{"id":27552,"date":"2023-03-15T14:00:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.throwup.it\/?p=27552"},"modified":"2023-03-15T14:07:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T13:07:13","slug":"eliaphoks-ragazzi-per-sempre-was-supposed-to-be-my-last-album-but-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.throwup.it\/en\/music\/interviews\/eliaphoks-ragazzi-per-sempre-was-supposed-to-be-my-last-album-but-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"EliaPhoks: \u00abRagazzi per Sempre was supposed to be my last album but instead\u2026\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"

\ud83d\udcf7 @fulviobellanca<\/a><\/p>\n

Hi Elia, we are happy to be able to ask you a few questions to give our readers and Italian rap fans the opportunity to learn more about your story. <\/b>In fact, your name in the underground “circle” has only recently begun to get noticed, with your landing in the MxRxGxA, the label set up by Gionni Gioielli. But actually your “story” as a rapper begins more than ten years ago in the Sicilian local scene with the Combomastas crew (we even found a performance on MTV in 2007). <\/b><\/p>\n

Can you tell us about when and how you approached Hip-Hop culture and when did you start recording your music in a more professional way? What were your first steps in the Palermo scene?<\/b><\/p>\n

Hello lads! The Sicilian scene is very closed, it has never been united and has remained very fragmented for a long time even within the cities. However, as in every place in Italy, the scene has always had its historical representatives. My story as a rapper was born completely by chance, simply driven by the desire to do something different from what I heard around.<\/p>\n

I’ve always listened to US rap and very little Italian rap, so the cultural gap was really unsustainable for me, since I loved the attitude and themes of US rap.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n