Mind Blowin' - Production

Production

In late 1991, Ice started talking about his second album, which then had the working title 'Ice Capades'. He debuted three songs on his 'Extremely Live' album that were set to be on Ice Capades, including 'Road to my Riches', 'I Like It' and 'Move'. None of these songs are however featured on Mind Blowin. When the media started viewing Ice as a novelty act, he decided to make his next album harder than his last one in order to move away from the image SBK Records were trying to make for him. While writing and recording new songs, Ice premiered three of them in 1992 during his tours, including The Wrath, Now & Forever and Iceman Path. The original version of The Wrath was heavily changed for its album release after the departure of Ice's regular disc jockey Earthquake. The album was recorded throughout 1992 to 1994 and was eventually named 'Mind Blowin' which was a nod to Ice's rhyming skills.

Ice's original disc jockey Zero, who had played with him in 1986, was back as Van Vinkle's fulltime DJ after the departure of Earthquake and D-Shay. Zero help co-produce the album and add new elements to the sound. The new album featured more funk and smooth jazz than was earlier albums by Ice. 'Iceman Path' was a song that Zero and Ice had produced for his South American tour and was featured on the album completely unaltered from its original recording in 1992.

In 1994, EMI released a music video for Vanilla Ice's single, "Roll Em' Up," but it didn't get the same popularity as his previous singles. During airplay's on The Box, the music video would feature a short PSA with Ice, encouraging kids not to do drugs. A video was made for "The Wrath," but Ice's label, SBK, went bankrupt before it could be released. In 2011, he mentioned in a tweet that he had the video on VHS, but can't find it. In an interview in 1994, Van Winkle mentioned that he was going to India to shoot a third music video, which would feature him on a Peyote trip.