Vanilla Ice jumps car into lake, said to be for reality show (Video)

07/30/2010 by Corinne Heller

Vanilla Ice, a rapper best known for the 1990 hit "Ice Ice Baby", recently jumped a 1967 Cadillac Fleetwood through fire and into a lake in what was said to mark a long-awaited stunt for his new reality show, which he says is set to air on the DIY Network in September.

The 42-year-old, whose real name is Rob Van Winkle, appeared to have a hard time getting out of the car as he squeezed himself out of the open driver's side window as the car sank.

Vanilla Ice remained under water for a gripping few seconds and then surfaced before a cheering crowd, yelling: "That's what I'm talking about! Where's that Cadillac?"

Vanilla Ice had promoted the stunt on local radio stations and had a difficult time getting permission from authorities to film it. Numerous complaints from the fire and sheriffs departments and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had been made, the Florida-based website TCPalm.com had reported in May.

On his reality show, called The Vanilla Ice Project, the rapper and a crew of contractors are set to renovate different room of a 7,000-square-foot Palm Beach mansion and make it high-tech and environmentally friendly. The DIY network says Vanilla Ice brings 15 years of home improvement experience.

Vanilla Ice has renovated several properties and recently helped transform a Palm Beach building into a "condo" for cars, where people can live and store up to four vehicles.

He is set to release a new album called WTF on September 28. He began on Friday a U.S. tour that is set to end in the fall.

Check out a video of Vanilla Ice's jump!