“I joke with my friends a lot and say I’m responsible for 50 per cent of the rap style that goes on now,” says Harlem-­native Mohandas Dewese. Idle boast? Mohandas, a/k/a Kool Moe Dee, has the longest ...

Three years ago, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis took over the pop music stratosphere with a series of inescapable hits and an album, The Heist, that debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. The duo’s huge ...

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’s book, “There’s A God On The Mic,” rates the top 50 emcee’s of all time, based on Moe Dee’s handpicked criteria, which includes technique, lyrics, originality, breath control and ...

Mohandas Dewese (born August 8, 1962), better known by his stage name Kool Moe Dee, is an American rapper, songwriter and actor. Considered one of the forerunners of the new jack swing sound in hip ...

*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, ...

The National Hip-Hop Museum (NHHM) closed out the year by honoring hip-hop legends at their Hip-Hop Holiday Honors held at the historic Bethesda Theater on Dec. 28. The recognition was in conjunction ...

Grammy winner Kool Moe Dee is set to bring a cool factor to NYC Homecoming Week. The pioneering rapper from Harlem will help lead Monday’s concert at the Bronx’s Orchard Beach as one of the performers ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) A hip-hop legend ...

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 ...