Lunch With Sumiko
Look at him dance
Yung Raja's uniquely Singaporean English-Tamil hip-hop is inspired by his own experience as the son of immigrant parents, he tells Executive Editor Sumiko Tan
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Rapper Yung Raja's The Dance Song was released last year and sparked a dance craze on TikTok dubbed #TheWigglyChallenge, named after his moves in the video. The 25-year-old Singaporean believes the South-east Asian rap scene is having a "supernova" moment right now.
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Yung Raja arrives for lunch with manicured nails. Pink, green, yellow, purple - they run the range of candy pop colours.
"I've always been thick-skinned and confident in myself," the rapper says when I ask him why he paints his nails.
