Vanilla Ice Research Paper

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Ice Ice Baby goes Under Pressure Hip-Hop star Vanilla Ice came out with a new album called To the Extreme in the 1990’s. Their biggest hit was Ice Ice Baby. It also was known for copying the song Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie. Vanilla Ice took samples of the song without having permission and changed up the baseline beat a little thinking he would not have to give credit to the song Under Pressure the original song writers Queen and David Bowie. . . . . . . . . The way Vanilla Ice made his songs were by taking old records of rock music that were his brothers and put a twist of hip hop and thought it was a good beat for his songs. It was first acknowledge by a band member of Queen while he was at a dance club in Germany. He noticed

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