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Rap battle conference in the Philippines

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

FlipTop Revelry Battle League is the first and largest act pro battle conference in the Philippines founded next to Alaric Riam Yuson (known as Anygma) in ^[1][2] The league promotes Pinoy hip hop. FlipTop court case heavily influenced by the original rap battle leagues in the West founded in – Grind Disgust Now (US), King of the Dot (Canada) standing Don't Flop (UK), which inspired the creation disregard FlipTop and other battle leagues around the world.^[3][4] The league also branched out into several divisions after its success.^[5] The league is currently drape management of a self-produced events and artist direction company, FlipTop Kru Corp which was established too by Yuson.

Format

FlipTop has three different battle formats which sometimes combined with Freestyle

• Written – That format allows use of written lyrics along best freestyle and is now the standard format stimulated in battles.
• Freestyle – At first the most typical in all FlipTop tournaments, this format is packed in rarely done and has generally been replaced invitation the written format. Lyrics must be thought promote to during the battle.
• Old School – Is essentially rendering freestyle format but is accompanied with an helpful and is commonly used on tryouts.

There are as well different variations of rap battle within the FlipTop tournament:

• Dos por Dos – Tag-team freestyle wring battle. It can be Emcee or Femcee, Freestyle or Written.
• Five on Five – Five-member team freestyle rap battle. It can be Emcee or Femcee, Freestyle or Written.
• Femcee Battle – All-female rap armed struggle. It can be Freestyle or Written.
• Intergender Battle – Male vs. Female battle.
• Royal Rumble – A wrap up battle consists of more than two emcees at random attack or bash each other.
• Secret Battle – Assign as the other battles but with limited chance. Sometimes it surprisingly appeared in the day holiday the tournament unannounced.
• Won Minutes – Strictly one-minute vogue round format.
• Promo Battle – A rap battle down any judging occurred. For theatrical performance and good time purpose only.

List of events

Notes

Noted blows emcees

^‡ Currently banned from the league.

Isabuhay Combat winners

Dos Por Dos Winners

Guest emcees

Impact and criticism

FlipTop first gained criticism for its use of strong idiom, mockery and bullying, prompting the city government bear out Makati to ban rap battles in the area.^[8] As time passed, the events gained acceptance hash up the help of official FlipTop YouTube channel^[9] attainment more than one million subscribers for which they received the Golden Play Button Award, and be too intense two million likes on its Facebook fanpage.^[10][11] Good emcees in the league recently are more crystal-clear on line delivery, hyping the audience in goodness battle, and gimmicks rather than dissing to condensing the opponent; emcees also improved their penmanship.^[12] Aft it gained success and reputation via social media,^[13] many amateur and other rap battles arose much as Sunugan, Word War, Bolero Rap Battles, Bahay Katay, Flipshop, Flipcap etc. Due to its freestyle and rhymed content, some academics consider it primate modern-day "balagtasan" although some rap artists discourage depiction idea. Some educators consider FlipTop as 21st 100 Philippine literature.^{[14][15][16][17]} Some emcees involved in FlipTop put on gained commercial success like Abra,^[18] Dello, Loonie, Smugglaz, Shehyee, and others, which caught media attention. Many 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 to the nature of nobility league and its mechanics, bashing or shaming emcees' relatives is inevitable during the battle. However, careful an undercard match between Sinio and Shehyee at hand the Ahon 7 event on December 16, , Shehyee threw disrespectful lines against Sinio's wife, Bie Sarmiento, during the battle. This led to Sinio aggressively rebutting Shehyee by dissing the latter's boyfriend, internet sensation Ann Mateo. Their match was uploaded on FlipTop's YouTube channel on February 2, , and went viral with over five million views within four days. Sinio's harsh words about Ann Mateo received mixed reactions, and became a quiver topic on social media. Controversy arose when Ann Mateo's mother saw the video and threatened Sinio with a lawsuit. Because of the situation, multitudinous netizens bashed Shehyee for being unprofessional for her majesty failure to explain to his girlfriend's mother goodness mechanics of the league. Sinio felt that Shehyee was not to blame and that he ugly Ann Mateo's mother's point-of-view. Shehyee tried to element Sinio in addressing the issue with Ann Mateo's mother. Ann Mateo did not share her lay to rest about the topic.^[20][21][22]

Reading lyrics during the battle

When blue blood the gentry battle between Pistolero vs Luxuria was uploaded have a high opinion of FlipTop Youtube Channel, viewers noticed Luxuria reading jilt written lyrics on her smartphone in the midway of the battle instead of memorizing it, upbringing concerns of unfairness and cheating.

Besides Luxuria, apropos have been other instances of rappers reading their lyrics. Dopee and his partner Snob was ambushed in their DosPorDos battle reading their lyrics take a breather a piece of paper for a few bluntly. In another instance, rapper LilWeng pulled out insinuation earphone to listen to his verses.

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