Editing Vanilla Ice (section)

==Early life==
Robert Matthew Van Winkle was born in [[Dallas]], Texas, on October 31, 1967.<ref>{{cite book |title=Newsmakers 1991 |date=June 5, 1991 |publisher=Thomson Gale |isbn=0-8103-7344-0 |chapter=Vanilla Ice |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/newsmakerspeople0000unse_t8r6 }}</ref> Van Winkle has never known his biological father; he was given the family name of the man his mother was married to at the time of his birth.<ref name="Lego">{{cite magazine |last1=Marin |first1=Rick |date=May 1994 |title=The Iceman Cometh Back |magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |volume=10 |issue=2 |issn=0886-3032 |page=60 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fT3PkoU5ylcC&pg=PA58 |access-date=September 25, 2024}}</ref> When Van Winkle was four, his mother divorced. Afterward, he grew up moving between Dallas and Miami,<ref name="Mooney">{{cite news |title=''Wellington Resident Vanilla Ice Talks About Madonna, Wallaroos, and What's Next'' |first=Michael J. |last=Mooney |url=http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2009-11-26/news/wellington-resident-vanilla-ice-talks-about-madonna-wallaroos-and-what-s-next/2 |newspaper=[[New Times Broward-Palm Beach]] |date=November 24, 2009 |pages=2–3, 5–6 |access-date=November 27, 2009 |archive-date=January 20, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150120073348/http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2009-11-26/news/wellington-resident-vanilla-ice-talks-about-madonna-wallaroos-and-what-s-next/2/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> where his new stepfather worked at a car dealership.<ref name="Lego"/> Van Winkle was affected by [[hip hop]] at an early age, saying "It's a very big passion of mine because I love poetry. I was just heavily influenced by that whole movement and it's molded me into who I am today."<ref>{{cite web|title=Vanilla Ice on 'Canada Sings' and Why It's Anything But Another 'Idol'|url=http://www.aoltv.com/2011/08/02/vanilla-ice-canada-sings-interview/|work=Interview|publisher=AOL-TV|access-date=August 3, 2011|archive-date=April 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402192245/http://www.aoltv.com/2011/08/02/vanilla-ice-canada-sings-interview/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Between the ages of 13 and 14, Van Winkle practiced [[breakdance|breakdancing]], which led to his friends nicknaming him "Vanilla", as he was the only one in the group who was not black.<ref name="Vontz">{{cite news|url=http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/music/feature/2002/01/03/ice/index.html |title=Ice capades |access-date=November 10, 2007 |last=Vontz |first=Andrew |date=January 3, 2002 |work=[[Salon.com]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071121221641/http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/music/feature/2002/01/03/ice/index.html |archive-date=November 21, 2007 }}</ref><ref name="WashingtonPost">{{cite news|title=Catching Up With... Vanilla Ice|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/02/16/DI2006021601769.html|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=February 17, 2006|access-date=February 13, 2009|archive-date=February 17, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110217124241/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/02/16/DI2006021601769.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Although he disliked the nickname, it stuck. Shortly afterward, Van Winkle started [[battle rapping]] at parties and because of his rhymes, his friends started calling him "MC Vanilla".  However, when he became a member of a breakdance troupe, Van Winkle's stage name was "Vanilla Ice" combining his nickname "Vanilla" with one of his breakdance moves, "The Ice".<ref name="HuffingtonPost">{{cite news|title=Vanilla Ice On Real Estate, DIY Show And How He Got That Name|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/02/vanilla-ice-talks-diy-show-name_n_870170.html|work=[[The Huffington Post]]|date=June 2, 2011|access-date=June 3, 2011|first=Jordan|last=Zakarin|quote='I didn't even like the name Vanilla Ice. It was because I had a breakdancing crew and they labeled me that and I kept telling them stop calling me that! I don't like it. Why are you calling me that, because I'm the only white guy here? Well F you guy!' he remembers back with a laugh. 'And then they were my friends, and when your friends see you don't like something, it sticks even more. So they were like "Oh, he hates it," so they were like "Vanilla Vanilla Vanilla."{{'}} Eventually, he said, Vanilla got put together with the name of his dance move, the Ice, creating the name that stuck.|archive-date=June 4, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604002015/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/02/vanilla-ice-talks-diy-show-name_n_870170.html|url-status=live}}</ref> When Ice's stepfather was offered a better job in [[Carrollton, Texas]], he moved back to Texas with his mother. When Ice was not learning to ride motorbikes, he was dancing as a street performer with his breakdancing group, now called ''The Vanilla Ice Posse''. Ice wrote "[[Ice Ice Baby]]" at the age of 16, basing its lyrics on a weekend he had with friend and disc jockey D-Shay in South Florida.<ref name="Rayner">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/nov/03/popandrock.exhibition|title=Is this it?|access-date=February 13, 2009|last=Rayner|first=Alex|date=November 3, 2007|work=[[The Guardian]]'|location=London|archive-date=December 24, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224092707/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/nov/03/popandrock.exhibition|url-status=live}}</ref> The lyrics describe Ice and Shay on a drug run that ends in a [[drive-by shooting]] while praising Ice's rhyming skills.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Perullo|first1=Alex|last2=Fenn|first2=John|editor1-first=Berger|editor1-last=Harris M.|editor2-first=Carroll|editor2-last=Michael Thomas|title=Global Pop, Local Language|year=2003|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=1-57806-536-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/globalpoplocalla0000unse/page/25 25]|chapter=Ideologies, Choices, and Practicies in Eastern African Hip Hop|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/globalpoplocalla0000unse/page/25}}</ref> He attended [[R. L. Turner High School]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-11-19-ca-3800-story.html|title=Short Takes : Vanilla Ice's Facade Is Melting |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=November 19, 1990|accessdate=October 1, 2022|quote=Vanilla Ice [...] said he went to Turner in his junior and senior years.}}</ref>