This takes me back to the 7th or 8th grade in Toronto. Those were the days when you waited all week to watch and record (on VCR) *Rap City* on MuchMusic. 3rd bass was one of my fav groups. You dont get that playfulness anymore that we use to from the likes of 3rd Bass, Slick Rick, Kid N Play etc. So nostalgic.
Man, talk about a blast from the past---I loved that "Gas Face" song, especially because of that piano riff, which is actually from an Aretha Franklin song called "Think"--one of her classics.
3rd Bass had a lot of cool samples used in their music. My favorite is "Spinning Wheel" by Blood Sweat and Tears on the opening track to The Cactus Album, "Sons of 3rd Bass."
3rd Bass was so Respectful to the culture, I seen all the Elements of Hip-Hop here, you got your MC's, Dj, B-Boys and the very subtle touch of Graffiti Art that Serch carried on the back of his Head
then you don't understand what you are actually seeing. remember dame dash talking about vultures? these two rabbi's pimping out the culture and pretending to be "white"
I respect 3rd Bass, as they went beyond to hold up the hip-hop culture. They lived our culture while understanding their position in 90s black hip-hop expression.
"They lived our culture while understanding their position" wow... what was THEIR position? How did they live YOUR culture? THESE GUYS WERE GARBAGE! fake homies living a fake fantasy!
I’m from the UK 🇬🇧 and grew up in the 90s but never heard of this group.. only white rappers I knew where the Beastie Boys.. TH-cam is really a history library.
@Broc Rockwell I don’t think Pete nice was Jewish I could be wrong but still one of the dopest groups to come out the golden era. And producer Sam Sever was no joke
Yeah after Russell Simons gave him money to buy it .. Russell is the reason 3rd Bass got any kind of notoriety !!! All the famous black artists in their videos ? Come on they were all paid off by Russell ! FACTS ...
Beasties were fresh but 3rd Bass had conscious lyrics that assessed social and political issues. Thumbs up for quality lyrics!! (not asking, just saying I am giving thumbs up)
Why you dissin the Beastie Boys?, they came out with "Open Letter to NYC" And on the same album dissed GWB for his pro war policy and violating trieties
3RD BASS were dope ,i have to laugh when people say to me "you don't like eminem because he is white" no ! I don't like eminem because he just aint dope he can flow but he flows over wack beats and has forgot about the elements,we loved 3rd bass back in the day because as you see in the clip they kept the shit hip hop to the core, dope lyrics over dope beats a dj cutting it up, dancing,just bboy shit. The same reason why i have time for and listen to mc's like Edan,abdominal,RA the rugged man and ill bill colour don't mean shit to me just don't come with wack shit and call it hiphop black or white.
Couldn't have put it better yo. Don't give a damn if a cat's white, at long as their rhymes tight and they respect and represent the Culture, that's all that matters.
Pete graduated from Columbia University. Degreeing in Emcee'ing. LOL So fresh til' this day. They both did it for Hip-Hop and real music. Lyrics told truth. :)
3rd bass came out and lived through the culture before they became mainstream. They was talking about the fucked up nation and how they treated the Blackman because they thought it was wrong. Respect.
Shout out to my brother from another mother (R.I.P. mom Cathy) , Robert(R.I.P.Bobby) Sean Hughes pulling my coat tails to this!!! Love my Sis Erica. Nuff said.
Bro!!.. should I get be as Enthusiastic when I see 'Serch' doin' the 'Runnin Man' or NOT??🤔😬 SMH... I'm pushing 60... I remember EVERYTHING about this Era 🙏 *Life IS Beautiful if U let it* !! 💯🎯👊💪 *Jew-Fro, wit the High-Top Fade* ???😖👊
People underestimate the importance of Arsenio Hall. This era defined a generation.
A generation of terrible late nite talk shows
Damn, Pete Nice's voice was perfect for rapping.
Straight 90s baby!! Welcome to the golden age! you are welcome! you would NEVER have hip hop without this!
Rest in Peace DOOM. warms my heart seeing him so young and having fun here. Thank you for everything Legend
Am late didn't know doom died
@@danschumacher5427 he died on halloween 2020, though it wasn’t announced until new years eve 2020
@@DasherBeats yeah
which one is Doom ?
@@MrQmason zev love x from kmd
DJ Richie rich killed the whole mix.... very underrated
Yeah. He was about to go in just at the end of that scratch before putting the Gas Face beat on.
Remember him in the movie Juice?
Yes indeed
@@supastarvfr9534 yo I thought that was him. Wasnt sure
Absolutely. Much respect
3rd Bass are so underrated. They only put 2 albums out, and they still sound great today.
Who would have thought that skinny little guy would become a potbellied super villain ?
♥️
Zev Love X
A primed prime minister.
Whom are you speaking of? Serch has always been chubby.
@@cwrichardson3 mf doom
That man Serch is his own backup dancer
Miss those days
Sadly we lost MF DOOM and recently DON NEWKIRK ("Thanks Serch!" guy). Two great talents. Rest easy!
Don was my Baby Brother. My life will never be the same without you Donnie. Absolutely no drugs & no vaccine either
Drugs?
What happened do them???
I didn't know that
MF DOOM!! Him and Kool Kieth are the best underrated MC’s of all time
Underappreciated
He'll take your brain to another dimension
Kool Keith is from another dimension. Earthlings weren't/aren't ready for him.
Damn been a DOOM fan for 20 years and never knew he was on Arsenio lol wild
A LOT of rappers danced back then, and we just wanted to be like Kid n Play-going to clubs and cuttn' rugs!
I really need to stop watching groups I loved when I was in high school. It depresses me, haha.
odd feeling eh? very optimistic times.
😂🤣😂🤣tru
I know it hurts. We were further ahead back then.
Terrell L. Moody LMFAOOOOOO 🤣🤣🤣
They're f*ckin' DOPE! Cj Ace. 1990 Ya'll.
Rest In Peace to don newkirk and Dumile 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 Infinite thanks for the contributions to this beautiful art form
My baby Brother Don my life will never the same without you. Love Libby.
@@LibbyLady So sorry for your loss, Libby. He definitely seemed like an amazing guy!
They survived Apollo Theatre's Amateur Night. If you rub that log, and you get that crowd on your side, you're an automatic legend.
The dancing is FUCKING unreal. What a legendary video, wish I was growing up in the 1990s.
Great performance. Their first album was definitely their best. Also, DJ Richie Rich showing what a real Old School DJ is about on that vinyl.
who the fuck is dj Richie rich?
@@bobbycowper2915 He was thier D.j
@@bobbycowper2915a guy with next level skill
This takes me back to the 7th or 8th grade in Toronto. Those were the days when you waited all week to watch and record (on VCR) *Rap City* on MuchMusic. 3rd bass was one of my fav groups. You dont get that playfulness anymore that we use to from the likes of 3rd Bass, Slick Rick, Kid N Play etc. So nostalgic.
Richie Rich tearing it up on the turn tables!
Serch and Heavy D got it popping on the dance floor back then. Representing for the chunky men
Search wasn’t even chunky but he did his thing nonetheless
@@alantaylor5263 yeah he was. And he got chunkier
Bloaters need love too
4:43 Dude was quick to throw his arm around his girl when Serch sat next to her.
Mr Steal Your Girl!
He stole his wife from a guy lol
5:45 Serch doing the splits! He had some moves
REST SO EASY NOW!! MF DOOM THE TRUE MASTER OF CEREMONIES..rip😥
Loved this show. A great era for pop culture.
RIP Doom 💯🙏 this was a great performance. The Arsenio Hall SHOW got me thru HS wish that shit never ended.
Remember when tribe and leaders did scenario? That’s all we talked about the next day at school.
If anybody ever asks you what the 90s were like, just show them this video.
You gotta show them something from 94/95, this was 90 style was still the 80s
This was 1990
Nah this was corny when it hit the charts, honestly Arsenio was always corny.
Why? To show them what a one hit wonder is?
A box of Newports, and some Puma sweats.
These guys were legitimate. Definitely part of the late '80s early 90s scene.
Man this brings back some damn good memories. I loved 3rd Bass
david jones without serch no non phixion
@@nicholascrump4482 lol😂
Serch had the mooooves
Before reading comments i was gonna post he got moves and i'm jealous LOL But seeing as you beat me to it i'd just reply to you bro. 🙂
Man, talk about a blast from the past---I loved that "Gas Face" song, especially because of that piano riff, which is actually from an Aretha Franklin song called "Think"--one of her classics.
Didn't know that's were it came from.
3rd Bass had a lot of cool samples used in their music. My favorite is "Spinning Wheel" by Blood Sweat and Tears on the opening track to The Cactus Album, "Sons of 3rd Bass."
Prince Paul hooked up the beat. One of the best to ever do it.
3rd Bass was so Respectful to the culture, I seen all the Elements of Hip-Hop here, you got your MC's, Dj, B-Boys and the very subtle touch of Graffiti Art that Serch carried on the back of his Head
Actually still respected by the culuture just by the older heads and 90s kids
Go away
All groups in the 80's and early 90's utilized all the elements.
@@morefire1966 you go away
then you don't understand what you are actually seeing. remember dame dash talking about vultures? these two rabbi's pimping out the culture and pretending to be "white"
RIP Don Newkirk
Much RESPECT to 3rd Base, on of my favorite rap groups of the early 90s!!!!
Respect them by spelling it right - 3rd Bass
If they make a movie outta dem, they should get Jonah Hill to play MC Serch
Rick Harding yes call it steppin to the am
Oh hell yeah that would be hilarious ------ Jonah Hill -----
Jonah Hill is his fucking twin !
Serch the goof ball 🤓
About to say the same thing. Jonah should've made a cameo in his own movie Mid 90's 😀
You can hear dooms voice before it was deep from all the brew and smoking. Rest In ✌️
I miss this kind of hip hop
Pure dope. Takes me back to when I was just a kid watching on TV...
Anthony Montero I envy you. Watching this and being born in '94 makes me nostalgic for an era I never even got the chance to enjoy! Peace.
I respect 3rd Bass, as they went beyond to hold up the hip-hop culture. They lived our culture while understanding their position in 90s black hip-hop expression.
"They lived our culture while understanding their position" wow... what was THEIR position? How did they live YOUR culture? THESE GUYS WERE GARBAGE! fake homies living a fake fantasy!
Doom back in the day! They all killed it with that performance!
MC Search has got some moves 👌
Adam Bryant --- He does a good flip flop with all that blubber .. Hahahaha
I was just gonna say that. For a chubby kid he did good! Lol.
*Serch. But yeah true, he got some moves.
he's not much of a poker player.. used to hang with him back in the day when he was just Mike Berin..nice guy and always had talent..
As he said in his interviews
Get his name right
There's no A in it
"It's not about Black or White, It's about wrong and right" 3rd Bass 🎶
Pete Nice graduated with a degree in slangin' counterfeit sports memorabilia.😂
Back when rap was fun.
The origin story of a young promising lab assistant before a lab accident left him scarred and made him become a true super-villian....MF DOOM
DOOM!!!!
lilwizx zev luv x
he was zev before doom
Which one is he?
@@chrisc.4517 Yes.
Yeah he did. Rich was dope in "juice"
Woow this is exactly what i wanted to see DOom on Arsenio hall show!! the new show must ask for a live preformance SOOON! ima email him haha
I’m from the UK 🇬🇧 and grew up in the 90s but never heard of this group.. only white rappers I knew where the Beastie Boys.. TH-cam is really a history library.
3rd Base are a legendary rap group
Then spelled their name right!
One of my favorite rap group ever. Still play their albums. These white boys got soul!!
Yep. It ain't about color, as long as you got soul!
They got soul...coming out their asshole ;)
@@ModernDayWarrior2112 lol remember that skit lol
@Broc Rockwell I don’t think Pete nice was Jewish I could be wrong but still one of the dopest groups to come out the golden era. And producer Sam Sever was no joke
@Broc Rockwell The Prime Minister was not one of the chosen tribe.
I remember when Pete Nice and Daddy Rich went on their own after Serch was out, album was dope.
Pete Nice - Best dressed MC of all time...
After Big Daddy Kane.
Jonathan Wiskee That addendum can be added to any sentence ever spoken and it will be true.
Yeah after Russell Simons gave him money to buy it .. Russell is the reason 3rd Bass got any kind of notoriety !!! All the famous black artists in their videos ? Come on they were all paid off by Russell ! FACTS ...
Big Daddy Kane, Slick Rick.
Old School their label head did his job and got them clout? THATS IT!
2 legendary groups on one stahe. KMD vs @rd Bass. RIP Doom and Sub Roc. Thank u Doom for bringing us Nas to the light. #cactusalbum
WOOOOOOOOOOOO estoe sun pedazo de historia !!! Zev Love X y 3rd bass gracias esto es HH salduos desde chile
RIP Doom aun no lo creo
Arsenio “i’m gonna tear you apart, and your friend too” Hall
Great era of hip hop. 3rd Bass was nice.
Pete was real smooth
He was NI IIIIIIIIIICE
And rich
Nice.
Still giving the Gas Face in 2019!!!!
Yo serch had the flyest High top fade lol 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Rich ripped it up. Killer classic right here!
What happened to Sub Rock
Beasties were fresh but 3rd Bass had conscious lyrics that assessed social and political issues. Thumbs up for quality lyrics!! (not asking, just saying I am giving thumbs up)
Why you dissin the Beastie Boys?, they came out with "Open Letter to NYC" And on the same album dissed GWB for his pro war policy and violating trieties
3rd Bass had (and still do have) some of the hardest-hitting lyrics/slang
Wow, great Vid. Brings back some good memories.
But how do we know that’s the real Zevlove X and not a doppelgänger?
That kid from Redfern projects queens farrock discover illmatic NAS, good and legend move, respect to Mc search
sounds like MF Doom on here. He's just so damn young it's funny.
MF Doom= Zev Love X of the underrated group KMD. R.I.P. DJ SubRoc, doom’s brother.
Classic Hip Hop. Dope MCs spitting and DJ Richie Rich killing it on the turntables. Salute!
Loved that song
Damn this took me back. Good times back then
amazing!!!
Search got his right back in december, a reissue will follow, The Cactus LP was never re released since 89.
3RD BASS were dope ,i have to laugh when people say to me "you don't like eminem because he is white" no ! I don't like eminem because he just aint dope he can flow but he flows over wack beats and has forgot about the elements,we loved 3rd bass back in the day because as you see in the clip they kept the shit hip hop to the core, dope lyrics over dope beats a dj cutting it up, dancing,just bboy shit. The same reason why i have time for and listen to mc's like Edan,abdominal,RA the rugged man and ill bill colour don't mean shit to me just don't come with wack shit and call it hiphop black or white.
And stupidest comment of the year goes tooooo... How did i get to this garbage video anyway?
GREW UP ON 3RD BASS! step into the am
yeah eminem and all these wack ass fast rappers won't compare to these cats
Couldn't have put it better yo. Don't give a damn if a cat's white, at long as their rhymes tight and they respect and represent the Culture, that's all that matters.
Hell yea 3RD BASS was off the hook in the 90's! I was on them hard back in the day
Viktor Vaughn
King Gheedora
Howard Humetewa Zev Love X
Damn i miss this whole vibe.
Pete graduated from Columbia University. Degreeing in Emcee'ing. LOL So fresh til' this day. They both did it for Hip-Hop and real music.
Lyrics told truth. :)
3rd bass came out and lived through the culture before they became mainstream. They was talking about the fucked up nation and how they treated the Blackman because they thought it was wrong. Respect.
Real DJ work right there man. Doing it.
Pete Nice, straight up gangster with his cane and nice suit and chair, "3rd Bass is AWESOME"
☮💜I was there !!!!
MF DOOM!
Shout out to my brother from another mother (R.I.P. mom Cathy) , Robert(R.I.P.Bobby) Sean Hughes pulling my coat tails to this!!! Love my Sis Erica. Nuff said.
Remembering Don Newkirk. 🙏🏼🙏🏼
"Steppin' to the A.M., the 3rd Bass Story"
Somebody write that!!!!!!
I had all 3rd Bass videos taped on VHS!
Bro!!.. should I get be as Enthusiastic when I see 'Serch' doin' the 'Runnin Man' or NOT??🤔😬
SMH... I'm pushing 60... I remember EVERYTHING about this Era 🙏
*Life IS Beautiful if U let it* !! 💯🎯👊💪
*Jew-Fro, wit the High-Top Fade* ???😖👊
Man, I forgot how dope a New Jack Swing dancer MC Search was. Still dope in 2023...
These guys were so dope!!
Serch between 5:47 and 5:54 made me fuckin' lose it!!!! lmao. love the 90's
My dude in the audience put his arm around his lady real quick when Serch sat down next to her😂.
Punk move insecure or what 🤣😂
@@meonly6471 Right😂
I remember seeing this back in the day!
Zev love X, rest in power. 💪🏿🎤💯
Brought me back to 6th grade!!
My favourite rappers, since late 80s,U dance when U hear 3rd bass.
ZevLoveX / MF Doom's first time on TV? Is it? Daaamn.
These brothers were teaching! That’s what’s Rhymin should b about. Word from the West Coast
Serch my dude...Prime Minister extra smoove...3rd Bass respect
Hype! Give ‘em the gas face!