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Birth name
  
Michael Berrin

Name
  
MC Serch

Years active
  
1985–present


Genres
  
Hip hop

Also known as
  
T Bone Lemke

Spouse
  
Chantel Berrin (m. 1992)

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Born
  
May 6, 1967 (age 56) (
1967-05-06
)

Origin
  
Far Rockaway, Queens, New York, United States

Labels
  
Def Jam, Psycho+Logical-Records

Music groups
  
3rd Bass (Since 1987), Non Phixion (1995 – 2006)

Albums
  
Return of the Product, The Future Is Now, The Cactus Album, Derelicts of Dialect, The Green CD/DVD

Profiles

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Michael Berrin (born May 6, 1967) is an American hip hop MC and former member of 3rd Bass best known by his stage name MC Serch.

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Biography

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Serch grew up in Far Rockaway, Queens, attending Far Rockaway High School, and graduated from Music & Art High School. He is of Jewish descent.

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After recording three albums with 3rd Bass—The Cactus Album (1989), The Cactus Revisited (1990), and Derelicts of Dialect (1991)—Serch launched a solo career with Return of the Product (1992, Def Jam). The album featured two hit singles: "Here It Comes" (which hit #1 on Billboard's Hot Rap Tracks chart); and "Back to the Grill" featuring Chubb Rock, Red Hot Lover Tone, and Nas. Serch was the executive producer of Nas’ Illmatic, one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the 1990s. He also helped to cultivate the rapper O.C. after hearing him on the Organized Konfusion song "Fudge Pudge," helping him secure a record contract with Wild Pitch Records. In 1995, Serch also mentored the newly formed Non Phixion.

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Since retiring from performing, Serch has run a promotions company (Serchlite Music). He appeared in Spike Lee's Bamboozled (2000) as a member of the fictitious hip-hop group Mau Maus (played by other real-life hip-hop performers such as Mos Def, Charli Baltimore and Canibus). His character was a white revolutionary who was supposed to be "1/16 black". From 2003 he hosted Serch In The AM on Detroit Urban Radio Station FM 98 WJLB; he was the first Jewish DJ at that station. MC Serch was dismissed from WJLB in March 2006, reportedly due to a dispute over a Super Bowl weekend party at the club "Motor City Live." Serch also hosted the VH1 reality series Ego Trip's The (White) Rapper Show, known for his catch phrase: "Woop-WOOP!", which ended in March 2007. A follow-up show, ego trip's Miss Rap Supreme, debuted in 2008.

Serch has since returned to the radio airwaves in Detroit on the urban station Hot 102.7. Serch has also worked with Hot 102.7's youngest intern (The Black Intern) Daniel Berry, and Rucka Rucka Ali (Comedy Music Artist)- Serch appeared in some of Rucka Rucka Ali's music videos.

Solo

  • Return of the Product (1992, Def Jam)
  • with 3rd Bass

  • The Cactus Album (1989, Platinum)
  • The Cactus Revisited (1990)
  • Derelicts of Dialect (1991, Gold)
  • Guest appearances

  • DJ Tomekk - "Fuck You"
  • Gravediggaz - "Defective Trip" (w/Biz Markie)
  • Kaptain Nemo - The Legend of Kaptain Nemo - Official Mixtape - "For the Love of Hip-Hop" (w/PJ Sumroc)
  • Hot Karl - "Let's Talk"
  • Krohme - "Around Here"
  • Non Phixion - "Legacy"
  • Non Phixion - "5 Boros" (w/D.V. Alias Khrist)
  • Non Phixion - "Four W's"
  • Sway & King Tech - "Wake Up Show Anthem" (w/Nas, Ras Kass, Saafir & others)
  • "2 Hits & Pass" (w/Afu-Ra, Agallah, Craig G, Buckshot, and others)
  • "Blak Is Blak" (As "1/16th Blak" w/Mos Def, Canibus, Charli Baltimore, Mums, DJ Scratch, and Gano Grills)
  • Kurious - "Benneton" (w/ MF Doom) (2009, Amalgam Digital)
  • Rucka Rucka Ali - "I Can Do Whatever Im White"
  • References

    MC Serch Wikipedia