Pete Nice

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Pete Nice (also Prime Minister Pete Nice) is the stage name of Peter J. Nash. He is most noted for his role in the hip hop music group 3rd Bass.

After graduating from Bishop Ford High School in 1985, Nash attended college at Columbia University, where he hosted a hip hop radio show. That led to the creation of the rap group "3 The Hard Way", later changed to "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.

3rd Bass disbanded shortly after the release of Derelicts of Dialect. Pete Nice and D.J. Richie Rich a.k.a. Daddy Rich (also of Third Bass), released an album, Dust to Dust, in 1993.

With Bobbito, Pete started their own label, Hoppoh Records, under the parent company of Columbia Records. Only two releases were made before the label was abandoned due to creative differences with Columbia. 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, Nash became a noted baseball historian. He opened a baseball memorabilia store in Cooperstown, New York, cited by some sources^{[citation needed]} as the second largest collection open to public display aside from the official Baseball Hall of Fame. Under his real name, he released a book, Baseball Legends of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, which claims that America's favorite pastime was pioneered by men now interred in Brooklyn's "Green-Wood Cemetery". He has also been working to secure some property for an official gravesite of Negro League players.

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