, the trappings of
instant success and the glare of the spotlight melted Ice
down.  It wasn’t all wave riders and parties at his sunny
south Florida mansion.  There was the critical backlash, the
‘playa hatin’,’ the self-destructive abuse, the violence,
the follow-ups that didn’t live up.  Once a multi-platinum
poster boy, he turned into one for bad behavior and  ‘Least
Wanted’.
V-Ice himself had trouble figuring that last one out, and he
went through some very dark times indeed before coming out
the other end with a new commitment to life and to working
through its often-harsh realities.  A personal connection to
God came, as well as  marriage and two daughters along with
an approach to making records that helped in exorcising his
demons so they wouldn’t drag him down again.
"It’s emotional therapy caught on tape," says V-Ice, "I use
the music to expose things that I have seen through my own
eyes, and the music has changed because my life has changed.
It’s not about some image or gimmick…it’s all about the
music."  Bi-Polar, on BMG-distributed Liquid 8 Records, is
made up of 24 original tracks in a two-part opus, and you
can literally feel the release rising from the smoldering
grooves.  Ice teamed back up with Executive
Producer/Manager, Tommy Quon, to record the new album.
Produced by Ice, Bi-Polar features a who’s who of rap, rock
and hip-hop masters lending their flavas including Chuck D.,
Insane Clown Posse, former Slipknot-er Josh Brainard, and
Wu-Tang’s LA Tha Darkman.
Ever since "Ice, Ice Baby," life has been a wild and crazy
ride, and on his latest work, Ice has managed to translate
that experience into an explosive new sound.  Maybe hell has
frozen over…and that’s a lot of Ice.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005Y7QZ/qid=107773

TRACKLIST

01. Ice Ice Baby                                     04:31
02. Get Wit' It                                      05:10
03. Play That Funky Music (Live)                     04:45
04. Roll 'em Up                                      04:30
05. Rollin' In My 5.0 (Live)                         04:17
06. Cool As Ice (Everybody Get Loose)                05:32
07. Hooked                                           04:52
08. I Love You                                       05:06
09. Ninja Rap                                        03:47
10. Satisfaction                                     03:43

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