“Ice Ice Baby” by Vanilla Ice

"Ice Ice Baby" started out on the flip side of Vanilla Ice's cover of "Play That Funky Music" on SBK, and that single went nowhere until disc jockey David Morales played the other side instead. From there the American rapper's debut single, also on his first album, To the Extreme, took off: no hip-hop single had ever topped the Billboard Hot 100 before it, and it went to number one in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands as well.

Its bassline is borrowed from Queen and David Bowie's "Under Pressure", and they weren't credited as writers or paid royalties until the record had already become a hit. It remains his best-known song, and it has kept coming back in remixed form, in a live version and even rebuilt as the nu metal "Too Cold".

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.