CEBU CITY—A rapper emerging as a hit on YouTube is in hot water in Lapu-Lapu City after making a false claim in one of his songs about the hero after whom the city was named.
At a press conference on Monday (Feb. 8), Lapu-Lapu Mayor Junard Chan said he was pushing for a persona non grata declaration against rapper EZ Mil over the lyrics of his song Panalo.
A line in the track reads “Nanalo na ako nung una pa pinugutan si Lapu sa Mactan (I’m already victorious even before Lapu was beheaded in Mactan).”
“We were hurt by this. This is a big insult to us,” said Chan. “This is very unfair on our part that he changed the history. He mocked the person that we consider a hero,” Chan s…
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