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MC Serch

MC Serch (born Michael Berrin on May 6, 1967 ) is an American

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
hip hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music is a music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rapping which is accompanied with backing beats. Hip hop music is part of hip hop culture, which began in the Bronx, in New York City in the 1970s, predominantly among African Americans and Latino Americans....
MC

Rapping

Rapping is the rhythmic spoken delivery of rhymes, wordplay, and poetry. Rapping is a primary ingredient in Hip Hop music, but the phenomenon predates Hip Hop culture by centuries....
and former member of 3rd Bass

3rd Bass

3rd Bass was an American hip-hop group that rose to fame in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and was notable for being one of the first successful interracial hip-hop groups....
.

s credited with creating the slang

Slang

Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's dialect or language....
term "the Gas Face". He grew up in Far Rockaway, Queens

Far Rockaway, Queens

Far Rockaway is one of the four neighborhoods on the Rockaway, Queens in the New York City borough of Queens in the United States. It describes the easternmost section of the Rockaways, usually the area east of Beach 77th Street, comprising the neighborhoods of Bayswater, Queens, Edgemere, Queens, Arverne, Queens, as well as Far Rockaway pr...
, attending Far Rockaway High School

Far Rockaway High School

Far Rockaway High School, a public high school in the public school system of New York City, is located on Bay 25 Street in Far Rockaway, Queens in the borough of Queens, as part of the New York City Department of Education....
., and graduated from Music & Art High School

Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts

Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, also officially known as "H.S. 485" and informally as "LaGuardia Arts" , is a high school specializing in teaching visual arts and performing arts, located near the Juilliard School in the Lincoln Center district of Manhattan, on Amsterdam Avenue between 65th Street and 6...
.

After recording three albums with 3rd Bass—The Cactus Album
The Cactus Album (The Cee/Dee)

The Cactus Album was the debut album by 3rd Bass, released on Def Jam. The album received positive reviews from the Hip hop music press, and the group gained some publicity by being arguably the second white group to achieve hip hop credibility, after the Beastie Boys....
(1989), Cactus Revisited
Cactus Revisited

Cactus Revisited is an EP from East Coast hip hop group 3rd Bass. It was released in 1990 by Def Jam; one year after 3rd Bass' The Cactus Album and one year before their Derelicts of Dialect....
(1990), and Derelicts of Dialect
Derelicts of Dialect

Derelicts of Dialect was Brooklyn rappers 3rd Bass's second LP , released on Def Jam. The album is considered to be a critical success , and gained publicity by featuring the surprise mainstream hit Pop Goes the Weasel, a battle rap aimed at then-popular white rapper Vanilla Ice....
(1991)—Serch launched a solo career with Return of the Product
Return of the Product

Return Of The Product is the debut album by rapper MC Serch, released on August 25, 1992 by Def Jam. It was not Serch's debut on record though as he had made two full-length albums with the group 3rd Bass....
(1992, Def Jam).

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MC Serch (born Michael Berrin on May 6, 1967 ) is an American

United States

Hip hop music

Rapping

3rd Bass

3rd Bass was an American hip-hop group that rose to fame in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and was notable for being one of the first successful interracial hip-hop groups....
.

Biography

He is credited with creating the slang

Slang

Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's dialect or language....
term "the Gas Face". He grew up in Far Rockaway, Queens

Far Rockaway, Queens

Far Rockaway High School

Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts

Hot Rap Tracks

Hot Rap Tracks is a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It lists the most popular Hip hop music songs, calculated weekly by airplay on rhythmic and urban contemporary radio stations and sales in hip hop-focused or exclusive markets....
chart); and "Back to the Grill" featuring Chubb Rock

Chubb Rock

Chubb Rock is a New York-based rapper who released several commercially successful hip hop music albums in the early 1990s. His stage name is thought to be inspired by the name of "Chuck Robb", although this is most likely more of a clever play on words than a tribute to the politician....
, Red Hot Lover Tone and Nas

Nas

Nasir Jones, , , better known by his stage name Nas, , formerly Nasty Nas, is an American rapping and actor. The son of jazz musician Olu Dara, he was born and raised in the Queensbridge, Queens housing projects in New York City....
. Serch was the executive producer

Executive producer

The title of executive producer , or executive in charge of production, typically describes a film producer, television producer, radio producer, record producer, or similar Stakeholder who doesn't participate in the technical operations of the production process, but who is still responsible for the success of a project....
of Nas’ Illmatic
Illmatic

Illmatic is the debut album of American Hip hop music rapper Nas, released April 19, 1994 on Columbia Records in the United States. Recording sessions for the album took place from 1992 to 1993 at Chung King Studios, D&D Studios, Battery Studios and Unique Recording Studios in New York City....
, one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the 1990s. He also helped to cultivate the rapper O.C.

O.C. (rapper)

Omar Credle , known by his stage name, O.C., is an United States Hip hop music who has been involved with several renowned Alternative hip hop groups and also released many solo albums....
after hearing him on the Organized Konfusion

Organized Konfusion

Organized Konfusion was an alternative hip hop duo from Queens, New York. Though not commercially popular, the duo was one of the most respected and acclaimed underground hip hop acts of the 1990s, largely due to the duo's intelligent rhymes, and the groundbreaking lyrics of Pharoahe Monch and Prince Poetry....
song "Fudge Pudge", helping him secure a record contract with Wild Pitch Records

Wild Pitch Records

Wild Pitch Records was a hip hop record label started in the mid 1980s by Stuart Fine and was eventually distributed by EMI and eventually acquired by Jay Faires, who tried to reactivate it as part of his short-lived JCOR Entertainment label....
. In 1995 Serch also mentored the newly formed Non Phixion

Non Phixion

Non Phixion was a New York-based hardcore hip hop Hip-hop music group consisting of members Ill Bill, Sabac Red, Goretex and DJ Eclipse....
.

Since retiring from performing, Serch has run a promotions company (Serchlite Music). He appeared in Spike Lee

Spike Lee

Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated United States film director, Film producer, screenwriter, and actor, noted for his films dealing with controversial Society and Politics issues....
's Bamboozled
Bamboozled

Bamboozled is a 2000 satire film written and directed by Spike Lee about a modern televised minstrel show featuring black actors donning blackface makeup and the violent fall-out from the show's success....
(2000) as a member of the fictitious hip-hop group Mau Maus (played by other real-life hip-hop performers such as Mos Def

Mos Def

Dante Terrell Smith , is an American MC and actor known by the stage name Mos Def. Mos Def started his hip hop music career in a group called Urban Thermo Dynamics, after which he appeared on albums by Da Bush Babees and De La Soul....
, Charli Baltimore

Charli Baltimore

Tiffany Lane , better know by her stage name Charli Baltimore, is a female rapping. Her stage name is taken from Geena Davis's character in the film The Long Kiss Goodnight....
and Canibus

Canibus

Germaine Williams, better known by his stage name Canibus, is an United States rapper. He is a part of Supergroup The HRSMN along with: Killah Priest, Ras Kass, and Kurupt....
). His character was a white revolutionary who was supposed to be 1/16th African-American. From 2003 he hosted Serch In The AM on Detroit Urban Radio Station FM 98 WJLB

WJLB

WJLB, is a Clear Channel Communications Urban music radio station in Detroit, Michigan that broadcasts on 97.9 megahertz frequency. The station is known on-air as FM98 WJLB....
; he was the first Jewish DJ at that station. MC Serch was dismissed from WJLB in March 2006, reportedly due to a dispute over a Super Bowl weekend party at the club "Motor City Live." Serch also hosted the VH1

VH1

VH1 is an United States cable television network based in New York City. Launched on January 1, 1985 in television, the original purpose of the channel was to build on the success of MTV by playing music videos, but targeting a slighter older demographic than its sister channel, focusing on the lighter, softer side of popular music....
reality series Ego Trip's The (White) Rapper Show, known for his catch phrase: "Woop-WOOP!", which ended in March of 2007. A follow-up

Spin-off

A spin-off is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one, such as a television series based on a pre-existing one, or a new company formed from a university research group or business incubator....
show, ego trip's Miss Rap Supreme
Ego trip's Miss Rap Supreme

ego trip's Miss Rap Supreme is an American reality television series that airs on the VH1. It is a follow up to 2007's ego trip's The Rapper Show....
, debuted in 2008. Serch has since returned to the radio airwaves in Detroit on the urban station Hot 102.7

Discography

Solo

Return of the Product
Return of the Product

Return Of The Product is the debut album by rapper MC Serch, released on August 25, 1992 by Def Jam. It was not Serch's debut on record though as he had made two full-length albums with the group 3rd Bass....
(1992, Def Jam)
Many Young Lives Ago (2007, Serchlite Music)

with 3rd Bass
3rd Bass

3rd Bass was an American hip-hop group that rose to fame in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and was notable for being one of the first successful interracial hip-hop groups....

The Cactus Album (1989, Def Jam/Columbia)
Cactus Revisited
Cactus Revisited

Cactus Revisited is an EP from East Coast hip hop group 3rd Bass. It was released in 1990 by Def Jam; one year after 3rd Bass' The Cactus Album and one year before their Derelicts of Dialect....
(1990)
Derelicts of Dialect
Derelicts of Dialect

Derelicts of Dialect was Brooklyn rappers 3rd Bass's second LP , released on Def Jam. The album is considered to be a critical success , and gained publicity by featuring the surprise mainstream hit Pop Goes the Weasel, a battle rap aimed at then-popular white rapper Vanilla Ice....
(1991, Gold)

Guest appearances

DJ Tomekk - "Fuck You"
Gravediggaz
Gravediggaz

Gravediggaz was an United States of America hip hop group from New York City, well-known for its dark sense of humor and abrasive, menacing soundscapes....
- "Defective Trip" (w/Biz Markie
Biz Markie

Marcel Theo Hall better known by his stage name Biz Markie, is a rapper, disc jockey, and comedian, best known for the single "Just a Friend"....
)
Hot Karl
Hot Karl

Hot Karl, born Jensen-Gerard Karp, is an American rapper. He does not claim to possess "street cred" or to be from rough backgrounds?he was raised in Calabasas, California?but rather is drawn to hip-hop as an artform independent of its socioeconomic roots....
- "Let's Talk"
Krohme
Krohme

Krohme is a United States hip hop music rapping and hip hop production, noted for his work with Kool G Rap, Obie Trice, Ron Artest, MC Serch, Hell-Razah, Sean Price, Ras Kass, C-Rayz Walz and more....
- "Around Here"
Non Phixion
Non Phixion

Non Phixion was a New York-based hardcore hip hop Hip-hop music group consisting of members Ill Bill, Sabac Red, Goretex and DJ Eclipse....
- "5 Boros" (w/D.V. Alias Khrist)
Sway & King Tech
Sway & King Tech

Sway & King Tech is an United States of America hip hop music group composed of Bay Area rapper, Sway Calloway and DJ, King Tech. Also known as Flynamic Force or Sway & Tech, they are the hosts of the nationally syndicated show, "The Wake Up Show" ...
- "Wake Up Show Anthem" (w/Nas
Nas

Nasir Jones, , , better known by his stage name Nas, , formerly Nasty Nas, is an American rapping and actor. The son of jazz musician Olu Dara, he was born and raised in the Queensbridge, Queens housing projects in New York City....
, Ras Kass
Ras Kass

John Austin IV , better known by his stage name Ras Kass, is an United States rapper. He is also a part of Supergroup The HRSMN along with: Canibus, Killah Priest, and Kurupt....
, Saafir
Saafir

Reggie Gibson, better known as Saafir is an emcee, producer and actor from Oakland, California. After moving from Fresno, California to Oakland, he lived with Tupac Shakur and became a dancer for Digital Underground....
& others)
"2 Hits & Pass" (w/Afu-Ra
Afu-Ra

Afu-Ra is a Hip hop music artist from New York City. Afu, born Aaron Phillip, is a devout student of the Martial arts, as well as Chess. Afu is a member of the Gang Starr Foundation, alongside rappers like Jeru the Damaja, Big Shug and Group Home, and is most well known through his affiliation with the foundation and Jeru the Damaja....
, Agallah
Agallah

Agallah , born Angel Aguilar, is a Puerto Rican American and Filipino-American rapper who was a member of the The Diplomats-affiliated group Purple City and the group Propain Campain....
, Craig G
Craig G

Craig G is a rapping who hails from the Queensbridge housing project in Queens, New York, USA. Craig is best known as one of the subordinatel members of hip hop producer Marley Marl's Cold Chillin' Records group the Juice Crew, which consisted of other hip hop acts such as Big Daddy Kane, Kool G....
, Buckshot
Buckshot (rapper)

Buckshot is an underground rapper, famous as the leader of Hip hop music group Boot Camp Clik, and the group Black Moon . He has released one solo album, two with producer 9th Wonder, four albums with Black Moon and four albums with the Boot Camp Clik....
, and others)
"Blak Is Blak" (As "1/16th Blak" w/Mos Def
Mos Def

Dante Terrell Smith , is an American MC and actor known by the stage name Mos Def. Mos Def started his hip hop music career in a group called Urban Thermo Dynamics, after which he appeared on albums by Da Bush Babees and De La Soul....
, Canibus
Canibus

Germaine Williams, better known by his stage name Canibus, is an United States rapper. He is a part of Supergroup The HRSMN along with: Killah Priest, Ras Kass, and Kurupt....
, Charli Baltimore
Charli Baltimore

Tiffany Lane , better know by her stage name Charli Baltimore, is a female rapping. Her stage name is taken from Geena Davis's character in the film The Long Kiss Goodnight....
, Mums
Mums

Mums can refer to the following:* Mashhad University of Medical Sciences , Iran.* Chrysanthemum, Chrysanthemum* muMs da Schemer, actor and poet best known for his role on the television series Oz''...
, DJ Scratch
DJ Scratch

DJ Scratch was introduced to EPMD by Jam Master Jay at the Run's House Tour after DJ K LA Boss left EPMD. Impressed by his skills, the two designated DJ Scratch as their official D.J....
, and Gano Grills)

MC Serch

Biography

Discography

Solo

with 3rd Bass3rd Bass3rd Bass was an American hip-hop group that rose to fame in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and was notable for being one of the first successful interracial hip-hop groups....

Guest appearances

External links

with 3rd Bass
3rd Bass

3rd Bass was an American hip-hop group that rose to fame in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and was notable for being one of the first successful interracial hip-hop groups....