Back in the 90's Hammer put 60,000 on 3rd Base because he thought they had a line insulting his mother.
Here's MC Serch speaking on it.
PB: That really did happen then?
S: Oh yeah, that really happened. "Really happened" is like the biggest under-statement, it was beyond really happened. That **** is like as real as breathing air! Ok here's the whole thing: So we diss Hammer, and Hammer wasn't really pissed about Gas Face, he was really pissed about "Cactus", when Pete said "The Cactus turned Hammer's Mother out". He took that as a straight diss to his Mom, and we weren't dissing his Mom. We were putting a play on words with "Turn this mother out" and the Cactus turned this mother out * we turned him out, we're just hotter. Ok, he took it as a diss to his Mom. So we get on a plane at that time, and we're on our way to L.A and I'm with my then girl, now wife, Chantelle, and Pete's with his girl Roxanne, and Daddy Rich is with his girl, and we're just like "Oh my god, we're going to Cali, this is amazing". So we're on the plane, and I got this whole story obviously from later in life, but this is how it went down: Louis Burrell - Hammer's brother - calls Rush and talks to Carmen Ashhurst Watson, who was the president of Def Jam at the time. And he says to her "Is 3rd Bass really coming to L.A?", and Carmen says "Yeah", and Louis says "Good THEY'RE DEAD!" and hung up the phone. So the basically had to figure out who was involved in what, and where, and how.
PB: And you're on the plane oblivious to all of this?
S: Yep. So they basically got 5 hours to clear this up before we land. They put a $60,000 hit out with one of the biggest gangs in L.A., for any member who got to us and could prove it - a huge amount of money. They contact Mike Conception, who at that time was doing that record "We're All in the Same Gang", and Hammer had got Mike's help. So Russell manages to get hold of Mike and says "Listen this can't go down, how do we stop this", and he says "It's too late now, we can't stop it", and Russell is like "No, no. I'll do anything!". So Mike finally says "Listen, I want to go to the American Music Awards, and I want to sit next to Michael Jackson, and then we won't kill them, we'll just break their legs, but you'll still be able to film them on TV from the waist up". This was his reasoning! Russell says "No, you can't shoot them at all", and finally that's the deal that they made. So Russell calls Donny Inner and Tommy Motola and he explains the situation, and if you check the seating plan for the American music awards from 1990Š Michael Jackson Mike Conception. We get off the plane and we're like "This is Cali!", we're amped, and the second we get off the plane, the guy that wound up being our security for 4 years * Uncle Mel * grabs us and is like "Get in the van!!!", and is pushing us together with about 5 other bodyguards. Now we're thinking that we're the Beatles, we're like "Yo, they must be stopping fans from ripping our clothes off, we're out of control!". When we get in the van, we're noticing strange things, like the windows are plexi-glass, there's no way to open the doors, there's no handles. We're thinking that we're HUGE! We get in the van and we're told that we have a whole floor booked at the Hyatt and that we can't have any guests, and we're like "Whoa!". We still don't get it.








