![]() In real life Stanley Burrell was so pissed about this and the line “ The Cactus turned Hammer’s mother out“ on the album that he put a HIT on 3rd Bass.Īgain teenage Flash with no internet was not privy to any of the drama. The song’s infamous outro saw them return to their anti-pop rap stance by loudly declaring “HAMMER! SHUT THE FUCK UP” while the music video saw them give a beatdown to an oversized novelty hammer. drop bars long before the days he’d become better known as MF DOOM. The third verse cemented this by having a guest appearance by Zev Love X of K.M.D. “Black cat is bad luck, bad guys wear black/Musta been a white guy that started all that” quipped Serch, setting an entirely different standard other than anti-commercialism - one of being “woke” long before that word entered our collective lexicon. If so the irony here is that the overnight success of “The Gas Face” made 3rd Bass just as commercially viable as the same artists they were dissing.Īlthough the aforementioned Sam Sever handled most of the production duties on “ The Cactus Album“, famed De La Soul maestro Prince Paul was the man behind this classic jam. “strictly underground funk, keep the crossover” as EPMD would later opine. Perhaps 3rd Bass was attempting to establish a strident “real hip-hop” movement where the commercial success of songs like “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!)” was not allowed, i.e. I didn’t then nor do I now think of the Beasties as being any more or less legitimately hip-hop than 3rd Bass. It wasn’t obvious to due to the fact that MC Serch and the Boys have one really big thing in common - they’re all white guys of Jewish descent from the boroughs of New York. In hindsight though it’s not hard to pick up on the double entendre of lines like “The Beast now lives in the Capitol “ and Pete Nice referring to them as “three bastard sons” he gave birth to. At the time all I cared about was how fly the rhymes from MC Serch and Pete Nice were, how ill the scratches from Richie Rich sounded, and how dope the Sam Sever track was - sampling from Blood, Sweat & Tears for the music and from Edgar Bergen for comedic lines like “He is stupid, but he KNOWS that he is stupid, and that ALMOST makes him smart”. A booklet will be packed in.Įvil Is Going On: The Atco Albums 1970-1971 – CactusĬD5 (Fully Unleashed: The Live Gigs )ĬD6 (Fully Unleashed: The Live Gigs )Ġ2 Medley: Heeby Jeebies/ Money/ Hound Dog/ What’d I SayĬD7 (Fully Unleashed: The Live Gigs Vol 2 )ĬD8 (Fully Unleashed: The Live Gigs Vol 2 )“Pop figures who figured they’d get paid/Exploiting art the black man made”Īs a teenage Flash when “ The Cactus Album” first released in 1989, the fact that “Sons of 3rd Bass” was a Beastie Boys diss song completely flew over my head. The box will be called Evil Is Going On – The Atco Albums 1970-1972, and will include not only remastered versions of their 4 Atco Records releases and a small collection of recorded bonus tracks, but also the two volumes of Fully Unleashed: The Live Gigs over 4 CDs. On October 28, Cherry Red via HNE Recordings, will revisit Cactus with an exhaustive 8CD Box. Regardless, over a two year period, the popular band produced four studio albums before dissolution. The band was intended to include Jeff Beck but it was nixed due to Beck’s auto accident. 1 & 2 + bonus tracks.Ĭactus was a short-lived band that gained popularity in their internally conflicted super group assembly that included Tim Bogart, and Carmine Appice, both from Vanilla Fudge. This set will contain their 4 Atco albums + Fully Unleashed: The Live Gigs Vol. Cactus Is Boxed With 8CD Set – Evil Is Going On
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