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Rating: Well yes, I present to you "Karma," the latest work of the great, magnificent Marco Fiorito aka Kaos, an aggressive album that concludes an era, perhaps by the only remaining proponent of the Italian old school.
So fans, get ready, the proud B-boy is back, but as already mentioned, for the last time.
Starting with "Fastidio" (1994), an explosive yet dark and reflective first studio work, Kaos-One, known in real life as Marco Fiorito, has proven to be a deep artist, with an unprecedented talent in terms of style, technical research, and conceptualization. Today, that same strictly underground nature still lives in Karma: exciting, rebellious, direct yet metaphorical, true street poetry.
A work that in this sense betrays its author which, with the closing track, impactful skit, and prayers aside, doesn't sound so much conclusive as rather celebratory: the old warrior still delivers powerful and precise blows (just listen to the masterful "Mu-Sick" or the opening of "1") so much that his feet still seem firmly planted on the mat and ready to support him again.
Whatever the real intentions of the artist may be, "Karma" is an album in which Kaos has put his heart, soul, and mind, making them play in unison: exemplary is "La Zona Morta," from which rebellion spirit emanates as well as the disillusioned awareness of a world that resembles more of a false, hostile place destined to fail "because among these phenomena in question / it is the weakest among men who screws the nation / and if his version changes as he changes clothes / his reality is fiction like his realities / here the solution is sometimes worse than the problem / they are the usual unknowns in the usual system".
To create his artistic testament, Kaos called upon a few good friends and colleagues from the scene: from Turi (in Mu-Sick) to Moddi (D.C.V.D.), from Colle der Fomento (Firewire) to Club Dogo (Il 6° senso), a group to whom he ideally passes the baton, not forgetting the two brilliant musical minds of the album, Shablo and Don Joe.
Once the energy of this last work is spent, Kaos's actual absence from the scene will definitely be felt: but if the pure are hard to die and the great remain always, from the ashes of "Karma" something new might arise, something that isn't just a deafening silence.
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By DaviD
With his third and final album, he finally manages to reach Nirvana, after settling his Karmic debt.
An album of another depth, of another level, conceived by an MC of much greater depth and much greater level than the monnezza circulating today.
By Aliosha
From the speakers comes what will probably be Kaos’s last legacy.
His rhymes express a multitude of feelings: the pride of having remained pure, the barely hidden pride of being considered the greatest and simultaneously the regret of not being able to make a dignified living from his music.
By ILM_igliore
Chaos is all this an ethical and moral free zone, a name and reputation with no current year CUD and no percentage or duty to sacrifice to the mercenaries who manage our plastic, damned nihilistic society.
I won’t die, I won’t give up, I won’t be blackmailed, I won’t allow it, I will be the insane/MC who screams their venom from the local radio announcing the end of the world.
By Il Tarantiniano
"Hardcore isn’t dead, it simply doesn’t intend to smell old, and in this, Kaos finds the right balance even in the flow itself."
"‘Uno’ and ‘La zona morta’ are two slaps in the face, where the master shows that the knife is still sharp."
