Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MC Serch (aka Michael Berrin) and Primeminister Pete Nice (aka Peter Nash) of 3rd Bass, May 7, 1991 in New York City. (Credit: Al ...

On June 18, 1991, Queens-based rap trio 3rd Bass released their second and final studio album, Derelicts of Dialect. Arriving two years after their critically acclaimed debut, The Cactus Album, the ...

It'll be three years of probation and a hefty debt to repay for one golden-era rapper. Prime Minister Pete Nice, real name Peter Nash, of the '80s rap group 3rd Bass, has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor ...

Craig Mack Drops 'Flava in Ya Ear': July 26 in Hip Hop History Craig Mack Drops 'Flava in Ya Ear': July 26 in Hip Hop History Today in hip-hop history, Jeezy drops a southern classic, 3rd Bass arrives ...

In their time, 3rd Bass was one of a small number of white hip-hop artists to achieve wide acceptance in the larger community. Following the Beastie Boys, 3rd Bass proved that white hip-hop wasn’t ...

Don Newkirk, the NYC musician and hip hop producer who collaborated with De La Soul, 3rd Bass, and more, died on Friday (11/25). The news came via his sister, Olivia Harris, who wrote that he died ...

1991: 3rd Bass—the rap group made up of MC Serch, DJ Richie Rich and Pete Nice—was one of the first and most successful interracial groups in hip-hop history, growing prominence in the late 1980s and ...

DETROIT, MI - The first non-African American and Jewish DJ at Detroit hip hop station FM 98 WJLB will launch a new TV show on Jan. 6. Serch, from the early 90s group Third Bass, has plans to headline ...

1989: Despite the success of frat-rap-punkers The Beastie Boys and their Def Jam production guru Rick Rubin, white people in hip-hop during the 1980s were often seen as a novelty nuisance at best and ...