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Malaysian rapper-turned-filmmaker Namewee (real name Wee Meng Chee) is no stranger to controversy. He first rose to prominence in 2007 with a rap parody of Malaysia's national anthem, which earned him a police investigation and erasure from Malaysian mainstream media. In 2016 he was arrested for allegedly insulting Islam (Malaysia's official religion) with a music video called "Oh my God," and detained again in 2018 for a music video named "Like a Dog" that featured him dancing in front of the Malaysian Prime Minister's office. Despite these incidents, the ethnically Chinese Namewee has remained steadfast in producing work that comments upon relations between Malaysia's three main ethnic groups-Malays, Indians, and Chinese-in manners that the country's Malay-dominated authorities find upsetting and can easily condemn to gain political clout.