Review: Artie 5ives – “La Bellavita”

Ivan Arturo Barioli, aka the twenty -fourth artie 5ives, now no longer needs presentations.

But it is in the intro of “La Bellavita”, its number one album, which reveals the essence of its universe: a kaleidoscope of contradictions, ambitions and wounds never healed, told with the lucidity of those who know they are a protagonist of his time.

Today everything is clear and I am the same
When I started, I'm not different
Or maybe there is no denie and there is no compromise
Because I know nobody would like me as I was
All good overall
But I would exchange a couple of things with success “

This is the perfect synthesis of an artist who has transformed the road into poetry, without ever forgetting the price to pay.

With 9 platinum records, 12 golden gold does not just confirm its status – the sublimation. Bellavita is not a simple album, it is a generational manifesto, a sound journey that combines the groit of the Milanese suburbs with the refinement of a sound that looks beyond the horizon of Italian rap.

Artie master the contrast as few: hard and fragile, unscrupulous boss and neighborhood boy, with tears that slip under Versace's sunglasses. His luxury rap bars are precise stab wounds, but full of humanity that transcends the simple Street Poetry. The concept of the “good life” hyper exalted and full of classic style of style is not an empty ostentation, but a reflection on success as a redemption – and on its shadows.

Milan, city of opportunities and contradictions, paradise and hell, is the backdrop to a record that is as a celebration as mea culpa.

Musically, Bellavita is a Tour de Force Productive. The beat oscillates saturated and deep between the 70s Easy Listening in a trap key (every friend of my), the 808 that explode as shots of rifle and pure the references to the G-Funk and the thousand quotes, even the “I will return from king” of the Dogo in the Outro.

The Producer team (DDUSI, KXVI, Lonegud, Peeb, Kiid, Sadturs, Cubeatz and Miles) worked with a maniacal cure, merging refined samples and cinematographic atmospheres. The result? A project that affects the bowels without losing elegance.

No Filler collaborations here. I feat – Capo Plaza, Tony Boy, Kid Yugi and Guè – are strategic, non -commercial choices. Each presence amplifies the concept, adding dowels to an already rich mosaic.

“Bellavita” is not only the most mature album of Artie, street and sophisticated, raw and introspective, without compromise and could become a fundamental piece for the Italian scene,

With this album, Artie 5ives is not limited to dominating the present – the future.