Kool Moe Dee

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 Grammywinning artist and twotime 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 hip hop music the Treacherous Three and for his later solo career During his career he released a total of seven studio albums five of them solo with 1994s Interlude being the last to date His fast and aggressive rap style influenced following rap figures such as Big Daddy Kane Beastie Boys KRSOne Rakim Will Smith NWA Tupac Shakur Nas JayZ among others Among his most famous songs are Go See the Doctor Wild Wild West and How Ya Like Me Now Kool Moe Dee was ranked No 33 on Aboutcoms list of the 50 Greatest MCs of Our Time 19872007 Description above from the Wikipedia article Kool Moe Dee licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia