Both side A and Dide B of The Cactus album had heat. SMH @ Russel Simmons saying he likes 3 hard dikks.
The signature songs were "Stepping To The A.M." "Brooklyn Queens" and The Gas Face." Being a kid who traveled every summer down south I remember my older cousins fukking with that "Stepping To The AM". The gas face was actually a thing. Thats how I know they were getting love in the streets because all the kids were doing that shyt for a minute. One of the standouts of the album was the song "Flipping Off The Wall Like Lucielle Ball". When I would cut school in the 6th grade we'd go to whoevers house to play Nintendo and this song was on repeat because it kept us laughing. Late 80's was the transition where rappers were cursing more on records and this was the "Parental Advisory" song of the album.
Search was the first rapper I know to really represent Far Rockaway. He did this by name dropping known areas. U can make a Far Rock natives' head turn by mentioning names like "Edgemere" and "Redfern."
2nd album stand out song was Pop Goes The Weasel. I remember the OG of my building fukking with this song. U never heard anyone putting 3rd Bass in a wack category. I even remember Em getting some award and acknowledging 3rd Bass. The Portrait Of The Artist As a Hood remix was the precurser to CNNs "Thug Paradise." Must be a Queens thing. The Moe Green scene in this video always made my grandmother go
And lets not forget 3rd Bass' other contribution to Hip Hop. They opened up the doors for Nas and MF Doom.
The signature songs were "Stepping To The A.M." "Brooklyn Queens" and The Gas Face." Being a kid who traveled every summer down south I remember my older cousins fukking with that "Stepping To The AM". The gas face was actually a thing. Thats how I know they were getting love in the streets because all the kids were doing that shyt for a minute. One of the standouts of the album was the song "Flipping Off The Wall Like Lucielle Ball". When I would cut school in the 6th grade we'd go to whoevers house to play Nintendo and this song was on repeat because it kept us laughing. Late 80's was the transition where rappers were cursing more on records and this was the "Parental Advisory" song of the album.
Search was the first rapper I know to really represent Far Rockaway. He did this by name dropping known areas. U can make a Far Rock natives' head turn by mentioning names like "Edgemere" and "Redfern."
2nd album stand out song was Pop Goes The Weasel. I remember the OG of my building fukking with this song. U never heard anyone putting 3rd Bass in a wack category. I even remember Em getting some award and acknowledging 3rd Bass. The Portrait Of The Artist As a Hood remix was the precurser to CNNs "Thug Paradise." Must be a Queens thing. The Moe Green scene in this video always made my grandmother go
And lets not forget 3rd Bass' other contribution to Hip Hop. They opened up the doors for Nas and MF Doom.
Used to hate serch when he started dancing tho
Nicca foh. Who was paying attention to either one of these clowns in 91. 
There was plenty of gangster music in the mid to late 80's. "9mm Goes Bang" influenced Spice 1, one of the most prolific gangster rappers of all time, to try to recreate that song his entire career. And if we're honest, NWA was blatantly influenced by BDP from their whole all black everything look to their unremorseful vulgar approach to Rap music. And Ice T was on that gangster shyt too. And as far as underground shyt goes, undergrond West Coast shyt was always more raw and street oriented in the late 80's. 
I know being from the Bay. Hugh EMC and 415 from the Bay were making hard street music for the d boys back in that 89' era. Snoop admittedly was heavily influenced by 415 and Richie Rich and even rapped on some of the same beats (i.e. "G'z and Hustlaz" is that same beat as "Snitches and bytches"). Maybe d boys on the East Coast were listening to "Bonita Applebum" and a slanging dope, but West Coast rap already had trap music before they called it that by the late 80's. 
