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Dog G (Taiwanese (linguistics)|Taiwanese: Toā-ki 大支, born Tseng Kuan-jung 曾冠榕,pinyin: Zēng Guānr?ng, ca. 1969) is a Taiwan|Taiwanese hip hop artist, best known for using Taiwanese (linguistics)|Taiwanese in his performances. His first solo album was Lotus from the Tongue (舌粲蓮花, 2002), billed as the first ever full rap album in the Chinese-speaking world. He has also collaborated with fellow rapper MC HotDog.

Outside of the hip hop scene he is best known for his best-selling single, "Taiwan Song", which projects an unapologetic Taiwanese assertiveness. The title is a playful pun on the Mandarin word for "ode", which also sounds like a Taiwanese word for "feeling good".

The March 8, 2004 Asian issue of TIME describes him as a writer of "pro-Taiwan rap" and the "poster boy of the Democratic Progressive Party|DPP's southern youth vote campaign" during the ROC presidential election, 2004|2004 presidential election. http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/501040315/story.html

See also: Taiwanese hip hop

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Last Modified:   2005-03-09