The song’s infamous outro saw them return to their anti-pop rap stance by loudly declaring “HAMMER! SHUT THE FUCK UP” while the music video saw them give a beatdown to an oversized novelty hammer. drop bars long before the days he’d become better known as MF DOOM. The third verse cemented this by having a guest appearance by Zev Love X of K.M.D. “Black cat is bad luck, bad guys wear black/Musta been a white guy that started all that” quipped Serch, setting an entirely different standard other than anti-commercialism - one of being “woke” long before that word entered our collective lexicon. If so the irony here is that the overnight success of “The Gas Face” made 3rd Bass just as commercially viable as the same artists they were dissing.Īlthough the aforementioned Sam Sever handled most of the production duties on “ The Cactus Album“, famed De La Soul maestro Prince Paul was the man behind this classic jam. “strictly underground funk, keep the crossover” as EPMD would later opine. Perhaps 3rd Bass was attempting to establish a strident “real hip-hop” movement where the commercial success of songs like “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!)” was not allowed, i.e. I didn’t then nor do I now think of the Beasties as being any more or less legitimately hip-hop than 3rd Bass. It wasn’t obvious to due to the fact that MC Serch and the Boys have one really big thing in common - they’re all white guys of Jewish descent from the boroughs of New York. In hindsight though it’s not hard to pick up on the double entendre of lines like “The Beast now lives in the Capitol “ and Pete Nice referring to them as “three bastard sons” he gave birth to. At the time all I cared about was how fly the rhymes from MC Serch and Pete Nice were, how ill the scratches from Richie Rich sounded, and how dope the Sam Sever track was - sampling from Blood, Sweat & Tears for the music and from Edgar Bergen for comedic lines like “He is stupid, but he KNOWS that he is stupid, and that ALMOST makes him smart”. Dre, Pac, Wu-Tang and Biggie? Would they have weathered through the 90s and into the trap and snap era? Would they have stayed on Def Jam? Like that Tootsie Roll commercial said, The world may never know.“Pop figures who figured they’d get paid/Exploiting art the black man made”Īs a teenage Flash when “ The Cactus Album” first released in 1989, the fact that “Sons of 3rd Bass” was a Beastie Boys diss song completely flew over my head. Would 3rd Bass still be accepted in a world of Dr. Then again, hip hop always changes like a pair of Hanes. Also, 3rd Bass helped introduce us to MF Doom back when he was known as Zev Love X. Especially being on Def Jam which was to me the Motown of hip hop. Either way, I wished 3rd Bass stayed around for a little while longer because who knew where they would have gone. Just like the media pits Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Redd Foxx and Bill Cosby against each other because they were the top black comedians in their eyes too, instead of being just great comedians. Just because they were the two "legitimate" white rappers of the time in their eyes instead of being known as great rappers. I wonder if they stay around a little longer, how would they fare in the hip hop climate of the day? They probably would have been pitted against the Beastie Boys the whole time because that’s what the media does. With us wanting to know when are they coming back. You know who 3rd Bass reminds me of ? The Dave Chappelle Show because both of them were around for about two years and faded away into a mystery in the sunset.
At any rate, when 3rd Bass became popular we all called Dad Pete Nice, after Prime Minister Pete Nice, one of the MC’s in 3rd Bass and that stuck with him until the day that he went home. How did he got that nickname is a mystery to me because his name is not Peter. That’s what everyone in the family called him. This is one of my favorite albums of all time.
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