Artist: 3rd Bass
Genre(s):
Electronic
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
Brooklyn Queens (12 VINYL)
Year: 2007
Tracks: 4
Derelicts of Dialect
Year: 1994
Tracks: 23
Product Of The Environment
Year: 1990
Tracks: 6
The Cactus Album
Year: 1989
Tracks: 21
Steppin To The A.M.
Year: 1989
Tracks: 2
tertiary Bass was one of a still-small number of white rap artists to accomplish wide of the mark acceptance in the bigger community. Along with the Beastie Boys, tertiary Bass proved that andrew D. White rap wasn't needfully going to suit a watered-down, commercially exploitatory heist of the genuine article, as so many white River interpretations of black musical forms had been in the past. Instead, they were berserk of a well-developed lyric technique and were respectfully well-versed in hip-hop culture and tradition. They helped go under the musical note for the room ovalbumin rappers could believably and intelligently approaching the music, and scorn staying together for only 2 albums, they managed to create a highly positive permanent impingement.
3rd Bass was formed by Queens-born MC Serch (innate Michael Berrin) and Brooklyn-native Prime Minister Pete Nice (innate Pete Nash), along with African-American DJ Richie Rich (innate Richard Lawson). Nice had been an English major at Columbia University and hosted a short-lived rap music show up on radio station WKCR. Serch, in the meantime, had honed his skills battle-rapping at clubs and jam parties and had antecedently released a solo undivided called "Hey Boy" on the small independent Idlers label. Both Serch and Nice were working as solo acts until producer Sam Sever convinced the deuce 20 year olds to conjoin forces in 1987. Along with Prince Paul and the Bomb Squad, Sever produced their 1989 Def Jam debut, The Cactus Album (aka Cee/D), which was greeted with enthusiastic reviews in most quarters. Clever, good-humoured singles like "The Gas Face," "Steppin' to the A.M.," and "Brooklyn-Queens" helped make 3rd Bass's name in the rap music subway. They followed it in 1991 with Derelicts of Dialect, which featured one of the low recorded appearances by Nas and contained a savagely singular thrusting at Vanilla Ice called "Kill Goes the Weasel." Accompanied by an equally humourous video, "Pop Goes the Weasel" became third Bass's biggest chart single and performed some much-needed harm control in the hip-hop community: not only did it forestall third Bass from getting lumped in with Ice, but by file name extension, it too distanced at least some of the Caucasian race from the whole phenomenon, opening doors for greater inclusiveness later on.
Disdain their success, third Bass disbanded in 1992 when MC Serch went solo. He issued Turn back of the Product later that year, and the remainder of the grouping, billed as Prime Minister Pete Nice & DJ Daddy Rich, teamed up for Dust to Dust in 1993. Neither was as successful or high profile as the two gold-selling tertiary Bass albums. Serch, interested in discovering new talent, became the head of A&R at the well-thought-of, now-defunct Wild Pitch tag, and later founded his possess judge, Serchlight Productions. Nice, meanwhile, dropped out of the medicine business and opened a store in Cooperstown, NY, that sold baseball memorabilia. In 2000, third Bass reunited for several concerts.
