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Alaric Yuson, aka Anygma, on Running Fliptop and Uprising his Way
With an abrasive attitude and an authoritative voice of hip-hop, Alaric Yuson—Aric to his friends but also widely known as Anygma—has supplied a worldwide audience of hip-hop with Philippine’s unique brand of battle rap. Fliptop and Uprising are his brainchildren.
Fliptop is the number one most viewed rap battle league in the world that started in 2010 with now 7.3M YouTube subscribers and 2.2 billion views. Ask Google what the most viewed rap battle is, and Fliptop’s Loonie/Abra vs Shehyee/Smugglaz comes up with 52 million views and counting. It has amplified the careers of Loonie, Abra, Zaito, Target, Dello, Batas, Protégé, Jedli of PF, Bassilyo, Smugglaz and the like. It has birthed careers for Shehyee, Tipsy D, Sinio, Shernan, Aklas, Sak Mestro and more. It has also been viewed by the world’s best of the best—DIzaster, Oxxymoron, Eminem, and even Jay-Z—and battle leagues across the world are trying to figure how they can top it.
On the other hand, Uprising is the record label that houses Pinoy artists like BLKD, Kjah, Zaito, Apoc, and more. Together, Fliptop and Uprising are leading the way in converting casual attendees to actual supporters and is only getting stronger by the day. We had a good discuss
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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 youth 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 by 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 young people has called “fliptop” what, in essence, is a battle rap event.
FlipTop (FlipTop Kru Inc .) is the group’s name which held the very first Filipino Rap Battle League in the country. It happened on February 6, 2010 at Quantun Café, Makati where rappers (also known as emcees or MCs) Fuego, Pro