{"id":189934,"date":"2023-12-19T12:21:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T12:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/?p=189934"},"modified":"2023-12-19T12:21:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T12:21:07","slug":"vanilla-ice-reveals-he-hung-out-with-pablo-escobar-many-many-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/world-news\/vanilla-ice-reveals-he-hung-out-with-pablo-escobar-many-many-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanilla Ice reveals he hung out with Pablo Escobar &apos;many many times&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Vanilla Ice reveals he hung out with &#8216;Drug Lord&#8217; Pablo Escobar &#8216;many many times&#8217; as they bonded over love of boats and cars but had no idea he was the ruthless Cartel leader because he &#8216;didn&#8217;t have Google&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Texas-born nineties rap star revealed how they struck up an unlikely friendship<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Vanilla Ice has revealed that he hung out with Pablo Escobar &#8216;many many times&#8217; as they bonded over their love of boats and cars.<\/p>\n<p>In an animated conversation with VladTV, the Texas-born nineties rap star, who is now a successful real estate investor and developer, said that they struck up an unlikely friendship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Pablo was a great person in person \u2014 this sounds ridiculous,&#8217; he fondly recalled. &#8216;First of all, I had no Google. You don&#8217;t go up to people and go, &#8220;What do you do for a living?&#8221; I have no idea.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ice, real name Robert Van Winkle, revealed that the Colombian drug lord and the &#8216;Cocaine Cowboys&#8217; used to come over to his house on Star Island off Miami Beach, presumably during the height of his hip hop fame.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said they would land helicopters constantly on the island, where he kept food in the refrigerators especially for them and had his maids clean up after them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/19\/11\/79123445-12880715-image-a-5_1702985330896.jpg\" height=\"360\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>In an animated conversation with VladTV, the Texas-born nineties rap star, who is now a successful real estate investor and developer, revealed how they struck up an unlikely friendship<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/19\/11\/79123447-12880715-image-a-6_1702985335454.jpg\" height=\"1043\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ice, real name Robert Van Winkle revealed that Pablo Escobar and the &#8216;Cocaine Cowboys&#8217; used to come over to his house on Star Island off Miami Beach<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They would take me in helicopters to these great events and race boats and look at all the cool stuff they were making,&#8217; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That&#8217;s the kind of stuff we did. We would go out and race boats. We were always on boats. So there was always a bunch of bikinis floating around.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Ice, 56, said he once bragged that his fortified Porsche was faster than Escobar&#8217;s prized Ferrari Testarossa, so soon afterwards they lined the cars up next to each other to settle it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I smoked him,&#8217; he recollected.<\/p>\n<p>In July,\u00a0Vanilla Ice poked fun at Miranda Lambert during his show in Atlantic City, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper encouraged fans to take photos during the show after Miranda stopped mid-concert to call out friends taking a selfie while she sang the emotional song Tin Man during her Las Vegas residency.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/19\/11\/79123729-12880715-image-m-28_1702985582337.jpg\" height=\"404\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Vanilla Ice performing during &#8216;I Love the 90s&#8217; Postgame Concert hosted By Philadelphia Phillies and presented by Jim Beam &#8216;I Love the 90s&#8217; Postgame Concert Hosted By Philadelphia Phillies, Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA &#8211; 19 Aug 2022<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/19\/11\/79123725-12880715-image-a-20_1702985510175.jpg\" height=\"412\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Rapper Robert Van Winkle, known professionally as Vanilla Ice is shown performing on stage during a &#8220;live&#8221; concert appearance on March 15, 1991<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/19\/11\/79123719-12880715-image-a-21_1702985515027.jpg\" height=\"421\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Rapper Vanilla Ice in his jacuzzi at home, circa 1990<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/19\/11\/79123727-12880715-image-m-27_1702985574301.jpg\" height=\"911\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Pablo Escobar\u00a0booking mug shot taken by the regional Colombia control agency in Medell&#8217;n in 1976.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/19\/11\/79123733-12880715-image-m-26_1702985564861.jpg\" height=\"954\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Pablo Escobar<\/p>\n<p>As Ice invited fans to join him on stage, he said: &#8216;You can take all the selfies you want \u2014 this ain&#8217;t no Miranda Lambert concert.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Later in the show, while he covered 24K Magic, the musician also let concertgoers know he would enter the crowd to take a few more pics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Turn it around like Miranda hates,&#8217; he said of fans&#8217; phones.<\/p>\n<p>During the Sunday concert, Miranda stopped in the middle of singing the emotional tune Tin Man to tell a group of fans taking selfies with her in the background to stop.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8216;I&#8217;m gonna stop right here for a second, I&#8217;m sorry. These girls are worried about their selfie and not listening to the song,&#8217; she said at her Las Vegas residency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s p*****g me off a little bit. Sorry, I don&#8217;t like it. At all. We&#8217;re here to hear some country music tonight. I&#8217;m singing some d**n music.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12880715\/Vanilla-Ice-reveals-hung-Drug-Lord-Pablo-Escobar-times-bonded-love-boats-cars-no-idea-ruthless-Cartel-leader-didnt-Google.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanilla Ice reveals he hung out with &#8216;Drug Lord&#8217; Pablo Escobar &#8216;many many times&#8217; as they bonded over love of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vanilla Ice reveals he hung out with Pablo Escobar &amp;apos;many many times&amp;apos; - News Need News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newsneednews.com\/world-news\/vanilla-ice-reveals-he-hung-out-with-pablo-escobar-many-many-times\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vanilla Ice reveals he hung out with Pablo Escobar &amp;apos;many many times&amp;apos; 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