3rd Bass - Derelicts Of Dialect • CDs • Vinyl Records • LPs • Music Albums

With its 1989 debut, 'The Cactus Album,' 3rd Bass proved that there was room for white MCs who wanted to pay tribute to hip-hop, not rip it off. Derelicts of Dialect proves that The Cactus Album was no fluke. The sound is more street than before and the topics more serious. And it's interesting to note that while 3rd Bass is by and large accepted in the hip-hop world, the group's strongest statements reflect an outsider's perspective. On the satisfyingly bass-heavy "No Master Plan, No Master Race," M.C. Serch intones "I stick to this/Say this while you're grazin'/Original man's a black man/Said by a Caucasian" over the sample of a speech by JFK. "Green Eggs and Swine," perhaps
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