Ernia: “I am a survivor and I’m grateful for what I have”

“For money and for love”a great record that scores The return of hernia three years after “I am not afraid”is a family, personal and human saga in which to find pieces of oneself. Before starting to present the new job, Matteo Professione, this is his real name, 31 years old, shows a video of the actor James Franco who asks: “And what are you willing to do for money and for love?”. And a spark immediately turns on, which is found in the first track of the project: “I remember”. “In ‘I remember’ I speak of the disillusionment that I tried in having achieved a fair success and then looking around and seeing that the money decided everything to us. When we started rap, I and many guys, we couldn’t even imagine being able to live or earn with music. Today many things have changed …”He says immediately, without masks.

An open heart that crosses the whole album where there is no space and time to flex or say banality as in much of contemporary rap. Because these songs for hernia have come like summer rain, to restore life and vigor where everything seemed to have become dry. “Last year, just in this period, I had a closed album – he remembers – I listened to it, I didn’t like it, he did not represent me and I totally redone it with Charlie Charleswho took care of its sound production, also marking a return to the scenes for him. With him I worked a lot of plan. And in fact the plan is the protagonist of this project. I ask every record: ‘Is that of maturity?’. I reply that ‘that of maturity’ is always the next. The time I took to make this album was sacred and necessary. But I was also able to afford it because I’m no longer an emerging. ”

Before putting your hands in the blood and wounds, Ernia enhances and then destroys certainties, splits the armor: “‘son of’ with Club Dogo is a celebrationthey do not give feat to individual artists, they gave a couple only to the Co’sang and dj Shocca for a matter of ‘history’, for me it is a circle that closes to have them in the project – underlines Ernia – ‘Fellini’ with Kid Yugi, on the other hand, wants to destroy the firm points of many rappers today. Many believe themselves invincible and this seems the only thing that matters. I rapt: ‘You can’t save you a cartier bracelet. You don’t go far if you drive a coupe. Eat until there is however remember that one day the king will also die. Just make a mental movies, the rappers are not Fellini, Fly Down“.

Hernia has always been a “different” rapper: “Of the trap actually I never cared about it.” He has shown him several times in his path, but at this tour he goes even more deeply. The album tells about his affections and his family, putting everything in relation to money. Is there a choice to make between feeling and matter? “Yes, and I clearly chose the first – smiles – In ‘for their eyes’ I speak of my parents. They have always been quite cold, they almost never told me ‘good’. Today as an adult I admit that I would have liked to hear it say sometimes … even now I would like it. In ‘for you’, in which I speak to myselfI repeat that I too, perhaps, would have had to appreciate more. ‘Berlin’ is dedicated to my sister. He has lived in Germany for some years. Sometimes I misseven if we almost never say it, we are made like this. Makes the photographer. In my environment, photographers always serve, but she, exactly like my friends, never wanted to be ‘inserted’. He has always told me he didn’t want to become “hernia’s sister”. For me she is a great example of dignity. ‘Don’t cry’ was inspired by the phone call from a friend of mine, who was crying, because she was in prison. In short, I chose the affections, the ties: they are the ones who win everything in this work “.

Inside there are two other feat: Marracash, in “Da denunciation”which tells the way to reach the goals, e Madame in “Why”, “a social piece that should not be explained, is all there among those bars“He says. In addition to the title track, to reach the key to this album, imbued with ideas and thoughts, never heavy, he arrives at the end “Grateful”. “Often appearing disappointed in my songs, I speak of the” non -realization “, of the void that is heard despite many goals achieved. In this song I take everything from another point of view – he concludes – I am 31 years old, I do the job I have always dreamed of, I have a companion and a small daughter. I can be bored and feel unsatisfied as much as I want, but if I see the ruins of this world, I can only be grateful for what I haveI can only say ‘thanks’. I am a survivor. I can’t complain. This piece will perhaps make less streaming, but for me it is very important “.