Thirteen Peter: “I, ungrateful son, said” I am not Morandi “. Today I see the beauty of the artistic inheritance “

We had left him on a hospital bed, all bloody, grappling with their demons. Including his dad, Gianni Morandi. Today, ten months later, Thirteen Peter The hematomas of the individual is put behind him Big panorama and launches his new album, Don’t look downin which he returns to face fragility, insecurities and inner challengesbut analyzing them in a decidedly more intimate way: “First I felt in a phase of care than certain wounds, now I am much better”, tells us the rapper born in ’97, a third son of the well -known Bolognese songwriter. “It must be said that when you publish a new album you feel like when you can be anything at 16, a musician or an astronaut. It’s all in the dream ».

Did something take place in this last period of time? At the exit of Big panorama He talked to us just about “energy of rebirth” after a moment of down.
«Analyzing from inside is never easy. For sure Don’t look down For me it represents a sort of mantra, that is, not to move my gaze and aim straight: I feel alive, present, solid. Today I feel in the running ».

Staying on the title, do you also feel a little balancer?
«We are all, it is a universal condition. As a child we think that the external agents can hit us and throw down, then growing up we realize that everything is within us. It is we who build our monsters, the great enemy is the mirror. There is nothing outside, demons are our projections towards the outside, conditioned by our weaknesses, fragility, insecurities. Everyone has their own, but Don’t look down It applies to everyone: you have to keep firm to what we believe in ».

There is a gentleman Which says that “it is all a balance above madness».
«But even below, it is like a sandwich! Sometimes it is beautiful is that madness, but the important thing is to have a view from which you do not realize that you are crushed in the midst of these two huge arms ».

In short, does growing mean to be able to always look forward without diverting your gaze?
«The speech is more complex: growing for me means always asking questions, constantly questioning, asking doubts about one’s certainties. At the same time, however, do not look down, that is, do not let these continuous questions that we ask ourselves destroy us. Here is the balance, open up to the discussion but remaining firmly ».

Can the hatred we suffer, of which it speaks in some tracks, be destabilizing? In truth He says “everyone laughed before the first album.”
“The first speech is back: initially you think that evil comes from the outside, but making a armor means understanding that there is nothing outside. It’s all inside: insults or enmity also depend on how you translate them, how you interpret them. You can certainly be able to process them in such a way as not to make you touch. Growing up you also learn this, and I’m learning ».

Among the various themes of the disc, mental health stands out. Have your personal experiences help you talk about it more awareness?
«I went to the psychologist, and I also fled in the highlights. Then I also returned, and escaped again. I realize that asking for help still today is complicated, scary, because it seems a sign of weakness. Through education at school, it should be disconnected from fragility and failure: asking for help is a sign of strength, or at least the beginning of a path to get to that strength. Of course, I would like that the paths for mental health, given that the physical one is important, are economically accessible to everyone, because many cannot afford them. However, beyond psychologists and the economic question, it would be nice if we were more free to speak between equal things. And instead, because we are men, there are still many resistance ».

Thirteen Peter

Is there a verse of the disc to which it is most attached?
«In all the tracks I felt free to express my complexity in a simple way. There are steps in which I am lighter, like when I say “I have occasional sex like Tananai”, and others in which I am more introspective. In breathefor example, I sing “the weight of my name is an incubate, I write when I’m useless”. Which is a simple phrase, but very complicated for me to say ».

Here, according to that break, Morandi: how does the artistic legacy live today? Is there anything that proudly feels to bring with you?
«Now as now I don’t know, I hope I can give a more complete answer in a while. However, I can say that, at an irrational level, I start to feel that I am grateful, I start to perceive the beauty belonging to a story, to a Legacy, like a red thread. I who have always been ungrateful towards this inheritance, I have always refused it saying “I am me, I am not Morandi”, today I observe the positive side. That before, stupidly, I didn’t want to see ».

In the last interview he said to me: “When I talk to my father I look like another person, I put myself straight.” Are this also changing this?
«Only ten months have passed, certain things need more time. Moreover, as adults, already trained, it is more complicated to change certain dynamics. But you try, slowly ».

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In the last verse of the last track, betray yousings “We are bombs above Gaza, we are this company”. What does it mean?
«It is a way to say that, that’s okay that the bombs are pulling someone else, but are we really so deriving? Isn’t we? It is a way to say that if this thing is not good for us, then we go down to the square. We are people who could very well show their dissent towards certain facts, but at the end of the accounts only a small clove of society does it. In fact, the verse before is “we are dogs at the station, we are the rich of the city”: we can be everything, it is up to us to choose. But our responsibility does not disappear ».

On this album there are feat. With Lil Busso, Psychologists and Irbis. Is there any particular artist with whom he would soon like to collaborate?
«For this album I did not want names from number, I wanted to tell a precise story: so I chose my best friends, more Irbis that he is a guy who recently tightened with a lot. For the future I would like to work with Tananai and Blanco, to make two names, or even Annalisa in pop which is very good. Among the rappers I say Tony Boy, Glocky, Sayf: there are a lot of people worth, it is a truly flourishing moment for the scene ».

Different genres, as his album also tells. It cannot be said that she doesn’t like experimenting.
«It’s true, on this album there is a bit of everything: two rap traces, two traps, the rest is a journey. I like to use rap as a technique, as a means to go over everywhere, to make my beloved pindaric flights. I have always preferred to have a lyrical figure rather than a sound figure, but I think the moment will come when I will also have to find my sound ».

Towards a new step on your own artistic path. Always without looking down.