Lucariello
Quiet

THE REVIEW

After having collaborated extensively with various groups from the Neapolitan area - most notably Co'Sang - and having replaced the captivating voice of Raiz in the Almamegretta project (with whom he has collaborated since the "Scioglie 'e cane" album), Luca Caiazzo, known as Lucariello, releases his first solo album, "Quiet", co-produced with the Japanese Taketo Gohara.

"Quiet". A dark hip-hop album. 9 songs, 9 fragments of Neapolitan daily life, the harsh life of underground Naples, the Naples that fights day after day, perhaps crawling, but never surrendering. The dialect is the medium through which the rapper conveys his stories. The themes in this album are few but essential to understand Lucariello's poetics: prostitution (Queen of the street), homosexuality clashing with religion (Mariarca, the story of a single mother who discovers she is a lesbian, and the village priest tells her she still has much to atone for with God for this situation), the marginalization of "the different" (Totore), immigration (the sad story narrated in Lunastella), the poor upbringing of new generations (Pistole, puttane e Coca Cola, after all, who didn't grow up this way in Naples?). For a moment, anger gives way to melancholy, in a dedication to that violated and humiliated Naples that, despite everything, still has the strength to speak out (Love song).

"Quiet" is, among the various debuts released in these times, one of the best, one of the best hip-hop albums made in Italy (hip-hop in Italy is rather limited in these times), but Lucariello has great talent. There's little to argue about.