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  • For most people within Hong Kong, Oscars would be a dream come true before one unknown rapper and nearly derailed his career.

  • So you guys Eunjung Bingo Kong e was on stage.

  • I was like, Oh, man, what am I gonna say?

  • E people would start to think, Oh, he's now like award winning producer rapper.

  • He held expensive.

  • We're not going to get this guy to producer our music.

  • Just my real name is Galaxy.

  • This is a really weird name, right?

  • I'm like a little guy with the big names.

  • Childhood.

  • Um, it was a lot of moving around because it's because my dad had to work like everywhere.

  • So, um, I grew up in Toronto.

  • In high school, I moved to Singapore.

  • There was, ah, huge cultural shock for me to be from Toronto and then going to Singapore, which is which is very small.

  • E came back to Hong Kong like 17 or 18.

  • You know, the lifestyle is very different.

  • People's attitudes very different.

  • I feel like the youth in Hong Kong they don't have the courage to pursue their dreams of a school, teaches you to, like work in a factory, you know, like the developing.

  • Everything didn't didn't And then you go for lunch and bell rings again.

  • You're back to school.

  • So it teaches you to be part of the workforce.

  • A part of the machine.

  • But Dopo didn't want to be part of the machine.

  • In college, he studied film and, after graduating, decided to pursue music video.

  • I was just doing music for fun, you know, It was an outlet for me first, and then I I met.

  • I met the phone Brothers.

  • They were really good friends, and they made a product out of what they like and they're very successful.

  • And that's something that I that I feel like I have to learn from.

  • Doughboy made the beat, uh later, at an event in Hong Kong, Doughboy met em.

  • Si Jin, first Asian solo rapper, designed with a major American label.

  • He hooked Doughboy up with his first major paycheck.

  • Just shooting a riz is ah, man with the iron fist in Shanghai.

  • I think he's like he's like I have I have, like, a week off from the movie in Shanghai.

  • You wanted to fly over here, bring all your equipment.

  • We're gonna do the album in the hotel and then I was all one week.

  • An album.

  • How is, like 13 tracks?

  • How are we gonna do it?

  • And then Jim recorded everything like within two days, just meeting Jin, seeing how he does his thing, really a changed my entire mentality of making music.

  • 2014 was a turning point in doughboys career.

  • That year he won best original song at the Hong Kong Film Awards for his work on The Way We Dance.

  • E just made a song for Very little money for 1005.

  • That zit nearly ruined his career.

  • So yeah, it was around the time.

  • And then after the award, people would start to think, Oh, he's now like award winning producer Rapper.

  • He held expensive.

  • We're not going to get this guy to producer our music.

  • It would be like over budget of stuff.

  • Not true.

  • I wasn't getting any money off making music, so I had to teach.

  • I like teaching, but it's not my career.

  • Where do I go?

  • Thio, where people actually don't know about the award.

  • Okay, so I went to China was like, Hey, you guys know many singers like pop singers and Guangzhou that that needs, like production.

  • And then they, you know, just one thing leads to another.

  • So I was doing a lot in Guangzhou, Um, pop songs, you know, kids songs at songs for ads and whatever.

  • And then after Guangzhou did some in Taiwan and then, you know, got my career back on track.

  • That's also when dope or realized he didn't need to wait for opportunities.

  • He could make his own because there were some really nice beats that I made on no one wanted to use.

  • I was like, Oh, man like that, Like thes two beaches like the best it's ever.

  • Why are you not using it?

  • Those beasts never got sold that no one's rapping on it.

  • I'm gonna wrap on it because I know exactly what I wanna do with beats.

  • In 2017 he released his first album, Chinglish, which opened doors for him in mainland China.

  • Two years later, when he dropped his second album, Good, Bad and Ugly, he was able to do an 11 city tour in China.

  • The Hong Kong Film Awards almost ruined his career in Hong Kong, but has managed to become big in the mainland and make his way back home.

  • I'm just like any other kid.

  • Every kid has, like, their own little little world inside of them.

  • You know that That they still expressing realize That's why I told my story from my songs.

  • As cliche as it sounds I couldn't imagine doing anything else.

  • That's why I make music.

  • I'll be reading boys be It can be down with the sound better avoid because damn you annoy me You don't come from my town here The system bump every time, Right?

  • Growing up as a very skinny person, Always always, always afraid of getting bullied So I would really, like, pick like the factory That's why me A shiny clothes.

  • Come on.

  • You yet?

  • Oh, Uh huh.

For most people within Hong Kong, Oscars would be a dream come true before one unknown rapper and nearly derailed his career.

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