老莫 ILL MO是一名饶舌歌手，自2002开始创作，隶属人称「学院派始祖」的饶舌团体参劈。参劈于2004年发行台湾第一张地下混音带《听说》，后于2008年在本色音乐/滚石唱片发行团体首张专辑《押韵的开始》，以及2021年独立发行睽违13年的回归作《押韵的继续》。 个人作品方面，老莫曾与金曲最佳新人坏特?te共同创作〈女士优先〉，与Matt Hsu合作的单曲〈就当家里〉获澳洲QMA音乐奖肯定，近期更有与已故诗人陈奇云的跨界合作〈你把灵魂弄哪儿去啦〉。 老莫的个人首张专辑「生成 BECOMING」在2021年发行，合作对象包括阿爆、坏特、Jony J等人，阵容坚强，为该年度台湾最佳嘻哈专辑之一。 此外，老莫目前为致理科技大学应用英语系助理教授，长期担任各大专院校及高中的嘻研社指导老师与客座讲师，开设在线饶舌课程，同时替各音乐媒体撰写音乐文字，并担任电视节目《大嘻哈时代》的海选评审与踢馆魔王。 ILL MO, real name Kang-Sheng Mo, has a Ph.D. in English Literature from Tamkang University and teaches English in Chihlee University as an Assistant Professor. More importantly, he is a member of the rap trio TriPoets and a hip hop writer/curator, who has been in the field of Mandarin rap for almost two decades. The TriPoets is a veteran rap group from northern Taiwan who had independently released the first rap mixtape in Taiwan named "Listen and Speak" in 2004, an official album "The Beginning of Rhymes" (Rock Records) in 2008, and the first book about local rap scene in Taiwan "Da Project: TriPoets" (Studio E-Ban) in the same year. After that, ILL MO founded a hip hop duo named Revival and released its critically acclaimed mixtape with the same name in 2012, and the duo released their album "Portrayal" (Asia Records) in 2014. ILL MO is respected for paving the way for the younger generation by developing rhyming skills in Mandarin as the one of the first “Academic Rappers.” The contribution he has made in the past cannot be overlooked; moreover, he ages gracefully as he started to pay more attention to social issues in his lyrics. For example, “Boom Bap With Conscious” in 2019 stood as the manifestation of an OG’s wisdom mixed with a gritty, hard-knocking boom bap beat. “Lady First” was his latest single, and it had been listed in numerous playlists and generated over 200k plays. It is considered as one of the best hip hop singles in Taiwan by far in year 2020. ILL MO's debut album BECOMING was released in 2021, which was one of the strongest Mandarin hip hop releases of the year.