Italian Rapper Rondodasosa Is Ready for the American Dream

At 22, Rondodasosa is acceptable to permission it each behind: his city, his connection and the country that made him a star. With Mattia, his last medium successful Italian, the Milan-born rapper – collaborating with the likes of Central Cee and supported by Drake – is closing a section and preparing for the next: successful English, successful the United States.

“This is the past Italian medium of Rondodasosa,” helium says. “More than a goodbye, it’s a move. It’s similar saying: it’s clip to level up. No 1 successful Italy does that, due to the fact that galore are acrophobic to instrumentality risks oregon conscionable don’t consciousness up to it.”

Split betwixt the assertive vigor of his drill roots and much emotional, introspective tracks, “Mattia” marks a turning point. Rondo speaks openly astir fame, isolation, and the unit of coming up young successful a pugnacious industry. But supra all, the medium is simply a uncommon look down the armor – a mode to amusement not conscionable Rondodasosa, the artist, but Mattia, the person.

Raised successful the San Siro territory of Milan, helium broke done astatine 16 and rapidly became a cardinal fig successful Italian rap. Now, he’s aiming higher. “In America, if you’re different, they enactment you. Here, they propulsion you out. I’m acceptable to instrumentality the risk.” Below, Billboard Italy‘s screen interrogation with Rondodasosa.

It’s similar the medium is divided successful 2 parts – the archetypal being much “Rondo,” much trap-oriented, the 2nd 1 being much emotional, much Mattia. Do you consciousness this favoritism successful yourself?

Yes. Let’s accidental Rondo is benignant of a shell, portion Mattia is the idiosyncratic I amusement lone to a few. The medium is simply a benignant of transition, similar I’m saying “I springiness you some sides of me, I amusement the much energetic, assertive side, but besides the much melodic, much affectional one.”

In the medium you say: “This is the past Italian medium of Rondodasosa.” What’s successful your future?

This is going to beryllium the past medium successful Italian for a while. I’m moving toward America and I’ll commencement rapping successful English. I can’t absorption connected some things – it’s impossible. This medium is closing a chapter. I consciousness similar I’ve made it, but I’ve ne'er genuinely shown everyone who I truly am. It’s a mode to adjacent each my communicative present and statesman a caller section of my life.

Is the medium besides a goodbye to Italy, successful your ain way?

More than a goodbye, it’s a move. It’s similar saying: it’s clip to level up. No 1 successful Italy does that, due to the fact that galore are acrophobic to instrumentality risks oregon conscionable don’t consciousness up to it. It’s not for everyone: leaving a marketplace wherever you’re doing well, wherever you’ve already made it, to spell determination wherever you’re cipher and determination are artists who’ve been doing it for years – that’s not easy.

How agelong person you been reasoning astir this? I ideate it’s been successful your caput for a while, particularly since successful caller years you’ve been the Italian creator astir pulling toward the States.

It each started erstwhile I was successful Miami. The archetypal clip I went determination for a period to work, I instantly realized that the beingness I was surviving was not the beingness I privation – astatine slightest not for now. Italy is beautiful, but there’s a satellite to observe retired there. I can’t enactment present wasting myself trying to beryllium thing that possibly radical won’t understand. I don’t privation to pain myself out: I privation to adjacent this section and measurement out. In Miami I realized I privation to enactment determination for astatine slightest 5 to 10 years. Then, maybe, I’ll travel back.

What fascinates you the astir astir America?

Over there, everything is much real. People are straightforward, they...