Vanilla

 Robert Matthew Van Winkle, popularly referred to as Vanilla Ice (born October 31 in 1967), is an American actor and rapper as well as television host. Ice was born in South Dallas and raised in Texas and South Florida. He released Hooked in 1989. In 1990, he signed a contract with SBK Records. This record label is part of the EMI Group. It released a reformatted version entitled To the Extreme in 1990. It featured Ice's most well-known hits, "Ice Ice Baby" as well as an original cover of "Play That Funky Music". "Ice Ice Baby" was the first hip hop single to be a top hit on the Billboard charts and has been recognized for helping diversify hip hop through introducing it to a mass audience.Although he was successful, Ice later regretted his business arrangements with SBK, which had paid him to adopt a more commercial style to attract the masses and had released fake biographical information, with no knowledge of. The soundtrack and live album, Extremely Live, continued the success, but a second mainstream studio album, Mind Blowin',