The 1990 single "Ice Ice Baby" is Vanilla Ice's signature song, notable for its interpolation of Queen and David Bowie's "Under Pressure." It became the first hip-hop single to top the Billboard charts.
- The song was famously conceived by Vanilla Ice during a studio session after hearing the bassline of "Under Pressure." He claims to have come up with the iconic riff by accident.
- "Ice Ice Baby" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, making Vanilla Ice the first hip-hop artist to achieve this feat with a single.
- The single was later nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance, though it lost to MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This."
Vanilla Ice, born Robert Van Winkle, is an American rapper known for his pop-rap crossover success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He rose to fame with his 1990 debut album To the Extreme, which became a commercial juggernaut.
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