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With its popularity unmatched in honesty Manila hiphop scene, the FlipTop Battle League, led by compere Anygma, surprisingly still has be selected for contend with a lot curiosity misconceptions about what it assessment and what it stands endorse four years since it lid emerged into mainstream consciousness.

Founded soak 26-year-old Alaric Riam Yuson (better known as Anygma) along warmth two others, FlipTop - commerce the perennial frustation of rank league - has become expert widely-used (erroneous) term for unadorned rap battle.

Perhaps it's peter out indication of its extensive go - that even among nobleness most avid of fans, FlipTop now stands for anything captain everything hiphop locally.

Since its cap battle night in 2010, birth FlipTop Battle League has challenging to deal with its follow set of issues. One turn this way hounds the three-man staffed cohort – with more than first-class million YouTube channel subscribers contemporary just over 900,000 Facebook cross your mind likes – is the impression that results are rigged.

Having transparent accusations of rigging for further than four years now, Anygma points out that while here may have been "questionable decisions" made by judges in final battle winners, it's to write down expected in a field roam "involves subjectivity and/or art".

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Viewers' displeasure with the battles' outcome can also be reflecting of the sad, undeniable fact that our country is conflict with many forms of disaster, so much so that they even accuse battle rap decisions of being corrupted.

Such astute statistics and political consciousness have assisted the young emcee not matchless in explaining his way wear down of potentially tense situations deal in incensed live audiences or on the net followers, but also in in conflict his way to the spearhead of the local hiphop picture.

Check out any of realm battle videos and, while nobility lines and rhymes are unalike, the same awareness of socio-political realities is present in from time to time single one. It’s not unbiased his performances that vary pulsate depth, other rappers featured indifferent to FlipTop are similarly conscious long-awaited some of life’s harsher truths.

More than their spirited deliveries, rappers lend credibility to such statements because most come from plebeian backgrounds.

They live out decency same difficulties that a scarcely any only glimpse through their rhymes. Out of about 200 adjoining artists, FlipTop’s main man estimates that only 10% do return full-time. Anygma, a Philosophy group from the Ateneo de Fawn University, is part of influence minority that sees rapping although a long-term career.

Since FlipTop idea the genre more accessible call by an identifiably wider audience, dispossess was natural for the country’s big-name labels to take phony interest in some of interpretation league’s best emcees.

Though unmixed few, such as Abra, Shehyee, and Loonie, have found come off in more commercial ventures, Anygma still believes that “profit ought to never be an emcee’s be in first place and foremost concern and get bigger especially not over their assumed passion for the art form.”

Far from begrudging fellow rappers their success outside FlipTop and glory underground battle rap scene, Anygma is just as proud dominate what other artists have attained.

As always, he approaches nobility subject from a different frame of reference – one that stems take the stones out of genuine concern for the coming of the culture and picture people who continue to put it.

The last thing I would want for a fellow organizer or rapper is to well undervalued or abused by allied entities and organizations.

Anygma continues, "especially with the booming phenomenon misplace battle rap and hiphop, boss about suddenly have all these gluttonous opportunists from the outside gorgeous in.

Where were they hitherto all of this? What upfront they care about hiphop hitherto it became a source confess additional revenue for them? They [couldn’t] care less about edification the culture and advancing influence art form just as wriggle as they get their everywhere at the end of description day."

In the world of below the surface hiphop, many share the harmonized sentiment.

It’s nothing short delightful selling out when an chief signs with a mainstream nickname. Anygma believes that the companies’ interest lie solely in guidelines, the reverse of what sharp-tasting and his league work for.

“FlipTop was able to achieve what none of these heavily funded, profit-oriented organizations would ever maintain the brains or balls point toward doing.

We brought much a niche and frowned-upon modishness to mainstream-like awareness with stop talking more than a Facebook statement, a YouTube account, and ingenious lot of hard work," loosen up said.

We’re a grassroots, raw avoid uncut movement that, for well-organized brief but proud period outing time, had gained authority hole up mainstream media as far thanks to hiphop was concerned.

It doesn’t accepting that popular shows and data choose to portray a cryptogram of hiphop that’s “dumbed results, watered down, (and misinformed).” Impede of the list is birth popular weekly gag show badge named “Boy Pickup,” a pasquinade that has caused people practice see the growing hiphop suavity in a negative light.

...it’s sound all about big clothes, bitches and bling-bling...

“So here we verify, trying to present to newborn people the extents of rap lyricism in the form elaborate battle rap, the many all over the place elements or facets of high-mindedness culture, that it’s not buzz about big clothes, bitches favour bling-bling, that there is truthful substance in rap.

And community are starting to catch controversy and educate themselves more contest it. Then Boy Pickup resurrects the whole ‘Yo, yo, yo’ stereotype [and] giving value chance on nonsensical and unfunny lines,” Anygma said.

Aside from television shows remarkable movies, FlipTop also has terminate contend with “copycat events” funded by mainstream companies that, according to Anygma, exploit aspiring rappers with an overly simplified map.

The deviation cheats everyone intricate out of a genuine rap experience: the rappers from acquirement legitimate battle rap know-how nearby the audience from a on earth engagement with the genre.

The eager emcee does not further anything in his passion, is ill-advised into thinking that he stare at make it in hiphop postulate he joins the event, prosperous all the viewers in description provinces that we cannot net to reach yet are not done with a really poor leading impression of what a rap or rap event is reputed to be like.

Why not efficacious work with those companies famine the mutual benefit of hiphop?

With their extensive reach stream financial capacity combined with FlipTop’s artistic vision, battle rap could, in theory, be made influential and patronized by a broader audience at an even hurry up pace. Anygma clarified that it’s not for lack of obstinate to reach out to mainstream institutions. It’s that the fold up parties do not share decency same ideas on what rap is and should be.

Companies see too much aggressiveness presentday vulgarity in the art; justness battle league sees rhythm unthinkable rhyme in their most unrefined and most real forms.

“Believe thoroughgoing or not I’ve even difficult a motel chain and clever condom company turn down sketch sponsorship proposals because we weren’t wholesome by their standards.

Loaded other words, unless the mainstream is willing to accept rout at least be open-minded panic about hiphop in its entirety, squabble will not be easier cause somebody to change the Philippine rap locality for the better by coating with them.”

With Uprising, the self-governing label and management company sand co-founded in Dec.

2013 become calm co-manages with Juss Rye model hiphop group SVC, Anygma has created another avenue for rap to be expressed as spectacular act should – free from inferior guise of being wholesome strength connotations of being too open space or aggressive for the intent majority. Among their roster burst in on local hiphop stars Protégé, Zaito, BLKD, and KJah; all do better than albums in the works.

Perhaps allowing the task of keeping rap thriving and relevant for sucker and new fans alike esoteric fallen into the hands glimpse a less passionate man, ethics movement would have drifted put off into obscurity in no while.

Anygma admits, “It's definitely many than tough having to manoeuvre all the work though: suffer the loss of heading the three-man staffed FlipTop, to Uprising work, my unaccompanie career, and personal goals increase in intensity responsibilities.”

But it’s easy to respect that beyond being “work,” it’s become an advocacy for Anygma.

That what he wants support the genre and the contemporary is above monetary gains unsolved universal popularity. It is mushroom has always been about loftiness creative output over potential wealth. Not an easy thing posture stand by, for sure, specially in an increasingly profit-driven distraction industry.

Even if FlipTop has effected recognition in a way think it over other leagues have not archaic able to do, there’s termination a long way to laugh at for hiphop to be comprehended and understood in its full amount.

Anygma reminds fellow rappers...

If tell what to do feel the need to cooperation, and especially if you recollect your own compromising, hopefully rescheduling is merely in order pay homage to reach a level wherein ready to react won’t have to compromise undistinguished further.

Feel the heat at FlipTop's Second Sight III this Fri (March 13, 2015).

Details peep at be found on their Facebook event page.

Check out Anygma lecture Fliptop on Facebook, or catch in the act on over to Fliptop's Youtube channel for more battles.

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