Massimo Pericolo: “The new album is more angry and mature”

The concerts in Massimo Pericolo’s arenasinitially scheduled for October 2026 in Milan and Rome, they have been officially rescheduled to March 2027. A choice which, more than a simple calendar change, tells of a precise moment in his artistic and personal life. The rapper has been publishing an intimate and dry vlog on YouTube for some timea serialized story of one’s present. A visual diary that talks about transformation, discipline, awareness. It is no coincidence that his latest album, released in 2023, was titled “Le cose they change”: a programmatic declaration that today finds full continuity. In the sixth episode of the vlog he explains openly why he decided to postpone the arenas. He has to finish the record. He has to do it right. “I’ll probably have to postpone it for a few months,” he says, then stops and question the meaning of time when there is something really important for your life at stake.

“Some months, after all, are nothing,” he underlines, especially if they serve to do things properly. His return is among the most anticipated in Italian rap because Massimo Pericolo remains a unique voice: raw bars, existential tale, road and introspection which blend together without ever losing authenticity. His is a real, not fictionalized story of redemption: a difficult past, prison, and then music as a way out, up to enormous goals such as the first Forum in 2024. Not a miracle, but an achievement. In the vlog, Alessandro Vanetti, this is his real name, also tries to explain why, to quote Marracash, one of the artists to whom he has most often been compared for his ability to keep together the road, existentialism and high writing, for him “peace is over”. A phrase that needs to be understood: in reality, he found peace within himself. If anything, it is the world that no longer leaves him indifferent: “Big things piss me off more now, because before I only looked at myself. Now I’m okay and so I find many things that I didn’t notice before unbearable. This new album is more angry and more mature”.

The vlog shows a radical everyday life: waking up at dawn, meditation, reading, the gym (there’s even neck training), walking at sunset, martial arts. And then the recording studio, the place where everything comes together. An RZA of the Wu-Tang Clannot on the asphalt of Staten Island, but in the woods of Brebbia. Massimo Pericolo hasn’t blunted his pen, quite the opposite: “I know that my story isn’t just my story,” he raps. And in the spoiler bars he reiterates it without filters: “If you want advice, get involved in anything, it doesn’t matter if it’s drug dealing, if it’s sport or if it’s school. Anyone who doesn’t do shit doesn’t have shit and that’s right”. And this is where everything comes back, in the hope that the next project doesn’t get bogged down in some surmountable feats or in some pieces that aren’t entirely in focus. Massimo Pericolo has achieved excellent things during his journey, but the album that best represents him is still missing, especially today that she has changed her skin, but not her instinct and mentality as a photographer “Survite”, an intense and high-level song contained in Charlie Charles’ album “La bella amministrazione”released last year. The postponement of concerts in sports halls is therefore not a slowdown, but a run-up. When he returns, with an album finished as it should be finished and with an anger finally focused, it won’t just be a “return”. It will be a showdown.