Pete Nice

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Pete Nice, also called "Prime Minister Pete Nice" was born Peter J. Nash. Nash is most noted for his role in the hip hop music group 3rd Bass.

After graduating from Bishop Ford High School in 1985, Nash went on to Columbia University, where he hosted a hip-hop radio show. That led to the creation of the popular rap group aptly named "3rd Bass," where he adopted the stage name "Prime Minister Pete Nice." The group released three albums ("The Cactus Album," "Cactus Revisited" and "Derelicts of Dialect"), sold millions of records and received heavy airplay on MTV between 1987 and 1992.

Third Bass Split up shortly after the release of "Derelicts of Dialect". Pete Nice and D.J. Richie Rich aka Daddy Rich (also of Third Bass), put out an album titled "Dust to Dust" in 1993.

Pete along with Bobbito started their own label Hoppoh Records under the parent company of Columbia. Only two releases were put out before the label was abandoned due to creative differences with Columbia Records. Kurious Jorge's album A Constipated Monkey was released first with Pete and Rich producing the "I'm Kurious" single as well as Pete Nice being one of the executive producers on board. The second album released was Count Bass D's Pre Life Crisis.

After his musical endeavors, he became a noted baseball historian. His first work, Baseball Legends of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, claims that America's favorite pastime was pioneered by men now interred in Brooklyn's "Green-Wood Cemetery".

His brother Brian is the Head Men's Basketball Coach at St. Francis College in New York.