More than 30 years after Pablo Escobar was killed during a shootout with police, rapper Vanilla Ice remembers his “accidental friendship” with the infamous drug lord.
During a recent in-depth interview with VladTV, the musician revealed that he used to party with the Colombian gangster in the early ’90s. However, he insisted that he didn’t realize how big Escobar was. He also recalled hosting the drug dealer several times at his Florida home. The duo had a keen interest in speedboats and he said that was really what started the unexpected friendship.
“We were all friends,” ice ice baby the hitmaker explained. “Helicopters landed at my house constantly, on Star Island. [They would] come into my house. “I had food just for them in the refrigerators.”
Vanilla Ice also noted that Escobar and his crew would take him on the helicopter where they would go to big events and boat races. “And I never questioned it,” he admitted. “We didn’t have Google. I don’t know who these people are. I thought they were businessmen. “They liked to race boats like me.”
Vanilla Ice then said that Pablo Escobar was “great” in his eyes. “This sounds ridiculous. First of all, I didn’t have Google,” he continued. “You don’t go up to people and say, ‘What do you do?’ I have no idea, brother. The guy is loaded… We would go out and haggle. We always went on boats. “There were always a ton of bikinis floating everywhere.”
Vanilla Ice added that he didn’t realize who Escobar was until he was questioned by the FBI.
Vanilla Ice says Pablo Escobar did “great things” for the yachting industry
While continuing to talk about his friendship with infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar, Vanilla Ice claimed that Escobar had some “good qualities,” which included helping the yachting industry.
“He really did a lot of great things for the boating industry,” the rapper explained. “Because the money that he handed out also, I guess, the drug trafficking also extended to the racing community. “All that money and stuff went to the racing community, which I was a part of.”
Vanilla Ice also boasted that he once beat Escobar’s Ferrari Testarossa with his fortified Porsche. “I smoked it,” he recalled.
According to the DailyMail, Escobar made a name for himself after entering cocaine trafficking in the early 1970s. By the mid-1980s, he had an estimated net worth of $30 billion. More than 15 tons of cocaine were reportedly smuggled each day during his tenure, earning the Cartel up to $420 million per week.
The drug trafficker was murdered at age 44 by authorities in Medellín, Colombia, during a shootout in 1993.
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Source: vcmp.edu.vn