Namewee clarifies taking video sponsorship dollars from gaming website for legal fees

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Malaysian singer, Wee Meng Chee, who goes by the stage name "Namewee", has been involved in lawsuits that have amassed debt.

Media reports state that Wee made the revelation in the caption of his music video on YouTube. In the caption he states, “We were involved in lawsuits and had to earn RM10 million in compensation. Therefore we decided to accept MV (music video) and video sponsorship from some gaming websites.”

He added that the websites that provided the funds for his video productions did not constitute the illegal act of gambling and reinforced that he does not endorse the habit, citing “sponsored broadcasting” to justify his actions.

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Wee is known to be controversial, evident from his run-ins with the police. According to media, he was called in for investigations for having racist elements in a film he made, called ‘Babi’. The film was released in 2020, depicting school violence that took place in a secondary school in the southern part of Malaysia in 2000, according to explanatory videos made by the artiste.

In addition, Wee said last year that as the film’s director, he wanted to send a message about the importance of unity and tolerance. “I sincerely hope that every race in Malaysia can be united and can live harmoniously with each other, instead of becoming divided and causing internal conflicts,” he said.

In 2021, he caused controversy with his song 'Fragile', in which he unveiled NFTs to stand against world order. His idea of opening an NFT account was "to counter the intermediaries" and secure ownerships of items such as art. What stood out to Wee in NFT, was how the content was safe from censorship, where no authority, including himself, had any right to the content sold once someone owns it. In conjunction with the theme of using NFT as a stand against the world order, the artist took 20 pictures of him making rude gestures at banking cooperations and commercial enterprises. These pictures were then uploaded on his NFT channel and were sold out within three hours.

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