Vanilla Ice reveals he was associates with Pablo Escobar

After the Beastie Boys, one of many first white solo acts to interrupt onto the scene in hip-hop was Vanilla Ice. Regardless of the tradition perceiving him as a gimmick, in a current interview with TMX, the emcee admitted that he was associates with the drug kingpin Pablo Escobar within the Nineteen Nineties. 

Throughout his interview, the rapper defined how, throughout the early ’90s, he lived on Star Island and spent a lot of time in Miami as a result of he was closely into boat racing. By means of this, he met a few of Pablo Escobar’s entourage, who owned speedboats and extra.

Nonetheless, consequently, he was typically invited to 188th avenue within the Sunny Isles Seashore neighbourhood of North Miami, which is now generally known as the house of the ‘Cocaine Cowboys’ who used the native marina to import medication.

Regardless of all of this, even after assembly Escobar himself, Vanilla Ice (actual identify Robert van Winkle) was fully oblivious to what his new associates have been doing. Talking to the interviewers, he defined, “[Escobar and his people] knew that I was into racing boats, and back then, we didn’t have, y’know, Google. You couldn’t check people out, and you really didn’t ask anybody what you did for a living.”

He continued, “He really did a lot of great things for the boat industry because the money he spread around to, I guess, traffic the drugs also spread into the racing boat community […] All that money and stuff was going into the boat racing community, which I was a part of.”

The emcee defined how a few of the luxurious speedboats his Latino associates owned have been made out of carbon fibre, and he liked them. Nonetheless, he has since realised they used to run medication utilizing these sea autos.

He concluded by admitting he truthfully thought they have been “just racers,” and it wasn’t until the FBI questioned him that he realised who they have been and what they have been identified for.