MC Serch
Birth name Michael Berrin
Also known as T Bone Lemke
Born (1967-05-06) May 6, 1967 (age 45)[citation needed]
Genres Hip hop
Years active 1985–present
Labels Def Jam, Psycho+Logical-Records
Associated acts 3rd Bass, Non Phixion, Nas

MC Serch (born Michael Berrin on May 6, 1967[citation needed]) is a Jewish-American hip hop MC and former member of 3rd Bass.

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Biography [link]

Serch grew up in Far Rockaway, Queens,[1] attending Far Rockaway High School,[2] and graduated from Music & Art High School. He is credited with creating the slang term "the Gas Face."

After recording three albums with 3rd Bass—The Cactus Album (1989), Cactus Revisited (1990), and Derelicts of Dialect (1991)—Serch launched a solo career with Return of the Product (1992, Def Jam). The album featured two hit singles: "Here It Comes" (which hit #1 on Billboard's Hot Rap Tracks chart); and "Back to the Grill" featuring Chubb Rock, Red Hot Lover Tone, and Nas. Serch was the executive producer of Nas’ Illmatic, one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the 1990s. He also helped to cultivate the rapper O.C. after hearing him on the Organized Konfusion song "Fudge Pudge," helping him secure a record contract with Wild Pitch Records. In 1995, Serch also mentored the newly formed Non Phixion.

Since retiring from performing, Serch has run a promotions company (Serchlite Music). He appeared in Spike Lee's Bamboozled (2000) as a member of the fictitious hip-hop group Mau Maus (played by other real-life hip-hop performers such as Mos Def, Charli Baltimore and Canibus). His character was a white revolutionary who was supposed to be 1/16th African-American.[3] From 2003 he hosted Serch In The AM on Detroit Urban Radio Station FM 98 WJLB; he was the first Jewish DJ at that station. MC Serch was dismissed from WJLB in March 2006, reportedly due to a dispute over a Super Bowl weekend party at the club "Motor City Live."[4] Serch also hosted the VH1 reality series Ego Trip's The (White) Rapper Show, known for his catch phrase: "Woop-WOOP!", which ended in March 2007. A follow-up show, ego trip's Miss Rap Supreme, debuted in 2008.

Serch has since returned to the radio airwaves in Detroit on the urban station Hot 102.7. Serch has also worked alongside Rucka Rucka Ali (Comedy Music Artist). He appeared in some of Rucka Rucka Ali's music videos, and Rucka Rucka Ali and Serch worked together on Hot 102.7.

Discography [link]

Solo [link]

with 3rd Bass [link]

Guest appearances [link]

References [link]

  1. ^ Jackson, Brian Keith. "Ice, Ice Babies: Reality-TV show tries to create the next Eminem.", New York (magazine), December 31, 2006. Accessed November 23, 2007. "I grew up in Far Rockaway, and you’d always see shoes on the line."
  2. ^ Schwach, Howard. "Rockaway Rapper Hosts MTV's 'The White Rapper Show' ", Wave of Long Island, January 26, 2007
  3. ^ https://www.ohhla.com/anonymous/misc/hip-hop/blak_iz.mau.txt
  4. ^ Graham, Adam (2007-01-08). "The Serch for the next white rap star.". The Detroit News. https://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070108/ENT02/701080357/1032/ENT. Retrieved 2007-01-24. 

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Return of the Product

by: Mc Serch

So y'all thought I was comin back with some old R&B huh?
Check it...
Here it, comes!
Yo, here it is or there it was
But where was it when you need it? Because
You fall to the waistline when you waste rhymes
Serch got it flowin when it comes to fat beats and basslines
I heard the rumors and the fables
Remove them like tumors on the tables
Boomers for the willing and the able
So turn to the next page in your manual and flim-flam, all over the jam
Chill
Lounge
Kick your ten little toes up at the end of this
Razor blade and save your spade
As the groove pummets you to another dimension
May I just mention
This is a map, it's for all made for climbin
And you're stuck to your grip like an aluminum sidin
Hiding in the back is for crumbs
Hon, here it comes!
Hit it off
Kick it off
Hit it off
Here it, comes!
B-boys, decots will try to destroy
Delpoy the truth in black hoods and black boots
Caps get rocked only when they're fitted
Lyrics get dropped only when they're lifted
So swing time is one up, the vo-chords run amuck
Whatup? Whatup? I got mine and you got yours
War's a factor, we'll perspire
And someone in the crow yells fire fire
we don't need no water, let it burn yo burn yo
We don't need no water let it burn... so it burnt
Learn your lesson well, if I don't then I guess you get jelled
Swell, heads go down like the sun and here it comes
[Chorus]
Fiddle-fee, fiddle-fie, fiddle-foe, fiddle-fum
I smell the blood of an English
muffin, huffin and puffin
sellin his soul, J-E-L-L-O, ya know?
Roll with the squad who makes back flips stack
Hits upon this so play at your own risk
Tisk, tisk, tisky, ya shoulda used Wisk
Now you shouldn't appeal to be a Biff
Insist that your motor's on scramble
Remember the skips and enter the sample
Ample flow is created by the tears and years
Of proved and blue, perched on the front steps
Checkin for the bass loop
So the troops pulled out and the tows are paid, set and done
And here it comes...
I said here it comes!
[Chorus]




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