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@Duskrave $30,000 after taxes for No Country for Old Men. How many great actors quit right before their check comes in?

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@0bjectiv3P0V If anyone from that era has stories nobody’s heard, it’s him.

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Vanilla Ice had the No. 1 album in America, 7 million copies sold. Then he opened his hotel room door and found Suge Knight inside with five men. All armed. All smiling.

In the video below, he tells the story himself.

He had two bodyguards with him. The men said they were huge fans. They wanted pictures for their daughters. He posed. Everything was cool, he says.

Then Suge asked to talk to him on the balcony. Alone.

His bodyguard stood up. Vanilla says one of the men slapped him so hard he cried, and took his gun.

Thirty minutes later, they brought in Chocolate, the man who claimed he helped write the song. Vanilla says his eye was black and his lip was swollen.

"Ice Ice Baby" was the first rap song ever to top the Billboard Hot 100. Everyone wanted a piece of it.

Forget the famous version where Suge dangled him over the railing by his ankles. Vanilla says that never happened.

What Suge actually told him out on that balcony is the part he says everyone gets wrong.

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@SlipvonFreud That’s the thing with stories like this. Only the guys on that balcony know for sure.

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@justlunacy $75 million in sales and $50,000 each. Would you have signed that at 19

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@Winop658 Most of that era never saw a courtroom. Suge did, just not for this.

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@SlipvonFreud That rumor followed him for 30 years. His own version is different, and honestly scarier.

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@St_Louisra Exactly. The real version is quieter and somehow scarier. It’s all in what was said on that balcony.

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@xxxBongwater He had armed security too. That’s what made the story so wild.

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@0bjectiv3P0V 30 years of interviews and he still hasn’t told all of it. Probably on purpose.

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@ShreadStick It gets close. Watch how he describes the moment on the balcony.

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@AGariaparra ”All smiling” was the detail that stuck with me too. The scariest people in business usually are.

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@jebrennt He never says who they were. Just that they were nicely dressed and very calm. That’s what made it scary.

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@jorgeal67 Fair distinction. Queen and Bowie had a real legal claim and settled it the normal way. That’s the difference between a lawsuit and a balcony.

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@Hero_XGL Most of that era never saw a courtroom. Suge did, just not for this

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@LfLnFastLn That’s the part people argue about most. Would you have gone to the police in his shoes?

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@jackdesmond614 One song, a TV show, a real estate business. He turned 4 minutes into a whole career.

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@quanclutchin Ha, the music industry’s Kingpin. Except the balcony scenes were real.

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@CelticMco Close. It was a burger stand parking lot in Compton in 2015. Terry Carter died, and Suge took a 28-year deal for manslaughter.

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@jnewfl He’s been a businessman longer than he was a rapper at this point

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@TVoloski Easy to say from your phone. Harder with five guys between you and the door