First off, I don't follow fliptop. But it's kind of ignorant to judge the music or the style encompassed in the genre of hip-hop. So pinoy rockers can't do the headbanging gestures? Or those who follow reggae shouldn't use the patwa accent or whatever it is called like the dj's from a certain station? The bloomfields, aren't they just copying sh*t, movements, clothing, hairstyle to the tee?
Its ok to think fliptop is squater but to think hard "rockers" are suicidal would be judgemental? If someone had a tattoo was he an excon? If i listen to bob marley or big mountain or black uhuru am I a rastafarian?
I don't think that's a healthy perspective.
Anyways, there's more to hip-hop than what you see in fliptop, definitely. More to the beats than the sub bass crap. Sampling is not just simply looping sh*t. Rapping is not just rhyming words at the end of each sentences.
Fliptop, nice collective/league. In my opinion though, there's too much negativity even if I know braggadocio is part of hip-hop roots. My only issue with some of them is that i know for a fact that some of them grew up in suburban places, lived privileged lives, went to nice schools, etc. yet they act like they're going to point a gun on someone's head. Weak.
I hope fliptop knows where they are right now in terms of influence. I hope they use it properly.
Peace!