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The FlipTop Festival: a primer on local hip-hop’s most anticipated event

Now on its tenth year, FlipTop Battle League celebrates its groundbreaking legacy in hip-hop with a two-day urban festival, happening on February 7 and 8 at the Aseana City Concert Grounds, Parafiaque City.

With over 200 artists in the lineup happening in 3 stages, “The FlipTop Festival” puts a spotlight on various elements of hip-hop not limited to performances and battle rap. The debut programming is set to showcase other important facets of the culture, including turntablism and DJ-ing, b-boying or break dancing, graffiti, and scratch competition.

A month ahead of the festival, FlipTop has announced the first batch of confirmed rappers and hip-hop acts to perform on the two-day festivity, which includes performances by US-based artists Bambu and Rocky Rivera, and highly anticipated spots by GIoc-9, Shanti Dope, Abra, Shehyee, PriceTagg, Ron Henley, Al James, lllustrado, Shernan, Sinio, Tipsy D, Smugglaz, Zaito, Dello, Kemikal Ali, Arbie Won, and Supreme Fist.

A few weeks later, the most-viewed battle rap league shared its second wave lineup, which includes 90’s legendary hip-hop crew Mastaplann, as well as veteran rappers such as D-Coy, Mike Kosa, Klutch-B, Apokalipsis, and Mike Swift, and the current crop of hard-hitters including Smugglaz, Apoc, Apekz, Sak Maestro (Davao), Abaddon, BLKD and Calix.

It was also announced on the very same day that the two-day festival will feature highly anticipated battle rap pairings known as Dos Por Dos led by Sinio/Tipsy D vs. Jonas/Lhipkram and the much-buzzed face off: Shernan vs Poison13.

Today, FlipTop takes pride of revealing other performers in the event such as Skarm and Curtismith, Blaze N Kane, wauck, Kial, BNK, Abaddon, Jon Protege, and DJ Roza.

More acts will be announced in the last few weeks leading to the festival proper.

For more updates, visit the official FlipTop website, www.fliptop.com.ph. Get your festival tickets online via ticket2me.net

photos by: Niña Sandejas

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Written by dotdailydose

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