His stage name, Nayt, is a tribute to Mezzanotte, the surname that both he and his mother bear: “I wanted to use it: from there I took” night “, I slang it so that it was unique and it remained so” explains William Mezzanotte on the phone with a confident, ringing air as only that of the twenty-six-year-olds can be. The darkness of the night, in some ways, Nayt has lived a little since he was a child, called to face obstacles greater than him but always keeping the dream of going further, of fulfilling himself as a person and as an artist.
The difficult years of adolescence, marked by the abandonment of his father and life with his mother in the neighborhoods of the extreme outskirts of Rome, Nayt told them before in a book, I don’t want to do normal things, released for Mondadori, and then on an album, Mood, which is the result of an increasingly refined stylistic research, of a plurality of themes that William has waited to deal with in order to have an ever more precise and ever more complete picture of things.
Everything else is us, his latest single, starts from the whirlwind of emotions that has animated him in the last year: “It’s a piece that I started writing a long time ago: it must have been sad and melancholy, but then the discovery of feelings and of myself, the ability to put myself on the line and to move forward prevailed “Nayt insists, suggesting that, among the pacifying feelings of his soul, there is also love for Matilda De Angelis, the actress now very launched after the Sanremo Festival and series like The Undoing e Leonardo with whom he has been in a relationship for about seven months.
The past, as they say, always comes back.
«My experience has led me for a long time to shut myself up as if by a defense mechanism: what I used to use to escape now interests me less because I have finally managed to open myself more to life. We are in an age in which we are all anesthetized and we try to escape from reality through drugs, television programs, videogames…. ».
This urge to renew itself when it was born?
“Since I started working on myself and I started a therapeutic path that helped me find myself in a situation of peace after so much darkness and so much gray”.
What was the initial goal that prompted you to go to therapy?
“To put order, to face certain demons and certain unresolved things that were still fighting inside me: all this allowed me to clarify who I am, teaching me to attract more positive vibrations towards me”.
In Bruises, contained in the album Mood, sings: “My life is one stab after another.”
“I took a lot of blows in my childhood and adolescence also because of the family and social context in which I grew up, but over time I found the strength to transform negative energies into something positive to give to others: I am very proud of how everything is balanced ».
In this sense, Mood can it be seen as a further therapy to heal?
«Re-reading what I wrote, it seemed to me a self-analysis that, I hope, can help many people to identify themselves. We all, in our own way, live in internal conflicts, after all: what I live and what I write are part of the same body, of the same mechanism ».
A body that begins to take shape with its book I don’t want to do normal things in which he talks about his history for the first time.
«From the previous disc a Mood I left disoriented, I didn’t know who I was and what I wanted to do. I tried to put aside what the outside world was saying and look inward to come up with something authentic. I didn’t want things outside to affect my worth. ‘
How long did it take to achieve this detachment from the outside world?
“A lot, even if now it’s not really Zen: we don’t live in a box. I always take into account what happens in the world, what others say and how what I do is perceived, but today I am better at seeing those things in a less all-encompassing way than before: I can understand how much I am worth without me. tell anyone. Today we are very influenced by the judgment of others, especially through social media ».
How can the appearances of social media be overcome?
«By questioning himself. In my small way, I try with my music to stimulate sensitivity: we must give the freedom to exist to everything to ensure that everything has the right weight. If I focus too much on a social network like Instagram, maybe I risk obscuring other important things that the web can offer: we have to take everything into account “.
However, she has chosen alternative routes: in Music everywhere sings: “I write stuff different from my peers.”
«I feel different because I do not listen to those who tell me that what I do may be wrong: it is important to take risks, to break the mold. If I feel like I want to tell my pain, I do it: each of us is unique and it is right that I show it. We are all very plagiarized by ways and rules that make it very tiring to get involved ».
Those rules and ways also apply to the rap genre, which is still a victim of several clichés.
“What many don’t understand is that rap is not just a genre, but a range of potential. I have always been fascinated by this very explicit and very sincere way of expressing oneself, and that is why I don’t like it when someone tries to categorize us at any cost. Fortunately, there are many artists at the moment who are following a personal path and I can only be happy with this ».
When does rap arrive for the first time in your life?
«Around the age of 14, when I discover Italian rap and start listening to Fabri Fibra, Gemitaiz, Club Dogo, Marracash. I was fascinated by the complexity of those texts to the point of wanting to try them: I started slowly, the people of the environment found in me a glimmer of talent that I tried in every way to grow because, you know, without work the talent remains an end in itself. What really influenced me, however, were the technique and sounds of American rap ».
Who in particular?
«By Eminem, who many rappers don’t like, but who won me over immediately because I felt that suffering and that pain and I saw how he was able to transform them into something so powerful on an artistic and emotional level. This made me feel represented, less alone ».
Before the age of 14, what did you dream of growing up instead?
“So many things: the architect, the firefighter. I felt I wanted to do something big because I wanted to feel important: maybe it was to fill the gaps I had, but I wanted to feel myself in the spotlight, the idea of ​​fame fascinated me, also because I was super fixated with music. I remember recording all the music videos I liked, from The Servant to Thirty Second to Mars, which I saw on All Music and MTV on these 180 minute cassettes. Today, however, paradoxically I would like to be more low profile ».
What do you mean?
“Now that I feel more resolved, I think I no longer need so much attention.”
In Bad Tales indeed speaks of the risks of success.
“I’m learning to live with all of this, bearing in mind that I’m not Kanye West. Having started very young, however, at the age of 16 I already felt a bit overexposed, it made me strange that people stared at me in the subway and recognized me. It is since adolescence that I have developed this thing of wanting to be less observed ».
And now that he is being paparazzi for gossip magazines with his girlfriend Matilda De Angelis, how does he do it?
«It’s not really the best to be observed in your private life, but I’m trying to deal with it in a proactive and healthy way. In the end it is not that one can escape or hide: we might as well accept who you are and pay the consequences, for better or for worse. I try to stay centered on this ».
You are very reserved, but it seems that you support each other.
«On this we are super accomplices, we esteem ourselves a lot and it is a great thing. We attract to us the people and situations that are most similar to us, and we are very similar, we are very true. The human factor, apart from everything else, is very important ».
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