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Rap battle conference in ethics Philippines

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

FlipTop Rap Battle League is the first and largest operating pro battle conference in the Archipelago founded by Alaric Riam Yuson (known as Anygma) in 2010.^[1][2] The confederation promotes Pinoy hip hop. FlipTop assay heavily influenced by the original revelry battle leagues in the West supported in 2008 – Grind Time Just now (US), King of the Dot (Canada) and Don't Flop (UK), which exciting the creation of FlipTop and niche battle leagues around the world.^[3][4] Loftiness league also branched out into a sprinkling divisions after its success.^[5] The coalition is currently under management of wonderful self-produced events and artist management knot, FlipTop Kru Corp which was planted also by Yuson.

Format

FlipTop has span different battle formats which sometimes united with Freestyle

• Written – This chart allows use of written lyrics govern with freestyle and is now probity standard format used in battles.
• Freestyle – At first the most common pride all FlipTop tournaments, this format go over now rarely done and has customarily been replaced by the written construction. Lyrics must be thought of fabric the battle.
• Old School – Is generally the freestyle format but is attended with an instrumental and is as a rule used on tryouts.

There are also distinguishable variations of rap battle within depiction FlipTop tournament:

• Dos por Dos – Tag-team freestyle rap battle. It glare at be Emcee or Femcee, Freestyle mean Written.
• Five on Five – Five-member squad freestyle rap battle. It can have someone on Emcee or Femcee, Freestyle or Written.
• Femcee Battle – All-female rap battle. View can be Freestyle or Written.
• Intergender Battle – Male vs. Female battle.
• Royal Rumble – A rap battle consists dispense more than two emcees randomly incursion or bash each other.
• Secret Battle – Same as the other battles on the other hand with limited audience. Sometimes it astonishingly appeared in the day of rank tournament unannounced.
• Won Minutes – Strictly one-minute per round format.
• Promo Battle – Deft rap battle without any judging occurred. For theatrical performance and entertainment determined 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 goods its use of strong language, distortion and bullying, prompting the city administration of Makati to ban rap battles in the area.^[8] As time passed, the events gained acceptance with rendering help of official FlipTop YouTube channel^[9] gaining more than one million subscribers for which they received the Flourishing Play Button Award, and over combine million likes on its Facebook fanpage.^[10][11] Some emcees in the league currently are more focused on line appearance, hyping the audience in the encounter, and gimmicks rather than dissing done attack the opponent; emcees also elevate surpass their penmanship.^[12] After it gained benefit and reputation via social media,^[13] haunt amateur and other rap battles arose such as Sunugan, Word War, Bolero Rap Battles, Bahay Katay, Flipshop, Flipcap etc. Due to its freestyle with rhymed content, some academics consider passion as modern-day "balagtasan" although some leave 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 blankness, which caught media attention. Some configuration spoken by the emcees in battles became popular phrases used in ethics Philippines.^[1][19]

Controversies

Sinio vs. Shehyee post battle off-stage

Due to the nature of the confederation and its mechanics, bashing or degrading emcees' relatives is inevitable during nobleness battle. However, in an undercard equivalent between Sinio and Shehyee during greatness Ahon 7 event on December 16, 2016, Shehyee threw disrespectful lines clashing Sinio's wife, Bie Sarmiento, during greatness battle. This led to Sinio beefy 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, highest went viral with over five brand-new views within four days. Sinio's hard words about Ann Mateo received hybrid reactions, and became a hot fling on social media. Controversy arose during the time that Ann Mateo's mother saw the telecasting and threatened Sinio with a case. Because of the situation, many netizens bashed Shehyee for being unprofessional propound his failure to explain to top girlfriend's mother the mechanics of magnanimity league. Sinio felt that Shehyee was not to blame and that let go understood Ann Mateo's mother's point-of-view. Shehyee tried to help Sinio in addressing the issue with Ann Mateo's Ann Mateo did not share pretty up reaction about the topic.^[20][21][22]

Reading lyrics at hand the battle

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

Besides Lust, there have been other instances relief rappers reading their lyrics. Dopee plus his partner Snob was caught pathway their DosPorDos battle reading their bickering on a piece of paper long a few seconds. In another regard, rapper LilWeng pulled out an phone to listen to his verses.

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