Un childhood is not easy, and the search for expression through words, through verses. Fabri Fibra – real name Fabrizio Tarducci45 years old – he never hid of having had a difficult life. Starting with his own family.
Fabri Fibra’s mother
“My mother has been suffocating me since I was born, she would like me dead after what I have become. It’s hard for her to accept that I’m grown up now, I took blows until the blood came out “, Fiber sings in the song I thankalluding to having “taken” them when he was a child.
“My mother ruined my life, my mother. She never encouraged me to do anything my mother. He told me “you are helpless my mother. He repeated these bad things to hurt me. Then again “you look like your father, you make me sick animal“», He sings in the same song. And the verses are very hard.
On his family, in general, he stated that it was a «typical Italian situation. The family crushes the children, the parents seek their own fulfillment through the children and so on enormous damage is created and many of those news that end up in the news. Look at that boy who committed suicide after his mother denounced him because he was making joints ».
Fabri Fibra he said he always “badly lived the fact that in the family we had to save the facade when there was a world war in the house. Life is a gift and I can’t afford to keep this thing inside until death. “
Nesli talks about the fracture with Fabri Fibra
Fabri Fibra has a younger brother, Francisalso a rapper and known in the world with the name of Nesli. The two have not spoken for over a decade. And Nesli thus tells the reasons for the breakup. “I was 16, I was a punkand a day on a scooter with my friends I found myself in the wrong place at the wrong time“.
Nesli during the 25th edition of the “May Day Concert” in 2015. (Ansa)
The place was the provincial countryside, around Senigallia. “The time was to have one Caliber 22 in hand and not knowing how to handle it. A shot explodes. He takes a friend of mine in full. The bullet becomes a marble, his body a pinball machine: from under the armpit it goes to the chest, passes into a rib, punctures a lung and kidney, slips into the bladder ».
That boy is in danger of dying, he spent a month and a half in the hospital, but luckily he saved himself. “I end up on trial, no consequence, it had been an accident. My mom tells me: “Take it easy, go to the garage with your brother“. At the time he was freestyle with a DJ. Watching me bored me. So I pick up the microphone, and I start too. We take trains, we play clubs. Then Fabri decides to leave for England: music was a hobby, better to learn English “.
Below, again Nesli (Instagram)
When everything has changed
When his older brother returns from London to record, “we begin to look different, the bubble bursts, and we understand that we are fighting a war on two fronts. Him on those musical bases he fired at zero with a morbid taste and a gratuitous nastinessI aspired to the positive, the good side that exists, to build a healthy career as a professional, not on the skin of the corpses “.
A relative who does the same job as you on the same label, “if it works, it’s a problem,” said the rapper. And he immediately “is disrespectful: silence falls, that along with the filibuster is a clear mission statement“.
Fiber. (Handle)
From that moment, “he denies me, he repays me indifferently, as if I were his worst enemy»Said Nesli. Already with Applause for Fiber “We were no longer partners or friends or brothers. Strangers, who must not meet. In interviews when they ask him about me he throws two or three little words, which always mean: “He writes well, but here we are in Serie A, we don’t bring up the C” ».
Love for music as a kid
When he was a kid, Fabri Fibra wanted to be a singer “to change the world, to be the ones to carry the words. Music has influenced us so much that we think that there was no one cooler than the singer“.
Then as an adult you realize that “the cool one is the chef, no one shits the singers anymore. Art in Italy doesn’t count a c ***, if it weren’t for the fans. You send a message and it is not investigated. The market is made up of hormones, of teen groups ».
The music industry, according to the rapper, focuses’ on very young, if you are over twenty c *** your if you want to make music or if you have an audience. You must really be motivated to continueyou must have a mission ».
As for the his personal story and his beginnings, Fibra remembers that “I was doing graffiti around Senigallia“.
People stopped him on the street “and said to me ‘Do you think you’re in New York?’ I used to skate. One day I saw the Frankie Hi NRG video Fight from feud. Father against son… ». That was an illumination, “a fire was lit. We went around singing on the instrumental basis. I felt revolutionary“.
The success of Fabri Fibra
The beginnings weren’t easy, but then came the success. Of which he is very proud, even if “people take everything away from youwants some of your fame, some of your money, he wants to be part of the situation. While I just want to stay a little for my ***. “
According to Fabri Fibra, «the Italian rapper who goes to the private room of the disco he does it because he sees Americans do iti, as well as the Instagram Stories for which now they’re all on Instagram seeking controversy: Soulja Boy, Chris Brown, Travis Scott. AND the Italians copy“.
Will they still be there in five years? «At least for ten I managed to stay on the scene only with rapwithout going on TV that much, and without Instagram Stories“.
“Ghali? The best in Italy “
So who will survive? “Ghali is the best there is in Italy today but with all this Instagram stuff the focus is on something else ». On the other hand, “those of the generation of the nineties said: you cannot do this or that because it departs from the tradition that we have established and we are the real hip hop“.
Ghali. (Getty Images for Gucci)
The young people found themselves in the middle and “they rightly said: do you know what’s new? I don’t do shit what you do. And they invented the trap“.
On his other colleagues, “unlike the various Michele Bravi who have no idea what to do but see themselves doing it well and then they do what the old men tell them, rappers (and indie songwriters) are self-made men who try to unseat whoever is there. I’m not talking about Fedez that takes the money from the old men of the tvbut in every circus you need one monkey dancing “.
“If you are a true artist, get your balls out”
These claims arise at a mature age. “Growing up we add up“, has explained. At 20, «you are a bully. Then at 30 you say now or never. When you’re 40, put everything into perspective. If you are a real artist you have to get your balls out, the feelings and the discomfort you have inside ».
If this can be done, “as Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain did, music becomes something powerful“.
The rapper Fabri Fibra guest of the Raitre show “Che tempo che fa” conducted by Fabio Fazio. (Handle)
Also, he himself doesn’t want to be called a rapper, it is a word that does not belong to him.
«Yes, because I have no shit to do with rap. I’m the rapper most hated by rappers“, He explained, because the Italian rapper”he’s a very bad person. He lives in the shadow of the Americans, he is like the kid who wants to imitate Messi on the football field. Then he leaves the field and says: “I looked like Messi”. But you don’t have to be Messi, you have to be yourself! “
The refusal a X Factor
They also asked Fabri Fibra to be a judge a X Factoroffering him well a million euros. “But I refused,” he replied, because they give you that money “to stop rap. To turn it off. In programs like that I go there but only if they pay me to play. Besides, I wouldn’t be able to stand on that desk among screaming people. I have a crisis after a while, I know“.
Maria De Filippi and Fabri Fibra in a scene photo of the first episode of the Evening of Amici 12. (Ansa)
By now, he admitted, he lives with this system. “The music on TV today is made by talent, from Sanremo… Places frequented by competitors who often they do not move any kind of public. Music broadcasts on TV should be made by those who live and have lived on music ».
However, he claims not to demonize the talents, but has an advice for those who want to take part: “go see a concert rather than stand in front of the tv“.
Peace between Fabri Fibra and J-Ax
In the last ten years, in addition to the fracture with his brother, Fabri Fibra he also had big differences with another artist, J-Ax. In 2016, at Corriere della Sera, he defined Italian hip hop as “harmless” referring to J-Ax. “Italian hip hop has almost always been harmless. See J-Ax who started with the Fiat Uno advertising and ended up with the Cornetto one ».
Peace between the two artists was sealed two years ago: Djombeleventh track of the album Synkinsi of the French rapper Bosh, was remixed in August 2020 by our J-AX and Fabri Fibra. (below, while advertising the collaboration on Instagram)
It was from 2017 Fabri Fibra did not come out with new albums, despite the interesting collaborations in the last period, from Heachache with Elodie to My friend with Madame. But, recently, the artist has made it known through the Instagram profile of her the release of the new album, Chaos (Sony Music Italia) scheduled for March 18, 2022.
In the cover of the album, Fabri Fibra shows himself from behind, while walking on a deserted beach before or after the storm (below).
And that’s not all: the new album – which comes out five years after the success of Phenomenonwhich saw the collaboration of Thegiornalisti with the single Pamplonagreat summer hit without and in twenty years of the first studio job Youth Disruption – will offer the rapper the opportunity to finally return live with Chaos Live, Festival 2022, produced and organized by Friends and Partners. Tickets for the tour dates are available in advance on www.ticketone.it
Fibra smiles in front of the billboard announcing the release of Chaos and the live shows. (Instagram)
The closing of a circle
At 45, with an upcoming album, Fabri Fibra puts the pieces back in place. He reviews his past, his family. From which, perhaps, everything was born. Because, he explained, “if you have a happy familyokay experience the music superficially. It is the outline of something that works ».
If there is a hole, or a crack, on the other hand, «the stories lived with the music you they will help fill the voidalso telling yourself in turn“. Because “you have to be unhappy And have trouble writing. The music really comes when there is a void in the family“.
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