3rd Bass
3rd Bass was an American hip-hop group that rose to fame in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and was notable for being one of the first successful interracial hip-hop groups. They split up in 1992 and again in 2000 after a failed reunion. The group released two studio albums in their initial career and both of them were certified gold by the RIAA.
Career
MC Serch (Michael Berrin), Prime Minister Pete Nice (Peter J. Nash), and DJ Richie Rich (Richard Lawson) were the three founding members of the group. Richie Rich was a local D.J., while Nice was an English major at Columbia University and hosted a hip hop show on Columbia's student radio station, WKCR-FM. Serch performed at clubs and block parties, and released a single called "Hey Boy" on independent label Idlers.
Record producer Sam Sever (real name Sam Citrin) convinced Nice and Serch to work together in 1987. First they called themselves 3 the Hard Way, referenced in the song "Wordz of Wisdom". But, before recording the whole album they changed their name to 3rd Bass. Sever, Prince Paul, and The Bomb Squad produced their 1989 debut, The Cactus Album, a critically acclaimed LP that went gold and contained a minor hit in "The Gas Face." The accompanying video, which featured a bevy of humorous cameo appearances that included Gilbert Gottfried, Flavor Flav, Salt-n-Pepa, Kid 'N Play and EPMD, garnered respectable MTV airplay and the single peaked at #5 on Billboard's Top Rap Singles, though it did not chart on the Billboard Hot 100.
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3rd Bass
ALBUMS
- The Cactus Album released: 2000
- Derelicts of Dialect released: 1991
- The Cactus Revisited released:
The Cactus Album
Released 2000- Stymie’s Theme
- Sons of 3rd Bass
- Russell Rush
- The Gas Face
- Monte Hall
- Oval Office
- Hoods
- Soul in the Hole
- Triple Stage Darkness
- M.C. Disagree
- Wordz of Wizdom
- Product of the Environment
- Desert Boots
- The Cactus
- Jim Backus
- Flippin’ off the Wall Like Lucy Ball
- Brooklyn‐Queens
- Steppin’ to the A.M.
- Episode #3
- Who’s the Third
- Wordz of Wizdom (II)
- Brooklyn‐Queens (UK Power mix)
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Daddy Rich In The Land Of 1210
by: 3rd Bass";Who's car is that?";
";Hey rock that shit homey";
";Yeah man that's Daddy's car, man Daddy Rich
You never watch him on TV?";
";What's yo' name?";
{Daddy Rich cuts up 'Daddy Rich'} ";I'm back!";
";What's yo' name?";
";Back is the incredible"; -> Chuck D {'Daddy Rich'}
";I'm back!";
";Back is the incredible"; -> Chuck D {'Daddy Rich'}
";He-re we go.."; -> Slick Rick
[Serch] Let me kick to you a fable bout my DJ Daddy Rich
[Nice] Born in Jamaica but had to make a switch
[Serch] So he packed up his 12's and he headed 'cross the sea
[Nice] Found a new rest on the road of Beverly
[Serch] That's Brooklyn
[Nice] Beatdowns, 40 dogs
[Serch] And the Brooklyn-Queens
[MC Serch]
Cool Daddy Rich is on the 1210 mix
Scratch needs a itch like a needle does a stitch
[Pete Nice]
I switch up he flips up the wax with a mixer
Bookmakers step to the Father he's a fixer
[MC Serch]
Cool to the cut, shakin butts off the ledges
Came a longer way than Benson and Hedges
[Pete Nice]
The measures and levels of rhythm and scratch peaks
Speaks with fingers, the master of Technics
[MC Serch]
Solo diesel Daddy now stands in front of you
Displayin the ills that build on the one and two
{'Check out the Master'} {'Daddy Rich'}
{'Check out the Master'}
{'Check out the Master'} {'Daddy Rich'}
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{'Check out the Master'}
{'Check out the Master'} {'Daddy Rich'}
{'Check out the Master as he cuts these Jams' -> Run-D.M.C.}
{Daddy Rich continues to flex skills}
[Nice] DJ D.R.
[Serch] We are collectin
[Nice] the papes
[Serch] of the drapes
[Nice] of the cuts he's selectin
[Serch] Yo Pete you got a question?
[Nice] Hmmmm, yeah I got one
Can anyone ever serve the Rich?
[Serch] Hmmmm, no not one
[Nice] To spin off, spin the twelve inches
[Serch] It's a brawl that'll call both teams off the benches
[Nice] Wenches that backed up, beggin for the number
[Serch] Those Brooklyn-Queens better get the Liquid Plumbr
[Nice] Like lumberjacks, swingin an axe
[Serch] Flexin the fader with the stomach in your back
[Nice] Set tracks aside for the performer
[Serch] Induce, and now I introduce the Rich former
{Daddy Rich continues to flex skills}
[Nice] True form be givin
[Serch] Yo, drive is drivin
[Nice] Got the jizz on your lip
[Serch] Aiyyo, how you livin?!
[Nice] All hailin the master on the outro
[Serch] Can anyone serve the Richie Rich?
[3rd] I DON'T THINK SO
{'That's my man throwin down'}
{'That's my man throwin down'}
{'That's my man throwin down'}
{'That's my man throwin down'}
[MC Serch]
Aiyyo, can anybody touch you DJ Richie Rich?
{'I don't think so' -> LL Cool J}
Try to serve you?
{'I don't think so' -> LL Cool J}
Try to duplicate you?
{'I don't think so' -> LL Cool J}
Can anybody touch 3rd Bass?
{'I don't think so' -> LL Cool J}
Yeah that's what I thought too
We out.. peace..