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  MC Serch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
MC Serch (born Michael Berrin) is an American hip-hop MC and former member of 3rd Bass.
Serch, who served as Nas’s manager, was the executive producer of NasIllmatic, one of the most critically accalimed albums of the 1990s.
MC Serch was dismissed from FM 98 WJLB reportedly due to a dispute over a Super Bowl weekend party at the club Motor City Live.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/MC_Serch   (251 words)

  
 3rd Bass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
MC Serch (Michael Berrin), Pete Nice (Pete Nash) and DJ Richie Rich (Richard Lawson) were the three founding members of the group.
MC Serch rapped at clubs and block parties and released a single called "Hey Boy" on Idlers, an independent record label.
MC Serch worked at Wild Pitch, a now defunct label, then founded Serchlite, a record label and publishing company responsible for signing another Caucasian New York City hip hop group, Non Phixion.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/3rd_Bass   (654 words)

  
 Serch and destroy (Metro Times Detroit)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
MC Serch didn’t plan to put the mic back in his hand, but he did just that when he moved to Detroit in November to host the morning show on WJLB-FM.
MC Serch: After coming here and realizing the power the hip-hop community had, especially politically, I knew this was the perfect forum for a hip-hop summit.
MC Serch: There are two ways (to get music to the listeners): The first is to give it to a DJ and he’ll play the shit out of it.
www.metrotimes.com /editorial/story.asp?id=4797   (1345 words)

  
 GlobalCypher.com - Where the illest emcees come to spit
MC Serch - I mean the status right now is that Pete is in the middle of doing some things with his business, and I'm still doing my business, so a 3rd Bass album would probably not be a welcomed thing in my business, and Pete's not in the business anymore.
MC Serch - My goal for Serchlite is to be the company that labels have to go to when they want their record to get played on the radio.
MC Serch - I would say that if you're going to be an indy, your going to have to be able to do things differently and creatively and I don't think that anyone has found a way to do it yet.
www.globalcypher.com /dcforum/DCForumID7/624.html   (3286 words)

  
 Illmatic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Meanwhile, the group 3rd Bass had dissolved, and MC Serch, a former member of the group, began working on a solo project.
While Serch contacted DJ Premier, Large Professor contacted Pete Rock to collaborate with Nas on a song that would ultimately be entitled "The World Is Yours." Shortly afterwards, New York producers Q-Tip and L.E.S. also gained the opportunity to work with Nas.
Most MCs would probably reminisce about situations like he did, but the way he did it is the way the niggas like to hear it, and we the hardest ones to please.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Illmatic   (3412 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/mcserch
MC Serch, best known for his work as one-half of 3rd Bass, has a resume that is amazingly diverse and stunningly impressive.
Serch introduced the respected rapper Nas to the hip-hop world and enjoyed a successful career as a solo artist, but it is his work away from the limelight that makes him most proud.
Serch also gets hands-on by teaching and lecturing at high schools about how hip-hop can be used to bring cultures together and by heading out on the road with the Rock And Wrap It Up organization.
www.myspace.com /mcserch   (1361 words)

  
 3rd Bass Bio
MC Serch spent his youth learning the skills of MC'ing and attended the High School of Music and Art where he perfected his skill.
Serch went on to be the executive producer on Nas' debut album Illmatic in 1994 which was met with rave reviews.
Serch on the other hand, put down the microphone on stage and picked up the microphone in a radio station studio.
www.thirdbass.net /bio.htm   (1207 words)

  
 Exclaim! Canada's Music Authority   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
MC Serch took on the role of executive producer instead while Large Professor helped to connect Nas with various producers to work with.
Serch makes a deal with Nas that entitles him to royalties on Nas’ second album and severs his business ties with the emcee and takes a job at Wild Pitch Records.
The group consists of Nas, AZ, female MC Foxy Brown who is heavily influenced by Nas and Cormega a revered MC and former drug kingpin from Queens who had recently finished a prison term and was referenced on Illmatic’s "One Love".
www.exclaim.ca /index.asp?layid=22&csid=1&csid1=3163   (4342 words)

  
 Acting its age (Metro Times Detroit)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
From (l): Chavis Muhammad, Eminem, Kilpatrick, Nas, MC Serch.
Hip hop’s elders — Simmons, Doug E. Fresh, the D.O.C., MC Serch — sat at the table with the culture’s offspring — Obie Trice, Eminem, Slum Village — and had a constructive talk in front of more than 200 camera crews from around the world, and a whole lotta mamas and kids.
Andrew’s Hall later that day, was followed by an MC battle that saw young wannabe rappers take turns seeing who could come up with the craftiest way to call each other niggas and bitches.
www.metrotimes.com /editorial/story.asp?id=4854   (565 words)

  
 List of hip hop musicians: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Gift of gab is the lead mc for hip hop group flalicious (along with chief xcel), and a member of quannum projects (along with chief xcel, dj...
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www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_hip_hop_musicians.htm   (5823 words)

  
 Rapdirt.com - Race Hasn't Been An Issue For MC Serch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
MC Serch, formerly of 3rd Bass, now calls Detroit home, and hosts WJLB-FM's 'Serch in the A.M.' weekdays from 6-10 a.m.
With his new position on the city's biggest urban station, he's helping lend even more credo to the notion that, in its constant mixing up and breaking down of longstanding traditional color barriers, Detroit is the most racially progressive hip-hop city in the nation.
I think it shows how strong hip-hop culture is." Serch, who is white, is conscious of his role in broadening hip-hop's racial scope.
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 VH1.com : MC 900 Ft Jesus : Biography
Taking the name MC 900 Ft. Jesus from an Oral Roberts' sermon, the Dallas native Mark Griffin began recording in the late '80s.
MC 900 Ft. Jesus' first records were bracing fusions of hip-hop, industrial, and spoken word, with hints of jazz.
Laying low for a couple years, MC 900 Ft. Jesus returned with his most popular record to date in 1994, One Step Ahead of the Spider.
www.vh1.com /artists/az/mc_900_ft_jesus/bio.jhtml   (201 words)

  
 NJS4E: New Jack Swing & Urban Music by Andrew Knyte
Serch was down with (a student but never an official member) of the 5% Nation, an offshoot of the Nation of Islam, a sect that basically promoted the Black man as God and the white man as the devil.
Serch got Nas signed to a record deal, Nice retained Richie Rich as his DJ and spent most of his solo album dissing Serch.
Serch and Pete (OK, mostly Serch) managed to get critical and commercial AND street props by collecting hot beats, crafting intelligent lyrics, and injecting creativity into their music.
www.njs4ever.com /3rdbass-thecactusalbum.html   (943 words)

  
 MC Serch: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
MC Serch: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more
Widely recognized as one of the most respected white rappers, MC Serch [+] (born Michael Berrin) made up one-third of 3rd Bass [+].
Once Serch receded from the MC spotlight, he ran a promotions company and also became a radio host.
www.music.com /person/mc_serch/1   (192 words)

  
 MC Serch Updates List Of Gas-Face Recipients | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
QUEENS, NY—For the first time since the list's 1989 release, MC Serch of 3rd Bass unveiled an updated Gas Face list Tuesday, removing such longtime recipients as Hammer and P.W. Botha in favor of more current wrongdoers.
Gas face!" Also included on MC Serch's newly revised Gas Face list were Scott Peterson, U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), and Grand Puba.
The Onion is not intended for readers under 18 years of age.
www.theonion.com /content/node/31902   (102 words)

  
 Soundslam -- Print an Article
MC Serch: Steppin’ to the Festival of Lights can be livened up by throwing on some 3rd Bass.
Just ask MC Serch, who as well as being one of the first white rappers to achieve success, also held it down for Jews in Hip Hop.
MC Paul Barman: Prince Paul-Protégé, MC Paul Barman, is another rapper that you may catch lighting candles.
soundslam.com /articles/print_page.php?id=051227_happyc&type=news   (1067 words)

  
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He was once known for being a very outspoken kid, with a certain cockiness that could have been mistaken for arrogance, but Serch now has the benefit of age and some incredible experiences, which is apparent in the way he talks.
Serch has no great desire to be interviewed, in fact, quite the opposite.
Serch: You had the main spots in Manhattan, the Rooftop, Latin Quarter, S&SŠ Union Square came later.
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 TrouserPress.com :: 3rd Bass
Too long by half but sprinkled with such febrile inventions as "Green Eggs and Swine" (which bites All in the Family and quotes Dr. Seuss), "Herbalz in Your Mouth" and "Ace in the Hole," Derelicts of Dialect is a credible second — and final — act for 3rd Bass.
With 3rd Bass dissolved, Serch (already pursuing his future career as an impresario by developing such acts as KMD) made a strong and serious solo album.
Unaided by weak comedy inserts, the bustling tracks (produced either by the duo or by the Beatnuts) are entirely ordinary, and the Prime Minister's unengaging rhymes fish around fruitlessly in tired and repetitive look-at-me-I'm-rapping eddies of boasts and insults.
www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=3rd_bass   (407 words)

  
 ClickOnDetroit.com - Gimme The Mike - Stubbs Crowned 'Gimme The Mike!' Winner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Stubbs' performance of "Inseparable" by Natalie Cole won over judges MC Serch, Mojo, Denise George and Brian Alexander with the highest score of 35 points.
MC Serch is a morning radio host on FM 98 WJLB.
Serch has two gold albums and a gold single with 3rd Bass.
www.clickondetroit.com /gimmethemike/3152468/detail.html   (461 words)

  
 urban smarts . com | dj tomekk - return of hip hop - pioneers project | review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
On the other hand, he ends his verse with some stupid babbling, while KRS cleverly puts some German words into his verse, before MC Rene shines as always with his lackadaisical flow and continued dope rhymes.
featuring Tikki Diamondz, Traft, Plattenpapzt and MC Spontan sounds worse than it actually is, and it will take you a few seconds to appreciate the oddness of it, and also enjoy the straight up spitting on this track.
As he mentions Serch Lite Records at the beginning of the track, what makes it fair to say, that his mentor is dropping by on the next track, as MC Serch appears on
www.urbansmarts.com /reviews/albums/djtomekk.html   (737 words)

  
 EmptyFree.com :: Prime Minister Pete Nice
So, people were naturally stunned when the word got out that the talented and skilled rappers behind Third Bass were actually (gasp!) white and in MC Serch’s case, Jewish.
And that pretty much ended the musical careers of MC Serch & Prime Minister Pete Nice.
MC Serch released the forgettably mediocre “Return of the Product” album, while Prime Minister Pete Nice together with DJ Daddy Rich release “Dust to Dust” a year later.
www.emptyfree.com /index.php?p=357&c=1   (1514 words)

  
 Holla at a Scholar!! - Adisa Banjoko on Hip Hop, Politics, Islam, Chess & Martial Arts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Ok, so we did this and the pressure came to put out records for Geffen, so I said to the group that we have to make five songs and we got to do it now or we're going to lose the deal.
But then they started to equate in their head, "Well we sold ten thousand units of Legacy and five thousand copies of this and that, so Serch must have taken all that money", which I didn't.
I honestly, wholeheartedly, put my whole life into hip-hop, and I can't look back ever and say that there was a point when I was involved in hip-hop music where I didn't do things 100% because I loved them.
www.netweed.com /lyricalswords/2005/06/mc-serch-of-3rd-bass-must-read-hammer.html   (12856 words)

  
 Plastic and Plush: MC Serch Legends Alarm Clock
Ecko, the folks who brought us the Flava Flav and Biz Markie alarm clocks, are set to introduce the 3rd character in their Legends alarm clock line.
The latest talking alarm clock is of former 3rd Bass member - MC Serch.
The clock is available in 2 versions - the red version has 8 alarm phases, while the more limited (500 piece) fl version has two extra phases.
www.plasticandplush.com /plasticandplush/2006/01/mc_serch_legend.html   (103 words)

  
 MC Serch MP3 Downloads - MC Serch Music Downloads - MC Serch Music Videos
Boogie Down Productions was one of the most important and influential hip-hop groups of the latter half of the '80s.
Led by the often brilliant and incendiary MC KRS-One, BDP were pioneers of both...
Although they predated the jazz-rap innovations of De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, and Digable Planets, the Jungle Brothers were never able to score with either rap fans or mainstream audiences,...
www.mp3.com /mc-serch/artists/21572/summary.html   (248 words)

  
 Third Bass - Audio samples, biography and discography from Bands on Demand Hip-Hop guide on UGO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In 1991 they launched Derelicts of Dialect, which featured both jabs at Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer as well as one of the first recorded appearances of Queensbridge's Nas.
The group broke up in 1992, as Serch and Nice both released solo projects that didn't quite match up to their success together.
Serch worked as an A&R rep at the now-defunct Wild Pitch Records, and Nice went on to open a store in Cooperstown, NY that sold baseball memorabilia.
www.ugo.com /channels/music/features/bandsondemand/HipHop/artist.asp?bn=thirdbass   (221 words)

  
 ♫ Crazy Beat Records -MC SERCH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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www.crazybeat.co.uk /MC-SERCH.htm   (590 words)

  
 detroit.jewish.com - Hip-Hop Jew
Now, living in the metro Detroit area, he stands out as MC Serch, representing a change in the airwaves as the first non-African-American radio personality on Clear Channel’s urban format station WJLB-FM 98 since Casey Kasem’s run in the mid-1950s.
Following graduation, Berrin worked three jobs daily, while earning respect for his clever rhymes and the name MC Serch from friends.
That acquaintance led to the formation of 3rd Bass, a rap group founded by MC Serch (Berrin) and Prime Minister Pete Nice (b.
www.detroitjewishnews.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=813   (1706 words)

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