Big Fish returns with a new single and does so by choosing a clear narrative path, introducing Dishonest love – feat. Jake The Fury And Carl Brave – with an unpublished video story signed by Stefano Nazzi.
The song will be available everywhere from Friday 6 February For Warner Records Italy/Warner Music Italy and is built on sampling of I don't crya 1977 song by Franco Califanocontained in the album Tac…!.
A song between rap, cinema and urban disillusionment
There is a precise imagery that takes shape before the music even starts. It is made up of sleepless nights, passing service stations and undeclared agreements.
Dishonest love it is a raw, urban story, crossed by cinematographic references and a disillusioned vision of human relationships. The rhymes of Jake The Fury And Carl Brave they move within a reality made of contradictions, constant pressures and fragile bonds, where “not crying” becomes an emotional self-defense strategy.
The sampling of Franco Califano it is not a nostalgic quote, but a gesture of rewriting: a voice from the past that is brought up to date to tell of an equally rough present. A bridge between generations that passes through rap, but speaks a broader emotional language.
The video story of Stefano Nazzi: a pact along the Milan–Rome axis
The introduction to the project is a narrative trailer that has the flavor of contemporary noir. To tell it is Stefano Nazzione of the most recognizable voices of Italian journalistic storytelling, which builds a story suspended between irony and tension, set along the Milan-Rome axis.
Big Fish it is the connection point between two worlds: that of Jake The Furylinked to the Lombard capital, and that of Carl Bravesymbol of the capital. The story becomes a metaphor of an artistic pact, of a meeting that is born in silence and ends with an undeclared agreement.
The full text of the video story recited by Stefano Nazzi is the following:
“In a motorway restaurant there is a man sitting at a table, on the 1st, the Florence North exit is not far away. He is wearing a gray coat with a voluminous light fur collar. It is five in the morning. The man alone is drinking a light cappuccino. There are two people at the counter, they have asked for correct sambuca coffees. The man is waiting with a coin rubbing hard on a scratch card. Nothing, not even tonight.
A man comes in, everyone calls him Jake. He is wearing a camouflage down jacket and has a red hat with a powerful visor on his head. He sees the man sitting, approaches, sits in front of him and leans back in the chair. Taking a look around, he says, “Nice here, Big Fish. It suits you.”
Another man enters the door, he has dark glasses, it is still dark outside. Just wear a floral shirt, even if it's winter, even if it's cold. Badilla loudly, he approaches the other two, sits down and says: “Let's hurry, Carl wants to go to sleep”.
“Are you talking about yourself in the third person now?” Jake asks.
Carl laughs. Big Fish he leans towards the other two. “Guys, it's simple, we'll make someone cry, but in the end everyone will be happy.”
The other two are silent. So do we have a deal, Big Fish asks. Jake raises his visor a little, scratches his head. Carl doesn't speak, he yawns again. “If we have a deal, we have to shake hands.”
Carl hesitates, then holds out his hand. Jake shakes his head slightly. “Just this once, it's definitely not love.”
“You're dishonest,” Carl says laughing, “you love us, tell the truth.”Then the two get up and leave the service station without speaking. Jake goes towards Milan. Carl follows him, then turns back, towards Rome. Big Fish sits there, picks up the phone and just says, 'Then tomorrow. Midnight.'”
Big Fish today: between rap past and new chapters
The career of Big Fish began in 1994 with i Undertone and spans thirty years of Italian rap, between solo activity and production. His name is linked to works that have marked the scene, from Betrayal Of Fabri Fibra to Superhero Of Emis Killauntil Nesliving, Vol. 3 – I Want More Of Nesli.
After the reunion of Undertone in 2021, Big Fish he returned as a soloist in summer 2025 with Side B. Dishonest love continues this path and anticipates a new recording project, moving between memory, rewriting and urban storytelling.
