Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Repeated Ice

"Alright stop, collaborate and listen".  The beat and the rhyme had me hooked.  "Ice Ice Baby" was the first real rap song that I had heard.  My youth until that point had consisted only of country music.  But I was really digging this song.  The older kids were listening to it, it seemed that almost everyone I knew was listening to it.  I had to get my hands on it.  But how?  I decided to beg and plead, and for the first and only time in my life, it worked.  The miracle workers were in full effect because Dad bought each of us the cassette single.  Rap was completely beyond his comprehension, I still have no idea why to this day he bought it for us.  To thank him for buying it, we played it constantly.  I could see him cringe every time we pressed the play button.  Vanilla Ice still influences my life to this day.  Anytime I say, "Alright stop" to Elisabeth she responds with, "Collaborate and listen."

Ice Ice Baby Video

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