Namewee
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| Background information | |
| Chinese name | 黃明志 |
| Pinyin | Huang Mingzhi (Mandarin) |
| Birth name | Wee Meng Chee |
| Origin | Malaysia |
| Born |
6 May 1983 Muar, Johor, Malaysia |
| Other name(s) | Namewee |
| Occupation | Singer, songwriter, rapper, actor, director, screenwriter |
| Genre(s) | C-pop, hip-hop |
| Years active | 2007 – present |
| Ancestry | Hainan |
Wee Meng Chee (Chinese: 明志; pinyin: Huáng Míng Zhì); (born 6 May 1983 in Muar, Johor) is a Malaysian Chinese rapper, filmmaker and movie star of Hainanese descent. He is widely known as Namewee, a bilingual pun on his Mandarin name, which sounds like the Mandarin term for name (Chinese: 名字; pinyin: míngzi).
Wee gained popularity after releasing a controversial song fused with the national anthem of Malaysia, Negaraku, which describes what he thinks of the state of the country and its government. The lyrics of the 'remake' shocked the society. In the following weeks, the song increasingly drew both praise and criticism from various quarters of Malaysian society thus been entitled "Muka Ubi Kentang" by the locals.
Recently, he was also nominated for the 27th Golden Melody Award. In August 2016, he was arrested by police for filming a music video on the grounds of a mosque.
Born and raised up in the town of Muar, Johor, Malaysia, Wee was educated in SRJK Chung Hwa 1B and Chung Hwa High School. He was an undergraduate student majoring in Mass communication at Ming Chuan University in Taoyuan, Taiwan.
While in secondary school, he wrote his first 400 songs. Around the same time, Wee and a few good friends formed a band named "大娘乐队" and won several competitions, while studying abroarious languages. He had also released several songs, along with complementary music videos on YouTube, which include Muar's Mandarin (Chinese: 麻坡的华语) and Kawanku (literally, Malay for My friends), the latter being a critical song directed at Malaysian Chinese, Malays and Singaporeans.
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