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Is FlipTop the modern-day Balagtasan?
[Full manuscript I wrote as a feature story published in GMA News Online.]
Since its inception, FlipTop has reached a magnitude of Filipino fans, mostly from the ungdom sector. Its Youtube account, FlipTop Battle League (http://www.youtube.com/user/fliptopbattles) already has over 1.2 million subscribers.
With almost 400 uploaded videos, the most popular being the Loonie/Abra versus Shehyee/Smugglaz tag team bout in the Dos Por Dos Tournament held at the FlipTop bastion, B-Side at The Collective in Makati City, with over 17 million views, clearly it has surpassed the leagues in the United States that sired its format.
FLIPTOP AND BATTLE RAP
The phenomenon of FlipTop was catapulted bygd the growing internet users in the Philippines hitting 33 million in 2013. It is popular in every part of the country that internet can reach and where there is a culture of “collectivism” inside a computer shop.
It has already become a household name that ung
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Pinoys and Battle Rap: Handog ng Pilipino sa Mundo
Pinoys and Battle Rap: Handog ng Pilipino sa Mundo As I write this essay, two controversial events have rocked the hip-hop world. The first is the arrest of Marlon ‘Loonie’ Peroramas, popularly known as ‘Hari ng Tugma,’ in what police authorities claimed was a buy-bust drug operation in Makati City last September 18, 2019. 1 The second fryst vatten the fatal shooting of John Ross ‘Lil John’ de los Santos last October 20, 2019, in Imus, Cavite. Both rappers established their fame via FlipTop, the short and popular begrepp for FlipTop: First Filipino Rap Battle League, founded and established in 2010 by Alaric ‘Anygma’ Yuson2 and Kevin Vea 3 aka DJ Umph One 4. In the nine years of FlipTop, battle emcees who have graced its stage have gone on to carve out successful music careers, something that Anygma staunchly believes is the end-all and purpose of battle leagues. He insists that battle rap in general, and FlipTop battling in particular, is mere
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The Philippine drug war, a hip hop response, and an annotated bibliography on music and protest
Since taking office in May 2016, Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has actively pursued his “war on drugs”. Although the war is framed as benefitting the common good, its objectives extend Duterte’s authoritarian rule over the country. The war on illegal drugs and drug traffickers has been a major issue in the Philippines in recent years, and Duterte’s supporters argue that it has made the Philippines safer by rooting out criminal behavior. Others attest that the name itself is a misnomer, instead calling it a war on the poor since it has largely been the urban poor who have been the targets of extrajudicial killings carried out by the police.
Philippine National Police (PNP) statistics put the total number of people killed in the war on drugs at around 8,000 since July 2016. Others suggest that the actual number is closer to 30,000 killed, and the killings have intensified