History Music / KoolMoeDee

* SlutShaming: Somewhat stealthily criticized on "I'm a Player", in which Moe Dee points out the double standard concerning promiscuous guys and promiscuous girls.

In 1985, the Treacherous Three disbanded. Unlike the other members, who pursued solo careers, Moe finished school and attended the State University of New York at Old Westbury, where he received a degree in communications. The next year, he released his self titled solo album on Jive Records. Backed by production from a then-16 year-old Teddy Riley (Who had produced the Gold-selling single [[Music/SlickRick "The Show"]] the same year Moe was in University), the album reached the eighty-third position on the ''Billboard 200''.

** And of course, the [[CurbStompBattle freestyle battle rap/roast]] he performed against Busy Bee Starski, effectively making Starski's style of battling DeaderThanDisco

On September 11, 1981, while still a part of the Three, Moe was featured in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShpDIWK5F7Y&feature=player_detailpage#t=401 very one-sided rap battle]] with Busy Bee Starski at Harlem World, taking everyone there by surprise by roasting Starski. Before that night, rap "battles" were based on crowd control. Moe's roast of Starski had changed the face of the "battle rap" forever, laying the groundwork for many rap battle leagues and diss tracks in the years to follow. That same year, they moved over to Sugar Hill Records with Music/GrandmasterFlashAndTheFuriousFive. in 1984, they were featured in the movie ''Beat Street'' with Doug E. Fresh.

1991 saw the decline of Moe's career. His fourth album ''Funke Funke Wisdom'' bombed hard in the wake of LL Cool J's CareerResurrection with ''Mama Said Knock You Out''. Moe would be released from Jive Records a year later. A 1993 compilation release and a fourth album, ''Interlude'' did nothing to return him to his previous mainstream success. His last major song appearances was on WillSmith's 1999 single "Wild Wild West", where he re-recoreded the chorus from his own song of the same name, a featured spot on Music/{{Macklemore}} and Ryan Lewis' "Downtown", and a remix of "Where Are They Now" by {{Music/Nas}} in 2007.

In 1988, LL Cool J retaliated to Moe's verbal attacks with "Jack the Ripper" a B-side from the single "Going Back to Cali", calling him a "punk" and "washed up". Moe, in turn, released his third album ''Knowledge Is King'' in 1989, which included the hidden track "Let's Go", a scathing response to the comments LL had made on "Jack the Ripper". Taking a brief break from the feud, Moe contributed vocals to Music/QuincyJones' album ''Back On The Block'' in 1990, alongside Music/IceT, Melle Mel, and Music/BigDaddyKane. This earned Moe his first and only Grammy Award, for
"Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group". That same year, he appeared on "Self Destruction" alongside Music/PublicEnemy, Music/HeavyD, Music/KRSOne, and others as a part of the "Stop the Violence Movement".

''How Ya Like Me Now'' went platinum, and helped kickstart the Music/NewJackSwing era alongside UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHipHop, churning out two hit singles: the title track and "Wild Wild West", which both hit the top 30 of the R&B charts.

* Music/NewJackSwing: One of the genere's earliest and most successful artists from 1986 to 1991.

''How Ya Like Me Now'' went platinum, and helped kickstart the NewJackSwing era alongside UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHipHop, churning out two hit singles: the title track and "Wild Wild West", which both hit the top 30 of the R&B charts.

* NewJackSwing: One of the genere's earliest and most successful artists from 1986 to 1991.

''How Ya Like Me Now'' went platinum, and helped kickstart the New Jack Swing era alongside UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHipHop, churning out two hit singles: the title track and "Wild Wild West", which both hit the top 30 of the R&B charts.

''How Ya Like Me Now'' went platinum, and helped kickstart the New Jack Swing era alongside TheGoldenAgeOfHipHop, churning out two hit singles: the title track and "Wild Wild West", which both hit the top 30 of the R&B charts.

* {{Crossover}}: ''Back On the Block'' featured four rappers from two different eras (Moe and Melle Mel representing the original "old school", and Music/IceT and Big Daddy Kane representing the then-current [[TheGoldenAgeOfHipHop "Golden Age"]]), plus Quincy Jones on the intro. "Birdland", from the same album, featured Moe and Kane rapping alongside trumpet solos from Music/MilesDavis and Dizzy Gillespie.

1991 saw the decline of Moe's career. His fourth album ''Funke Funke Wisdom'' bombed hard in the wake of LL Cool J's CareerResurrection with ''Mama Said Knock You Out''. Moe would be released from Jive Records a year later. A 1993 compilation release and a fourth album, ''Interlude'' did nothing to return him to his previous mainstream success. His last major song appearances was on WillSmith's 1999 single "Wild Wild West", where he re-recoreded the chorus from his own song of the same name, and a remix of "Where Are They Now" by {{Music/Nas}} in 2007.

---> He turned and said, in a real deep voice,\\

You won't be able to screw, the only thing you can do is just kick her, so go take Karate!"

* {{Crossover}}: ''Back On the Block'' featured four rappers from three different eras (Moe and Melle Mel representing the original "old school", and Music/IceT and Big Daddy Kane representing the then-current [[TheGoldenAgeOfHipHop "Golden Age"]]), plus Quincy Jones on the intro. "Birdland", from the same album, featured Moe and Kane rapping alongside trumpet solos from Music/MilesDavis and Dizzy Gillespie.

* ConsciousHipHop
* {{Crossover}}: ''Back On the Block'' featured four rappers from three different eras (Moe and Melle Mel representing the original "old school", and Music/IceT and Big Daddy Kane representing the then-current [[TheGoldenAgeOfHipHop "Golden Age"]]), plus Quincy Jones on the intro. "Birdland", from the same album, featured Moe and Kane rapping alongside trumpet solos from Music/MilesDavis and Dizzy Gillespie.

But don't blame me when it turns into a foot extended from your body.\\

* STDImmunity: "Go See the Doctor" was the first rap song to avert it, as well as deconstructed. Three days after having a one night stand with a girl without a condom, Moe finds out the hard way he caught gonorrhea from her, and is forced to go to a walk in clinic to get treatment.

1991 saw the decline of Moe's career. His fourth album ''Funke Funke Wisdom'' bombed hard in the wake of LL Cool J's CareerResurrection with ''Mama Said Knock You Out''. Moe would be released from Jive Records a year later. A 1993 compilation release and a fourth album, ''Interlude'' did nothing to return him to his previous mainstream success. His last major song appearances was on WillSmith's 1999 single "Wild Wild West", where he re-recoreded the chorus from his own song of the same name, and a remix of "Where Are They Now" by Music/Nas in 2007.

Although Moe had been rapping since at least 1976, it was when he formed ''The Treacherous Three'' with Special K, DJ Easy Lee and Spoonie G (who would leave shortly after the formation) in 1978. The group became well known for their singles "Feel the Heart Beat" and "Action", and their song "The New Rap Language" earned Kool Moe Dee the distinction of inventing the "double time flow", which involved rapid sixteenth-note rhythms, with a lot of internal rhymes.

* TakeThat: All towards LL Cool J: "How Ya Like Me Now", "Let's Go", and "Death Blow".

'''Mohandas Dewese''' (born August 8, 1962 in New York City), better known as '''Kool Moe Dee''', is one of the longest active rappers of all time, from 1976 to the present day, and one of the original pioneers of rap, alongside Grandmaster Flash and the Sugarhill Gang.

on September 11, 1981, while still a part of the Three, Moe was featured in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShpDIWK5F7Y&feature=player_detailpage#t=401 very one-sided rap battle]] with Busy Bee Starski at Harlem World, taking everyone there by surprise by roasting Starski. Before that night, rap "battles" were based on crowd control. Moe's roast of Starski had changed the face of the "battle rap" forever, laying the groundwork for many rap battle leauges and diss tracks in the years to follow. That same year, they moved over to Sugar Hill Records with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. in 1984, they were featured in the movie ''Beat Street'' with Doug E. Fresh.

In 1988, LL Cool J retaliated to Moe's verbal attacks with "Jack the Ripper" a B-side from the single "Going Back to Cali", calling him a "punk" and "washed up". Moe, in turn, released his third album ''Knowlege Is King'' in 1989, which included the hidden track "Let's Go", a scathing response to the comments LL had made on "Jack the Ripper". Taking a brief break from the feud, Moe contributed vocals to Quincy Jones' album ''Back On The Block'' in 1990, alongside IceT, Melle Mel, and Big Daddy Kane. This earned Moe his first and only Grammy Award, for

!!Discogarphy:

--> You got hands for tryna be me, now LL stands for
--> Lower Level, Lack Luster
--> Last Least, Limp Lover
--> Lousy Lame, Latent Lethargic
--> Lazy Lemon, Little Logic
--> Lucky Leech, Liver Lipped
--> Laborious Louse on a Loser's Lips
--> Live in Limbo, Lyrical Lapse
--> Low Life with the Loud Raps, boy

--> Three days later...
--> I woke up fussin', yellin' and cussin'
--> Drip-drip-drippin' and puss-puss-pussin'
--> I went to the bathroom and said
--> "Mama mia, Imma ''kill'' that girl next time I see her!"

-->When it came to girls, he didn't care where he went
-->He'd hound em like a dog, so we used to say "fetch!"
-->And it was no tellin what he would catch
-->He was in the doctor's office almost every week
-->He became so popular, everybody'd speak
-->When he walked in they'd say (Hi Rick)
-->And when he passed by, they'd say (Dumb Dick)

** "Deez Nutz" from ''Interlude'' contains a not-so-subtle diss to Dr. Dre and Music/SnoopDogg's "Nuthin' But a G Thang".

* WarriorPoet: The first in rap.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Again, Busy Bee Starski's Harlem World roast.

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-RheuHyp3Q&feature=player_detailpage#t=175 From what is considered one of the best diss verses of all time]]:

** And of course, the freestyle battle rap/roast he performed against Busy Bee Starski, effectively making Starski's style of battling DeaderThanDisco

* UrExample: The first modern battle rapper.

In 1985, the Treacherous Three disbanded. Unlike the other members, who pursued solo careers, Moe finished school and attended the State University of New York at Old Westbury, where he recieved a degree in conmunications. The next year, he released his self titled solo album on Jive Records. Backed by production from a then-16 year-old Teddy Riley (Who had produced the Gold-selling single [[Music/SlickRick "The Show"]] the same year Moe was in University), the album reached the eighty-third position on the ''Billboard 200''.

''How Ya Like Me Now'' went platnum, and helped kickstart the New Jack Swing era alongside TheGoldenAgeOfHipHop, churning out two hit singles: the title track and "Wild Wild West", which both hit the top 30 of the R&B charts.

-> You got hands for tryna be me, now LL stands for
-> Lower Level, Lack Luster
-> Last Least, Limp Lover
-> Lousy Lame, Latent Lethargic
-> Lazy Lemon, Little Logic
-> Lucky Leech, Liver Lipped
-> Laborious Louse on a Loser's Lips
-> Live in Limbo, Lyrical Lapse
-> Low Life with the Loud Raps, boy

-> Three days later...
-> I woke up fussin', yellin' and cussin'
-> Drip-drip-drippin' and puss-puss-pussin'
-> I went to the bathroom and said
-> "Mama mia, Imma ''kill'' that girl next time I see her!"

->When it came to girls, he didn't care where he went
->He'd hound em like a dog, so we used to say "fetch!"
->And it was no tellin what he would catch
->He was in the doctor's office almost every week
->He became so popular, everybody'd speak
->When he walked in they'd say (Hi Rick)
->And when he passed by, they'd say (Dumb Dick)