Trang Anh Hang Lam, better known as Suboi, is a 25-year-old rapper and songwriter born and raised in the Vietnamese metropolis of Saigon. With introspective lyrics and a versatile flow influenced by Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, Erykah Badu, and Aaliyah, she was one of the first female Vietnamese rappers, rapping in both English and Vietnamese about the daily triumphs and struggles of living in Vietnam. Her first taste of hip hop began during her teenage years when she began listening to rappers such as Eminem, Snoop Dogg, and Mos Def. Suboi's early love for hip hop actually helped her with her skillful flow and command of English. However, she often jokes that because rappers like Eminem were her English teachers, her English is quite rude and full of curse words. After first performing as a rapper in a Vietnamese nu-metal band at the age of 15, she began her solo rap career at the young age of 17. Today, she is considered Vietnam’s “Queen of Hip Hop”, with nearly 1 million Facebook fans, over 5,000,000 viewers collectively on YouTube and 20,000,000 hits on Vietnam's biggest music site, Zing. However, growing up in a communist country like Vietnam where censorship is the norm, her path as an artist is unique, especially when her weapon of choice are words. In the past few years, she has transformed from a shy tomboy who took Vietnam by storm into a young woman ready to show the world what Vietnamese hip hop is all about.