Kool Moe Dee

Person · Open Library

Works

1

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Film & TV

Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.

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 is a Grammy-winning artist and two-time nominee. Considered one of the forerunners of the New Jack Swing sound in hip hop, he gained fame in the 1980s as a member of one of the pioneering groups in…

Known for

• 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self (archive footage)2022
• Rebels Without a Pause: The Induction Celebration of Public Enemy — Self2013
• Q: The Man — Self2009
• Everybody Hates Chris — Old School Teacher2005
• Crossroads — Bar Owner2002
• The New Guy — Ted2002
• Brother — Jack2000
• Cypress Edge — Agent Armstrong1999
• It's a Whole New West: The Making of 'Wild, Wild West' — Self (as Kool Mo Dee)1999
• Storm Trooper — Driver1998

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1962-08-08

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

102,240

Total plays

475,357

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. He is from Manhattan, New York City. 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 href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ko

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

New York City

Occupation

actor

Genre

hip hop culture

Instrument

voice

Record label

Jive Records

Official website

myspace.com/foxybrownmusic

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