Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Vanilla Ice" in English language version.
'I didn't even like the name Vanilla Ice. It was because I had a breakdancing crew and they labeled me that and I kept telling them stop calling me that! I don't like it. Why are you calling me that, because I'm the only white guy here? Well F you guy!' he remembers back with a laugh. 'And then they were my friends, and when your friends see you don't like something, it sticks even more. So they were like "Oh, he hates it," so they were like "Vanilla Vanilla Vanilla."' Eventually, he said, Vanilla got put together with the name of his dance move, the Ice, creating the name that stuck.
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: CS1 maint: others (link)Vanilla Ice [...] said he went to Turner in his junior and senior years.
'I didn't even like the name Vanilla Ice. It was because I had a breakdancing crew and they labeled me that and I kept telling them stop calling me that! I don't like it. Why are you calling me that, because I'm the only white guy here? Well F you guy!' he remembers back with a laugh. 'And then they were my friends, and when your friends see you don't like something, it sticks even more. So they were like "Oh, he hates it," so they were like "Vanilla Vanilla Vanilla."' Eventually, he said, Vanilla got put together with the name of his dance move, the Ice, creating the name that stuck.