Massimo Pericolo says more in 4 songs than others in entire albums

In many cases the deluxe editions are a bit of a rip-off for the listener and a way to lengthen the flow for the artist who, by inserting new songs into an already published album, in short prolongs its life in a pandering way, especially as a function of streaming platforms, but rarely broadens its quality. It’s as if, after having seen a film that you fell in love with, at a certain point you heard yourself saying: “ah, there’s another half hour to watch after the end of the film”. But as always happens, there are also those who do things well: Massimo Pericolo has released four new tracks, the deluxe of his latest album “Things change.” It’s about four songs with four different colors and moods, in line with what was already built for the original album, released a year ago and celebrated with a date at the Assago Forum, and above all they are four pieces capable of photographing as many aspects of his music. “I released 76 songs in total, I found out from an Instagram post. So 4 songs correspond to about 6% of my discography. It’s a bang,” wrote the rapper from Brebbia.

The first is “Gavirate”a disenchanted story of “change”, of his life. We start from the pitches and arrive at rap, always with a painful storytelling: “All the memories I’ve repressed, and all the ones I can’t. Evil slithers over me like a poisonous snake”. From the more introspective Maximum Danger to the rude one, who plays on the wave of the ego trip: “Tony Montana” with Achille Lauro it is exactly this. But there’s more: beyond the refrain “Yes I’m a motherfucker, in the suite I enjoy the view, in the street dressed in Dolce and Gabbana, my G’s look like Tony Montana”, the artist strings together a series of verses that are anything but light and centralizing. “Revenue Agency, collection, if I do it I’m doing extortion. The State steals, supplies, betrays, exploits people or throws them in prison. I brought the CVs, I swear I won’t speculate, no, it’s not easy demagogy, the struggle is real. I was driving a Fiat that wasn’t even mine. I come from nowhere, from forests covered in fog”, raps Pericolo, managing to insert corrosive and telling moments even in a clearly less dense rap piece. “Delete”among the four, is perhaps the most surprising: it is a soulful piece, with a deliberately sparse sound, which almost seems to recall the “Diy”, “do-it-yourself” style of the punk world. It’s a love song like Massimo Pericolo, never saccharine, made of contrasts.

Poker ends with “Mood”the strongest and most successful song of this deluxe. It is a song that musically pushes, energizes and has an electronic sound of international scope on which the rapper strings together a series of disturbing bars, one of his trademarks. Among these: “but who cares about global warming if there is no heating in homes, from aler houses to record companies” or “while they talk about consent but they also fuck with a hundred, don’t touch my dick at the concert or I have to pretend that I’m offended, if you’re not famous you’re marginalized, there’s no more balance like when drunk”. It’s his style, it’s rap that wants to shake and make you think through a short circuit. If he offends you you can always not listen to him, as he himself says in “Don’t talk to me (outro)”. One thing, at the end of listening to these four pieces, is clear: Massimo Pericolo says more in 4 songs than other rappers in entire albums.