Kool Moe Dee
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Mohandas Dewese (born 8 August 1962), better known as Kool Moe Dee, was an American old-school rapper prominent in the late 1980s and early 90s.
In high school in the late 1970s, he met Special K and DJ Easy Lee. They formed the influential old school hip hop group the Treacherous Three. It is with The Treacherous Three that Kool Moe Dee performed his freestyle, on stage roast of old school party rapper Busy Bee Starski, a performance frequently cited as a pivotal moment in the development of the battle rap. In 1986, Kool Moe Dee went solo, releasing a self-titled album.
He is also well-known for his long-running feud with LL Cool J; he claims that LL Cool J stole his rapping style. The cover of Kool Moe Dee's 1987 album How Ya Like Me Now features a red Kangol hat (LL Cool J's trademark) being crushed under the wheel of a Jeep.
Kool Moe Dee also appeared on Will Smith's #1 pop hit "Wild Wild West" from Smith's 1999 motion picture, on which he re-performs the chorus to his 1987 single of the same name.
In The Simpsons, when Marge Simpson fears that she is pregnant again in I Married Marge, Bart Simpson wants to name the child Kool Moe Dee.
Discography
- Kool Moe Dee (1986, Rooftop/Jive)
- How Ya Like Me Now (1987, Rooftop/Jive)
- The Best (1987, Jive; re-issued 1989)
- Knowledge Is King (1989, Jive/RCA)
- African Pride EP (1990, Jive)
- Funke, Funke Wisdom (1991, Jive)
- Greatest Hits (1993, BMG/Jive/Silvertone)
- Interlude (1994, Wrap)
- Jive Collection Volume 2: Kool Moe Dee (1995, Jive)
- Turn It Up as part of the Treacherous Three (re-issue 2000, Sequel)