Interview with Rocco Hunta journey through the words to tell the rapper's new album, Down boyoutside April 25, 2025. A closed and published album two months after his participation in Sanremo with A thousand vote again.
During the presentation of the new project held in Milan, the rapper born in Salerno made all the traces of the album to the present in rapid succession. Following, he made a minil ive in which he intoned some songs taken from the disc and a medley of his past successes.
For the record: no, no vocal effect, no corrector, no filter. Rocco Hunt He sang live, with full voice and without artifices. And it was good, as always.
Immediately afterwards, to our microphones, he deepened some central themes of the disc, such as the concept of the return, which crosses the new album:
“The album is a return journey, I go back to the roots and I do it by telling the reality through clear reference points: stations, trains. Traveling makes us grow but this is the return, when someone has made it and comes back to bring the experience collected.
I consider myself lucky because the recording studio and my family are down. I don't feel the difficulty that people who have a job or economic restrictions who force them to stay outside. I come back often, I'm more at home than in Milan and at the same time I think of my son to whom I can give the best of what is here and the roots of the down “
Interview with Rocco Hunt: “Boy from down” is my return to the roots
What is missing when you are in one place or another?
“I miss the typical things of the boy who lives everyday life, simple things and monotony. The fact that everyone helps you in times of difficulty, time, the sea. I miss this when I am in Milan.
When they are down, in the long run, these things knows you because you would like infrastructure, functioning vehicles, more work possibilities and therefore there is always this scale. This is why I consider myself lucky, because I can balance everything “
Rocco Hunt: “Boy down” does not point to the numbers: point to the heart
How do you think people perceive the album?
“It's a courageous album, I don't look for the numbers. I just wanted to reconstruct and the song of Sanremo proves it, I have re -established relationships with my origins. Not an album of 30 singles, therefore not one of those who will give me a sap from a commercial point of view but certainly one of those who give me the momentum for the future”.