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Ah, now she even knows the history of Italian rap. Wow, the week of nonsense? Come on, the new Take That album is out, run to review it.

Come on, a photo in a de-shirt with a life-size Burzum poster in the background would be fabulous. "MetallaroBionico in a de-shirt," of course the classic black one. These are beautiful things; you can't disagree.

"Really? I couldn't tell, you know..."

Of Lou-X, I know all three albums by heart; he was classified as "Militanza," since he addressed themes against the state and against institutions as a principle, practically in all his tracks. While "Gangsta" refers to the police in one out of five songs, in the other four, he boasts about spending money made easily: people like Sa Raza, La Fossa, old Sottotono, etc. It’s like saying: Lou-X is ETA, Sa Raza is the Mafia, or at least they would like to be. Both set off bombs, but they are completely different and opposite. I agree about Disastro's beats, but I don't agree on Cabal; for me, he’s the most incompetent person who has ever taken a microphone in hand in Italy. Who were you writing for? I read all of them...

Ah well, if you don't refuse the Burzum poster... then okay, it’s clear you’re a FAN of theirs, well done. I really like how he wears his hair Metallica-style, what a man, I would definitely want a poster of him.

I would say it’s right to eat pizza with him, a Neapolitan by family. But give it a thought with me, the grill, eggplant, and horse meat. Good stuff.

Anyway Metallà, sooner or later I'll gift you a life-size photo of Burzum, and if you don't hang it in your room, I'll be offended.

I'm not an extremist; I've just understood very clearly and with exact precision what I can't stand. I've figured out, in detail, why that particular thing bothers me so much. And I understood it by feeling it, a lot. Not for nothing, the two things that annoy me the most are the two things that are most played and listened to in my city (west coast rap with unfiltered bass keyboards and gangsta & ultra-simple punk themes with just snare and guitars that sound cheap, with a always the same bass and themes of screw everything and everyone, myself included). Maybe it's a rejection due to overexposure, I wouldn't know. But I know very well that I can't stand it, exactly that stuff. If even one of the points that make up those two mentioned mixes is removed, it's less annoying. Because it's not a matter of dismissing them a priori; it’s just that I can't stand it, which is why I’m proud of not knowing the life, death & miracles of those two mixes, because I consider them inferior and unworthy of being listened to. It's like when someone boasts about not knowing all of Ramazzotti's songs by heart, or how MetallaroBionico boasts about not having the Mayhem poster in his room (well, I take pride in not having that one in particular, too). Everyone has their own yardstick for judging what’s valuable or not, and in my opinion, your yardstick for rap is out of this world, that’s all.

<< and not like Rapadopa which, although it is further along in terms of foundations >> ...it was a compilation (this part is missing in the post above).

SxM has gone down in history as the second true album of Italian rap with guts, made as an album and not like Rapadopa, which although it had more advanced beats (Gruff at the time was giving everyone apples on the beats, those by Neffa & Deda were nice, but derivative from Gruff). If this had been released at the end of '93 and SxM in '97, it would be even more untouchable than SxM. Clearly superior beats, metrics, and groove. The themes are different, yes, but Neffa's greatness lies precisely in the fact that he does one thing and doesn't repeat himself. SxM was a rebellious album, this is another thing entirely. If he had repeated himself on the same subjects, it would have been tiresome. Just look at Assalti Frontali, who in 16 years have only changed their shoes at most; they are indeed a must as well, but compared to Neffa, they have to run miles, and I mean run fast. I’m not getting angry, I don’t want to offend you; when someone tells me "damn, you’re ignorant about punk!", I respond "yes, and I take pride in it." It’s not a crime if you don’t like rap, just that if you don’t know something and don’t want to know it, it's better to have the standard one than the two of "it could have been better," because this better couldn't have been done any other way. It brought together people from Lecce (Dj Lugi) to Turin (Double S), encompassing everything that passed through that line (i.e. all of Italy, at that time Sicily had no representation). There are Sardinians, Marchigiani, Campani, Romans, Emilians, Lombards, and they all crush it. It’s a blatant indisputable masterpiece, even just for the greatness of the project, never replicated. First & Only & Unrepeatable, now and forever.