Marracash the review of Peace is overthe album that closes the trilogy that began in 2019 with Person.
The surprise effect is what we have become accustomed to for some time Marracashthe king of Italian rap, with the releases of his albums without any warning.
A detail of no small importance, considering that the expectations on every single comma written or to be written have always been very high, so the hype is at its maximum every time you smell that something is about to arrive.
It was like this, in 2021, with 'Us, Them, The Others' and it was the same with 'Peace is over'.
In the first case, and the memory is vivid, we woke up on the morning of November 18, 2021 with a billboard campaign around Milan (and beyond) that came out of nowhere announcing the release of the album the next day.
No warning, total surprise effect and an arms race for the entire music industry, journalists, radio and TV.
The same thing happened but, this time, with even less warning because Marracash he didn't say anything the day before either. Peace is over it was announced the moment it went live online.
Double, if not triple, surprise effect given that we are talking about the closing of a trilogy with a psychological background, for him, and a sociopolitical one, for the others.
Marracash peace is over, the review
“Peace is over' starts where the previous album ended, the first sign of continuity between the projects. The final part of Cliffhangerin fact, is also the intro to Power Slap.
“I came back new, again, to finish the job” are the first words of Marra and it is a powerful incipit because it already makes clear the intentions of a recording work, his seventh, in which he spares no one criticism.
They are all in the crosshairs, by the most powerful men in the music world (Jacopo Pesce is it among them?) to colleagues who wouldn't know where to turn without it Sanremo or summer singles, up to the streaming culture that has flattened everything.
There is no shortage of criticism of a specific political class, both Italian and international. From Elon Musk defined “evil Musk“until ours”Government of fascism that says prehistoric phrases“. His position is evident, as well as declared.
In this regard, one important aspect must be underlined. Marracash he is not simply an artist, a rapper, but rather he is a man who lives within a society which in turn lives, breathes, experiences first-hand the hardships of a country and a world in disarray.
Art has always been the mirror of society and the plastic representation of history. Music, then, has always served to tell what happens according to the various visions of the various artists but there is a problem in recent years: no one takes a position anymore.
Marra it is different because it gives music, its songs and art back the role it has always had, the one just described, in a scenario where there are no more identities, where everything is extremely flat and where we row in a single direction.
How many artists, in the last year and a half, have openly spoken about genocide in Gaza, citing it bluntly, about fascism, about ideas? Here you are, Marracash he has one thing that others can't have (at least in their songs) and that is the strength of his own ideas.
You can be for or against, without a doubt, but you have to recognize that such current themes are not easily found in an entire recording project that wants to be or is portrayed as mainstream.
In recent times, remaining in this bubble, the only ones who have done something similar have been alone Tananai with Tango (the story of a love story during the war in Ukraine), Ghali with My house And Dargen D'Amico with High Waveall curiously included in the cast of Sanremo.
The song in which political quotes are made, among other things, is enriched with a truly exceptional sample, that of Florence (Sad Song) Of Ivan Graziani. It's not the only one on the album, because Marracash decides to also mention i Pooh and theirs Lonely Men in a song that talks about loneliness, the depression caused by an increasingly social and less sociable world is mentioned.
This is a theme of social media and the drugs represented by the internet, taken up in the form of sick love towards an artificial intelligence in I fell in love with an AIa song that contains a sample of Monday of the Sardinian singer-songwriter Clear Florisin art BLUEM.
There are a lot of other quotes and samples taken from other songs and other artists, even from the 1800s. The beginning of the album, for example, contains this piano played energetically but not everyone knows that it is a melodic turn taken from a Spanish composer, Isaac Albenizwho lived right between the 19th and 20th centuries.
Another very high level quote is that of Mary Callas and his One fine day we'll seeflagship composition of Madame Butterfly Of James Puccini.
In summary, Marracash made an album musically iconic which, already basically, was very rich just by reading the lyrics, like those of Troi*.
On the surface, without going deeper, it might seem like one of those songs like many we have heard in recent years in which women are objectified and indicated as no good but, in reality, this is not the case at all.
In this passage we talk about gender, patriarchy, the use of language and Marra defines itself as “sluts*” to make it clear that history has granted and allowed men to even find specific words to offend and denigrate women, while on the other hand there are no phrases, words or concepts of the same (low) level because the woman has never been allowed or allowed to say anything.
The narrative continues until it reaches the Happy End which, in this case, translates into an awareness of the entire psychological and human path that the same Marracash he faced and overcame, telling it through rhymes and melodies that will remain engraved in the annals of music.
CONCLUDING…
“Peace is over” is a complete album, a concrete journey between past and present with, also, reflections on a hypothetical future that is not rosy but very concrete in structure, as it is told.
It's an album that comes like a slap straight in the face and wakes you up from the torpor that, unfortunately, we've been accustomed to in recent times on a musical level.
Everything is so the same, everything is so stale and flat, few ideas and those few are lost in the oblivion of a narrative made by streaming that rewards only the few who, on that famous platform, have appeal only for a certain age group.
He arrives Marra and the necessary power slap arrives.
He was still young when he proclaimed himself the 'king of rap' but now, over 40, he has confirmed that that definition was not just an outburst of excessive youthful ego. It was reality.
Best Songs: Power Slap, Victim, Troi*
Worst Songs: Pentothal
PEACE IS OVER TRACKLIST
- Power Slap
- Crashes
- The stragglers lost
- Peace is over
- Detox / Rehab
- Alone
- I fell in love with an AI
- Factotum
- Victim
- Troi*
- Pentothal
- She
- Happy Ending
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
