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Namewee removes clips from YouTube
Thu, Nov 27, 2008
The Star

MUAR, MALAYSIA - Controversial rapper Wee Meng Chee has removed all three parts of his latest video clips entitled Teacher Hews Time from YouTube.

He told The Star that he removed the first two parts 10 days ago and the third part on Tuesday after his alma mater in Muar, Chung Hwa High School, expressed unhappiness with the clips.

He said he did not intend to hurt anyone as the clips were about his feelings and views on the Chinese independent schools system.

"However, after I received complaints from several parties, especially Chung Hwa High School, which was portrayed in the clips, I removed them from YouTube.

"And yesterday I removed the third part after the school's legal advisor issued me a notice," he said when contacted yesterday.

Wee said although many residents in town were upset with the clips, others supported him as they understood his reason for producing them.

Meanwhile, the school's adviser Tay Khim Seng said the local community was angry at Wee for using vulgar words and indecency and seditious elements in the clips.

He said the school also did not consent to Wee showing the school signboard and compound, and wanted to dissociate itself entirely from the video clips. He said some residents here planned to use similar vulgar words when they met and talked with Wee's father.

In Johor Baru, Wee said that his latest recording was an attempt to hit out at the Government for not providing Chinese universities.

Wee said that at present, there were Chinese primary and high schools, but no universities for students who did not have the necessary language skills to join public universities.

He pointed out that if a student had money, they had the option of pursuing their education overseas, but often students, including many of his friends, were forced to stop their education because they did not have the money.

"It is very strange. Why cut our road to the Chinese university? That is a problem that is affecting a large number of students at Chinese independent schools."

Wee, who is better known as Namewee, produced the controversial Negarakuku video while studying Mass Communication in Taiwan.

 

 
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