It’s not just the insult. In the “clash” between Baby Touchè and Ringo the other evening on Dritto e Rovescio on Rete4 there is a signal that is often underestimated: Baby Touchè is not a musician, he is not a composer, he is a twenty-year-old who converts clichés and violence in alleged songs, which in fact are not broadcast on the radio and have no relevance of any kind. By removing from that type of popular music (trap, but also rap) every melodic request and every metric or compositional constraint, anyone is allowed to express their real or presumed discomfort and package it in a presumed song. Until a few years ago these “musical outlets” had no platform on which to climb and therefore, if all went well, they remained relegated to the most marginal of niches. Now they can reach a potentially unlimited audience, which follows them more out of morbid curiosity than actual interest. But, outside this fictitious bubble, they have the same effect as a mosquito’s sneeze in the Milky Way. It is no coincidence that as soon as they are confronted with reality, they confirm that they do not know it. Defining Ringo as «Totò Riina» is not only a miserable insult but it is also the humiliating admission of not knowing one of the most significant deejays on Italian radio, who has made music a passion and a mission recognized by success. For a trapper it’s disconcerting. In short, the long-awaited “Mazzi protocol” on violent rap and trap lyrics is a signal who knows how significant. Perhaps it would be better for everyone to do what radio and generalist media do: avoid them.
Without attention, these bubbles quickly evaporate.
