Larger-than-life Malaysian rapper, composer, actor, and filmmaker Namewee (whose
stage name is a bilingual pun on his first name, the Mandarin term for name
(Chinese: 名字; pinyin: míngzi) was born Huáng Míngzhì in Muar, Johor on 6 May
1983 and is equally notorious in China – where he is currently banned – and
famous in his home of Taiwan. The hip-hop firebrand and singer-songwriter first
hit the headlines in 2007 with his controversial remake of the Malaysian
national anthem "Negaraku," newly titled as "Negarakuku" (the word kuku is
similar to the word for 'penis' in Hokkien) and ...