Vanilla Ice reveals he hung out with ‘Drug Lord’ Pablo Escobar ‘many many times’ as they bonded over love of boats and cars but had no idea he was the ruthless Cartel leader because he ‘didn’t have Google’

Vanilla Ice has revealed that he hung out with Pablo Escobar ‘many many times’ as they bonded over their love of boats and cars.

In an animated conversation with VladTV, the Texas-born nineties rap star, who is now a successful real estate investor and developer, said that they struck up an unlikely friendship. 

‘Pablo was a great person in person — this sounds ridiculous,’ he fondly recalled. ‘First of all, I had no Google. You don’t go up to people and go, “What do you do for a living?” I have no idea.’ 

Ice, real name Robert Van Winkle, revealed that the Colombian drug lord and the ‘Cocaine Cowboys’ used to come over to his house on Star Island off Miami Beach, presumably during the height of his hip hop fame. 

He said they would land helicopters constantly on the island, where he kept food in the refrigerators especially for them and had his maids clean up after them. 

Ice, real name Robert Van Winkle revealed that Pablo Escobar and the ‘Cocaine Cowboys’ used to come over to his house on Star Island off Miami Beach

‘They would take me in helicopters to these great events and race boats and look at all the cool stuff they were making,’ he said. 

‘That’s the kind of stuff we did. We would go out and race boats. We were always on boats. So there was always a bunch of bikinis floating around.’

Ice, 56, said he once bragged that his fortified Porsche was faster than Escobar’s prized Ferrari Testarossa, so soon afterwards they lined the cars up next to each other to settle it.

‘I smoked him,’ he recollected.

In July, Vanilla Ice poked fun at Miranda Lambert during his show in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

The rapper encouraged fans to take photos during the show after Miranda stopped mid-concert to call out friends taking a selfie while she sang the emotional song Tin Man during her Las Vegas residency.

Vanilla Ice performing during ‘I Love the 90s’ Postgame Concert hosted By Philadelphia Phillies and presented by Jim Beam ‘I Love the 90s’ Postgame Concert Hosted By Philadelphia Phillies, Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA – 19 Aug 2022

Rapper Robert Van Winkle, known professionally as Vanilla Ice is shown performing on stage during a “live” concert appearance on March 15, 1991

Rapper Vanilla Ice in his jacuzzi at home, circa 1990

Pablo Escobar booking mug shot taken by the regional Colombia control agency in Medell’n in 1976.

Pablo Escobar

As Ice invited fans to join him on stage, he said: ‘You can take all the selfies you want — this ain’t no Miranda Lambert concert.’

Later in the show, while he covered 24K Magic, the musician also let concertgoers know he would enter the crowd to take a few more pics.

‘Turn it around like Miranda hates,’ he said of fans’ phones.

During the Sunday concert, Miranda stopped in the middle of singing the emotional tune Tin Man to tell a group of fans taking selfies with her in the background to stop.

She said: ‘I’m gonna stop right here for a second, I’m sorry. These girls are worried about their selfie and not listening to the song,’ she said at her Las Vegas residency.

‘It’s p*****g me off a little bit. Sorry, I don’t like it. At all. We’re here to hear some country music tonight. I’m singing some d**n music.’