There are many people who love Rap music, but there are very few people who live Hip Hop. In the very early part of the 2000s in Taiwan, MC HotDog was Hip Hop. He embodied the spirit of Hip Hop for all the Taiwanese kids who were breakdancing, DJing, MCing, and doing graffiti. MC HotDog was the streets, and he inspired, and continues to inspire many in Taiwan.

Barry Chen was one of those kids, and this week, he put out his latest single, ‘What Would HotDog Do.’ In it, he thinks about if he never made any money in Hip Hop, would he go back to working in a convenience store. Or if he didn’t win any Golden Melody Awards, would he be OK with being mediocre? Barry even went so far as to make the single’s cover in the same form as HotDog’s first EP in 2000.

For most of its existence, Hip Hop has been a young man’s sport. But now that rappers are getting older, they are looking back at their ‘good old days,’ and contemplating what to do with themselves in the future. Like Barry Chen, they can think about ‘What HotDog Would Do’

Check out Barry Chen’s ‘What would HotDog Do’ below.