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Sugar Bear's Story of a Ruthless Records Deal
Rob Van Winkle, Vanilla Ice's real name, kept all of the royalties from Ice Ice Baby. Shug Knight took an entourage to a hotel where Vanilla Ice was staying and they dangled him over the balcony by his ankles until he agreed to give Chocolate a fair share of the royalties. At just about the time, EZE and Dr. Dre were starting to fall out over the extortionate cuts that EZE was taking from ruthless records and NWA's work. So Dre sent in Ankledangler, Shug Knight with three guys with lead pipes.