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| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
haha yeah, Beastie Boys have been around forever
And they weren't even really the first ones to start with the rhymes in the early 80s! Skinny Puppy has been dropping dope beats for the last 30 years, even though their stuff gets canned as industrial more often than not.
But white rapping community?  I doubt any of these artists would consider themselves as part of some white community, and those that do are probably like...white supremacist rappers...which is even funnier than Xtian rap.  |
As a single male rap artist, I think he did make an impression on the music scene. Beastie boys is a group... they don't really compare.
I dunno... name one other white rapper song from the 90's that EVERYONE could identify. Ice Ice Baby was a classic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_Ice
| quote: | | He found major mainstream success and was one of the few successful white rappers in the early 1990s. He has sold 20 million records worldwide. |
Meh...
Anyway, like I said in my previous post, he hated who he was back then... this is from his website, his biography written by himself:
| quote: | It's a true story that Video Killed the Radio Star because music should not be about image. Music should be about the music! I learned the hard way. The new Vanilla Ice is exactly that; no image, no polished made up gimmicks created by record companies. I will never be a puppet for the industry again. From this point on I will keep it real. That's why I didn't change the name. It doesn't mean anything; it's only a label. It's not important, plus I am not running from anything or trying to hide. I want people to know that I face my adversaries. Don't get me wrong, though I love Ice Ice Baby, I just can't stand the image that was created for me at that time. Even though it worked and we sold 17 million records, I was treated like a puppet just to make a Hip Hop artist look like a novelty act. I was not designed to be that. I was turned into that by making my image more acceptable to a younger audience, but to tell the difference just listen to the music. It's Hip Hop not Pop like all the other novelty acts.
The media has a way of glamorizing what it's like to be a celebrity, and that's where people get the illusion, but the reality of it is much different. I'm not speaking from just my own experiences. Take a look at the track record, it speaks for itself, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Elvis, and lately Kurt Cobain. These celebrities had a hard time dealing with the reality of being famous. Many used drugs to escape from reality just as I did. It was the only way to find peace and happiness. The thing was, no matter how high I got I still had to come back reality and face it all again. That's when the depression sets in. That's when you hit rock bottom and you either die from it or learn from it. I used to think that money would bring me happiness because I thought of all the material things that I could buy. After experiencing what it's like to be rich, I realized that you are not born with it and you also can't take it with you when you die. What's next?
In '94 I tried to kill myself by overdosing on heroin, cocaine, esctasy, and anything I could get my hands on. At one point, my friends were dumping buckets of cold water on me as I lay on my bathroom floor in convulsions. At that point I had over eighteen million dollars in the bank, and I still couldn't find happiness in being rich or famous. So, after waking up a couple of days later, I realized that I needed to make a change in everything and just go back to the things that used to bring me happiness, like Motocross. I met new friends and started to straighten my life up, and with the help of my family and my music I found new hope. |
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