Justin Bieber Gets Unsolicited Advice From Vanilla Ice On Top Of Everything Else

Justin Bieber can now add one more voice to the growing cast of parents that he seems to have acquired. Who? I hear you ask. Why, it’s Vanilla Ice.

Yes, Vanilla Ice.

In addition to Will Smith’s slam on the media’s “war”on Bieber, his wife’s blasting of press “bullying,” will.i.am, Liam Tomlinson, Jessie J and Chris Brown’s recent declarations of support for the embattled singer — now Ice himself wades into the debate.

Speaking to GQ about all the hugely interesting things he’s doing now, Ice — or, Robert Van Winkle, which is almost inconceivably worse — had this to say about young Bieber’s ongoing bad press.

“I’ve known [Bieber] for a while,” Ice reveals, surprisingly. “He’s a good kid and he’s got great people around him. The bad thing is, they’re not always going to be around. There’s a transition from being a kid to being an adult, and he’s never had that. Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That’s not what real life is about.”

“I don’t think Justin’s listening to too many people these days,” the underrated ex-rapper continued. “He’s gotta learn his purpose. When the snow globe that’s been rattled up his whole life settles, it’s ‘Where am I as an adult?’ and ‘Where do I fit in?'”

For those that have been more concerned with minor items like the threat of nuclear war and shifting tectonics of world economics, a brief recap of Bieber’s recent missteps, includes:

Battery allegations by his Calabasas, California neighbor, an expletive-filled row with a British paparazzo, the forcible quarantining of his new pet monkey, persistent shirtlessness, a reported ban from a Vienna nightclub … I could go on. Essentially it all adds up to not quite an Oasis tour but not High School Musical either.

Of Bieber’s well documented antipathy towards the paparazzi, Ice — who rode the fame train at the tender age of 23 with his seminal opus “Ice Ice Baby” — offers this insight:

“If [Bieber] hits the paparazzi, that’s gonna be on the news tonight. If he releases a new record, I don’t know. And you have to pay for that advertisement! He’ll be alright. He’s got some stuff to go through. Hopefully he won’t go too far.”

Anyone else think the ‘Bieber Bad Boy’ debate is losing a sense of perspective?

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