{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6017f34e08aebd735149e98b/6017f358cdafed463e765930?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"40: Vanilla Ice","description":"<p>&#39;Lights, lights, baby.&#39;  </p>\n\n<p>This week on Up To 90, we chat Robert Matthew Van Winkle aka Vanilla Ice. This 90s icon proves to be a lot more likeable than you&#39;d think, as the girls dissect the rise and fall of the Hip Hop Man with those trademark boy-band dimples.  </p>\n\n<p>Vanilla Ice was a hip-hop artist who came up the rap ranks having supported the likes of Public Enemy, Run DMC and MC Hammer, only to cause a bit of a storm when he became the first hip hop artist to ever reach number one with his gargantuan hit &#39;Ice, Ice Baby&#39;.  </p>\n\n<p>160 million records later, Vanilla Ice is now living a &#39;real life&#39; in Florida, raising kids and selling light fixtures with a distinctly tongue in cheek pitch. What happened the millions? Why did he become involved with Ninja Turtles? How bad was his movie &#39;Cool As Ice&#39;? (Answer: very). What&#39;s his beef with Eminem? Did Suge Knight really threaten to throw him off a balcony? What was the deal with his dalliance with Madonna? Why should you always ask Queen and David Bowie before &#39;sampling&#39; their hooks? Did the hardened Emma Doran fancy anyone as a young hustler on the streets of Rathfanrham?  </p>\n\n<p>We answer very few of these questions but that doesn&#39;t mean you shouldn&#39;t tune in to enjoy our usual weekly ramblings from a Dublin City Centre studio space on the trajectory of everyone&#39;s favourite 90s cheesemeister.  </p>\n\n<p>If you&#39;ve ever had a chandelier installed by the man himself please get in touch at Twitter or Instagram @Upto90Podcast.</p>","author_name":"HeadStuff"}