Harlem native Mohandas “Kool Moe Dee” DeWese is best remembered for his ever-present hats and shades, but it’s his resistance to hip-hop clichés which fortifies his legacy. Anti-drugs and alcohol and ...

After a long break from recording, rap pioneer Kool Moe Dee has announced that he is working on a new album. "The old school tours are fine," Kool Moe Dee explained. "They get my feet wet. But from ...

1989: Kool Moe Dee dropped off his third studio album, Knowledge Is King, which was an instant classic. Kool Moe Dee, born Mohandas Dewese, was present from the start of hip-hop's emergence as a ...

Kool Moe Dee, known for such hip-hop hits as "Wild Wild West," "How Ya Like Me Now" and "I Go to Work," is the headlining act for the inaugural Levitt Amp Chattanooga Music Series at the Bessie Smith ...

Rapper Kool Moe Dee, whose famous 1981 battle with Busy Bee may be the most influential moment in rap history, is auctioning off some of his royalties. Famous for legendary early '80s singles with his ...

*Episode 5 of the Radioscope Raw podcast features our Spring 1989 interview with rapper Kool Moe Dee. The emcee and former member of the Treacherous Three was among hip hop’s most successful artists, ...

Hip-hop icon Lovebug Starski has passed away at 57. Hip-hop icon Lovebug Starski has passed away at 57. Released around the time mainstream America first started to fall in love with hip-hop, 1984's ...

Today, Aug. 8, is the birthday of New York rapper and hip-hop pioneer Kool Moe Dee. The rapper now turns 56. Bred in New York City, Kool Moe Dee rose to fame in the late 1970s as part of the rap group ...

Mohandas Dewese (born August 8, 1962), better known by his stage name Kool Moe Dee, is an American rapper, songwriter, actor and college graduate from SUNY Old Westbury with a BA in Communications. He ...

(KTVI)-Kool Moe Dee is a well known American hip hop artist who saw a lot of success in the 1980s and 1990s. He was one of the first rappers to earn a Grammy Award and was the first rapper to perform ...