{"id":60848,"date":"2013-02-01T07:25:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T06:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=60848"},"modified":"2013-01-31T22:44:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T21:44:42","slug":"interview-vanilla-ice-discusses-the-real-story-behind-death-row-suge-knight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/interview-vanilla-ice-discusses-the-real-story-behind-death-row-suge-knight\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Vanilla Ice discusses the real story behind Death Row &#038; Suge Knight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KE5sRXF34b4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just as promised, in our Deep Cover feature on SwaysUniverse.com, here is Vanilla Ice\u2019s full interview with Sway in the Morning. In their conversation, Ice speaks openly on all things Ice \u2014 including selling 160 million records, the key to success according to his experiences, and what really happened with Suge Knight. Did he really get hung over a balcony?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truth is he was nice.\u201d Admits Ice. \u201cThe story seems a little bit better, a little bit more interesting, and got better ratings when you have Vanilla Ice hanging upside down and you see his change coming from his pockets. The truth is, he took that money, but I look at it in a positive way because I\u2019ve made great investments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before talking about dating Madonna, he went on to discuss his indirect involvement with Death Row Records.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat money went on to start Deathrow Records.\u201d Claims Ice. \u201cThat money funded some of the greatest hip hop records of all time. \u2018The Chronic\u2019 record, funded by Vanilla Ice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch him elaborate with mentions of Snoop and Tupac.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as promised, in our Deep Cover feature on SwaysUniverse.com, here is Vanilla Ice\u2019s full&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-fPq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}