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Kool Moe Dee

Biography

Kool Moe Dee

Overview

  • Born
    August 8, 1962
  • Birth name
    Mohandas Dewese

Mini bio

  • Kool Moe Dee was born on August 8, 1962. He is an actor and composer, known for Wild Wild West (1999), A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989) and Scrooged (1988).

Family

  • Children
      No Children
  • Relatives
      Gamel Dewese(Sibling)

Trademarks

  • Fast rapping
  • Usually wears sun glasses.

Trivia

  • Had a long "battle rap" feud with LL Cool J. Some of the songs where his "dissed" him were "How Ya Like Me Now" and "Let's Go" (which is featured on the Nightmare on Elm Street 5 and Boyz 'N Tha Hood soundtracks).
  • Re-used score, with permission, originally composed for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly), by Ennio Morricone, for "Wild Wild West" rap.
  • Influential old-school rapper.
  • Participated in the first "battle rap" of all time in 1982 at The Harlem World in Manhattan, when he and fellow Treacherous Three member L.A. Sunshine went on stage after rapper Busy Bee had finished, and verbally attacked Busy Bee.
  • Author of the book "There's a God on the Mic", (which he also based his documentary of the same name). It lists, in his opinion, the fifty greatest hip-hop artists of all time, the top three being Tupac Shakur, Rakim, and Grandmaster Melle Mel.

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