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"Ice Ice Baby" is a hip hop song written by American rapper Vanilla Ice and DJ Earthquake, professional beat-boxer. The song interpolates the bassline of "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie, who did not initially receive songwriting credit or royalties until after it had become a hit. Originally released on Vanilla Ice's 1989 debut album ''Hooked'' and later on his 1990 national debut ''To the Extreme'', it is his most well known song. It has appeared in remixed form on ''Platinum Underground'' and ''Vanilla Ice Is Back!'' A live version appears on the album ''Extremely Live'', while a rap rock version appears on the album ''Hard to Swallow'', under the title "Too Cold". "Ice Ice Baby" was initially released as the B-side to Vanilla Ice's cover of "Play That Funky Music", but the single was not initially successful. When a disc jockey played "Ice Ice Baby" instead, it began to gain success. "Ice Ice Baby" was the first hip hop single to top the ''Billboard'' charts. Outside the United States, the song topped the charts in Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, the song helped diversify hip hop by introducing it to a mainstream audience.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hitparade.ch: Vanilla Ice (Ice Ice Baby) )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Official Charts Company: Vanilla Ice )〕 The song came fifth in VH1 and ''Blender''s 2004 list of the "50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs Ever." ==Lyrics and music== Robert Van Winkle, better known by his stage name Vanilla Ice, wrote "Ice Ice Baby" in 1983 at the age of 16, basing its lyrics upon his experiences in South Florida. The lyrics describe a shooting and Van Winkle's rhyming skills. The chorus of "Ice Ice Baby" originates from the signature chant of the national African American fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha. Of the song's lyrics, Van Winkle states that "If you released 'Ice Ice Baby' today, it would fit in today's lyrical respect among peers, you know what I'm sayin'? () My lyrics aren't, 'Pump it up, go! Go!' At least I'm sayin' somethin'." The song's hook samples the bassline of the 1981 song "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie, who did not receive credit or royalties for the sample. In a 1990 interview, Van Winkle said the two melodies were slightly different because he had added an additional note, an anacrusis ("pickup") between odd-numbered and subsequent even-numbered iterations of the ''Under Pressure'' sample. In later interviews, Van Winkle readily admitted he sampled the song and claimed his 1990 statement was a joke; others, however, suggested he had been serious.〔 Van Winkle later paid Queen and Bowie and as a result, Bowie and all members of Queen have since been given songwriting credit for the sample.〔 In December 1990, Van Winkle told ''Smash Hits'' magazine where he came up with the idea of sampling "Under Pressure": Van Winkle described himself as the first rapper to cross into the pop market and said that although his pioneer status forced him to "take the heat for a lot of people" for his music's use of samples, the criticism he received over sample use allowed sampling to become acceptable in mainstream hip hop. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ice Ice Baby」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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