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Infobox musical artist | name = MC Serch| image = http://www.last.fm/music/Rucka+Rucka+ALI/+images/21883109 (Rucka Rucka Ali pictured with MC Serch)| caption =| image_size =| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Michael Berrin| alias = T Bone Lemke| birth_date = birth date and age|1967|05|6Citation needed|date=June 2008| death_date =| origin =| instrument =| genre = Hip hop | occupation =| years_active = 1985–present| label = Def Jam , Psycho+Logical-Records | associated_acts = 3rd Bass , Non Phixion , Nas | website =| current_members =| past_members =| notable_instruments = MC Serch (born Michael Berrin on May 6, 1967 Citation needed|date=June 2008) is a Jewish-American hip hop music|hip hop rapping|MC and former member of 3rd Bass .
Biography
Serch grew up in Far Rockaway, Queens ,Jackson, Brian Keith. http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/26038/ "Ice, Ice Babies: Reality-TV show tries to create the next Eminem.", New York (magazine) , December 31, 2006. Accessed November 23, 2007. "I grew up in Far Rockaway, and you’d always see shoes on the line." attending Far Rockaway High School ,Schwach, Howard. http://www.rockawave.com/news/2007/0126/Community/007.html "Rockaway Rapper Hosts MTV's 'The White Rapper Show' ", Wave of Long Island , January 26, 2007 and graduated from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts|Music & Art High School . He is credited with creating the slang term "the Gas Face."
After recording three albums with 3rd Bass— The Cactus Album (The Cee/Dee)|The Cactus Album (1989), 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 (magazine)|Billboard 's Hot Rap Tracks chart); and "Back to the Grill" featuring Chubb Rock , Poke & Tone|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. (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 .
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 (people)|white revolutionary who was supposed to be 1/16th African-American . http://www.ohhla.com/anonymous/misc/hip-hop/blak_iz.mau.txt 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."cite web|last=Graham |first=Adam |authorlink=Adam_Graham |coauthors= |date=2007-01-08 |url= http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article? AID=/20070108/ENT02/701080357/1032/ENT |title=The Serch for the next white rap star. |work=The Detroit News|accessdate=2007-01-24 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 Spin-off (media)|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 a lot alongside Rucka Rucka Ali (Comedy Music Artist) Serch has appeared in some of Rucka Rucka Alis' music videos.
http://www.myspace.com/mcserch MC Serch's Myspace page
http://www.serchlitemusic.com Serchlite Music
http://www.soundslam.com/articles/interviews/interviews.php? interviews=in070205_mcserch MC Serch Interview
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