Nice and Serch's colorful history is a Behind the Music in the making. We're just at that juncture in our lives, where if something is going to happen, now is the time. "A lot of people have been calling for it for a long time. "When you get to a certain age and you look at the nostalgia for what people call the golden age of hip-hop, you know, you only go around once," Pete Nice (real name: Peter Nash) told me. There have been a couple shows over the years and a few failed attempts at reconciliation, but as the two emcees and their DJ, Daddy Rich, approach the half-century mark in their lives, they're giving it another go. Pete Nice, a Brooklyn native and Columbia University radio jock with a gravelly voice and shady gangsta lean, left the business altogether and embarked on an unlikely journey to become one of the country's most well-known baseball memorabilia collectors and experts. Album DescriptionAbout 20 or so years ago, things were so bad between Prime Minister Pete Nice and MC Serch that the two trailblazing rappers went years without speaking and, despite all their work together, were content to pretend the other didn't exist.Īfter the ugly and abrupt 1991 demise of 3rd Bass, Serch, a Queens-bred, horn-rimmed glasses-wearing art school grad, produced and cultivated rap star Nas and went on to host the popular VH1 reality show The White Rapper. See More Your browser does not support the audio element. It may not have completely integrated rap, but it was a precursor to a culture that became more inclusive and widespread after its arrival.
The Cactus Album was also important because it proved to the hip-hop heads that white kids could play along without appropriating or bastardizing the culture. Not every single idea plays out successfully - Serch's Tom Waits impression on "Flippin' Off the Wall." is on the wrong side of the taste line, and "Desert Boots" is a puzzling Western-themed insertion - but they are at least interesting stretches that add to the dense, layered texture of the album. The duo may not have come from the streets, but their hearts were there, and it shows.
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For one, it is full of great songs, alternately upbeat rollers ("Sons of 3rd Bass"), casual-but-sincere disses ("The Gas Face"), razor-sharp street didacticism ("Triple Stage Darkness," "Wordz of Wizdom"), and sweaty city anthems ("Brooklyn Queens," "Steppin' to the A.M.," odes to day and night, respectively), with A-plus production by heavyweights Prince Paul and Bomb Squad, as well as the surprising, overshadowing work of Sam Sever. Matching MC Serch's bombastic, goofy good nature and Prime Minister Pete Nice's gritty, English-trained wordsmithery (sounding like a young Don in training), 3rd Bass' debut album is revelatory in its way. Buy the album Starting at £16.79īesides the upper-middle-class frat-punks-in-rap-clothing shtick of the Beastie Boys and emissary/producer Rick Rubin, who both gained a legitimate, earned respect in the rap community, there were very few white kids in rap's first decade who spoke the poetry of the street with compassion and veneration for the form.
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