Tag Archives: Kool Moe Dee
Hip-Hop Dopeness: Kool Moe Dee on Quincy Jones’ Back on the Block
Kool Moe Dee’s closing verse is amazing. It succinctly deconstructs (and constructs) black identity. We do NOT talk about Kool Moe Dee enough when we talk about the greats of Hip-Hop’s Golden Age. We should. An everlasting omnipresence is … Continue reading
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Tagged Back on the Block, hip hop, Kool Moe Dee, Quincy Jones
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Vibe’s Best Rapper Alive? Not So Much
click to embiggen* So Vibe slouched toward further irrelevance among black people by putting together a Best Rapper Alive contest where fans could vote on a series of head-to-head “battles” and end up with a consensus of the Best Rapper … Continue reading
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Tagged appropriation, Bahamadia, Big Daddy Kane, emcee, Eminem, hip hop, Kool Moe Dee, KRS-One, Lil Wayne, Native Tongues, Queen Latifah, Vibe
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