Summary

UPDATE ON THE CAREER OF WHITE RAPPER VANILLA ICE

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 232814
Story Slug Vanilla Ice Update
Location St Paul, MN
Format PKG
Date 07/05/2002
Archive Time 21:55
TRT 2:12
Supers St Paul, Minnesota Vanilla Ice, Rapper Jon Foss, Reporting
Video Description OUTSIDE OF CONCERT VENUE (THE LAB), CU OF VANILLA ICE SIGN, JON FOSS STANDUP REPORTING, CONCERT FOOTAGE, CROWD, REPORTER JON FOSS ASKING VANILLA ICE QUESTIONS
Description UPDATE ON THE CAREER OF WHITE RAPPER VANILLA ICE
Script (LEAD IN) TODAY WITH EMINEM AT THE TOP OF THE BILLBOARD CHARTS YOU HAVE TO WONDER, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THAT OTHER WHITE RAPPER? WELL CONTRARY TO WHAT MOST PEOPLE THINK VANILLA ICE HAS BEEN VERY ACTIVE LATELY JON FOSS REPORTS (TAKE PKG) YOUR PROBABLY ASKING YOURSELF, WHAT IS VANILLA ICE DOING THESE DAYS? WELL, YOU PROBABLY ANSWER YOURSELF BY SAYING, NOT MUCH BUT THE TRUTH IS, VANILLA ICE HAS BEEN WORKING HARDER THAN EVER IN FACT, VANILLA ICE RECENTLY RELEASED A NEW CD AND HAS BEEN TOURING AROUND THE COUNTRY DOING UP TO SIX CONCERTS A WEEK ICE'S CONCERTS HAVE CHANGED QUITE A BIT SINCE HE BURST ON THE SCENE TWELVE YEARS AGO, EVERYTHING FROM THE STYLE OF HIS MUSIC, TO THE SIZE OF HIS VENUES HE USED TO PLAY IN FRONT OF CROWDS OF UP TO 60,000, NOW 1,000 IS PUSHING IT STILL, THAT DOESN'T STOP ICE (STAND UP You've sold over seventeen million albums, you've been in movies, you just released a new CD, and you tour around the country nightly, why do you keep working so hard?) (SOT-ICE For the love of music The music is my passion, it's my expression, it's my therapy) (SOT-REPORTER QUESTION: Through your career your music style has drastically changed, how has your audience changed with that over the years?) (SOT-ICE Tremendously, I mean, we still have the old school fans, and I love it and I appreciate them Some of them kind of grew with me, some of them didn't Probably body piercing tatooed 16-25 year olds) (STAND UP Now there's been a lot of controversy about your roots Did you grow up on the streets?) (SOT-ICE Absolutely, yeah, yeah, absolutely And it wasn't no Sesame Street) (STAND UP On VH1's Behind the Music, you say you wouldn't wish your life on your worst enemy Why do you say that?) (SOT-ICE Because it's always polished looking from the outside in It gets to you man, people pulling at you left and right Your a product instead of a human and you have to learn to adapt It's not easy man Plus I tried to commit suicide in '94 because I was like the loneliest person on the planet) (STAND UP Somebody hears that your coming to town, all they know about you is your past What do you tell them to get them to come to your concert?) (SOT-ICE Hey, you remember the past Bring that memory, come to the show, and experience that memory and everything that happened just like you opened up a photo album and you looked at that Well your going to have that same memory here, a good time, a smile on your face, entertainment, and most of all you'll be surprised) RECAP
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