The phenomenon of FlipTop has actually grown as the variety of Web users in the Philippines has. It is popular in every part of the nation that the Web can reach, and where there is a culture of “collectivism” such as inside a computer system store.

         In freestyle rap, tossing the insult back at your challenger is called a “flip”.

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     The group FlipTop held the first Filipino Rap Battle League in the nation on February 6, 2010 at Quantum Café in Makati where rap artists (likewise called MCs) Fuego, Datu, and Cameltoe fought onstage.

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        FlipTop is an occasions and artist handling company led by Alaric Riam Yuson, even more famously called Anygma.

        When the Tectonics fight rap was held at Katips Bar and Grillery in Quezon City in December 2010, Anygma provided honor to our country. Sleazebag Dan led the MCs from Grind Time Now, a US-based group that set the worldwide requirements of rap fight.

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        All the 3 fights that day were won by Filipino MCs. And on that day, FlipTop got around the world acknowledgment.

       At present, FlipTop has flourishing departments in the NCR, CALABARZON, Central Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao, where fliptop battle occasions are held a minimum of as soon as a year.

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        FlipTop has actually acquired traction not simply in social networking websites like Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter. Independent inter-barangay and inter-collegiate competitions– amongst students and from school youth– have actually emerged. FlipTop has even end up being a topic in courses on pop culture and a subject of theses.

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       The event of Linggo ng Wika has actually never ever been the exact same, after universities and secondary schools in various parts of the nation consisted of FlipTop in their lineup of competitors associated with the event of our native language.

      Some academics have actually called Fliptop the modern-day Balagtasan– to the discouragement of some fight rap artists.

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