Mind Blowin'
| Mind Blowin' | ||||
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| Studio album by Vanilla Ice | ||||
| Released | March 22, 1994 | |||
| Recorded | 1992-1994 | |||
| Genre | Rap, funk, g-funk | |||
| Length | 47:14 | |||
| Label | SBK | |||
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Tha Hit-Men Vanilla Ice |
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| Entertainment Weekly | (D) |
Mind Blowin' is the second studio album by American rapper Vanilla Ice. Released on March 22, 1994, it is the rapper's final release on SBK Records. The album did not chart, and received unfavorable reviews. It has since received some degree of cult status in the hip hop community. Songs from the album made up one third of Vanilla Ice's tours during 1992-2010.
Ice followed up this album with 1998's Hard to Swallow, which involved a switch to the record label Republic Records.
In late 1991, Ice started talking about his second album, which then had the working title 'Ice Capades'. While writing and recording new songs, Ice premiered three of them in 1992 during his tours, including The Wrath, Now & Forever and Iceman Party. The original version of The Wrath was heavily changed for its album release after the departure of Ice's regular disc jockey Earthquake. The album was recorded throughout 1992 to 1994 and was eventually named 'Mind Blowin' which was a nod to Ice's rhyming skills.
The Wrath, one of the album's singles, was a reply to the single Pop Goes the Weasel by 3rd Bass.
Mark Wahlberg, then in the rap group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch had made negative remarks on Ice in one of his songs. Ice answered back in the song Hit 'em Hard which was almost in its entirety a dis song aimed at Mark, but Ice also included 3rd Bass and MC Hammer. Neither 3rd Bass nor Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch responded.
A lot of the lyrics were drug influenced and featured references to smoking marijuana, especially in the single Roll 'em Up. The song I Go Down pays tribute to Gang Starr, Mary J. Blige and Tupac Shakur.
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