Mind Blowin'#039;Em Up

Cyco of Insane Poetry worked on 10 songs on the album.{{cite web |url=http://www.faygoluvers.net/v5/2015/05/insane-poetry-interview-52815/ |title = Insane Poetry: Edgar Allan Holiman Interview (5/28/15) |website=Faygoluvers.net}}

"The Wrath", one of the album's singles, was a reply to the single "Pop Goes the Weasel" by 3rd Bass.{{cite news |last1=Marin |first1=Rick |title=The Iceman Cometh Back |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fT3PkoU5ylcC&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false |access-date=2024-12-14 |work=Spin |date=May 1994 |pages=58, 62}}

Mark Wahlberg, then in the rap group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, had made negative remarks about Ice in one of his songs. Ice answered back in the song "Hit 'Em Hard" which was mostly a diss track aimed at Mark, but Ice also included 3rd Bass and MC Hammer. Neither 3rd Bass nor Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch responded.{{cn|date=December 2021}}

A lot of the lyrics were drug influenced and featured references to smoking marijuana, especially in the single Roll 'em Up. The song I Go Down pays tribute to Gang Starr, Mary J. Blige and Tupac Shakur.{{cn|date=July 2024}}

{{Album reviews

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|2|5}}

| rev2 = Entertainment Weekly

| rev2score = D

| rev3 = Los Angeles Times

| rev3score = {{Rating|1.5|4}}{{cite news|first=Dennis|last=Hunt|title=In Brief|work=Los Angeles Times|date=March 27, 1994|page=|accessdate=January 21, 2023|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-03-27-ca-38867-story.html}}

| rev4 = NME

| rev4score = 5/10{{cite magazine|first=Paul|last=Moody|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/nothingelseon/53129563367/|title=Long Play|magazine=NME|date=April 9, 1994|page=41|access-date=August 21, 2023}}

| rev5 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev5score = {{Rating|1|5}}{{cite book|last=Cross|first=Charles R.|author-link=Charles R. Cross|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|publisher=Simon & Schuster|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|chapter=Vanilla Ice|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/843 843–44]}}

| rev6 = Select

| rev6score = {{rating|1|5|full=U+25A0.svg|empty=U+25A1.svg|rating=medal}}{{cite magazine|first=Clark|last=Collis|url=https://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/showpage.php?file=wp-content/uploads/2014/06/albums35.jpg|title=New Albums|work=Select|date=June 1994|page=89|access-date=December 18, 2024}}

}}

Reviews were unfavorable. Entertainment Weekly reviewer James Bernard called the album "more clunky than funky".{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/article/1994/03/25/mind-blowin/|title=Mind Blowin' |accessdate=March 7, 2009|last=Bernard |first=James |date=March 25, 1994 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly}} Rolling Stone reviewer Danyel Smith called the song "Get Loose" "snappy", writing that although the lyrics are "inane", "the song is a thumping party, one of the few places where Ice loosens up. He sounds solid at the beginning of 'The Wrath' as well [...] He sounds easy and unaffected – close to sexy. But he doesn't keep it up: In 'Now and Forever,' a wet dream kind of song, Ice goes back to goofy lyrics [...] and his dry Max Headroom style."{{cite magazine |url=http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/vanillaice/albums/album/238497/review/5945585/mind_blowin |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080131165756/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/vanillaice/albums/album/238497/review/5945585/mind_blowin |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 31, 2008 |title=Review of Mind Blowin |accessdate=2009-03-07 |last=Smith |first=Danyel |date=May 5, 1994 |magazine=Rolling Stone}} AllMusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that "There isn't a single moment that establishes a distinct musical identity, and the whole thing is rather embarrassing."{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/mind-blowin-mw0000108435 |title=Mind Blowin' |accessdate=2008-06-30 |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |publisher=AllMusic}}

The album was named the "Least Essential Album Showcasing An Image Makeover" in The A.V. Club's list of the "Least Essential Albums of the '90s," cited as "an album that inspired almost no one to roll up the hootie mack, as instructed in its first single."{{cite news|url=http://www.avclub.com/content/node/24539 |title=Least Essential Albums of the '90s |accessdate=2008-03-28 |last=Phipps |first=Keith |author2=Rabin, Nathan |author3=Thompson, Stephen |date=December 22, 1999 |newspaper=The A.V. Club |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080922165959/http://www.avclub.com/content/node/24539 |archivedate=September 22, 2008 }}

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{{tracklist

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| total_length = 47:14

| all_writing = Vanilla Ice and Zero unless otherwise noted. All songs produced by DJ Zero and Vanilla Ice unless otherwise noted

| title1 = Live Intro

| writer1 =

| extra1 = DJ Zero, Tha Hit Men and Vanilla Ice

| length1 = 0:51

| title2 = Fame

| writer2 =

| extra2 = DJ Zero, Tha Hit Men and Vanilla Ice

| length2 = 4:15

| title3 = Get 'Em Now

| writer3 =

| extra3 =

| length3 = 0:08

| title4 = The Wrath

| writer4 =

| extra4 =

| length4 = 4:20

| title5 = Roll 'Em Up

| writer5 = Vanilla Ice, Rod Johnson and Patrick Rollins

| extra5 =

| length5 = 4:30

| title6 = Hit 'Em Hard

| writer6 =

| extra6 =

| length6 = 3:10

| title7 = Smooth Interlude

| writer7 =

| extra7 =

| length7 = 0:31

| title8 = Now And Forever

| writer8 =

| extra8 =

| length8 = 3:40

| title9 = Iceman Party

| writer9 = Vanilla Ice

| extra9 = Tha Hit Men and Vanilla Ice

| length9 = 3:34

| title10 = Oh My Gosh

| writer10 =

| extra10 =

| length10 = 3:25

| title11 = Minutes Of Power

| writer11 = Vanilla Ice

| extra11 = Tha Hit Men and Vanilla Ice

| length11 = 3:50

| title12 = I Go Down

| writer12 =

| extra12 =

| length12 = 3:27

| recorded12 = 1992

| title13 = Bullet On The Chart

| writer13 =

| extra13 =

| length13 = 0:28

| title14 = Phunky Rhymes

| writer14 =

| extra14 =

| length14 = 3:47

| title15 = Blowin' My Mind

| writer15 =

| extra15 =

| length15 = 3:18

| recorded15 = 1993

| title16 = Son Of A Gun

| writer16 =

| extra16 =

| length16 = 0:07

| title17 = Get Loose

| writer17 =

| extra17 =

| length17 = 3:41

| recorded17 = 1994

}}

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Fame

• "Long Red" by Mountain
• "Synthetic Substitution" by Melvin Bliss
• "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" by Jimi Hendrix
• "Fame" by David Bowie

The Wrath

• "Wicked World" by Black Sabbath
• "When Boys Talk" by Indeep

Roll 'Em Up

• "It's a New Day" by Skull Snaps
• "Insane In The Brain" by Cypress Hill

Hit Em Hard

• "Impeach the President" by The Honey Drippers

Smooth Interlude

• "Do It Roger" by Roger

Now & Forever

• "Don't Change Your Love" by Five Stairsteps
• "Motor Booty Affair" by Parliament
• "Do It Roger" by Roger

Iceman Party

• "Do You Wanna Go Party" by KC & the Sunshine Band
• "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" by Roger

Oh My Gosh

• "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud" by James Brown
• "It's a New Day" by Skull Snaps

Minutes of Power

• "Cold Sweat" by James Brown
• "Take Me to the Next Phase" by The Isley Brothers
• "Opening/Can You Feel It" by The Jacksons
• "Cutie Pie" by One Way

I Go Down

• "Impeach the President" by The Honey Drippers
• "You're Just What I Need" by Betty Wright

Phunky Rhymes

• "Doo Wa Ditty (Blow That Thing)" by Zapp
• "Son of Reach for It (The Funky Dream)" by George Duke

Blowin My Mind

• "Sara Smile" by Hall & Oates
• "Mind Blowing Decisions" by Heatwave

Son of a Gun

• "Breakdowns of 1939" by Warner Bros.

Get Loose

• "More Bounce to the Ounce" by Zapp
• "We Call It the Box" by Bill Summers

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• Vanilla Ice — vocals, producer, engineer, executive producer, mixing
• Darryl "Delite" Allamby — keyboards
• Davis Bickston — drums
• Mike Daane — bass
• Dee Dee Harris — vocals
• Paul Loomis — keyboards
• Jeffrey Smith — electronic sounds, talk box
• Andy Timmons — guitar
• Robert Wechsler — guitar, programming, engineer, synclavier
• Steve Williams — drums

• Scott Burnworth — art direction, design, photography
• Tom Coyne — mastering
• Dave Gossett — A&R
• Glen Hardy — photography
• Sean Hargraves — type
• Phil Johnson — art direction, design
• Scott Johnson — art direction, design
• James Conrad Koch — logo
• Tha Hit Men — producer
• Zero — producer, mixing

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