Vanilla Ice reveals he frolicked with Pablo Escobar ‘many many occasions’

Vanilla Ice has revealed that he frolicked with Pablo Escobar ‘many, many occasions’ as they bonded over their love of boats and vehicles.

In an animated dialog with VladTV, the Texas-born nineties rap star, who’s now a profitable actual property investor and developer, stated that they struck up an unlikely friendship. 

‘Pablo was an important individual in individual — this sounds ridiculous,’ he fondly recalled. ‘First of all, I had no Google. You do not go as much as individuals and go, “What do you do for a living?” I don’t know.’ 

Ice, actual title Robert Van Winkle, revealed that the Colombian drug lord and the ‘Cocaine Cowboys’ used to return over to his home on Star Island off Miami Beach, presumably throughout the top of his hip hop fame. 

He stated they might land helicopters always on the island, the place he stored meals within the fridges particularly for them and had his maids clear up after them. 

In an animated dialog with VladTV, the Texas-born nineties rap star, who’s now a profitable actual property investor and developer, revealed how they struck up an unlikely friendship

Pablo Escobar and his spouse Maria Victoria in 1983 in Colombia

‘They would take me in helicopters to those nice occasions and race boats and take a look at all of the cool stuff they had been making,’ he stated. 

‘That’s the form of stuff we did. We would exit and race boats. We had been at all times on boats. So there was at all times a bunch of bikinis floating round.’

Ice, 56, stated he as soon as bragged that his fortified Porsche was sooner than Escobar’s prized Ferrari Testarossa. Soon afterwards they lined the vehicles up subsequent to one another to see who was proper.

‘I smoked him,’ he recollected.

Ice hosted a actuality tv present, f, between 2010 and 2019 which noticed him renovating properties. 

Vanilla Ice performing throughout ‘I Love the 90s’ Postgame Concert hosted By Philadelphia Phillies and offered by Jim Beam ‘I Love the 90s’ Postgame Concert Hosted By Philadelphia Phillies, Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA – 19 Aug 2022

Ice, 56, stated he as soon as bragged that his fortified Porsche was sooner than Escobar’s prized Ferrari Testarossa. Soon afterwards they lined the vehicles up subsequent to one another to see who was proper (File Photo)

He additionally made a seven-part podcast, The Disappearance of Shergar the Super Horse, for the BBC concerning the 1981 Derby winner. 

Robert Van Winkle wrote Ice, Ice Baby when he was 16, utilizing a pattern of Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie.

The monitor made him a millionaire earlier than he turned 21 and later went on to shift greater than 40 million models.

The 1990 album to To The Extreme, that includes the runaway hit, stayed on the prime of the Billboard charts in America for 16 weeks, promoting greater than 13 million copies.

He turned extremely well-known, nevertheless it was exhausting to shake off his picture as one thing of a novelty determine in music. The star additionally dated Madonna for eight months within the nineties.

Escobar entered the cocaine commerce within the early Seventies, collaborating with different criminals to kind the Medellin Cartel.

By the mid-Nineteen Eighties, he had an estimated internet value of $30 billion and money was so prevalent that Escobar bought a Learjet for the only real goal of flying his cash.

Pablo Escobar reserving mug shot taken by the regional Colombia management company in Medellin in 1976

Colombia navy personnel guard the doorway to Pablo Escobar’s Hacienda Napoles ranch in 1989

A Colombian soldier stands guard within the pool space at Pablo Escobar’s Hacienda Napoles ranch in 1989

Hippos float within the lagoon at Hacienda Napoles Park, as soon as the personal property of drug kingpin Pablo Escobar who imported three feminine hippos and one male a long time in the past in Puerto Triunfo, Colombia, on February 4, 2021

More than 15 tons of cocaine had been reportedly smuggled every day, netting the Cartel as a lot as $420 million per week.

For a lot of his time on the prime of the narco heap, Escobar earned reputation by sponsoring charity initiatives and soccer golf equipment, sharing a few of his riches with native communities and in doing so was portrayed as a beneficiant character.

But terror campaigns run by Escobar’s henchmen resulted within the homicide of 1000’s, and slowly started turning the general public towards him – all whereas legislation enforcement businesses from the US had been cooperating with Colombian police to tear down his empire.

Colombian legislation enforcement lastly caught as much as Escobar on December 2, 1993 in a middle-class neighbourhood in Medellin.

A firefight ensued and as Escobar tried to flee throughout a sequence of rooftops he and his bodyguard had been shot and killed.