Bill Stephney, Russell and Lyor would tell us all kinds of stuff, and we thought they were just blowing smoke up our asses.īeastie Boys Blazed Billboard Chart History That was an actual meeting we had with him. I did that with all of our meetings, just to hear all the bullshit they would say. Pete: I used to secretly record the guys at Def Jam. I didn’t know any of them before I met Mike that day. So that’s where all the Beasties’ disses on “Sons of 3rd Bass” came from. Two months later there was a piece in Spin and the writer asked them what they thought of 3rd Bass, and Mike D said how he threw shit at me and shooed me out. I was leaving his apartment and all of a sudden he started throwing shit at me, like foam balls and stuff lying around his apartment. They had gotten out of their Def Jam deal, and he gave me really good insight about Russell. One day I saw Mike D on the street and I ended up talking to him in his apartment, because I needed some advice. Serch: The Beastie Boys were huge at the time. In this excerpt from the forthcoming book Check the Technique: Volume 2, Serch, now a promoter and producer, and Pete, a baseball historian, share the unexpectedly sensational stories behind a half-dozen classic Cactus tracks. The Cactus Album, produced by Sever, Prince Paul and the Bomb Squad, and featuring DJ Daddy Rich (born Richard Lawson), came out in October 1989 and went gold within six months. Watch Public Enemy Rock a Classic Track With the Roots on ‘Fallon’ We’re still $150,000 away from being recouped.” “We used three or four samples per song, so those clearances ate up all our royalties. “Our advance was $5,000 each,” Serch says. That’s how it all began.” Despite signing to one of the hottest labels in hip-hop, the group’s deal wasn’t exactly a dream payday. Says Pete, “The old story that Russell and Lyor put me and Serch together is the furthest thing from what actually happened.” In fact, “I was at Chung King Studios and had laid down the original version of ‘Wordz of Wizdom.’ Sam liked the track and played it for Serch. That white kid from Queens was Pete Nice.
Serch recalls, “One day Sam called me and said, ‘Def Jam signed another white kid from Queens. Simmons’ right-hand man, Lyor Cohen, set up Serch with a producer named Sam Sever (real name Sam Citrin). Def Jam 30th Anniversary Show Coming to NYC
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