Derelicts of Dialect was Queens

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-based emcees 3rd Bass

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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.-Career:...

' second LP (following its debut LP and an EP) and final studio album, released on Def Jam Recordings

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. The album is considered to be a critical success (explicitly not aimed toward a mainstream market)http://www.mp3.com/albums/22623/summary.html, and gained publicity by featuring the surprise mainstream hit "Pop Goes the Weasel," a dis track

Battle Rap

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 aimed at then-popular white rapper Vanilla Ice

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. (The music video

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 features former Black Flag

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 frontman Henry Rollins

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 as Ice.) The Black-nationalist group X-Clan

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, which had previously attacked 3rd Bass because of its white members, also receives its share of disses on songs such as "Herbalz In Your Mouth."

The album is noted for its variety of styles (both musically and lyrically), and demonstrates influences ranging from De La Soul

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 to A Tribe Called Quest

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 (both members of the then-flourishing Native Tongues Movement

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). Several amusing anecdotes and skits on the album draw direct influences from De La Soul's album 3 Feet High and Rising

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Track listing

1. "The Merchant of Grooves" – 1:37
2. "Derelicts of Dialect" – 4:10
3. "Ace in the Hole" (featuring KMD) - 3:39
4. "French Toast" (Skit) – 0:49
5. "Portrait of the Artist As a Hood" - 4:29
6. "Pop Goes the Weasel
   Pop Goes the Weasel (3rd Bass song)
   "Pop Goes the Weasel" is the best-selling single from hip hop trio 3rd Bass; it appears on their third album, Derelicts of Dialect .Released a year after the ill-fated Cactus Revisited E.P., "Pop Goes the Weasel" instantly became a hit and soon went gold. The song helped the album reach gold status...
   
   " - 3:55
7. "Sea Vessel Soliloquy" - 0:40
8. "Daddy Rich in the Land of 1210" - 3:12
9. "Word to the Third" - 5:02
10. "Herbalz In Your Mouth" – 4:20
11. "Al'z A-B-Cee'z" – 1:51
12. "No Master Plan No Master Race" – 4:47
13. "Come In" – 3:07
14. "No Static At All" – 3:44
15. "Eye Jammie" – 1:05
16. "Microphone Techniques" (featuring Nice & Smooth) – 4:59
17. "Problem Child" – 4:30
18. "3 Strike 5000" – 4:03
19. "Kick 'Em in the Grill" (featuring Chubb Rock) - 2:37
20. "Green Eggs and Swine" – 4:45
21. "Derelicts of Dialect (SD50 Remix)" – 4:13
22. "Pop Goes the Weasel (Radio Edit)" – 3:47
23. "M.C. Disagree and the Re-Animator" - 0:49
24. "Check Yo Self" (LP only)

Singles

Year	Title	Chart Positionshttp://www.goldmic.com/artists/3763/charts/3rd-Bass
		Rap	R&B/ Hip-Hop	Dance Sales	Dance Club Play	Hot 100
1991	"Pop Goes the Weasel"	1	26	18	28	29
1992	"Portrait of the Artist as a Hood"	17	—	—	—	—

Personnel

• Chubb Rock – vocals
• Geeby Dajani – producer, remixing
• John Gamble – producer, engineer, remixing
• K.M.D. – producer
• Michael Lavine – photography
• Pete Nice – accordion
• Prince Paul – cymbals, producer
• Kevin Reynolds – engineer
• Richie Rich – producer
• Dante Ross – producer, remixing
• Sam Sever – producer
• Christopher Shaw – reyboards, engineer
• Mike Teelucksingh – engineer
• 3rd Bass – arranger, producer
• Allen Title – horn
• Howie Weinberg – mastering