Music AM Wakeup Call/The Flashback Friday #1 For 9/25/09: 3rd Bass- Pop Goes The Weasel (1991)

For 1991, the underrated classic from the forgotten 3rd Bass. Oh heck, I'll let this guy explain the history of this short lived group so eloquently:

MC Serch (Michael Berrin), Prime Minister Pete Nice (Peter J. Nash), and DJ Richie Rich (Richard Lawson) were the three founding members of the group. Richie Rich was a local D.J., while Nice was an English major at Columbia University and hosted a hip hop show on WKCR. Serch performed at clubs and block parties, and released a single called "Hey Boy" on independent label Idlers.

Record producer Sam Sever (real name Sam Citrin) convinced Nice and Serch to work together in 1987. Sever, Prince Paul, and The Bomb Squad produced their 1989 debut, The Cactus Album, a critically-acclaimed debut LP that went gold and contained a minor hit in "The Gas Face." The accompanying video, which featured a bevy of humorous cameo appearances that included Gilbert Gottfried, Flavor Flav, Salt-n-Pepa, and Erick Sermon, garnered respectable MTV airplay, and the single peaked at #5 on Billboard's Top Rap Singles chart, though it failed to crack the Billboard Hot 100.

And the group disbanded in 92 or 93 from what I remember, and had a feud with the Beastie Boys.

Anyway, your music wakeup call for today, and one of your two selections for Flashback Fridays.