On. Sept. 7, 1990, 3rd Bass (MC Serch, Prime Minister Pete Nice, DJ Richie Rich) dropped the remix EP, The Cactus Revisited. The seven-track project featured six remixes and one unreleased song ("The Catcus") and included production from Marley Marl ("Product of the Environment"), Prince Paul ("The Gas Face"), 3rd Bass themselves ("Steppin' to the A.M."), Sam Sever, and others.
The project was released on Def Jam, and in an interview with MRCNNLive, Pete Nice said the Marley Marl remix of "Product of the Environment" is "one of my favorite things we did." 3rd Bass broke onto the scene with their acclaimed 1989 debut, The Cactus Album, though they'd all been on the rap scene for years prior. The creative, sample-heavy album peaked at #5 on Billboard's Top Hip Hop/R&B Albums chart and at #55 on the Billboard 200 chart, and also marked the debut of MF DOOM, then rapping as Zev Love X of KMD on "Gas Face." The Cactus Revisited was a quick follow-up for the album, ahead of their sophomore project, Derelicts of Dialect, which arrived in 1991.
