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Yet puff daddy made a whole career doing what ice did and nobody has a problem with it

Very first hop hop artist to sell a million copies and still hits gold sales since 1991.

*Queen & David Bowie( Under Pressure)* was released in *(1981 Vanilla Ice (Ice Ice Bab)* was released in *1989* sampling was a big thing in the *80s* but nothing went mainstream he was later sued settled & ultimately bought the rights *(Under Pressure)* so today he gets royalties anytime *(Under Pressure)* or *(Ice Ice Baby)* is used or played

There is no denying what Vanilla Ice did, but in fairness, he made better use of that bass riff than Queen ever did. He made people dance & groove to it. Queen probably wouldn't have mind Vanilla's 'sampling' of their riff had his song flopped.

I agree,he added his own flavor to it.

Love this guy. Don't care about the legal stuff because he knew what to do with this beat, great groove. And the boy can dance.

People used samples of other people's beats all the time back then . Like no big deal. As far as I know he was the first one ever sued for it.

See back then it was diff. There was no thought of asking permish for a riff. This song set a precedent.

There is a history that a lot of people miss with how rap came about. DJ's were getting really hot at parties, and they started "scratching" the records, intentionally extending how long the song went for. (This also meant they didn't need to buy as many records.) They started having people come out and introduce them, and talk up the audience, and there was an evolution where they would start rapping and the DJ would spin the records with them. So rap really evolved out of a DJ playing records, so when it went mainstream the rap artists were doing exactly what they grew up doing, rapping to songs a DJ was altering. People who were not into rap got pissed off about it, especially many of the artists, but the record companies quickly found that by setting up a few lawyers they just had a second source of income, but they only went after rap songs after they became big. Vanilla Ice was like 17 in this, so we need to take that into account. There were a lot of executives that could have got the rights ahead of time, while he was the kid who had stars in his eyes who thought the experts were there to help him. He spent time bitter about it and refused to do the song for a while. Didn't help that when "Gangsta Rap" came out he was their number one target, and they were relentless.

Only the chorus is where the Queen sample is used, the rest of the song is original. Also, EVERYONE stole and sampled since the mid 80s.

Dude !! We didn’t know who queen was until this song!! He probably helped them to get a bigger audience!! He is still the GOAT!!!! 1st single ever dropped went number one for 16 weeks straight!!! He had a lot of Haters!!!! Queens song was not popping until Vanilla rapped over it and put that Texas / Miami on it!!!!!!! None of the other rappers had ever done it!! I don’t know of any other rappers who have had a track that held number one Across Billboards that long!!Yo they was BiGMad!!! The west coast was salty New York was crunchy about it!!!! The bitterness went hard!!! ❤❤❤❤ He has a Constuction company a tv show! He still getting that bread!!!! 💰 He still fine too!!! ❤😊😅

Vanilla Ice explaining the difference between the two songs on Behind the Music is comedy gold.

You have to understand that sampling was common in rap and he was just doing what everyone did. The problem was this song blew up bigger than anything before it. Vanilla Ice put rap in the mainstream like it or not. All the attention that got focused on this kid (he was 16 when he released this) was intense and he didn't handle things as well as he could have. It's easy to monday morning QB this 30 years later but there were lessons that had to be learned and Vanilla Ice took the brunt of those hard lessons.

The beat he took actually went to court and they found that it was just slightly different so the judge found in favor of vanilla ice.

Hey, I was in my early thirties when this came out, and when this came on the radio, (and it came on a LOT), while we were hanging out, we were all bustin a move. Lol.

A entire business was born to pay for sampling due to this song making so much money.

This song didint really get hate when it was released, infact it was a hit!. But by the time eminem came along and dissed this guy it became "uncool" to like this song and "cool" to like eminem lol. So then everyone started acting like they never liked it because he used queens riff. Before that only the courts and a record label cared that it was queens riff, everyone else just liked the song, until it become uncool to like it because eminem said so, and insecure sheep will be insecure sheep lol

Late 80's early 90's all the beats were sampled. This song was a huge hit (Vanilla Ice & MC Hammer both blew up @ the same time) bringing $$$ into rap. Thats why he got sued & artist started getting enforcing copyright after this

I’ve always loved this song. 🔥

Vanilla Ice owns Queen's under pressure song now. So he gets royalties for days off this song now he owns them both😉👊

This was fire!! Damn, he gots some moves, bars, swag, and flow! I looked it up, so back then, every rapper/rap group sampled but at that time, no rap album had ever sold more than 500K copies or less, so most ppl didn’t sue cause it wasn’t worth their time and money. He did the same thing, never thinking they would ever be huge. It exploded and sold 15 million copies and 163 million singles! That’s when it was obvious there was money there, so Queen sued. The outcome was that they now share rights. So whether his song or Queen with Bowie sell a copy or gets played, He gets paid a percentage too!

Us 80'ers don't deny loving this song...do the 90'ers deny Hanson mmmmBob.....Vanilla Ice also known as Rob, used to hang out at a club by me...he may not have known all copyright laws. He only did this after he was seriously injured in his profession in Motocross..Queen got their money eventually... Rob had a custom porshe made..the most expensive Porsche ever made ! Paying Queen was about 2% of what he took in..he also hit money with a remake of " Play that Funky Music Whit Boy" !

You are so right back then videos were about dance moves and style, I remember I was in the 7 th grade when this video came out and every teen dressed like vanilla ice black vest white dress shirt baggy slacks ear ring etc and danced this rythm

right on! queen and bowie under pressure

Great song and when the song became a hit he paid royalties. I love this song.

He wrote this song at 16 years old....thats dope

This song people still listening to it to this day timeless song by the Ice man

Brilliant song, excellent diction and his moves rock!

This song was actually a "B" side song on one of his vinyl 45 record's. A DJ on a radio station happen to play the "B" side one day on air and the song blew up. This was back before artist's "used or sampled" other artists music.

To get the record straight David Bowie lifted his guitar riff on his 70's hit "Queen Bitch " off of American 1950's rocker Eddie Cochran's " Three Steps to Heaven. Cochran couldn't sue because he died in a car crash in 1960. Queen lifted rockabilly riffs on his "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" from Elvis Sun sessions. British groups should be the last to complain about stealing, because they made millions off of American 50's R and B, blues and rockabilly artists. Not to mention the Rolling Stones (Chuck Berry) and Led Zepplin on blues artists.

This song blew the doors off. I was in 3rd grade. Ninja Turtles and Vanilla Ice.

Vanilla ice also was connected to the start up of death row. But not in a good way lol

All the good songs that came out , owe it to sample , without sample , we wouldn’t be discussing this issue.

I knew it ...you would like it...old school baby.

Thank you for recognizing Queen multiple times in this video there the greatest rock band and performers!

Queen was upset because this song was better. Sure he used their hook, just did it better.

So cool you are checking out some of the older tunes!!! This song was an introduction for a lot of us white folks that hadn't heard rap yet, except a tiny bit that Blondie sung in her song Rapture in the 80's!!! Other than Vanilla Ice stealing QUEENS baseline from their song, Under Pressure & getting sued for it, Vanilla was quite popular back in the day, & I cannot lie, I loved this song, & their dance moves!!! Vanilla kind of slid out of popularity after the QUEEN scandal, but nobody can take away the fact he was incredibly talented in rapping & his dance moves!!!

He used a few bars of a bass line from a song and looped it. Then, when it was said that he was using part of their song.. he BOUGHT THE RIGHTS TO UNDER PRESSURE so its his now, and he did end up paying them for it. He used a few bars of bass line and looped it, and changed a note or two, then still bought the rights when there was a complaint. Its been said that Freddie Mercury had no problem with it being used, it was lawyers who complained And this was at the end of 1989... taking rhythms from other peoples songs wasn't uncommon at the time. How many rappers you hear use a scrap of another song?

Ice first rapper who took home all the Bacon. What rappers didn't use other musician's music.

There’s a lot of rappers that sampled other artists music. Should they have paid them something for using their music, yes just out of respect as artists. Nevertheless, the ones talking mess still listen to this dope song. Vanilla Ice went from rap to having a rock band and was also a professional jet ski racer. He also had a reality show based out of Florida, were he buy expensive homes and refurbished them. Show was called The Vanilla Ice Project. His real name is Robert Mathew Van Winkle. Word to your mother!

You should check out marky mark and the funky bunch. It's Mark Wahlberg before he became an actor. I think you'll like that 🤗

You are so beautiful girl, your willow of the wisp voice is awe-inspiring. Really great old school Vanilla Ice video. God bless the 90S.

Full breakdown because nobody has made a video on it yet Vanilla Ice wasnt even in the first 300 rap artists to do this, the reason it was such a big deal was he was the first to sell a million copies. Because he was singled out he purchased the rights to this beat. He now owns this portion and gets paid whenever the original song is used which I find hilarious. He was 16 years old when he performed this video.

Sampling is basically all of Rap

Back then, everyone took/stole beats. The 80's is when these laws started being made. They receive songwriting credit & royalties for the song later. He said he made the beat at first, which is what most had a problem with on that side of things. Looking this stuff up now, you can find he was the labels (Suge Knights) "character", he was acting out what he told him to do supposedly. The money from this song built Suge Knight an empire named Death Row. Ice didn't get any money for this song. The other side was his claim (maybe rightly, but hey) that he was a better dancer and rapper than MC Hammer, and most everything he said about his own life was untrue... weirdly true now though. Most everything he said he did but hadn't back then, he has since weirdly done.

80s/90s dancing was a full cardio work out.

love this song and video so much.

To be fair to Vanilla Ice, back then it was a grey area as to whether or not sampling bits of a song needed royalty payments. Sampling had only just become mainstream with affordable kit for consumers.

He was only a teenager when he sampled it.He honestly didn't know it was illegal because nobody was getting sued at that point in time.He bought the rights and makes money whether it's Queens version or his

It was great back then olive old school music

I was always confused about "under pressure" and this. Thank you for explaining.

Music from the past is beutifull heartfelt wonderful real instruments 😊😊

You soo smooth! "Cheers from Nova Scotia Canada Eh ! "

In my opiniom, this song put rap on the map. This song blew up the world when it came out. No other song was as big as this song. You pick any song before or after Ice Ice Baby and it wasn't as big... Rap existed but it was a niche genre.. Vanilla Ice made rap mainstream. I don't care what anyone says.. I was there when Ice Ice Baby dropped... There was no internet or none of that and 9 of every 10 people on the Earth back then was jamming Ice Ice Baby.. I haven't seen a song have that kind of impact since... Eminem.. 2pac... Biggie... None of them... Vanilla Ice blew up the world..

Queen settled out of court and recieved 4 million....But Vanilla Ice still makes a ton of money on royalties, somewhere around $400k a year. That's not too bad....

The fact that Vanilla Ice (VI) did not pay tribute to Queen we are still talking about "it". I agree that he should have got an agreement between their parties. But If he did, we would not be talking about it over 30 years later.

This song is fire!!!

Afrika Baambaata started hip hop using Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust" vinyl.

Many of songs by dre, snoop, Mary j Blige, bone thugs and more were sampled beats from the 70s and 80s Vanilla Isn’t the first by far some with permission some not

Ice ended up Buying the Queens song.

He had to go to court and pay Queen 4 millions. He sold a lot more than Queen did for this song. And he stills gets around 4 millions a year for this song.

Vanilla Ice bought the rights to Under Pressure by Queen and gave recognition to Bowie and Queen on Ice Ice Baby. He did this instead of going to court. So I hope this clears that up for you.

LMAO 🤣 What's up with chipmunk singing in the intro? That was awesome!😂

The one controversy mentioned (about the royalties not paid to Queen), it's not the only one about this song and him. Apparently (as far as i can remember) there was also the fact that he lied about being from Miami, while instead he was allegedly from Boston and raised in Texas. Moreover the bars were not his. Whowever, despite apparently this was just a dude able to dance and rap someone else bars, still this is a classic of the 90's.

I still play his songs taday! Also look up Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five with Grandmaster Melle Mel-The Message.

He eventually bought the rights to the song from Queen for 4 million. Best investment he ever made according to him. Also, a year before MC Hammer sampled Super Freak for his Can't Touch This song and no one cared.

MICHAEL JACKSON got the beat for billie jean from hall and oates , when he saw them he said hope you aint mad

Dancing and good clean rapp

keep in mind all hip hop artists were sampling. THis became a problem because of the amount of records sold. He was also 16 and living the street life, I don't think lawyers, sampling, record deals, etc were on his mind. Sampling was a non issue before this.

Just subbed after watching “Creep” Radiohead and this reaction - don’t anyone come for me- I LOVE Queen! Now.. his defense was that there was an extra /tone/ beat in that opening riff- I hear it- 🤷🏼‍♀️ There was a time that if you changed it AT ALL, then it wasn’t copying- (sooooo many have sampled songs- ) my understanding- I sincerely believe he thought he was in the clear and NOT actually ripping off Queen.. He’s not stupid.. he would have known the fallout that would take place.. and it happened anyway- where was his manager, etc.?🤷🏼‍♀️ I just don’t think he INTENDED to “steal” from anyone- IMHO-- He’s moved on and successful at remodeling homes in Florida- good for him- I’ll always like this entire CD- ✌️✨

Ice owns the publishing for under pressure so he don’t need to give credit he gets paid for both

Metal was different, too. Now they just stand there. They used to run while headbanging and not miss a note.

He own the original now

Queen was fine until the song started making money. Vanilla settled with them.

Music and entertainers were great up until the early 90's. From the mid 90's onward, the music, entertainers and movies all changed for the worse. Not just my opinion, but many others would agree with me.

He did give credit to Queen. When u could dance and understand the lyrics.

hip hop was created on sampeling tracks. this song just took of so fast before they could get the rights. but the record company took care of all that after the fact

He should be insulted for stealing it,but I think reviewers should review the song and performance-nothing else.And of course,be honest.

According to Vanilla Ice, he bought the song, he owns it. Said it was cheaper to buy the song that pay legal fees and royalties. By the way, he wasnt even the first or last to sample off of others music. Puff daddy ... uhm, sean combs owes his career to sampling. Its just that this song was so incredibly big it got the brunt, make that ALL of the scrutiny.

He got sued by Queen and David Bowie so they got paid. If you watch his own reaction to this video he explains that he was 19 when he wrote this song and sampling was just getting popular and he just didn't know better at the time.

Don't know if you reacted to Salt n Pepa yet, I just found your station, but they dance and rap! They are awesome!

Stolen Samples or. Not..that SMILE at 6:16 shows how GREAT this song is

You can see Vanilla Ice perform this song on American Music Awards 1991.

They went to court and ICE won. Watch the video of Vanilla on the stand. There's an extra note in ICE's beat. The outcome was artist now know if they just add one note to a beat it now a new beat. I most appreciated there weren't any race lines in his video. Not all white or black.

Yep, he messed up by not giving credit to Queen and David Bowie! I remember him trying to convince everyone that the music was slightly different! But everyone who’s ever heard “Under Pressure” knew the truth!

It was originally David Bowie's song before Queen

Under Pressure was composed by David Bowie & Queen.. ♠W.G.

U are totally right. All he had to say was yes... it was a dope beat and I sampled it. However at that time sampling songs was unheard of.

In the 90s, you didn't go to a college or house party that didn't play this.

3RD BASS did a song Pop Goes The Weasel as a dis to Ice over this song.

He did give them credit and they went to court, but he changed chords in the song and still gave them credit

He added 1 note to it.

Vanilla actually owns the rights to under pressure

I wish you would review the song roll with it by Steve Winwood

Queen took it away from Vanilla Ice. Vanilla Ice is the originator of the beat music.

Yeah but this song is 🔥

Back in the days , that was normal taking samples from other songs and DJ's will create a whole different song from them. That was normal until copyrights laws started being apply to music infringement. BTW here is the remix to this song. came out 2018. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i9eWoaymq8Cdg3U.html

It was david bowie he got it from pressure

I’m not going to get this comment, correct verbatim but Freddie Mercury once said he doesn’t care who uses music as long it was good.