Loredana Berté that Rappa is more credible than many rappers

“A people of idiots without memory / and a future without glory / that an uncertain and unfortunate time / a fine century has alienated». The verses are not those of a song by Marracash, even if they play as such. Are those of “Rap at the end of the century“, A song that Loredana Berté engraved in 1997 for the album”A combat bossy“, Small, great jewel of the discography of the Italian rock lioness. Always a step further than in fashions and trends, working on the disc that would have scored her return to the record scenes after two years of silence, and especially after the death of the beloved sister Mia Martini, Berté put himself in the head to affect a rap piece, looking at what he had started to move overseas thanks to artists such as Notorious Big, LL Cool J, R. Kelly. Together with Paolo Costa and Luca Rustici, among the collaborators who joined her for the sessions of “A fighting bass”, album with a very long and very difficult gestation, with the initial project that provided for an involvement of Renato Zero as “supervisor” of the great return of the friend (as well as publisher), only to end up in question with the same Bertè for artistic divergences, the voice of ” And pen and began to tell the Italian society in his own way, on the threshold of the new millennium. Dusting off that commitment that had characterized pieces such as “the commander who” and “I don’t have friends” (“with the photo of Guevara / I go to bed in the morning / pissed off as before”), He wrote very brave verses and destined not to go out of fashion: «Wars and wars of religion / and genocides of populations / hunger, plague and famine / and America by police».

After twenty -eight years after the release of the disc, now Berté has returned to brush up on her “end of century rap”. He did it at debut of his new tour, last week at the Palasavelli in Porto San Giorgio, in the province of Fermo. Showing, indeed, confirming, of be more credible than many Italian rappers (and not only the latest generation). With the strength of words and music, the queen of tricolor rock reiterated that he wanted to fight again, in a very delicate moment in history with a capital “S” like what we are experiencing. Reinterpreting the verses of the 1997 piece, Berté pointed the finger at social networks, the revisionists of history, the automatic fake news generators: “But not a day passes that there is not someone / with the face like the ass / that for a lot to change, coffin with the story / and with the ghosts of the past / that the war had deleted / giving the facts a new version / of the black face of the story (because the one studied so far / is to be verified, says some fool / that it has been all exaggerated / and that the holocaust has never been”.

Ribelle, free and for too long, also considered an uncomfortable artist, marginalized by the Music Biz before he resumed himself with his nails and his teeth his scepter, in the last part of the Berté text he pushed himself to sing even of sex and virtual reality: “For those who continue to prohibit / sex, they say it hurts / better virtual reality”. With a bang closure: «Because real pornography is the mafia and Freemasonry». And to think that in 1997 Berté had to fight also to be recognized the joint of the text. The song, in fact, had been blocked when the producer Marco Marsili claimed a copyright on the song (also signed by Rustici and Costa). Revertible a resolution taken in 1997, in 2003 the Court of Milan legitimized Loredana Berté in the “rap of the end of the century” joint, recognizing it as a co-author of the text.

Almost thirty years after its release, “rap at the end of the century” has not even lost a little bit of the strength he had at the time. Quite the opposite: he purchased new one. And today, proposed by the stages of the tour (which will continue with the dates of 24 May in Bergamo, on 31 May in Vigevano, of 23 June in Rome, of 4 July in Piacenza, of 21 July in Florence, August 4th in Taormina and September 27 in Treviso), it sounds more current than ever.