Eminem, first concert in Italy: 80,000 people for the "Revival Tour"

MILAN Eminem as Godzilla. A giant in the middle of skyscrapers that breaks buildings and crushes helicopters like flies. So we see the rapper in the video that opens his tour Revival, yesterday through the Expo area of ​​Rho-Milan. First time in Italy the hip-hop giant: no rapper has ever managed to gather 80 thousand people in our country. The simple scene. Not the amusement park that circumnavigated Europe in 2003. A screen that for the duration of the concert (only 1 hour and 30 minutes) has a fixed frame on a factory: the track after song will end in ruins until it collapses and be overgrown. Hooded sweatshirt on hood, no fashion concession like Jay-Z the day before at San Siro. Eminem starred Mr Porter in the role of the hype man (the one who doubles the rhymes), the group, a deejay under an iron scaffold topped with the 313, prefix of his Detroit, and a set of strings.

2018 the year of hip hop: on 27 weeks of rankings in Italy, 13 had a number one from this world especially of the trap generation. A phenomenon ignored for years by radio and television who grew up under the mantle. Also underestimated by the promoters: it was the Zero years and in the rest of Europe Eminem played and sold. With us, only two appear on television: the Sanremo 2001 with a prologue of the controversy of the committees of habitual parents and a line of waiting just as controversial for a major raised by the star; the Emas de Mtv in Rome in 2004. Never a concert of his own, or other great. Thanks to those who believed this time and saw the tickets burn in 3 hours, despite the Expo area, a logistically unfortunate place. We have waited until here and it 's fine even though now his career revives an artistic legacy more than contemporary, but they still work (and rightfully so) the Rolling Stones do not have a lot of fun. is not surprising that he has an audience that was not even in elementary school when he was at the top: 50% of the tickets were awarded to under-21s, and even 80% of the under 25, among guests Ghali, Eros Ramazzotti, Emis Killa, Don Joe and Rovazzi.

The white rapper opens with Medicine Man, a tribute to his mentor Dr. Dre . The white America was the first blow, its invective against respectable and conservative America who saw it as a threat. If the Beastie Boys had brought rap to white Americans, Eminem had also shown blacks that a rapper could be white. Violence, misogyny, rage against everything and everyone, were the themes that he confided to the language of the alter ego Slim Shady. On the rap of God while in clbad, Em draws words of machine gun. In the middle of the evening, the most delicate moment with Walk on Water, in duet with Beyonc last year; Stan, a song about the stalker and the killer fan who turned his career with a sample of the sweet Dido, and Love the Way You Lie with Rihanna. The place of the three taken by Skylar Gray, an emerging author and her collaborator. Meanwhile, the rain falls on the factory. And the flames continue the work of destruction. The finale is a series of clbadics: My name is, the real Slim Shady, without me and lose yourself. In place of the factory, there is a new restored area. Anger is not only destruction