Robert Matthew Van Winkle (born October 31, 1967 in Dallas, Texas), best known as Vanilla Ice, is a Grammy Award nominated, American Music Award winning American rapper and actor known for the 1990 smash hit "Ice Ice Baby."

He found major mainstream success, but his success lasted only about one year, and his rapid fall from popularity remains one of the most notorious in American music of recent decades. Though Van Winkle has continued making music, he has yet to recapture anything approaching the level of mainstream success which he once enjoyed.

Robert Matthew “Vanilla Ice” Van Winkle (born October 31, 1968 in Dallas, Texas) is an American rapper, known today for the single “Ice Ice Baby” that topped the charts in the early-1990s. At the time, he was also one of the very few successful Caucasian rappers. Although Vanilla Ice has kept low profile for a couple of years, he came back with a more low tuned sound, Rapcore. In 1998 he came back with the Rapcore Album ‘Hard t