![]() Of course, “The Cactus Album” sounds better on the dance floor than it does on the turntable. Out of a total seven tracks, the album consists of six remixed songs from The Cactus Album and one unreleased song. Most of the music was produced by Sam Sever alongside members MC Serch and Pete Nice. The album was selected as one of the Source's 100 Best Rap Albums. ![]() ![]() One track produced by Public Enemy producers Hank Shocklee and Eric Sadler, “Oval Office,” has the nervous intensity of PE’s “Fight the Power,” with the nice addition of a funky horn line and without the authority a really distinctive rap voice might give it. The Cactus Album was the debut album from the Hip Hop act 3rd Bass. Verse 2: Pete Nice I stand for lust of quenchin' Gee sit on cactus and rotate Enough time to clock a digit Ass so large it won't quit So I step to kick to The Oval Office in my intro Throwin. would use James Brown, they use Blood, Sweat & Tears.ģrd Bass has mastered the current fashion for dense gobbets of sound pulled from the guts of the media, layered thick enough so that you hear new stuff with each listening, but it seems a hollow display of technique. The textures are sample-rich, but where Eric B. The couple of tracks produced by De La Soul producer Prince Paul are witty and quirky like De La Soul, but 3rd Bass laughs so hard at its own jokes that you’re hard-pressed to join in. The formula seems to work the album is Top 20 and rising in Billboard magazine’s black music chart. Def Jam's choice to add 3rd Bass to its roster resulted in a late '80s burner, much of it due to pre-sample clearance wanderlust. The Beastie Boys’ supposed inauthenticity is one of 3rd Bass’ great subjects, along with sexual organs and racial inequality-though boys who go to Ivy League schools shouldn’t talk about silver spoons. 3rd Bass Hip-Hop/Rap 1989 3rd Bass's initial novelty was their pale skin color, but he Cactus Album showed that the only crutch Serch and Prime Minister Pete Nice relied on was the one propping up Nice's bum leg. Released on Def Jam Recordings on November 14, 1989, The Cactus Album is a perfect time capsule of fun rhymes and funky beats. 3rd Bass - Cactus Album (New Vinyl LP) 1 Stymies Theme 2 Sons of 3rd Bass 3 Russell Rush 4 Gas Face 5 Monte Hall 6 Oval Office 7 Hoods 8 Soul in the. The majority of it is produced by Sam Sever alongside members MC Serch and Pete Nice. Where the Beasties combined the black tradition of hip-hop with the very white one of speed metal, 3rd Bass-two white guys, one schooled at Columbia University-do a kind of danceable post-Public Enemy collegiate rap indistinguishable from that of a hundred new black crews, the way that Teena Marie sounds like Stacy Lattisaw. The Cactus Album is the debut album 3rd Bass.
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