Coordinates | 33°0′0″N70°10′0″N |
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name | To the Extreme |
type | Album |
artist | Vanilla Ice |
cover | Vanilla Ice-To the Extreme (album cover).JPG |
released | August 28, 1990 |
recorded | 1989—1990 |
genre | Hip hop |
length | 57:22 |
label | SBK |
producer | Vanilla Ice, Kim Sharp, Khayree, Darryl Williams |
this album | To the Extreme(1990) |
next album | Extremely Live(1991) |
misc | }} |
In 1990, Van Winkle signed to SBK Records, who reissued Hooked under the title To the Extreme. The reissue contained new artwork and music. "Ice Ice Baby" was given its own single, released in 1990 by SBK Records in the United States, and EMI Records in the United Kingdom. The SBK single contained the "Miami Drop", instrumental and radio mixes of "Ice Ice Baby" and the album version of "It's A Party". The EMI single contained the club and radio mixes of the song, and the shortened radio edit.
The stylistic origins of "Rosta Man" are based upon reggae toasting.
Reviews of To the Extreme were mixed. Entertainment Weekly reviewer Dom Lombardo gave the album a B, calling the album "so consistent in its borrowings that it could be a parody, if it weren't for its total absence of wit", but concluding that "if there's about a two-to-one ratio of winners [...] to clunkers, that's not the worst track record for a debut album." Udovitch cited "Ice Ice Baby", "Play That Funky Music", "Dancin'" and "It's a Party" as the album's highlights. Robert Christgau gave the album a C- rating, writing that Van Winkle's "suave sexism, fashionably male supremacist rather than dangerously obscene, is no worse than his suave beats". Allmusic reviewer Steve Huey wrote that "Ice's mic technique is actually stronger and more nimble than MC Hammer's, and he really tries earnestly to show off the skills he does have. Unfortunately, even if he can keep a mid-tempo pace, his flow is rhythmically stiff, and his voice has an odd timbre; plus, he never seems sure of the proper accent to adopt. He's able to overcome those flaws somewhat in isolated moments, but they become all too apparent over the course of an entire album."
After audiences began to view Van Winkle as a novelty act, his popularity began to decline. Van Winkle would later regain some success, attracting a new audience outside of the mainstream audience that had formerly accepted him, and then rejected him.
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Chart (1990) | Peak position |
Top R&B;/Hip-Hop Albums |
!Chart (1990–1999) | !Position |
U.S. Billboard 200 |
Category:1990 albums Category:Debut albums Category:Vanilla Ice albums Category:SBK Records albums
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