Did Suge Knight actually dangle Vanilla Ice over a balcony?

In 2001, an iconic documentary was launched chronicling the rise and fall of West Coast label Demise Row Information entitled Welcome To Demise Row. Produced by Santa Monica-based manufacturing firm Xenon Footage, the documentary explored many alternative topics, from the making of Dr Dre’s The Power to the assorted feuds that Suge Knight had throughout the label’s heyday.

One feud that has been misconstrued and twisted through the years is one between Knight and the ‘Ice Ice Baby’ emcee Vanilla Ice. This beef allegedly ended up in Knight dangling the rapper from a balcony, threatening to kill him. Nevertheless, on separate events, each events have addressed the story to make clear what actually occurred. 

The feud was associated to a singer and songwriter Suge Knight managed when Vanilla Ice’s Hooked album was launched. The vocalist, Mario Johnson, had helped pen many songs on the undertaking. Though he had obtained credit, Vanilla Ice’s group by no means paid him and stopped returning his cellphone calls.

Recalling the incident for the 2015 ebook Welcome to Death Row: The Uncensored Historical past of the Rise and Fall of Demise Row Information, Johnson recounted, “I remember bein’ at Vanilla Ice’s attorney’s office. I found out his album had two million pre-orders before it was [released], so I knew we had a big record…Suge didn’t know how to handle a big potential lawsuit like that — a record of six, seven million, at the low end.”

Nevertheless, the lawyer instructed Knight, “Look, we’ll give you a couple of dollars if you’ll let bygones be bygones.” This infuriated the label executive, who then wished to talk to Vanilla Ice himself.

Remembering how Suge discovered Vanilla Ice, Johnson instructed the ebook’s writer, “We knew where [Vanilla Ice] was staying because I was supposed to be hearing some tracks he was doing. He wanted me to come by myself. But Suge said, ‘I’m going with you’.” That is when the notorious LA gangster confronted Vanilla Ice.

Within the ebook, Vanilla Ice clarified, “I went to my hotel room, and Suge was in there with several people. He let me know he wanted to get some points off the record ‘Ice Ice Baby.’ Suge took me out on the balcony and started talking to me personally. He had me look over the edge, showing me how high I was up there. I needed to wear a diaper that day. I was an ‘investor’ in Death Row Records with no return on my money.”

Nevertheless, he concluded by asserting, “He didn’t hang me off from any balcony, okay? The story’s been kind of blown out of proportion, and I want to clarify that Suge and I have no bad feelings towards each other.”

The Suge Knight in opposition to Vanilla Ice story was an actual feud. Nevertheless, the balcony was used as a risk and a bargaining instrument. Suge Knight didn’t dangle the emcee from the balcony, and it’s, subsequently, an city fable. You possibly can hear Vanilla Ice clarifying the story beneath.