I'm waiting for "Salviamo il salvabile" by Turi from a friend and I think to play CapaRezza's first CD: "CapaRezza?!" right now is blasting Mammamiamammà, a manifesto of modern masculinity and wise "mamma alla moda, mamma senza pietà".
Who is CapaRezza? The jester of commercial rap or the innovation of anonymous rap... certainly when he wrote and rapped "?!" he was the innovation of anonymous rap, at that time there was no Fuori Dal Tunnel, there was only a long-haired guy on the back of a CD, with a somewhat sulky face. There he is, convinced of breaking the sound barrier... and now there he is on MTV, dominating the charts and even being considered the best hip-hop CD of the year before Mr. Simpatia, Classe '73, Home.
Yet in "?!" CapaRezza had just come out of his clerical period when he sang in his parish choir, and he ventured into an album of peace and world polemic. Here's CapaRezza, pacifist and cowardly on tracks that seem almost like acoustic rock (see Tutto Ciò Che C'è) and "singer-songwriter" mixes (see La Fitta Sassaiola Dell'Ingiuria), then slightly returning to the past with Mea Culpa or Uomini Di Molta Fede, but what stands out most is the vocal variety of this rapper, a RastaMan voice in Fuck The Violenza, and with his usual cartoon tone in most of the other pieces, which perhaps gets tiresome after a while.
But CapaRezza beyond sound and vocal is PEACE, capitalized, even though I myself don't love this word too much, but at the time I was among the million peacemakers in the square, and when this CD came out, I chose Il Conflitto, Fuck The Violenza and especially the masterpiece Cammina Solo as peace manifestos.
Listening now to this CD, I realize CapaRezza's originality in 2003, the year when Ego and Turbe Giovanili were released, and at the bottom of the list of the best rappers appeared him, who as a love song had chosen Ti Clonerò, an artist capable of mixing a satirical voice with committed themes, Branduardi, science and above all the most absurd thing for a contemporary rapper: religion. CapaRezza managed to be orthodox and heretical at the same time, the neo-masculinist manifesto I mentioned at the beginning, as well as Chi C*zzo Me Lo (a track where he criticizes stadium, nightclub and death metal), show his somewhat outdated religiosity that in the end makes him alternative precisely for his lashing out against transgression, which usually and especially rappers should sing about... he lashes out against drugs, trans, fascism, fundamentalism, and war.
God, what a mess!!! While I listen to my favorite track on the CD, Cammina Solo, today that I'm more on the right than on the left, today that I don't care about war and peace, that between ideal and value I chose nihilism, that I let myself go too much and became my worst enemy, I realize that even the old Capa has undergone the same degrading regression, becoming a fake Freak on a screen singing about blacks with longer penises than whites, singing against Berlusconi, like everyone else does now... there's no salvation in this world, not even in music, and CapaRezza's change proves it. But despite all this degrading negativity, my place is here.
As Capa used to say: "Non sarò migliore né peggiore di nessuno, finché sarò diverso"
Different? from whom? from another Mc pumped on Rds?
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