Marcio world has been in the tour for over twenty years. It was 2006 when Inside the box he unpaid the Italian music scene by imposing a new sensitivity, both lyrical and sound.
Among the first to treat rap as personal therapy, the world has dug with visceral lucidity in its emotional world, giving voice to an existential discomfort that transcends the anecdotal of the neighborhood to become universal.
In these two decades the rap has transformed: it emerged, cleared, changed skin to become – not without contradictions – an integral part of the mainstream. In this context, Gian Marco Marcello, now almost forty years old, returns with I believea disc that is configured as a sort of inner testament, but also as a fixed point from which to start again.
The approach is direct, at times brutal, but not without spirituality. The album opens with Voicelessa “fuck” to the system that is not just anger: it is a declaration of presence.
The story of “I believe” is divided into three macro-thetems-present, past, future-that act as narrative anchors and mark a path in twelve tracks, almost a life cycle: from the death of the ego in Voiceless to the symbolic rebirth of Lanzaroteclosed by the voice of a child, an image of a new beginning.
The main theme of the album is the spiritual evolution: how our soul is transformed into relation to physical experience. An investigation of the human being in his eternal conflict between earthly nature and transcendent tension. The “creed” of the world is not dogmatic: it is an existential stance, a personal map in a fragmented and polarized world.
The reflection on the relationship with loss, the value of determination and positive ambition is also central, but also the weight of contemporary frustration, between capitalism, dependencies, hyper -production and hunger for love. Milan – “The city of smoke” – remains in the background as an ambivalent figure, mother and stepmother, wound and muse.
On the production level, the disc is supported by a various and coherent system. The signatures that alternate – Jizz, Dibla, Edwyn Roberts, Mamakass, Yris, Wolvs, among others – build a sound carpet that knows how to be meditative and sharp, urban and atmospheric. There is no shortage of quotes: from Bran Van 3000 in With fire in the eyes A Snoop Dogg in No wavethe repertoire of references is large but never free.
“I believe” is, as the author defines it, “the arc of the hero of our personal film”: an inner narration that every human being carries on since childhood. The cover – a belly, symbol of universal fertility – is emblematic of this vision: we all arise from the same point, but everyone chooses how to look at the world.
In the end, the album convinces on the level of the flow, narrative construction and poetic consistency. Lirically, however, it remains strongly conflicting, sometimes dark, and perhaps less decisive than you would expect from an artist on the forty -year threshold. In part, a saving vision, a possible reconciliation is missing. But perhaps it is precisely this unsolved tension that makes a living, human, vulnerable work “I believe”.
To listen immediately
Without voice – I believe – Lanzarote
To skip immediately
Half an hour you listen well … the world of the world is stylish and not bore!
Score: Vote 6.50
1. Without voice (the present) – 7.00 vote
2. I believe – 7.00 vote
3. With fire in the eyes – Vote 6.50
4. Sand – vote 6.50
5. No wave – Vote 6.50
6. The last time (the future) – vote 6.75
7. Carnivores – vote 6.75
8. Milan cries (the past) – vote 6.75
9. Euphoria – Vote 6.75
10. Rumors vote 6.00
11. Last Dance – Vote 6.50
12. Lanzarote – 7.00 vote
