Vanilla Ice and Pablo Escobar.Photo:Paul Natkin/Getty; FILES/AFP via Getty

Vanilla Ice Details ’90s Friendship with Pablo Escobar, Says He ‘Never Questioned’ Drug Lord’s Profession

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In an unexpected turn of events,Vanilla IceandPablo Escobarwere good friends.

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“[They would] come into my house. I had food just for them in the refrigerators… They would take me in the helicopter, we’d go to these great events and race boats and look at all the cool stuff that they were making," he added. “And I never questioned. We didn’t have Google. I don’t know who these people are. I thought they were businessmen. They liked to race boats like I did.”

Vanilla Ice (born Robert Matthew Van Winkle) also described Escobar as “great.”

“This sounds ridiculous. First of all, like, I had no Google,” he said. “You don’t go up to people and go, ‘What do you do for a living?' I have no idea, bro. Guy’s loaded… We’d go out and race boats. We were always on boats. There was always a bunch of bikinis floating around everywhere.”

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Vanilla Ice is seen performing onstage during day 1 of the 2021 Tortuga Music Festival

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As for Vanilla Ice, he released his latest single, a collaboration with Greatness titled “Bands Out,” on Oct. 7. He is also scheduled to play at theI Love the ’90s Tourstop in Grand Ronde, Oregon, on Feb. 16.

source: people.com