Relations between them have never been idyllic, and probably so prank call that Fedez made to Matteo Salvini it won’t help improve the situation.
During a live Twitch broadcast with Il Rosso, the rapper declares that he has the telephone numbers of all the politicians, and – around 11pm – proposes to the friends present: «Shall we call Salvini? He will never answer anyway». The minister, however, after a few rings, answers. Fedez hangs up, then calls back and pretend that the call was made by mistake, causing great laughter among the kids who were witnessing the scene. And again, regarding the elections, he asks Salvini: «You’re happy? Let’s talk these days. Come on». And more laughter.
The Minister of Infrastructure and Deputy Prime Minister then responded with a live broadcast on his social media: “Yesterday Fedez played a joke on me, I didn’t even think it was a joke,” he said. «You know what a joke, then everyone can have fun as they want. I was at home, in Rome, with my partner Francesca. It was 11-11.30pm, my phone rings, I read Fedez. If someone calls you at half past eleven in the evening, I say: “We’ll answer, you never know, he’ll have had a problem”. And instead, she says to me: “Sorry, I got the call. Bye, bye, see you for a coffee.” Then today I find out in the newspapers that it was a prank call. I finished making them when I was 12 and there was still the telephone where you had to turn your finger and call like a bit of a fool, playing prank calls. At 40 maybe the time for prank calls is over».
Previous controversies
Already in 2000, four years ago, Fedez had quoted the minister in one of his songs: «This year no last resort bathing, Salvini can no longer steal the pedal boats from the police», referring to the time when, in Milano Marittima, the minister put his son on a police jet ski.
A few months later, Matteo Salvini joked about the attention that Giuseppe Conte had reserved for him and his wife Chiara Ferragni, asking them to help him raise awareness among young people about the use of masks. And the rapper replied via social media: «Salvini without a mask at the conference on Covid in the Senate: “I don’t have it and I’m not wearing it”, 27 July 2020. Unfortunately, I have no way of intervening on the redundancy fund. Big kisses”.
The following year, the rapper had his say Luca Morisi, the creator of the social campaign of Matteo Salvini’s League, investigated by the Prosecutor’s Office for sale of drugs. «Circus friends, if you have a red nose with a rubber band left over to lend to Salvini contact me privately” begins Fedez in a story on Instagram. «This is the story of a contemporary hero, a man who sacrificed his entire life to combat the social scourge of drugs, a man who went around calling people’s houses, “Excuse me, are you a drug dealer?”, or who commented the Cucchi ruling: “Drugs are bad for you”. Today he discovers that he had a drug addict at his side, but who doesn’t magically become “a drug addict”, one of those rejects from society, but who becomes a friend to help him get back on his feet… Do you feel it too? »
