With his hit single "Ice Ice Baby" and its accompanying album, To the Extreme, Vanilla Ice became the second white rapper to top the charts.
"Ice Ice Baby" became a number one hit late in 1990, thanks to the pulsating bass riff from David Bowie and Queen's "Under Pressure." To the Extreme also went to the top of the charts, spending 16 weeks at number one and selling over seven million copies. Ice followed that with a feature film, Cool As Ice, in the spring of 1990. His second major album was a live version of To the Extreme entitled Extremely Live which was certified gold.
Ice's film debut came in the 1991 movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, performing "The Ninja Rap". He also appeared in the 1991 star vehicle Cool as Ice. The soundtrack to Cool as Ice featured several new Vanilla Ice tracks, including a duet with Naomi Campbell.
For the next several years, Ice kept a low public profile and became a motocross racer using his real name. It wasn't until 1996 that Ice made his next appearance (credited as "Rob Van Winkle"), on the track "Boom" by suburban Philadelphia rappers The Bloodhound Gang. The track's deep bass groove and Ice's uncharacteristic tough guy flow on the first verse led to a quasi-ironic underground revival in popularity, and the first new Vanilla Ice CD in four years.
Hard to Swallow found Ice in a musically similar idiom to the track from the Bloodhound Gang, using a contemporarily popular nu metal sound his press kit referred to as "skate rock" that could be described as musically similar to early Limp Bizkit or Korn.
His latest album is Platinum Underground. 2001's Bipolar, a two-CD set. It marked his reunion with ex-manager Tommy Quon, who was credited as executive producer on the album. On the album, Vanilla Ice collaborated with many artists such as Wu-Tang Clan affiliate La The Darkman, Chuck D from Public Enemy, and Insane Clown Posse. Vanilla Ice recentlly did a mini tour with ICP called Hallowicked 2005. He is also going to do an European tour in November and December of this year.
In 2004, Vanilla Ice starred in the second season of The Surreal Life on VH1. This brought some interest in him from the public, and a website was launched. In the same year, he appeared on British television in the first season of the Reality TV show The Farm on five. He was also cast in the film The Helix...Loaded, a parody of The Matrix.
In June 2005, Ice won the second round of NBC's hit TV show Hit Me Baby One More Time, performing "Ice Ice Baby" and covering Destiny's Child's hit "Survivor". He also appeared on a VH1 special entitled "Remaking Vanilla Ice", which featured the revamp Vanilla Ice underwent in preparation for his new album "Platinum Underground", released August 16, 2005. Ice also appeared on the series Damage Control, on MTV2. He currently lives in Port St. Lucie, Florida.

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