3rd Bass : Rolling Stone

Recordings and Reviews

Derelicts Of Dialect

With its 1989 debut, 'The Cactus Album,' 3rd Bass proved that there was room for white MCs who wanted to pay tribute to hip-hop, not rip it off. Derelicts of Dialect proves that The Cactus Album was no fluke. The sound is more street than before and the topics more serious. And it's interesting to...

1991 RS: 3of 5 Stars

Biography

The two white MCs of 3rd Bass made much of the fact that they deserved the respect that they had won from the hip-hop community. MC Serch (Queens native Michael Berring) was a chubby four-eyes with a bottomless supply of lyrical put-downs; rockabilly-coiffed partner Pete Nice (Brooklyn-born Pete Nash, an English major at Columbia University) maintained a slightly slicker microphone mien. Backed by...

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