When hip-hop group 3rd Bass disbanded in 1991, the three artists took off solo paths: Michael Berrin releases his debut album the following year, while the other two members, Pete Nash and Richard Lawson, stay together to release their project in 1993. The production is carried out by the two former 3rd Bass, Prime Minister Pete Nice & Daddy Rich, together with KMD, Sam Sever and The Beatnuts, while the album is practically a solo record by Pete Nice. Technically, the guy doesn't excel at rapping, and he can't hold up an entire hour-long album (maybe with half the time it would have been an honest effort), there are few ideas in either lyricism or rhythm, typically East Coast, boom bap jazzy with a hard, syncopated and slow drum, some jazzy bridges, jazzy samples and functional hooks. Guests spice up a few tracks, but they are rarely noteworthy: there is also Cage's debut, uncredited with Benz on "Rich Bring Em Back".
Deprived of classics or bangers, the album goes on and on without giving too many emotions: it has little commercial success for being a major album – Def Jam / Columbia / Sony – and even the singles are very bad between marketing and charts, A&R understand that they have wasted too much time behind these guys and end their career in the bud.
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