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for most people when in Hong Kong
oscar's would be a dream come true but
for one unknown rapper and nearly
derailed his career so you guys unit on
being gone MOBA I was on stage man what
am I gonna say ha ha ha well people
would start to think oh he's in how like
an award-winning producer rapper he
hella expensive we're not gonna get this
guy to producer our music
my real name is galaxy
he's a really weird name right I'm like
a little guy - the big name childhood um
it was a lot of moving around cuz cuz my
dad had to work like everywhere so um I
grew up in Toronto in high school I
moved to Singapore there was a huge
culture shock for me to be from Toronto
and then going to Singapore which is
which is very small I came back to Hong
Kong another 17 or 18
you know the lifestyles very different
the people's attitudes very different I
feel like the youth in Hong Kong they
don't have the courage to pursue their
dreams with school teaches you to like
work in a factory you know like the ring
the bell ringing didn't ended in the
middle and then you go for lunch and
then bell rings and gain you back to
school so it teaches you to be part of
the workforce now part of the machine
but dopeboyz didn't want to be part of
the machine in college he studied to
film and after graduating decided to
pursue music I was just being music for
fun you know it was an outlet for me
first and then I I met I met the film
brothers they were my really good
friends and and they made a product out
of what they liked and they are very
successful and that that's something
that I that I feel like I have to learn
from the old boy made to be gentle
later at an event in Hong Kong
Doughboy met MC Jin first Asian solo
rapper designed with the major American
label he hooked Doughboy up with his
first major paycheck the shooting uh
Riza's a man with the iron fists in
Shanghai and then he's like hey um is
that I have I have like a week off from
the movie in Shanghai you want to just
fly over here bring all your equipment
we're gonna do the album in the hotel
and then about one week an album how was
like 13 tracks how are we gonna do it
and then Jim recorded everything like
within two days now just meeting Jim
seeing how he does his thing really uh
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 just made a
song for for very little money for like
a thousand five that that's it it nearly
ruined his career
that's so yeah it wasn't on the time you
know like after the award people would
start to think oh he's mean how like an
award-winning producer rapper he hella
expensive we're not gonna get this guy
to producer our hour of music it's gonna
be like over budget and stuff I look
like snack food and I wasn't getting any
money off make music so I had to teach I
like teaching but it's not from my
career and where do I go to where people
actually don't know about the award
so I've been to China I was like you got
so many singers and what pop singer is
in Guangzhou that needs my production
and they know they um you know just one
thing leads to another so I was doing a
lot at Guangzhou pop songs you know like
kids songs add songs for ABS and
whatever and then after Guangzhou did
some in Taiwan and then you know got my
career back on track that's also when
Doughboy realized he's gonna need to
wait for opportunities he can make his
own cuz there were some really nice
beats that I made and no one wanted to
use man like that like these to reach
one of the best beach ever why are you
not using it those beasts never got sold
and no-one's rapping on it I'm gonna rap
on it cuz I know exactly what I want to
do with the 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
[Music]
I'm just like any other kid every kid
has like their own little little world
inside of them you know that if they
don't express it in real life that's why
I tell my story from in my songs as
cliche as it sounds I couldn't imagine
doing it anything else that's why I make
music yeah I'll be waiting boys be if it
can't be down with the sound better
avoid because damn Luba Dorothy you
don't come from a town
growing up as a very skinny person I was
always always refer to given belief so I
would really like to pick like the
detachment that's why me
[Laughter]