After a Daily YouTube columnist made the apparently erroneous comment that anything with ninjas in it has to be cool, a video of Vanilla Ice’s 1990 Ninja Rap surfaced. The columnist stands corrected. Even something as cool and powerful as ninjas can be tainted by a white boy in hammer pants pretending to be bad.

On a related news front, ninja fans and music fans around the world are taking comfort in a widely circulated internet rumor that claims that Robert Van Winkle will soon be mysteriously assassinated by an unseen assailant…

Yo Vanilla, kick it one time, boooooyyyeeee!