Vanilla Ice - Hard To Swallow
from Broken Records - The Search for the Worst Album Ever
We’ve covered some absolute guff from the 90s on Broken Records, Steve and Remfry’s collective favourite period of time for music but it’s always led to some compelling, nostalgia-filled conversations and this week’s 90s entry is no exception. Stop, collaborate and listen cause Vanilla Ice’s on the mic and he’s jizzin out 13 truth bombs that are going to be Hard To Swallow. Released by Republic Records in 1998, Hard to Swallow is the third studio album by American rapper Vanilla Ice. It proved to be a shallow attempt to move away from hip hop and discard his former pop image. Instead, Hard to Swallow featured what he described as "skate rock", a fusion of heavy metal, punk rock and hip hop. The album features appearances from Amen vocalist Casey Chaos, Bloodhound Gang vocalist Jimmy Pop, and Insane Poetry front man Cyco. Session musicians included drummer Shannon Larkin, keyboardist Scott Borland, and Snot guitarist Sonny Mayo. Oh and it’s produced by Ross Robinson, the nu-metal superstar producer who said that working on this album was “the most punk-rock thing you could do." But was it? Or was it simply a sticky, premature gag of an album?
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