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Vanilla Ice was and still is the butt of many a Hip-Hop joke. But, did the alleged culture vulture born Robert Van Winkle birth the fashion styles of some of today’s Hip-Hop stars?

That’s what GQ asked and the evidence the publication provides in its April 2013 issue is damning. Take for example, A$AP Rocky. The Harlem MC stays name dropping couture designers like Raf Simons and Alexander Wang in his designs, so there is now way he could possibly be swagger jacking the infamous “Ice Ice Baby” rapper, right?

However, peep the photo on the next page. Yep, “A$AP Rocky and Vanilla Ice: Patriotic…to the extreme,” is how the mag describes it.

In other news, Ice recently put to bed the old rumor that Suge Knight hung him out of a balcony and demanded he sign over his publishing.

2 Chainz, will.i.am , Wiz Khalifa are also cited with examples of inadvertent, we hope, biting at the expense of Mr. Ice. Check out a couple examples on the next pages, and the read the full story, titled Vanilla Ice is Hip-Hop’s (Secret) Style Icon, right here.

Photos: GQ

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