Want to kill myself or take drugs
Want to kill myself by taking drugs
We all have psychiatric problems
And we don't solve them with psychiatrists
K-hole among the paramedics
Cold sweats and dizziness
Macello is a rather aggressive stage name, ideal for the Bolognese rapper born in 2001 Giacomo Bosi. Inspired by an extreme aesthetic of drugs and malaise, he practices raw trap on this debut album, aptly titled “Pensieri villaini”: beat distorted, self-destructive intentions, blasphemies and desperation are the main ingredients of a dangerous recipe, to be administered only to adults. After a frontal impact, a deeper existential distress also emerges, poisoned by the lack of prospects and loneliness typical of the most desperate psychiatric states.
The journey into the abyss immediately comes to life with the obsessive and fluctuating trap of “Uccidermi/drogarmi”, hostile and unpresentable as a song full of declarations such as “wanting to kill myself or taking drugs, wanting to kill by taking drugs” can be. The horror aesthetics of Noyz Narcos and Metal Carter relives in “Pensieri Cattivi” feat. Drive away, with ghostly synths while “Crack al Rocket” floats in a slurred, narcoleptic rap.
In “DDW”, another violent and desperate trap cannon, heavily drugged, the rapper even provides his phone number and answers some calls on TikTok. It's a one-way trip into malaise, anything but hedonistic, as the trap nightmare “Tilt” underlines. Generally the songs are short and essentially linear, with the exception of “Benito e Clara + Albano e Romina” feat. 18K, broken in two with a beat switch psychedelic.
The moment of the most desolate melancholy also arrives in “Carne” feat. 18K, Rosa Chemical, Pitta, which becomes desperation in the very bitter “Forse un giorno”. Closing with a seemingly more muscular song like “Cocaine Rmx” feat. Jordan Jeffrey Baby, however dedicated to a friend who died prematurely: “see you soon”.
“Bad thoughts” is a punch in the stomach, a bitter pill to swallow. The trap aesthetic of drugs and vices is associated with a desolate and neurotic desperation, the awareness of being sunk in a nightmare of addictions and dissolution: a death trap, which rhymes with suicide and self-destruction. Even if the album finds its limits in the limited running time and some too much homogeneity in the songs, it is capable of striking with its painful truthfulness. A debut that stands out in a sea of forgettable trap songs.
06/23/2026
Antonio Santini for SANREMO.FM
