Kool Moe Dee : Rolling Stone

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Funke Funke Wisdom

As one-third of the death-defying, speed-rhyming Treacherous Three, Kool Moe Dee was one of rap's founding fathers. A decade later he's the last survivor of the first-generation "old school," pressing on after contemporaries like the Sugar Hill Gang and Kurtis Blow have fallen by the wayside. At its...

1991 RS: 3of 5 Stars

Biography

When Kool Moe Dee released his self-titled debut album in early 1987, he benefited from something few popular rappers of the day could claim: experience. The Harlem native had been making crisp, danceable rap records with the now-legendary Treacherous Three since the late '70s, and with Kool Moe Dee he caught up with gritty, hard-rocking contemporary hip-hop without smudging his silky white...

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