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Vanilla Ice ‘Didn’t Have Google’ When He Partied With Pablo Escobar In The ’90s
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Thirty years after drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed by police in Medellín, Colombia, Vanilla Ice has revealed they were once pals, because he didn’t have Google back then.
During a recent interview with VladTV, the 56-year-old Ice Ice Baby rapper said he had no idea who Escobar and the Cocaine Cowboys were when he partied with them many, many times in the early 1990s when he lived in Miami, Fla.
“We were all friends, said Vanilla Ice, whose real name is Robert Matthew Van Winkle. They would land helicopters in my house constantly, on Star Island.
The Medellín Cartel leader and his cocaine smugglers would come into my house. I had food just for them in the refrigerators, Vanilla Ice said.
They would take me in the helicopter, we’d go to these great events and race boats and look at all the cool stuff that they were making, he said. And I never questioned. We didnt have Google. I dont know who these people are. I thought they were businessmen. They liked to race boats like I did.”
The rapper acknowledged that by today’s standards, it sounds ridiculous that he wouldn’t have known who Escobar was.
This sounds ridiculous. First of all, like, I had no Google, he said. You dont go up to people and go, What do you do for a living?’ I have no idea, bro. Guys loaded… Wed go out and race boats. We were always on boats. There was always a bunch of bikinis floating around everywhere.”
In an interview with TMZ published on Tuesday, Vanilla Ice said their shared love of speed boats fueled their friendship, and he credited the drug lord with spurring innovation in boat racing by pouring so much money into the sport, bringing it into the mainstream.
TMX contributed to this article.
