99 Posse
La vida que vendrà

THE REVIEW

A powerful and thundering album. Convincing and shows some aspects of great quality. Highlights include Mega's voice, Luca Zulù's rapping, and highly advanced sounds. Technology and politics perfectly merged by the posse in a Neapolitan dimension. Perhaps not all their stances are agreeable, but they are captivating thanks to the music.
Comincia adesso is pounding hip-hop and UK-made electronics. Mega showcases all her potential amidst syncopated and fast rhythms, vocal distortions, and purity, then Zulù's involvement becomes a constant throughout the album and here promises a lot, hinting at his speed and themes. Sfumature could have been a great cue for Meg's album, rhythmic accelerations, strange little sounds, and a well-present bass. L’anguilla is combat-rap in Naples as in the cover and almost worthy of Rage Against The Machine. The lyrics can boast great intuitions, our artist's verbal ability is monstrous.

Like an eel, I move fast, slip away and escape the early end you have prepared for me, the market is ready, 'the pan is on the fire, but I am like an eel, and therefore I change the game and tell you and your market of decent people to f*** off made of decent videos and songs, good for your virtual reality. Radio and TV are full of serene and reassuring faces that suit everyone, mothers and children, thieves and killers, decent people who are offended if I say penis and then vote for Berlusconi, Prodi, Dini, D'Alema, Fini now Bonino is trendy too, and go f*** the dead of those you have, that's all I have to say rightly or wrongly, the fact is that I'm not decent, my face is not serene, incompatible with the system that wants everyone aligned and smiling, working in the great social assembly line, in which I've been working for years and for many years I want to sabotage. Sabotage and overthrow is my work, and that's what I know how to do, sabotage and overthrow is my work, but you can't understand it. Sabotage and overthrow Sabotage!

I believe that the use of certain Neapolitan expressions recalls the typical slam of American hip-hop, conjugating it with the Neapolitan tradition and therefore partly in its sound dimension. Mega then plays with sounds and words, and Kenny D.'s intervention brings the tracks back onto the frenetic rails of rap. All’antimafia is splendid and seductive, a bit raggamuffin, and is the most inserted into the Neapolitan tradition: Zulù sings only in dialect, and Mega proudly, magnificently, sensually semi-dub, then repeats I’m not doing anything wrong so let me smoke my joint and go to work!
Manifesto sonico is surely Sub, an anthem to 180 bpm and the subwoofer with Mega as the priestess. And Comuntwist is the political alter-ego expressing their combative and modern communism with pride and irony. Some say this some say that with the participation of General Levy is perfect for sound systems and dance halls. A una donna is a great ballad but only prepares the palate for the magnificent Povera vita mia. A social theme seen from a personal perspective, a slow existential hip-hop in which once again Zulù gives his best. Like Neapolitan Cypress Hill instead of Mexican. The album closes with El pueblo unido, which is the best epilogue. The minimalist electronic arrangement provides an innovative look to this song of rebellion, and in the chorus there are all the voices heard at marches and fêtes at demonstrations.