Born Wang Linkai in Haiyang City, Yantai, Shandong Province on 20 May 1999, the
Chinese rapper and singer-songwriter known as Lil Ghost developed an interest in
hip-hop at the age of 12 or 13 and in 2017 took part in iQiyi's self-made
hip-hop reality show The Rap of China, signing with Gramarie Entertainment as a
trainee and issuing his first single with Zhu Xingjie (朱星傑), "Bingo!Ca$h," that
same year. He rose to national prominence after joining the reality survival
show Idol Producer and stepping out as a member of the Chinese boy band Nine
Percent before dropping his debut sol...