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Ferg's Pavilion

33701, St Petersburg, FL, US

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Vanilla Ice biography

With 20 million albums sold, Vanilla Ice has truly made his stamp in the hip-hop market, since bursting onto the scene with his US number 1 record “To the Extreme” in 1989.

Born Robert Van Winkle, Vanilla Ice has built up a reputation as a rapper, actor, and television host. He hails from Dallas Texas but resided in Florida. It was after signing a record deal with a division EMI called SBK Records that he released “To the Extreme” which broke the record of being the first hip-hop single that topped the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. It also broke the record of being the fastest selling hip-hop album of all time, maintaining the top spot for a total of sixteen weeks. It has since gone Platinum in the UK and 7x Platinum in the US, and 6x Platinum in Canada. On the album featured the song “Ice Ice Baby” which went to number 1 in four countries, and achieved Platinum certification in US, Canada, New Zealand and the UK. There was also the song “Play That Funky Music” which didn’t quite match the success of its predecessor, but it still made it into the top 20 of six charts internationally.

“Extremely Live” followed the release of this album on March 6th 1991, which made it to number 30 in the US and 35 in the UK, being certified Gold in Canada and the US. Despite the outstanding global success of “To the Extreme”, Vanilla Ice didn’t match the success of that album with any of his following five full-length album releases. Fortunately his song “Ice Ice Baby” has featured on many compilation albums since, and on Jedward’s cover of the song where Vanilla Ice featured on the song himself. The song made it to number 2 in the UK Chart.

Tone-Lōc biography

Tone-Lōc (born March 3, 1966) is the stage and recording name of gravelly-voiced American hip-hop rapper Anthony Terrell Smith, hailing from Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Originally a member of the street gang SouthSide Compton Crips, Anthony Smith later moved away from the street lifestyle to focus on his rapping. Tone-Lōc went from being a little known rapper to a pop superstar in no time at all with his 1989 hit “Wild Thing”. The single sampled the Van Halen song “Jamie’s Cryin’”, was co-written by Marvin Young, and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.

After an out-of-court settlement for the uncredited sample of the Van Halen song, Tone-Lōc released the single “Funky Cold Medina”, once again co-written by Marvin Young. The single reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. 13 on the UK Singles Chart, and went on to sell over one million copies. The single which samples the likes of The Rolling Stone, Foreigner, and Kiss was the second single from Tone-Lōc’s debut album “Lōc-ed After Dark” released in 1989. Issued on Delicious Vinyl, the album topped the U.S. pop charts, making it the second ever rap album to do so, and had Top 20 positions in the Austrian, Australian, New Zealand and UK charts.

In 1991 the rapper’s sophomore album “Cool Hand Lōc” was released once again on Delicious Vinyl. The album didn’t fair as well as its predecessor and after its release Tone-Lōc focused on his acting and voicing career included the films “FernGully: The Last Rainforest” and “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” and the TV show “Food Rocks”. The rapper continued to tour into the new millennium and contributed lyrics to the FeFe Dobson track “Rock It ’Til You Drop It” in 2003.

2 Live Crew biography

Never far from controversy, the notorious 2 Live Crew are a hip-hop act from California, US, whose Southern-tinged party rap often met with obscenity charges throughout the late 1980s and '90s.

Whilst from California, it was in Miami, US that 2 Live Crew first found success, with the members Fresh Kid ICe, DJ Mr. Mixx, Brother Marquis and Amazing V moving to the Florida city after their debut single, "Revelation," became a big hit there in 1985. Signing with Luke Skyywalker's (Luther Campbell) label, they released their 1986 debut, "The 2 Live Crew Is What We Are," a record full of songs like "We Want Some Pussy" and "Throw the D" that became an underground success, soon going Gold. Felony charges against a record store that sold the record to a minor led to the idea to create both 'clean' and 'dirty' versions of their releases, with 1987's "Move Somethin'" being the first to appear in this format. The record became an even bigger hit, amidst calls of obscenity and and restrictions from the state government.

For 2 Live Crew, this trend was set to continue for their subsequent albums, with 1989's "As Nasty as They Wanna Be" becoming a huge hit, whilst receiving significant pressure from the authorities, claiming the record to be unnecessarily obscene. This met the quartet with huge publicity, with the hysteria surrounding them presenting a perfect opportunity to capitalize on this, with the act signing to major label, Atlantic Records. "Banned in the USA" followed in 1991, scoring another round of hits. Yet despite their notoriety, their next two albums failed to find commercial success, eventually being the final albums they recorded together in their original capacity.

The following years were marred by court case after court case, charged with various counts of plagiarism and obscenity charges that prompted a number of expensive lawsuits. Supporters of free speech had a difficult time helping to fight these charges,often finding little artistic merit in their explicit music. The band soon fell apart, with the members pursuing solo careers. In 1994, Luke, Fresh Kid Ice and new partner Verb formed the New 2 Live Crew, releasing the album "Back at Your Ass for the Nine-4" that same year. This project found little success, with Luther Campbell finding his Luke label bankrupt due to the endless court costs the group suffered.

The original members reunited in 1996, finding support from the Lil' Joe label. They released "Shake a Lil' Somethin'" that same year, which found moderate success, climbing to number 145 on the Billboard 200. With varying lineups, 2 Live Crew continued to perform intermittently throughout the following decade, reuniting for one-off performances. In 2008, Fresh Kid Ice and Brother Marquis reunited as a duo, soon writing new material, eventually releasing a new single in 2014, "Take It Off."

Live reviews

Vanilla Ice has evolved into many things since his smash hit “Ice Ice Baby”. For a while he was nothing but a joke and then kind of a normal guy next door.

He has had reality shows and terrible movies over the years but the fact is there are tons of people who can still sign every word to that song more than 20 years after it was released. There are not a lot musicians or rappers who can say the same.

I saw him him in a small club in Florida. It was more of a guest appearance than an actual show. He jumped on the stage during a set and did 3-4 of his songs. Of course he did “Ice Ice Baby” but he also did some other ones from that album including his other radio song “ Play that Funky Music”. The crowd was really pumped to see him and it was a great surprise. Everyone knew the words to the song. He was not dressed up and looked like a normal guy this look was much better than the cheesy one that he had in the 1990’s and really suited him better. It was a fun experience.

Anonymous

Montell Jordan is representative of a peculiar crossover that you have to assume was born more of business interests than it was anything else; he’s a soul singer, primarily, with R&B and new jack swing being his areas of expertise, but the fact that he’s spent most of his career on Def Jam’s Def Soul label means that there’s inevitably been the influence of hip hop, too, making its mark upon his sound. He met with real solo success in the mid-nineties, particularly with the ‘Children’s Story’-interpolating ‘This Is How We Do It’, which shot to number one in the U.S. in 1995, but he’s written for others, too, penning Sisqo’s 2000 chart-topper ‘Incomplete’. Now a born-again Christian, Jordan continues to record and perform, although hasn’t done the latter on UK shores for some time now; save for a handful of intimate club appearances in the summer of 2010, he’s mainly focused on his native U.S., with a run of dates in support of his most recent album, 2008’s Let It Rain, seeing him run through career-spanning sets with a full live band behind him, both starting the party and stirring emotion in equal measure.

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Joeg_67

Whether you know him by the real name he uses for his acting, Anthony Terrell Smith, or by his stage name, Tone-Loc, you know who he is as a multi-talented artist. His song “Funky Cold Medina” is a cult classic song that people still love hearing to this day. Los Angeles born and raised, he is a great representative of the West Coast party in the ever-going east coast versus west coast.
Not being a one trick pony, his live sets are essentially one gigantic party. With people pushing their way into the crowd that surrounds the stage, everyone is having the time of their lives. On stage Tone Loc has a DJ laying down the tracks and few hype men taking the stage with him. His performance includes some of his best songs like “Wild Thing” and closed with “Funky Cold Medina” which meant an eruption of cheering. Literally everyone in the place seemed to know the words and was flashed back to the best times of the late 80s, early 90s. Between songs he takes opportunities to talk to the audience, either to thank them or to hype them up, and his hype men will also say a few words during the songs.

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Ellinoinsta

There’s never really been anything quite look some good old-fashioned controversy to ensure that a band’s record sales remained steady, and whilst I wouldn’t want to sound cynical about 2 Live Crew and the success that they enjoyed in the late eighties and early nineties, there’s no real question that a significant slice of trouble-making had a part to play in how their albums were received commercially. The hip hop group had never been any stranger to the concept of including highly sexualised themes in their work, but with the 1989 album As Nasty As They Wanna Be, they really took the idea to another level, especially with the record’s lead single, ‘Me So Horny’. The lyrical content caused serious controversy, attracting the attention of high-profile anti-sleaze lawyer Jack Thompson and being ruled as obscene and illegal to sell by a U.S. district court judge. Eventually, that would be overturned by the Supreme Court of the United States, and the record would go onto shift over two million copies. Despite live shows which did their best to play off of the controversy, the group would eventually fizzle out in 1998; they have reunited, briefly, on a handful of occasions since, though, including once earlier this year.

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