'I cannot stop': For controversial Malaysian artist Namewee, raising social issues is a responsibility

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CNA Lifestyle sits down with the musician-filmmaker to talk about his latest film, Nasi Lemak 1.0, the controversies behind his music videos and… cooking skills?

If Namewee hadn’t been cooking up a storm with his controversial music videos, songs, or films, he reckons he'd be cooking up a storm in the kitchen for a living instead.

“You needed to go to some Indonesian or Vietnamese shop in Taiwan. You could find some similar ingredients. I improved my cooking a lot in Taiwan."MORE ACCEPTANCE FROM MALAYSIANS “Of course, I was very surprised. You can say that they didn’t like me before because of all the controversies. For the past 12 years, there has been a lot of bad news about me,” he said.who can call himself a singer, songwriter, composer, scriptwriter, director and actor, among other things“I guess this is because the world is changing, and people can do research by themselves. I have come out with a lot of different music videos and content.

A 2009 video that criticised Malaysia’s main power supplier Tenaga Nasional Berhad became his biggest headache. Namewee has also rapped satirically about issues such as government inefficiency, unequal treatment and corruption. There have also been complaints about the sexualisation of women in some of his music videos, which Namewee says is a“I would respond by saying that I need a lot of sexy and pretty ladies in my music videos because 80 per cent of the fans on my YouTube channel and Facebook page are male.

The song You Know Who Is My Father?, which took aim at rich and privileged people, was removed from YouTube after fans of Blackpink reported the video for its lyrics, which they said demeaned the group. For his efforts, Namewee earned more than RM3.5m in virtual currency after selling Fragile as non-fungible tokens online.

 

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Dont be used by the CIA to incite race, religion and cause social unrest! We have our way of solving problem. Not used by foreigner for their own political agenda.

Power on bro! U are on the side of good.

He sounds like a troll. 😂

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