the story behind the interview with Belve

In the highly anticipated interview with Beasts by Francesca Fagnani, Fedez went back to his early days in the world of music, a topic that has had different versions or tracks several times, also linked to the presence of great characters who flow into the story. Pushed by the journalist’s questions, Fedez talked about his relationship with music, but above all with the other players on the scene, especially with those who have had some acrimony over the years. There are essentially three names, the usual ones: Fabri Fibra, Marracash and Gué. The clashes between the four protagonists are reported by the press, but also with dissing which over the years have smoothed the rejection of a certain part of the rap scene, which saw in Fedez the pop drift after an initial success thanks to the rap scene.

Among the topics covered, there is certainly rap as a model of sustainability and economic realization, as Fedez states: “Now the rapper has become what until some time ago was linked to footballers“. It was a little less so in the past, in the first years in which his songs began to be released. Because on the one hand, it is undeniable to maintain that Fedez had already had some experiences, such as the two mixtapes, including his second BCPT, in which Emis Killa was also therethe first glimmers of success come thanks to Peninsula that doesn’t exist. This is the first self-produced album, told by Fedez himself in March in his Instagram stories, with images from the time, in which the tattoo artist Silvia Brigatti, his ex-girlfriend, was also tagged.

The first contact with Tanta Roba by Gué and DJ Harsh

Fedez had revealed: “For Peninsula che non c’è, I spent all the money I had to record the album. I no longer had money to shoot videos so I bought a video camera. I saved money and learned to shoot and edit videos: at the time there was Final Cut 9, very difficult“. The same author, in the interview with Belve, underlines how he also used rap music to make friends, with the first successes being “they made me dizzy, even with delusions of omnipotence, even though I never had high regard for myself“. At that moment Tanta Roba arrives, the historic Milanese label led by DJ Harsh and Gué, who is credited with the singer’s definitive explosion, or the actual launch, according to the account of the two parties.

Thanks to the label, where Ernia and Ghali were already present in the Troup D’Elite experiment, but also Madman, Gemitaiz and Salmo, Fedez begins to play around with Guè and DJ Harsh. These images, which can also be found in Zedef Chronichles, on YouTube, also seem to echo Fedez’s statements to Belve. In fact, the rapper talks about the conflicts he had with Fabri Fibra and Marracash, especially due to the dissing, musical and otherwise: “It pissed me off at the time, because the same ones who insulted me were the ones who offered me the contracts three years earlier. I think the fact that I didn’t sign for them also contributed“. There is a figure that links Fabri Fibra and Marracash, also mentioned by Fedez in the song Veleno per topic, and it is the record manager Paola Zukar: “Your label, half-scam, sucks it for me, I’m my own manager, I’m not a sanguizukar“.

Paola Zukar will also respond to Fedez’s dissing in her book Rap: An Italian story: “Freedom of expression is not in our first amendment like it is in the United States and being named in a song gives many people cause to equate a song or a newspaper headline. They talked about me in an objectively bad song and also clearly contrary to the reality of the facts. I met Fedez in 2011, when he did a confusing mix of Mr. Simpatia and popular rap. The songs were nice, like All the contrary or I would like to tell you. He was looking for a management team and was asking everyone but I declined the invitation after a couple of months“. Paola Zukar will also explain, according to her version, that Fedez in Veleno per Topic would also have nominated Marracash, inviting him to appear in the video for hype: a request that was refused. It arrived, only in 2015, on the album Status of the rapper from Barona, a reference to the events that occurred, in Sometimes I exaggerate: “Marra isn’t the type you can diss to get some easy promo, I’ll put a tombstone on your career as big as a fucking pyramid“.

Over the years, verbal clashes will increase with the arrival of Santeria of Guè and Marracash and Comunisti with the rolex of J-Ax and Fedez, but also with Fibra: from Fedez’s attacks on X Factor to Fibra, through Mika, to the song Rap in my country, which contains the bar: “I hate banal rappers, those who produce them and those who follow them, 10 in communication, I never use English, now I’m making an exception Fuck Fedez”. Among the authors who clashed with Fedez, Guè also seemed to be the least exclusionary. Fedez, during the interview with Belve, he underlined how Guè had not identified it first “Cosimo (Guè’s real name) discovered me that I was already famous“, also making fun of the rapper’s words: “He says he threw me, and he makes this joke that he should have thrown me a little further“. Even after the clashes, however, Guè was one of the artists to take the stage at San Siro on 1 June 2018: a peace that lasted the time of the musical intervention on stage.