"If you're trying to be someone, try yourself"
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How it all started
Since he was a kid he flirted with music and at 13 he recorded his first rhymes with his group in Sardinia.
At 22 he moved to London and carried out the most varied and humble jobs. There he definitively understood what his true vocation was «I felt like a dot, or rather, like a fart when the train passes. That's when I realized I'd hit rock bottom. That's when I understood what kind of music I had to make».
In 2011 his career took off with the first solo album The island Chainsaw Massacre that shook the Italian music scene.
He draws a lot of attention to himself from the public and the record industry. The turning point when Marracash publishes the video of Sense of Hate on his social networks: «Like when in Metal Gear Solid you pass, the camera turns and says “Pi Pi Pi”: in that moment everyone realized I was».
And from there he continued to churn out one hit after another: Death USB (2012), Midnite (2013), Hellvisback (2016), Playlist (2018), Flop (2021).
During his career he has broken records of Spotify (the Playlist album reached over 9 million streams in 24 hours), obtained 56 platinum records and won prestigious awards, including the prestigious "Best Hip Hop Artist" at the MTV Europe Music Awards in 2019.
Not just rappers,
not just a singer
In each of his pieces he creates a harmonious and biting universe made up of different genres, quotations from cinematographic and popular culture and critical thoughts towards society.
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His artistic flair is not limited to music, but also floods the cinematographic and television field.
In 2017 he starred in the short "Nuraghes S'arena" by Mauro Aragoni.
In 2022 the apotheosis of his artistic poly-identity: actor, creative and musical producer and supervisor of the raw and hyper-realistic series "Block 181".
Frame from block series 181
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The label
In 2020 he announces his new project in collaboration with Sony Music Italy: Lbnsk360.
It is a record label with vertical extension: active not only in the music field, but also in communication and entertainment.
The project also includes an Academy department dedicated to young directors, photographers, graphic designers and beatmakers:
«We are looking for talents in various disciplines, from graphics to photography, to build up this sort of X Men school [...] We are trying to create a sort of new factory, a school. Train people and make them work. »