How Ya Like Me Now Free MP3, Song Download, Lyrics, Album Track List

Kool Moe Dee

How Ya Like Me Now

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Song	Lyrics	Save	Buy
PLAY QUEUE 1 How Ya Like Me Now (Longer Version)		save
PLAY QUEUE 2 Wild Wild West		save
PLAY QUEUE 3 Way Way Back		save
PLAY QUEUE 4 50 Ways		save
PLAY QUEUE 5 No Respect		save
PLAY QUEUE 6 Don't Dance (Longer Version)		save
PLAY QUEUE 7 I'm A Player		save
PLAY QUEUE 8 Suckers		save
PLAY QUEUE 9 Stupid		save
PLAY QUEUE 10 Rock You		save
PLAY QUEUE 11 Get Paid		save

MOG Editorial Review

Few emcees embodied hip-hop's old school era as well as Kool Moe Dee, and How Ya Like Me Now still stands as a stone-cold classic to this day despite showing its age. On the title track, Kool Moe Dee boasts about his pure flow and goes against hip-hop's growing trends of gangster rap, while "Wild Wild West" more directly takes on the street violence. Elsewhere, he gives a new context to an infamous Paul Simon track on "50 Ways," and "Way Way Back" reminds you that, first and foremost, hip-hop was about having fun in its earliest incarnation, and the same can be said of Kool Moe Dee's finest album.
AMG Review of How Ya Like Me Now

Alex Henderson
All Music Guide

Kool Moe Dee resented the fact that in the mid- to late '80s, most of rap's founding fathers were enjoying little attention. But Dee himself was one of the few exceptions, and the old-school survivor had a major hit with his sophomore effort, How Ya Like Me Now. He would have done better to devote more time to storytelling and less time to boasting, but he definitely brings plenty of soul and spirit (as well as technique) to this material. Though not as strong as his first album, it definitely has its share of classics, including "Wild Wild West," a reflection on the nitty-gritty environment that surrounded rap during its early years; his denunciation of materialism "No Respect"; and the infectious title song, which was clearly inspired by Dee's feud with L.L. Cool J. A few years later, much of the rap world was sick to death of hearing about the feud, but in 1987, it was a major topic of conversation in hip-hop.