Prach Ly Cambodian-American Rapper

Prach Ly, a Cambodian-American rapper from Long Beach, California, in his parents' garage. He didn't have a mixing board––he used a karaoke machine and sampled sound bites from old Khmer Rouge propaganda speeches to create what he calls an "autobiography," reciting stories he'd heard from his refugee family to deliver a blistering history lesson about Cambodia's genocide. He did the artwork himself, He'd become the first hip-hop star of a country he hadn't seen since he was a toddler.