“To make music you need someone to protect yourself, not those who point to money …”

Interview 9ovoutside March 14, 2025 with his first EP, The end of the circle.

Lorenzo Smokestones He was born in Varese in 2001 and since he was a child he grows surrounded by music: he still remembers when Michael Jackson's albums were the album to act as a soundtrack of family travel, of which he still retains the old cassettes of his father.

After starting to play the bass at just 10 years of age in adolescence he begins to perform in the premises of the province with his band.

The love for hip-hop, on the other hand, was born later, on the street, and now leads him to publish an EP with Warner Music Italy.

On the occasion of this debut we exchanged a few jokes with him. Find the written version to follow while, for the laziest, in the Instagram Reels there is the video version.

Interview with 9ova

⁠This album is your story, your provincial life and also that of those around you. What have you 'earned' and what do you think you have 'lost' on a human level during growth?

This path has aware of me, I lost relationships, recreated new and re -tuning others. It is a path in which music was our form of expression, but the aim that goes beyond music has always remained to amplify the voice of the few. Losing it is difficult, I would say more to sacrifice things to earn others, everything will be worth it.

⁠Tormnto and Quentin40 are the two guests. A young talent and an icon of rap. How was it to work with both?

They are both wonderful pens, they have a way of describing life without filters, they are also looking for truth. Torment He did me as a mentor after closing the piece, which we made in a spontaneous way only knowing us. We went to Pitch (Manager of 9ova, editor's note) and we listened to the EP in the studio. Torma was super caught well, he opened my world by giving me goodies on writing, the father of 'this stuff.

Quentin He is a friend, we closed the piece on an afternoon in the studio, we are very similar people. The agreement led us to do what we had in mind immediately. Water & oil It was the most sentimental song of the EP, he managed to give an added value, I love his
way of describing.

⁠ The music inevitably leads the artists to get away from home even for long periods. Scare you this thing?

House I have always tried to create it with my people, my people, the family, are connected to this type of “home”. We were born in the province like stray dogs, in a bubble that even when everything seems to go well actually nothing goes: lack of input and movement forced us not to make the “home” a structure of four walls, so what frightens me is not having “close” my people.

“They said are you out of the canons, now they ask for the advice” you say in 0. What is the advice you want to give to those who start to take the first steps now and what is the best advice you received to do this job?

The advice they have been given to me are very few, the right ones. People, especially in the province, tend to have a revenge on others when they then have the right advice. I have always tried to listen to the people who really understood what I needed, this is the advice I feel I would give! Follow those who really want your good, take care of your interests and protect you, streams the money the fame etc. they are consequences; I also say they never follow those who put these things as a goal, you end up burning the journey, which is the only thing that matters, everyone knows the arrival.

“From the balcony of the house I saw various scenes.” In various scenes, make a summary of what you have seen but which of these, beautiful or ugly, do you remember more? The one who scored you most?

The scenes seen from the balcony It is a stance, I choose not to go into the courtyard to live the usual laps, but to look and see you seek out of the window, to see guys that yes
They move at our rhythms, dictated by a society that deludes you to always be late, to look for money in any way possible. I don't have a specific scene, there are no more beautiful or uglier scenes, there are various ones, however, and each has its own story, one of those is mine.