3Rd Bass - The Cactus Album (LP

3rd Bass includes: MC Search (Michael Berrin); Prime Minister Pete Nice (Peter Nash).Producers include: Keith Shocklee, Hank Shocklee, M.C. Serch, Sam Sever, Prince Paul.Engineers include: Greg Gordon, Curt Fresca, Kevin Reynolds.Recorded at Chung King, Green Street Studios, New York, New York; Island Media, West Babylon, New York.Besides 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. That is, until The Cactus Album. 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. For one, it is full of great songs, alternately upbeat rollers ("Sons of 3rd Bass"), casual-but-sincere disse