Fedez and the audition for X Factor after a night marked by the MD

Fedez’s first autobiography was released in bookstores today. The book is titled “The water is deeper than it seems from above” and tells what has been the life – and career – of the Milanese rapper up to now: from his beginnings to his friendship with Ghali (who, however, attacked him in an interview in 2020), passing through his marriage to Chiara Ferragni and its end. Among the things that Federico Lucia, this is the real name of the voice of “Battito”, tells in the 184 pages that make up the book there is also his first contact with the production of

At ten I had an appointment at Sony to talk to the curator of X Factor, Eliana Guerra. The problem is that I woke up and I was still stoned, with my irises completely black (like in Sanremo, but not because of the contact lenses), very altered. At that time the headquarters of Sony Music was in via Larga. The elevators were really small and narrow, while we went up to go to the appointment my manager at the time, Franco Godi, looked at me and said: “Federico, what black eyes you have”. It was the audition to be the fifth judge in a special episode, only the following year would I join the permanent cast of the program. I arrive, I sit down, I see Eliana Guerra, and I was really tense: I didn’t want to seem stoned. To look like an intelligent, shrewd boy, suited to the role, the first thing I want to do is shout: “Amici di Maria sucks anyway.” It could have all ended there, but instead those in the program welcome my release with great enthusiasm. The situation takes a positive turn, except that I can’t sit still. My hands were agitated, I kept rotating the phone with one finger. I spun it so fast that at one point it flew away from me. It hit the wall and fell apart. Anyway, he liked me.

At the beginning of the month the rapper had promised a break from social media: “I decided to talk with music and podcasts”. But on social media he shared his new single, “Temet nosce”, together with the related video clip. If the video quotes the final scene of the “Truman Show”, Peter Weir’s 1998 film starring Jim Carrey in the role of a man who does not know he is the involuntary protagonist of a television show, in the text Fedez instead quotes “Vita spericolata” by Vasco:

And then we will find ourselves like the stars
Mixing whiskey with Lexotan
When reality scares more than the afterlife
You meet up with more friends at the pharmacy than at the bar

“Temet nosce”, for those who were wondering, is a Latin expression – deriving from Greek – which means “know thyself”. The phrase appeared in “The Matrix” on the door of the Oracle: a warning to the elect who, wishing to understand themselves, advanced towards higher levels of self-awareness.