Schoolly D is the moniker of American rapper Jesse B. Weaver, Jr. (June 22, 1966) from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a pioneer of Hardcore rap and the pioneer of Gangsta Rap, being one of the first rappers to embrace an antisocial persona without explicit irony. }} Career Musically, Schoolly D and his DJ Code Money came up with electronic hardcore beats. Later on, Schoolly embraced the afrocentric style, working together with KRS-One. He contributed songs and music to many Abel Ferrara films, and "Signifying Rapper" from Smoke Some Kill was used in Ferrara's film Bad Lieutenant. Because Led Zeppelin successfully sued for the simple chord progression riff intro of "Signifying Rapper" which covers directly (but does not sample) the opening of "Kashmir", "Signifying Rapper" was omitted from the soundtrack of the film and indeed from subsequent releases of the Bad Lieutenant. Schoolly