Pop Culture References of Wizard101: Polaris – Zeke Quest, Vanilla Ice

Zeke Quest Polaris
Vanilla Ice – Vanilla Ice
https://finalbastion.com/wizard101-guides/w101-training-point-guides/polaris-zeke-q-ice-locations/
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Quest:Too_Cold…_Too_Cold
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_Ice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Ice_Baby

Now that your wizard has graduated Ravenwood, Zeke reckons he can’t go ’round call you “young wizard” no more. He has invented the Vanilla Ice Scoop and needs your assistance finding samples of Polarian Vanilla Ice. It’s mighty tasty but it’s too cold to harvest by hand. Zeke would be much obliged for your assistance.

Robert Matthew Van Winkle (born October 31, 1967), known professionally as Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper, actor, and television host. Born in South Dallas, and raised in Texas and South Florida, Ice released his debut album, Hooked, in 1989 on Ichiban Records, before signing a contract with SBK Records, a record label of the EMI Group, which released a reformatted version of the album in 1990 under the title To the Extreme; which became the fastest-selling hip hop album of all time and contained Ice’s best-known hits: “Ice Ice Baby” and a cover of “Play That Funky Music”. “Ice Ice Baby” was the first hip hop single to top the Billboard charts and has been credited with helping to diversify hip hop by introducing it to a mainstream audience.

Robert Matthew Van Winkle aka Vanilla Ice
in 2010 at the MTV Studios

Although he was successful, Ice later regretted his business arrangements with SBK, which had paid him to adopt a more commercial appearance to appeal to a mass audience and published fabricated biographical information without his knowledge. Soundtrack appearances and a live album, Extremely Live, continued the success, but a second mainstream studio album, Mind Blowin’, featured an image change that saw a massive drop in popularity for Ice, and his subsequent albums, Hard to Swallow, Bi-Polar and Platinum Underground, failed to chart or receive much radio airplay. In 2009, Ice began hosting The Vanilla Ice Project on DIY Network.

“Ice Ice Baby” is the debut single by American rapper Vanilla Ice, K. Kennedy and DJ Earthquake. It was based on the bassline of the song “Under Pressure” by British rock band Queen and British singer David Bowie, who did not receive songwriting credit or royalties until after it had become a hit. Released on Vanilla Ice’s debut album, To the Extreme (1990), it is his best-known song. It has appeared in remixed form on Platinum Underground and Vanilla Ice Is Back! A live version appears on the album Extremely Live, while a nu metal version appears on the album Hard to Swallow, under the title “Too Cold”.

“Ice Ice Baby” was first released as the B-side to Vanilla Ice’s cover of “Play That Funky Music”, but the single was not initially successful. When disc jockey David Morales played “Ice Ice Baby” instead, it began to gain success. “Ice Ice Baby” was the first hip-hop single to top the Billboard Hot 100. Outside of the United States, “Ice Ice Baby” topped the charts in Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland, and the United Kingdom, thus helping the song diversify hip hop by introducing it to a mainstream audience.

Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages

Prospector Zeke and Vanilla Ice images are from Wizard101, and are copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment. The Vanilla Ice Image is borrowed from Final Bastion

Vanilla Ice image is borrowed from Wikipedia. It is copyright Rick Marshall and is shared under the CC BY 2.0 Creative Commons license

Image usage qualifies as fair use under US copyright law.

The other Zeke quest references can be found here.

Pop Culture References of Wizard101 by Spiral world
Wizard City
Krokotopia
Marleybone
Mooshu
Dragonspyre
Grizzleheim/Wintertusk
Aquila
Wysteria
Celestia
Zafaria
Avalon
Azteca
Khrysalis
Polaris
Lemuria

and the rest of the Zeke Quests

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