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What does Ice Ice Baby sample?

Vanilla Ice took the Under Pressure bassline and, at first, the credit too.

Ice Ice Baby · Vanilla Ice

Where it came from

  • Samples Under Pressure (Queen & David Bowie, 1981). The hook is the Under Pressure bassline. Queen and Bowie got no credit or royalties until it was already a hit. Source: Wikipedia: Ice Ice Baby

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