Junard “Ahong” Chan, the city mayor of Lapu-Lapu expressed frustration in response to the untoward action done by the rapper Ez Mil in his “Panalo” lyrics and he want to declare against the artist as “persona non grata” in the city.
The issue has made the social media platforms stormed following after the rap song performed in Wish bus. There’s a lot of netizens shows their love to watch this kind of performances by the singers in Wish and the rap song entitled “Panalo” is one of the kind that caught their attention.
“Panalo” was written and performed by a Filipino-Caucasian rapper, Ez Mil who was born in Olongapo. In his composition, the lyrics of the song described his pride for being a Filipino and there are some people calling him “Tisoy”.
Many among the online world community admired him the way he depicted in the lyrics as proud Filipino. This is one of the many reasons his performance on Wish went viral on social media and continues to hook up massive views and reactions.
But we cannot also deny the fact that there are people who were disappointed by Ez Mil because of his twisted lyrics. One of them is Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan of Lapu-Lapu City who did not like his way of depicting the story told on the rap song putting shame on them and because of this he wants the rapper to be declared as persona non grata in the city of Lapu-Lapu.
According to similar report on ABS-CBN News, Mayor Chan admitted he was hurt by the lyrics of Panalo which twisted facts stating that Lapu-Lapu died.
“As father of this city, I was hurt with his lyrics. If he doesn’t recognize Datu Lapu-Lapu as a hero, then he shouldn’t have included him in his song which may cause outrage to our Oponganon,” Mayor Chan said.
Because of this, Lapu-Lapu Mayor is recommending to the city council to ban the rapper from entering the city, the report, said. They also want him to make a public apology and urge him to “correct his mistake”.
However, in the previous article, the rapper has apologized but he also explained the reason why he made that choice as an artist. He clarified he knows exactly about the history but he did it put him in the trend.
“I’m sorry to anybody who was offended wit me putting inaccurate sources in our history as Filipinos. That’s why the song is what it is right now,” the rapper said.
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