![]() ![]() Return Of The Product – On this title track, Serch attempts to bring things back to his hungry earlier days (the album title itself is a reference to “Product Of The Environment” from 3rd Bass’ debut album). Hard But True – Wolf and Epic hook up a decent instrumental (with Reggie McBride adding some nice live bass guitar licks throughout) for Serch to get conscious on, as he discusses racism in America. A hungry Nas sounds more serious than his counterparts on this one and easily drops the best verse on the song, effectively living up to the phrase he would coin a decade later, murdering Serch on his own shit (which is even more impressive considering Serch gets two cracks at it on this one). Chubb Rock joins Serch again, but Pete Nice is replaced by new comers, Red Hot Lover Tone (also half of the production duo, the Trackmasters) and, hot off of his song stealing verse from Main Source’s “Live From The Barbeque”, Nasty Nas blesses this song with a verse. Wolf and Epic put together another quality instrumental for Serch to rhymes over, making this an enjoyable listen.īack To The Grill – Over a T.Ray produced instrumental, Serch revisits “Kick ‘Em The Grill” from 3rd Bass’ Derelicts of Dialect, as this song (and second single released from the album) acts as its sequel. Serch doesn’t ask rhetorical questions like Q-Tip did but he does make rhetoric statements in a similar fashion, even if their not as thought-provoking as Tip’s lines were. Serch does a serviceable job on the mic, but the true star of this one is the instrumental.ĭon’t Have To Be – This song reminds me of “What” from ATCQ’s The Low End Theory. ), and the hard drums give it a rough feel. Wolf And Epic hook up a monster track, that sounds both soothing and heavenly (thanks to a dope loop and the angelic I.S.S.H.H.C. ![]() Here It Comes – The first song of the evening was also the lead single from ROTP. 3rd Bass had a short-lived reunion from ’98 to ’00 but no new music ever came out of it. This would be Serch’s first and last solo album (no, I don’t count his Many Young Lives Ago: The 1994 Sessions that he released in 2007 as a legitimate solo album) as he would begin to do more work behind the scenes, including being responsible for getting Nas signed to Columbia and O.C. Ray (from the Double X Posse…remember “Not Gonna Be Able To Do It”?) to handle the bulk of the production duties on ROTP. Serch would recruit Wolf and Epic (who I first became familiar with from their work on MC Lyte’s Act Like You Know) and T. Both would stay with the Def Jam family for their solo records, with Serch being first to drop his solo debut Return of the Product, in the summer of 1992. While on tour promoting their sophomore album Derelicts Of Dialect, MC Serch and Pete Nice were no longer seeing eye to eye on things, which resulted in the duo feuding and ultimately breaking up while literally still on the road. The duo would go their separate ways (with DJ Richie Rich sticking with Pete Nice) and start their solo careers. Happy New Year!Īfter two consecutive gold selling albums, trouble begin to rear its ugly head in the 3rd Bass camp. What better way to start off the new year than with a New Years Day post. ![]()
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