I will write this news-Comment with the maximum caution, for the simple fact that the last time I dealt with the topic in question (almost ten years ago) I then saw two carabinieri arrive in the editorial office with a complaint for defamation in hand. And on the magical leaflet, of course, there was my name.
Because of defamation we speak substantially in the (definitive) sentence that the Cassation has established for Fabri Fibra and Universal Music Italia. At this point the two parts will have to pay the EGR. Spect. Scanu Valerio is the figure of € 70,000 as compensation for non -pecuniary damages linked to some verses deemed offensive in the piece of 2013 To me of you album War and Peace Signed by rapper Tarducci Fabrizio, aka Fabri Fibra.
Now, the story has been going on for 12 years now. After winning Sanremo 2010 with For all the times …, The singer of Friends He had entered, like billions of other people in more than thirty years of poisoned rhymes, in the sights of the rapper of Senigallia. In 2013 it was released precisely To me of you, In which fiber basically did what he has always succeeded best and what is so important for the history of Italian music: the incorrect asshole.
Vulgarity? An avalanche. Sexual and explicit allusions? How many you want and even more, as is convenient for an artist who has made the provocation and of sending everything and all his artistic figure to fuck (and perhaps also personal, since it seems that it does not run good blood I miss with his loved ones: but this is a voice of corridor and honestly they are not our cocks).
In short, in 2015, Fibra was sentenced in criminal, with abbreviated rite, to a fine of 600 euros but above all to the payment of a provisional of 20,000 euros. It was there that a precedent had been created, as I wrote in the article that was also worth a complaint from Scanu. In fact, it was the first sentence issued in Italy to condemn a rap artist for the text of his own song. The fact has even more weight of ten years ago, if we count that today at the top of the rankings there are sphere and Shiva, not Biagio Antonacci.
What is art? What is not? In my opinion, I wrote in the offending article, it was not up to a judge to establish it. And a lot of people who actually have been punished by fiber (fortunately, most) understood that these are satire and therefore he limited himself not to respond or, seeing Marco Mengoni at the time, basically to reply with a dry “I don't give a shit”. And amen.
The fact is that, a few years later, the Court of Appeal had increased the figure to seventy thousand euros (from which to deduct the already paid twenty thousand, ok, but they are still fifty donuts). On the basis of the accusation, apparently supported by the judges, the severity of the discredit towards Scanu was “exceptional” and also “of relevant resonance” since the album we are talking about at the time has reached platinum certification.
At that point Fibra and Universal had filed an appeal in the Court of Cassation, which was definitively rejected in these days. Now, what I mean is that it is not the first nor certainly the last complaint that takes fiber. Indeed, to be honest, there would also be another sentence for defamation always between our two, after fiber at a concert not only performed the song live, but also projected on the megasser behind the extracts of the sentence itself.
The other night at the forum, at the Tyer concert, The Creator, I met Paola Zukar, who is the manager of fiber. We remembered kidding those days when he called me to convince me to give my testimony of the tragicomic affair in what would later become Fabrizio's biography. I would also have accepted, but the previous publisher of this magazine, who paid the lawyers to defend me, had ordered me to close every type of tap on the topic. Today I sent a messenger to Paola to ask her if they wanted, she or fiber, comment on the latest news but she rightly replied that “we still have to read the sentence well, so no comment :)”. Totally lawful.
Fiber or not, complaints or non -complaints, what worries me, today as then, in music and not, is the concept of previous.
On April 25 in Mottola, in Tarantino, a group of ten people were stopped and identified by a marshal of the carabinieri because they intoned songs of the resistance like Bella Ciao and whistles the wind. Now they risk cocks for non -compliance (another precedent) of the provisions of “sober” celebrations given by the government after the death of Pope Francis. Also these days is the circular that some prefectures are sending to public administrations, in particular to schools, with the ban on carrying out communication activities on the referendums on work and citizenship in June.
I think of that scene of The good, the ugly, the bad in which the blonde (Clint Eastwood) and Tuco (Eli Wallach) are put to undermine the poles of the Langstone bridge to make it skip in the air and put an end to a useless massacre between Nordists and southerners who competed for that miserable wooden structure for months. Here, however, by force of precedents we are placing as many dynamite, but to the structure that holds the cornerstones of democratic thought, from the freedom of expression, aggregation, vote. If it explodes, this bridge will not end a massacre. If anything, the whole opposite.
