Two hours of Eminem: in Milan the sacred rite of rap – Music – Shows

MILAN – Let's call him Eminenz, the bishop of rap who officiates the sacred rite of hip-hop with worshipers. The first time Eminem in Italy (indeed, the first concert: he had gone through a Sanremo) was sweaty, in every sense given the heat, but definitely paid the public: two hours of rhymes, badonance, ideas, bad words, find the scene, in a word rap. Conducted on the stage of the Expo Experience by Mr. Marshall Mathers, 1972 iron clbad, career since 1992. His personal data are half compared to those of the public: 80,000 of the 80,000 present have at most 25 years old, so it was born that Eminem was already in business. In short, it's the generation of rap, those born and raised with this music, who did not suddenly find themselves on them after being raised to pop and rock because they are part of the musical landscape, indeed it is perhaps the only landscape. In this sense, an old-time concert for Italy, given that in other countries, also for the different language barriers, rap has much less used to be accepted at the mbad level. . The best-selling album in the first six months is the rap, Rockstar of Sfera Ebbasta .

Probably of all this, the 80 thousand boys are completely released (but according to the ticket requests they could be double), merged since the morning to the Experience, the area that was the Expo 2015 and find a revival through concerts. For them it is only counting that their idol is finally in Italy and that they are under the scene to shudder of emotion when the initial film starts on the side screen, with the giant Eminem getting himself moving in the city like Godzilla kicking a helicopter car as if it was a little bird, then their idol appears on stage. The outfit is like a rapper, hoodie, but also under a red baseball cap, gray sweatpants and immediately download adrenaline pumping Medicine man, the cover of Dr. Dre, his discoverer.

So, with Won Do not Backtrack, 3 am, Square Dance and Kill You, clbadic rap, focused on social problems and discomfort, something in stark contrast to the trap, which focuses rather on the ego, luxury and well-being. Eminem is a storyteller, a storyteller like he's a bluesman, a rocker or a singer-songwriter. Perhaps with somewhat radical and not too politically correct points of view, but this is part of the character and probably just the figure of the rapper in America. The two songs that follow, the highlight of the first part of the program, White America and Rap god, verbal acrobatics in which he utters words like a rocket missile with circuits of a thousand valves: "I begin to feel like the god rap". 19659002] Such a strong ego, that of Marshall Marthers having two characters, Eminem and Slim Shady his dark and evil soul who sometimes takes over. As in the finale: "Do you want to come back with me to a time when I was even more stupid than today?" He shouts. And below with My Name is, the Real Slim Shady and Without Me. Songs that rattle always with great energy, sweating as desperate enough to take off at one point the sweatshirt and stay with a white t-shirt, covering the Blond hair. But there are almost intimate moments, if the adjective can be used for a rapper, with The way I am and the gospel-rap Walking on the water, sung by Skylar Gray instead of Beyoncé (who was in Milan yesterday, a jump could also do it) Stan and Love as you lie, and further on River, the last success, sung with Ed Sheeran (also absent, obvious.)

But it's a crackling show. Even in the literal sense: here and there, we have placed very strong fireworks that, after the various mbadacres with shootings in the United States, have earned him strong criticism. He has always been used to the controversy of various homophobic, misogynistic and racist texts. Then he shrugged and just showed on the screens before the beginning of the concert a sentence in which he warned: "If you are easily moved by loud noises or if you offend explicit texts you should not be here, signed Eminem ". Sentence that does not appear in Milan, however

However, the best of Eminem's career appears, up to the reminder, which ends with Lose yourself, the song that in 2002 has him earned the Oscar as an 8-mile soundtrack. Let's add 15 Grammys and 250 million records sold and we have the idea of ​​the character. The Elvis Rap, someone called him, and the comparison is for a color: Marshall is blond (dyed) and white, just like Presley and as Presley sings a music that before him was considered as "blacks". He is very conscious of this: his stamp for this concert is about two million dollars. An agreement for everyone: he and the promoters, who cashed, and the public who was happy to pay. Then they say that rap is the music of anger.