Hanggang Kailan

Hev Abi — a member of the collective Ex Battalion — represents a strand of OPM grown out of hip-hop into something more melodically hybrid: songs retaining the cadence and community ethos of Filipino rap while reaching for the pop hook accessibility of mainstream OPM. "Hanggang Kailan" — "Until When" — is a question rather than a statement, expressing the specific anxiety of love's duration. When does this end? How long can this last? Production has a contemporary trap-influenced lightness — hi-hats, layered synths, clean aesthetic of current Filipino pop-rap — but the emotional content sits firmly in the OPM tradition of nakedness about feeling. Hev Abi's vocal delivery has the rough-edged warmth of someone who came to melody through rap rather than formal vocal training, and that roughness gives "Hanggang Kailan" particular authenticity. The song addresses anxious devotion — loving someone while unable to trust permanence, the question "until when?" equal parts fear and wonder. It lives in the emotional register of young love still learning whether it's durable.