“Rhyme and poetry”
Rap. Rapping is "spoken or sung rhyming lyrics". The components of rapping include "content", "flow" (rhythm and rhyme), and "delivery“. Rapping is distinct from spoken word poetry in that it is performed in time to a beat. Rap was created as part of a larger cultural movement called " hip hop “.It was born in the United States of America in the late sixties and became prominent part of modern culture.
The rap is the Italian transposition of American rap, it is also linked to the hip hop culture. In the peninsula it developed in the early eighties from texts in English to those in Italian but only in the nineties the groups belonging to the hip hop scene produce their first significant work. In the 2000s the Italian rap has found considerable commercial growth with the media launch of many rappers, the birth of many competitions in freestyle to ensure the internet.
The Article 31 were an Italian rap group, formed in Milan in 1990 and made up of J-Ax and DJ Jad. They have met with considerable success both in Italy and abroad, performing in Italian, particularly in the nineties the distinctive characteristics of their genre at the time, such as freestyle and sampling of known choruses.
A recent rapper : Fabri Fibra, stage name of Fabrizio Tarducci,is an American rapper, record producer and Italian writer, older brother of the singer Nesli. The debut in the rap underground takes place in the mid- nineties, under the name Phil Fabbri.
Emiliano Rudolf Giambelli, best known as Emis Killa, is an Italian rapper. In 2009, at just only 20 years of age, he was the winner of an Italian freestyle competition called Tecniche Perfette. Emis Killa cooperated with the independent company Blocco Recordz with which he published his first album.
Federico Leonardo Lucia (born 15 October 1989 in Milan), known by his stage name Fedez, is an Italian rapper and singer. In 2011, he released the albums Penisola che non c'è and Il mio primo disco da venduto, released as free digital downloads. His first major studio album, Sig. Brainwash - L'arte di accontentare, was released in 2013, and it debuted at number one on the Italian Albums Chart. The album, which contained three singles, including the top ten hit "Cigno nero" featuring Francesca Michielin, was later certified 3 X's platinum by the Federation of the Italian Music Industry.
Bartolo Fabio Rizzo, better known by the pseudonym Marracash is a rapper and Italian record producer, crew member of the Dogo Gang. He is considered one of the leading Italian rappers, and won several awards, as well as having received several certifications from FIMI for over 160,000 copies sold of its various publication. Officially he began in 2005 with the self-produced mixtape Rock Music Vol. 1 with the participation of the collective Dogo Gang and other artists belonging to the Italian hip hop scene. The mixtape has got a significant response in the underground and led him to signing a recording contract with Universal Music Group, with which in 2008 he published his first solo album, the eponymous Marracash.
CLEMENTINO ! Clementino aka Iena White (born Clemente Maccaro on 21 December 1982) is an Italian rapper proficient in freestyle in both Italian and Neapolitan language. With the Italian rapper Fabri Fibra is member of the group Rapstar. Clementino took his first steps in hip hop at the age of 14 with the entrance into Tremble Crew of Naples and later in the TCK Group, always in Naples. Thanks to this experience, Clementino had the opportunity to refine his techniques in Freestyle, thus becoming one of the most skilled artists on the national scene by winning the 1st Place in the Tecniche Perfette in 2004, the Da Bomb in 2005, the Valvarap in 2006 and 2theBeat in 2006, defeating Ensi, then the reigning champion, who in 2005 had already defeated in the finals the same Clementino.