Big Dese & Confidence, Kool Moe Dese

BIS => 2 / 3 WEEKS
1LP - BELOW SYSTEM RECORDS
2025

TRACKLIST
Side A:
1. Intro
2. Strike Back
3. Hip Hop Is Alive
4. Melt (feat. Oak Lonetree)
Side B:
5. Big ‘Ole Butt
6. Ain’t Playing Around
7. OJ
8. The Most Confident (feat. Just Pete & King Author)

DESCRIPTION
Boston area emcee Big Dese and producer Confidence combine forces for “Kool Moe Dese”. The eight-track long project will drop via Below System Records digitally on May 16th as well as in a limited vinyl edition of 100 yellow copies and 200 black.
Propelled by singles “Strike Back” and “Melt” featuring Oak Lonetree listeners get an example of the duo’s punchline heavy bars and sample-based soundscapes. Besides Oak Lonetree other guests on the album are Just Pete and King Author.
Big Dese, over two decades deep in the game makes a masterclass of balancing lyrical disrespect and self-deprecation. Fellow Massachusetts neighbor and producer Confidence has laced tracks and projects for such notables as The Legion, Neek The Exotic, Purpose (Tragic Allies), Rashad and Edo G. He specializes in creating an ill array of head-nodders crafted from deep, dusty crates of funk, soul, disco and other vinyl sources.
The emcee and producer initially met over two decades ago. Speaking on the genesis of “Kool Moe Dese” Confidence recalled “I was working on a beat recently and found some old vocals from Dese that were never used. I put the vocals over the beat and sent them over to him. He was feeling it and decided to write new lyrics for it and we just started building from there.” Regarding the album title Dese added “I always like to do a play on words on my name for my album titles. This one had such a classic Hip Hop feel to it I decided to reference a classic Hip Hop figure.”