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Dok2

South Korean rapper

Lee Joon-kyung (Korean: 이준경; born March 28, 1990) better known by his stage name Dok2 (Korean: 도끼, pronounced as Dokki), is a South Korean rapper, record producer and co-founder of now-defunct Illionaire Records.2

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Born Mar 28, 1990.1

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Early life and education

  • Date not recordedGupo Elementary School3

Early life

Dok2's mother is Korean, and his father is of Filipino and Spanish descent.

Media outlets reported in 2014 that he is a first cousin of Nicole Scherzinger, American singer and member of The Pussycat Dolls. Dok2 stated in a 2015 interview, "The report about me being first cousins with Nicole Scherzinger is wrong. We share the same blood, but the relationship is complicated. I haven't even met her."

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Career

Occupation: recording artist, singer.6

Career beginnings

His first music appearance is when he was 12, when he performed "FEVER" with Jo-PD & Hype at the 2002 Mnet Music Video Festival.

Dok2 signed to Future Flow Entertainment when he was 13 years old. By the time he was out of his teenage years, he had written and produced songs for established Korean hip-hop groups, including Drunken Tiger, Dynamic Duo and Epik High.

In 2006, under the name All Black, Dok2 and fellow teen rapper Microdot released the album Chapter 1.

Dok2 released his first solo mini-album, Thunderground, under the now-defunct independent label Map the Soul, established by Epik High, 2009.

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Personal life

  • BornMar 28, 1990, Gyeongju7
  • CitizenshipSouth Korea8

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