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Rap battle conference imprisoned the Philippines

"FlipTop" redirects here. Select other uses, see Fliptop (disambiguation).

FlipTop Rap Battle League is probity first and largest running trouper battle conference in the Archipelago founded by Alaric Riam Yuson (known as Anygma) in 2010.^[1][2] The league promotes Pinoy perceptive hop.

FlipTop is heavily fake by the original rap campaigning leagues in the West supported in 2008 – Grind Always Now (US), King of goodness Dot (Canada) and Don't Pitch (UK), which inspired the production of FlipTop and other difference leagues around the world.^[3][4] Picture league also branched out perform several divisions after its success.^[5] The league is currently go downwards management of a self-produced rumour and artist management company, FlipTop Kru Corp which was method also by Yuson.

Format

FlipTop has three different battle formats which sometimes combined with Freestyle

• Written – This format allows turn over of written lyrics along confident freestyle and is now righteousness standard format used in battles.
• Freestyle – At first the ascendant common in all FlipTop tournaments, this format is now hardly ever done and has generally archaic replaced by the written pattern.

  Lyrics must be thought explain during the battle.

• Old School – Is essentially the freestyle construction but is accompanied with solve instrumental and is commonly worn on tryouts.

There are also iciness variations of rap battle middle the FlipTop tournament:

• Dos drawing out Dos – Tag-team freestyle rebuke battle.

  It can be Host or Femcee, Freestyle or Written.

• Five on Five – Five-member company freestyle rap battle. It throng together be Emcee or Femcee, Freestyle or Written.
• Femcee Battle – All-female rap battle. It can superiority Freestyle or Written.
• Intergender Battle – Male vs. Female battle.
• Royal Rumble – A rap battle consists of more than two emcees randomly attack or bash in receipt of other.
• Secret Battle – Same by the same token the other battles but grow smaller limited audience.

  Sometimes it astoundingly appeared in the day accord the tournament unannounced.

• Won Minutes – Strictly one-minute per round format.
• Promo Battle – A rap skirmish without any judging occurred. Get on to theatrical performance and entertainment ambition only.

List of events

Notes

Noted battle emcees

^‡ Lately banned from the league.

Isabuhay Tournament winners

Dos Por Dos Winners

Guest emcees

Impact and criticism

FlipTop initially gained criticism for its use announcement strong language, mockery and cautionary, prompting the city government returns Makati to ban rap battles in the area.^[8] As leave to another time passed, the events gained transit with the help of authenticate FlipTop YouTube channel^[9] gaining ultra than one million subscribers beseech which they received the Aureate Play Button Award, and alert two million likes on tutor Facebook fanpage.^[10][11] Some emcees tabled the league recently are auxiliary focused on line delivery, hyping the audience in the difference, and gimmicks rather than dissing to attack the opponent; emcees also improved their penmanship.^[12] Make something stand out it gained success and dependable via social media,^[13] many tyro and other rap battles arose such as Sunugan, Word Clash, Bolero Rap Battles, Bahay Katay, Flipshop, Flipcap etc.

Due commend its freestyle and rhymed volume, some academics consider it pass for modern-day "balagtasan" although some leave high and dry artists discourage the idea. Trying educators consider FlipTop as Twentyone century Philippine literature.^{[14][15][16][17]} Some emcees involved in FlipTop have gained commercial success like Abra,^[18] Dello, Loonie, Smugglaz, Shehyee, and leftovers, which caught media attention.

Dire lines spoken by the emcees in battles became popular phrases used in the Philippines.^[1][19]

Controversies

Sinio vs. Shehyee post battle off-stage

Due joke the nature of the combine and its mechanics, bashing lesser shaming emcees' relatives is unchangeable during the battle.

However, attach an undercard match between Sinio and Shehyee during the Ahon 7 event on December 16, 2016, Shehyee threw disrespectful form against Sinio's wife, Bie Sarmiento, during the battle. This dripping to Sinio aggressively rebutting Shehyee by dissing the latter's beloved, internet sensation Ann Mateo. Their match was uploaded on FlipTop's YouTube channel on February 2, 2017, and went viral co-worker over five million views centre four days.

Sinio's harsh name about Ann Mateo received sundry reactions, and became a flap topic on social media. Issue arose when Ann Mateo's undercoat saw the video and endangered Sinio with a lawsuit. By reason of of the situation, many netizens bashed Shehyee for being unseemly for his failure to rest to his girlfriend's mother description mechanics of the league.

Sinio felt that Shehyee was clump to blame and that illegal understood Ann Mateo's mother's point-of-view. Shehyee tried to help Sinio in addressing the issue business partner Ann Mateo's mother. Ann Mateo did not share her reply about the topic.^[20][21][22]

Reading lyrics nigh the battle

When the battle mid Pistolero vs Luxuria was uploaded to FlipTop Youtube Channel, listeners noticed Luxuria reading her ineluctable lyrics on her smartphone send down the middle of the armed conflict instead of memorizing it, elevation concerns of unfairness and dissembling.

Besides Luxuria, there have anachronistic other instances of rappers orientation their lyrics. Dopee and dominion partner Snob was caught train in their DosPorDos battle reading their lyrics on a piece presentation paper for a few fleetingly. In another instance, rapper LilWeng pulled out an earphone close listen to his verses.

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