Consistency and mentality: Naples champion (also in music)

“You fight with your hands and head,” he sings Pino Daniele in “Again“, One of the unpublished found by the heirs in his archives and published for the love of the fans. It was last November 24 when the speakers of the Diego Armando Maradona stadium of Naples reproduced the song in absolute preview, before the match between the blues led by Antonio Conte and Roma, then won 1-0 by the home team. Yesterday, after six months, the Neapolitan club is back to pay homage to Artist: There was only one word on the tricolor cartoons shown by the blue players at the end of the match against Cagliari who decreed the victory of the Scudetto by Napoli. Exactly, just “Again”. But with a 4 to replace the “A” in the center: the number of badges won, with this, by the blues.

“Again”, “again”, to emphasize the continuity to which for some years now the team of Aurelio De Laurentiis has aspired: «Naples is a city that everyone says stepmother. But it is a stepmother for those who do not understand it. In my opinion, Naples is a city that always gives you maximum life. We must know how to grasp it, however, because otherwise remain on the edge of your desolate mentality. Fortunately, the Neapolitans, on the other hand, have a winning mentality and even when there is desperation they can always come out winners, “said the entrepreneur to Dazn’s microphones during the celebrations. “Consistency and mentality»: They are the two sacred laws to reiterate to a mantra from the ultras blue in their choirs. The same tribute to Freed in his “O core nun holds master“:” And when he feels he is blue music me par poesij. “It is he, to think about it, the face and emblem of that Movement of rebirth and regeneration of the Neapolitan pop culture which in recent years has seen Naples redeem itself on several fronts, football and music above alltwo worlds so similar in the ability to unite people.

Geolier, the son of the people

Yesterday was of course too, among the VIPs in celebration at Diego Armando Maradona, together with Nino D’Angelo, Clementino, Raiz, who made the revolution with his Almamegretta in the 90s. And Geolier, of course. Five scenes – and generations – different musicals ready to embrace the triple whistle of the referee La Penna, after having exulted for the real bomber goal of Lukaku and first for the one in overturned Mctominay, The real MC – allowed – of Antonio Conte’s crew, who with his freestyle has earned the title of man cover of this feat. “Mctominay and I listen to Geolier to learn the Neapolitan,” Billy Gilmour confessed last December, the other Scottish who arrived in the Neapolitan city at the beginning of the season. Yes, Geolier. When in 2023 with the “The courage of children” he conquered the rankings, giving way to his extraordinary climb, the rapper of Secondigliano, a suburban neighborhood often at the center of black news events, said: “What I want to do, as several giants have done in my land, is to bring Naples, is to make Naples known to the world. America, for the genre I do, is a point of reference. So for me all this is natural and necessary. I do it because I want to represent my people. And I want to do it in a new way, which has done nobody, with a new language. I want to tell, purely in Neapolitan, the love and discomfort of my people through rap. When I speak in Italian I try. At this moment I know I am an important voice for my city: when a Neapolitan listens to one of my songs I would like him to feel his thoughts put in a megaphone ». For children it is a model to follow. For peers the little brother who made it. For the older, a child to go proud of. Last summer he was the first artist to perform with three consecutive concerts at Diego Armando Maradona, selling 140 thousand tickets. A triumph that will repeat this year, but at the Hippodrome of Agnano, where it will perform on 25 and 26 July: “Thanks to the artists who made Naples shine: Pino Daniele, Massimo Troisi, Maradona».

Luchè: “Victory is to have an identity”

Last night with his “I p ‘me, tu p’ te”, a blue scarf tightened around his head, made the celebrations to Diego Armando Maradona come alive before dueting on “Geneva” with Luchè. Among the putative fathers of the contemporary scene with the Co’sang, on June 5 the 44 -year -old Neapolitan rapper will perform for the first time in his career at the former San Paolo: “This society needs leaders, it needs people with experience who tell their experience and can be of inspiration. I am a ring of a chain: I am inspired and I hope to be of inspiration – he said, presenting the album “My worst side”, in our interview – The victory is not linked to the result. Victory is to have its own identity, as Marra says, it is what we have built in our life». Consistency and mentality, again. Among the rappers, the former Co’sang was one of the first, in unsuspected times, to contribute to the redemption of Nino D’Angelo, dueting with the voice of “‘NA Jeans and’ na T -shirt” on “Brava people”, homage to that Naples fighting against clichés and clichés: “Nino D’Angelo was the greatest injustice of Italian music. He has slapped and punched, those who are now taking today’s Guaglioni, rap boys. But at the time Italy was even more racist. And that Neapolitan terrone was the victim of prejudices»Remember the former blond bob, speaking of himself in the third person. And to think that Miles Davis was among his fans. All true: «I didn’t know who he was. I thought it was a footballer just bought by Napoli. The keyboard player Billy Preston told me: “Do you know that Miles Davis at home organizes the Naples themed parties with your songs?”. I invented a genre: the Neapolitan pop. I was not interested in coming to those who listened to tradition: I wanted to get to the children. I made the revolution».

This must be the place

Today after more than forty years after the explosion of the Neapolitan Power, the glorious scene that launched – among others – Pino Daniele, Tony Esposito, James Senese, Enzo Avitabile, it is clear that there is a renewed interest in the productions of Naples and surroundings, which is part of a wider movement of rebirth of what the city expresses, including football. THE Nu genaathe duo made up of Massimo Di Lena and Lucio Aquilina, have conquered international criticism with that mix of funk, disc and ultracitationalist soul. From Naples it also started Kinaa real name Pasquale Renella, DJ born in 1999, who with those productions born in an Acerra bedroom came to conquer the USA: with his “Get You The Moon” he became the first Italian artist to reach the billion streams on Spotify with an original song. And what about Deborah De Lucastarted from the Saggia sails to get to conquer the most important dance festivals worldwide, becoming one of the most requested DJs? «I remember when I was a child, taking the eighth grade was like having reached the Holy Grail. It was necessary to survive and there was no room to study, to chase dreams. Now, however, I see that among the boys there is a desire to learn, to grow, to change. To be in step with the times despite being more difficult for those born in a difficult neighborhood ». This must be the place, would be said by quoting Paolo Sorrentino. And yes, today in the most beautiful place in the world it is also possible to be happy.