Anygma biography
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FlipTop Battle League
Rap battle conference in the Philippines
"FlipTop" redirects here. For other uses, see Fliptop (disambiguation).
FlipTop Rap Battle League is the first and largest running pro battle conference in the Philippines founded by Alaric Riam Yuson (known as Anygma) in 2010.[1][2] The league promotes Pinoy hip hop. FlipTop is heavily influenced by the original rap battle leagues in the West founded in 2008 – Grind Time Now (US), King of the Dot (Canada) and Don't Flop (UK), which inspired the creation of 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 under management of a self-produced events and artist management company, FlipTop Kru Corp which was established also by Yuson.
Format
[edit]FlipTop has three different battle formats which sometimes combined with Freestyle
- Written – This format allows use of written lyrics along with freestyle and is now the standard format used in battles.
- Freestyle – At first the most common in all FlipTop tournaments, this format is now rarely done and has generally been replaced by the written format. Lyrics must be thought of during the battle.
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Uncovering battle rap with FlipTop’s Anygma
With its popularity unmatched in the Manila hiphop scene, the FlipTop Battle League, led by emcee Anygma, surprisingly still has to contend with a lot of misconceptions about what it is and what it stands for four years since it first emerged into mainstream consciousness.
Founded by 26-year-old Alaric Riam Yuson (better known as Anygma) along with two others, FlipTop - to the perennial frustation of the league - has become a widely-used (erroneous) term for a rap battle. Perhaps it's an indication of its extensive reach - that even among the most avid of fans, FlipTop now stands for anything and everything hiphop locally.
Since its first battle night in 2010, the FlipTop Battle League has had to deal with its own set of issues. One that hounds the three-man staffed league – with more than a million YouTube channel subscribers and just over 900,000 Facebook page likes – is the notion that results are rigged.
Having faced accusations of rigging for more than four years now, Anygma points out that while there may have been "questionable decisions" made by judges in determining battle winners, it's to be expected in a field that "involves subjectivity and/or art". He explains,
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