Artist: Kool Moe Dee Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
Knowledge Is King Year: 1989
Tracks: 10
I'm Kool Moe Dee Year: 1986
Tracks: 9
A member of unmatched of the original hip-hop crews, Treacherous Three, Kool Moe Dee later became a solo ace in his possess right in 1986 by teaming with a teenaged Teddy Riley (later famous as the king of novel laborer swing) on the crossing over hit "Go See the Doctor." The single earned him a sign with Jive Records, for which he recorded three successful late-'80s albums, dominated by his practiced speed-raps. A long-running feud with LL Cool J -- wHO stole his aggressive stance and rapping style, he claims -- gained Kool Moe Dee headlines for for a while, but he began to fade by the other '90s.
Born Mohandas Dewese in 1963, Dee was an early dispatch at local block parties, acting with senior high school buddies L.A. Sunshine and Special K plus DJ Easy Lee as Treacherous Three. Introduced to longtime producer Bobby Robinson (Gladys Knight, the Orioles) by Spoonie Gee, Treacherous Three debuted on mount in 1980 with "The New Rap Language," released on Robinson's Enjoy Records. "Body Rock" and "Feel the Heartbeat" followed during 1980-1981 before Robinson sold the group's sign up to Sugar Hill Records. Treacherous Three recorded various singles for Sugar Hill, only stony-broke up by the mid-'80s.
Rather of mounting aboard the solo wagon later the dissolution, Kool Moe Dee enrolled in college. After earning a communication theory degree from SUNY, he enlisted an unknown producer for his solo debut, "Go See the Doctor." The 17-year-old Teddy Riley more than vindicated himself, though, and the single became an underground rack up. By 1986, Kool Moe Dee was sign to Jive Records, and his self-titled debut album appeared that same year.
With 1987's
How Ya Like Me Now, Dee smitten back at the nervy young multiplication wHO had forsaken their forebears; the breed featured a redness Kangol hat -- the large hallmark of LL Cool J -- being humbled by the rack of a Jeep. The album went pt and was followed two days by and by by the gold-certified Knowledge Is King, for which Dee became the first doorknocker to do at the Grammy Awards ceremonies. Also in 1989, Dee worked on iI of import projects: the single "Suicide," recorded in conjunction with KRS-One's Stop the Violence Movement; and Quincy Jones' all-star Back on the Block LP, which united rap music stars with their musical forebears.
Kool Moe Dee's fourth album, Funke Funke Wisdom was a number of a dashing hopes when compared to his sooner successes, and Jive/RCA dropped him subsequently releasing his
Superlative Hits software in 1993. Hardly washed up, though, Dee recorded a Treacherous 3 reunion album in 1993 and signed to DJ Easy Lee's label for the 1994 album
Interlude. The deed wasn't quite prophetic, however, it organism his lowest album.
