Back in the day, there was a rap group called 3rd Bass. One of the members of 3rd Bass, a White dude whose stage name was "Prime Minister Pete Nice," was, to me, the epitome of cool. He had a short cut, wore a sports coat and walked with a cane. (Pete Nice. Damn.) He seemed to always bear a countenance of existential dissatisfaction. And why shouldn't he have? Dude's style was like if Frank Sinatra was genetically spliced with Rudy Ray Moore! I mean, sometimes in videos and promo shots he sat on an actual king's throne. (When I was a teenager, I thought that sitting on a throne would be fucking dope. I'm not really sure why.)
I listened to 3rd Bass for the first time in a long time yesterday afternoon, while running errands. And, yo, on the real - their music is as awesome now as it was then. And Pete Nice sounds like a golden Adonis on the mic, spittin' fire from an analog throne.
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This post inspired some wikipedia research:
"Nice retired from the music business and opened a baseball memorabilia store in Cooperstown, New York. He published a book, Baseball Legends of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, under his real name in 2003,[2] in addition to attempting to secure property for an official gravesite of Negro League players. Serch hosted the VH1 reality TV series Ego Trip's The White Rapper Show Nash also produced a documentary about the Rooters, with interviews filmed in an old gas station in Cooperstown that he was turning into a museum of baseball fan history stocked with much of the memorabilia he was gathering. [3]"
Pete Nice!
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