Vanilla Ice (real name Robert Van Winkle) is a man who has been to the top of the music world, only to become a national joke 15 minutes later.
His message to Justin Bieber: You’re next!
Ice is warning the Bieb to enjoy his success while he can because his fame will be fleeting, and sustaining this kind of success is impossible.
From one doomed pop-cultural fad to another?
Vanilla, who produced the first hip-hop single to top the Billboard charts, tells the Huffington Post, “I mean, I did ‘Ice Ice Baby’ when I was 16.”
“So, yeah, I can kind of relate a bit. Sold over 100 million records. I had a weekend that lasted about three years, and I didn’t know who I was.”
“What’s my purpose in life? So my prediction about Bieber is that he’s going to go through one of those weekends that lasts a few years.”
As is his custom, Ice is a bit confused about his own biography for one. “Ice Ice Baby” became a hit in 1990, when he was 23 years old.
Secondly, Vanilla Ice is the epitome of a flash in the pan, a one-hit wonder, a gimmick with no real substance. Is Justin Bieber the same?
We suspect his 11 million Twitter fans think not.