Funke Funke Wisdom by Kool Moe Dee

Funke, Funke Wisdom is the fourth solo studio album by American recording artist Kool Moe Dee from the Treacherous Three. It was released in 1991 via Jive Records, making it the rapper's final album on the label. Production of the record was handled by Teddy Riley, Dale Hogan, Keith Spencer and Kool Moe Dee. The album peaked at #72 on the Billboard 200 and #19 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. It spawned three singles: "How Kool Can One Black Man Be", "Death Blow" and "Rise 'N' Shine". "Rise 'N' Shine" featuring KRS-One & Chuck D became the most successful single of the effort reaching number one position on the Hot Rap Songs. "How Kool Can One Black Man Be" peaked at #9 on the Hot Rap Songs and #49 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. The song "Death Blow", an overt diss track directed at LL Cool J, with whom Kool Moe Dee had had a rivalry throughout the 1980s, did not hit any major chart, but it's significant, because the song has some profanity-laced insults about Cool J's mother, even though it's censored, breaking from Kool Moe Dee's clean image. The "Death Blow" music video featured a satire of Cool J's "Mama Said Knock You Out" video.The track "Bad, Bad, Bad" was featured in the 1992 film Stay Tuned as well as its soundtrack.