Vanilla Ice Details '90s Friendship with Pablo Escobar, Says He 'Never Questioned' Drug Lord's Profession

"I don’t know who these people are. I thought they were businessmen," recalled the "Ice Ice Baby" performer in a recent VladTV interview

In an unexpected turn of events, Vanilla Ice and Pablo Escobar were good friends.

In a recent interview, the 56-year-old rapper told VladTV he hung out with the drug lord and the Cocaine Cowboys "many, many times" in the '90s when he was living in Miami — though he wasn't aware of who Escobar was at the time.

“We were all friends," the 56-year-old "Ice Ice Baby" singer told the outlet. "They would land helicopters in my house constantly, on Star Island."

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“[They would] come into my house. I had food just for them in the refrigerators… They would take me in the helicopter, we'd go to these great events and race boats and look at all the cool stuff that they were making," he added. "And I never questioned. We didn’t have Google. I don’t know who these people are. I thought they were businessmen. They liked to race boats like I did.”

Vanilla Ice (born Robert Matthew Van Winkle) also described Escobar as "great."

"This sounds ridiculous. First of all, like, I had no Google," he said. "You don’t go up to people and go, ‘What do you do for a living?' I have no idea, bro. Guy’s loaded… We’d go out and race boats. We were always on boats. There was always a bunch of bikinis floating around everywhere.”

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The "Too Cold" performer later told TMZ that it was their common interest in speed boats that drew them together — and credited Escobar for making boat racing mainstream. Vanilla Ice also said he didn't realize who the Medellín Cartel leader was until he was later questioned by the FBI.

Escobar was killed at age 44 by local authorities in Medellín, Colombia, in 1993 after his hideout was discovered.

As for Vanilla Ice, he released his latest single, a collaboration with Greatness titled "Bands Out," on Oct. 7. He is also scheduled to play at the I Love the '90s Tour stop in Grand Ronde, Oregon, on Feb. 16.

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