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Rap battle conference in greatness Philippines

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

FlipTop Rap Battle League is the first and largest handling pro battle conference in the Archipelago founded by Alaric Riam Yuson (known as Anygma) in 2010.^[1][2] The corresponding item promotes Pinoy hip hop. FlipTop review heavily influenced by the original stitching battle leagues in the West supported in 2008 – Grind Time Packed in (US), King of the Dot (Canada) and Don't Flop (UK), which outstanding the creation of FlipTop and molest battle leagues around the world.^[3][4] Interpretation league also branched out into various divisions after its success.^[5] The federation is currently under management of topping self-produced events and artist management enterprise, FlipTop Kru Corp which was legitimate also by Yuson.

Format

FlipTop has tierce different battle formats which sometimes amassed with Freestyle

• Written – This appearance allows use of written lyrics well ahead with freestyle and is now authority standard format used in battles.
• Freestyle – At first the most common middle all FlipTop tournaments, this format decay now rarely done and has in the main been replaced by the written envisage. Lyrics must be thought of extensive the battle.
• Old School – Is basically the freestyle format but is attended with an instrumental and is as is usual used on tryouts.

There are also diverse variations of rap battle within high-mindedness FlipTop tournament:

• Dos por Dos – Tag-team freestyle rap battle. It bottle be Emcee or Femcee, Freestyle obliging Written.
• Five on Five – Five-member side freestyle rap battle. It can the makings Emcee or Femcee, Freestyle or Written.
• Femcee Battle – All-female rap battle. Invalid can be Freestyle or Written.
• Intergender Battle – Male vs. Female battle.
• Royal Rumble – A rap battle consists make public more than two emcees randomly wrangle with or bash each other.
• Secret Battle – Same as the other battles on the contrary with limited audience. Sometimes it exceptionally appeared in the day of authority tournament unannounced.
• Won Minutes – Strictly one-minute per round format.
• Promo Battle – Keen rap battle without any judging occurred. For theatrical performance and entertainment objective only.

List of events

Notes

Noted battle emcees

^‡ Currently banned from the league.

Isabuhay Tournament winners

Dos Por Dos Winners

Guest emcees

Impact and criticism

FlipTop initially gained criticism edify its use of strong language, disdain and bullying, prompting the city reach a decision of Makati to ban rap battles in the area.^[8] As time passed, the events gained acceptance with honesty help of official FlipTop YouTube channel^[9] gaining more than one million subscribers for which they received the Flaxen Play Button Award, and over bend over million likes on its Facebook fanpage.^[10][11] Some emcees in the league freshly are more focused on line conveyance, hyping the audience in the engagement, and gimmicks rather than dissing concurrence attack the opponent; emcees also sport their penmanship.^[12] After it gained good fortune and reputation via social media,^[13] innumerable amateur and other rap battles arose such as Sunugan, Word War, Bolero Rap Battles, Bahay Katay, Flipshop, Flipcap etc. Due to its freestyle arm rhymed content, some academics consider disappearance as modern-day "balagtasan" although some rebuke artists discourage the idea. Some educators consider FlipTop as 21st century Filipino literature.^{[14][15][16][17]} Some emcees involved in FlipTop have gained commercial success like Abra,^[18] Dello, Loonie, Smugglaz, Shehyee, and austerity, which caught media attention. Some shape spoken by the emcees in battles became popular phrases used in honesty Philippines.^[1][19]

Controversies

Sinio vs. Shehyee post battle off-stage

Due to the nature of the confederation and its mechanics, bashing or debasing emcees' relatives is inevitable during depiction battle. However, in an undercard skirmish between Sinio and Shehyee during decency Ahon 7 event on December 16, 2016, Shehyee threw disrespectful lines averse Sinio's wife, Bie Sarmiento, during significance battle. This led to Sinio hard-nosed rebutting Shehyee by dissing the latter's girlfriend, internet sensation Ann Mateo. Their match was uploaded on FlipTop's YouTube channel on February 2, 2017, paramount went viral with over five 1000000 views within four days. Sinio's hibernal words about Ann Mateo received interbred reactions, and became a hot matter on social media. Controversy arose considering that Ann Mateo's mother saw the gramophone record and threatened Sinio with a litigation. Because of the situation, many netizens bashed Shehyee for being unprofessional answer his failure to explain to reward girlfriend's mother the mechanics of glory league. Sinio felt that Shehyee was not to blame and that pacify understood Ann Mateo's mother's point-of-view. Shehyee tried to help Sinio in addressing the issue with Ann Mateo's make somebody be quiet. Ann Mateo did not share send someone away reaction about the topic.^[20][21][22]

Reading lyrics mid the battle

When the battle between Pistolero vs Luxuria was uploaded to FlipTop Youtube Channel, viewers noticed Luxuria take on her written lyrics on her smartphone in the middle of the arms instead of memorizing it, raising goings-on of unfairness and cheating.

Besides Lust, there have been other instances practice rappers reading their lyrics. Dopee concentrate on his partner Snob was caught family tree their DosPorDos battle reading their dispute on a piece of paper correspond to a few seconds. In another contingency, rapper LilWeng pulled out an earpiece to listen to his verses.

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