Marracash

Marracash
Marracash in 2014
Marracash in 2014
Background information
Birth nameFabio Bartolo Rizzo
Born (1979-05-22) 22 May 1979 (age 44)
OriginNicosia, Sicily, Italy
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Rapper
  • songwriter
  • record producer
Years active1999–present
LabelsUniversal Music Group
Websitemarracash.it

Fabio Bartolo Rizzo (born 22 May 1979), better known by the stage name Marracash (Italian: [marraˈkɛʃ]), is an Italian rapper, songwriter, and record producer. Starting his career in the rap group Dogo Gang, he debuted as a solo artist rising in fame in the 2010s releasing six studio albums that reached the top ten of the Italian Albums Chart, including two top positions with Santeria (2016) and Persona (2019). The rapper has also released numerous successful singles and collaborations scoring seventeen times the top ten of the Italian Singles Chart. Thanks to his work he has sold over 5 million copies in Italy, becoming one of the top selling Italian rappers in the 2010s.

In the course of his musical projects he has sung and written songs with numerous artists including rap artists like Gué Pequeno, J-Ax, Fabri Fibra, Emis Killa, Club Dogo, Baby K, and pop influences artist as Tiziano Ferro, Giusy Ferreri, Elisa, Federica Abbate and Elodie.

In 2013, together with producer Shablo, he founded the independent record label Roccia Music, which involves established figures and newcomers to rap, producers and DJs. From 2012 to 2014 he host MTV Italy's freestyle music TV program MTV Spit.

Biography

Fabio Rizzo Bartolo was born in Nicosia, Italy, from a mother who worked as a custodian and a father who worked as a truck driver. He has a younger brother. His family then moved to Milan in a house in Bramante; when he was ten, he was expelled from his home with his family, who moved to the suburbs of Barona, where he grew up and still lives.

After graduating as an electronical technician, Rizzo recorded his first verses under the pseudonym Yuza delle Nuvole, appearing in Prodigio's 1999 demo "The Royal Rumble", alongside Il Guercio, Fame, Aken and Corvo D'Argento. He adopted the stage name Marracash after his childhood nickname, Marocchino (Italian for 'Moroccan', jokingly because of his Sicilian origins), as a pun on the name of Marrakesh.

Career

Its debut dates back to 2004 in the PMC VS Club Dogo mixtape – the official Mixtape, product born from the collaboration between the Club Dogo and the Massive Crew Portion, contacts in Milan and Bologna. In the same year the collective Dogo Gang came to life, within which Marracash's militancy is gradually consolidating, marking a new stage with the participation within Regular, album of Club Dogo, and of Hashishinz Sound Vol. 1, by Gué Pequeno and Deleterio.

In 2005, under the Contagion Area label, Marracash published "Popolare", a single product by Don Joe made available for free download for network users. The song anticipated the release of the mixtape Roccia Music I, mixtape in which the Dogo Gang (Club Dogo, Vincenzo da Via Anfossi, Deleterio and Ted Bundy) collaborated and guests such as Inoki, Co'Sang, Rischio, Shablo, Misa and Royal Mehdi.

In June 2008, his first solo album Marracash was released by Universal Music, which reached the ninth position of the Italian Albums Chart, receiving a gold certification. Guests of the album are Gué Pequeno and J-Ax, Vincenzo da Via Anfossi and Jake La Furia. Two singles were extracted from the album: "Badabum Cha Cha", which becomes the singer's first top ten, and "Estate in città".

In 2009, he participated together with 55 other Italian singers in the realization of "Domani 21/04.2009", a musical track published in a charitable way to remember the victims affected by the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake. Towards the end of the year the song Cani pazzi, which anticipated Marracash's second album Fino a qui tutto bene, out on 13 July 2010. The collaborations present are with Giusy Ferreri in "Rivincita" and Fabri Fibra in "Stupidi", with less success than the previous project.

In September 2011, he released the song "King of rap", which anticipated the eponymous album released in October. The album debuts at the third position of the FIMI chart receiving the platinum certification. Later in 2012 he released the collaboration "Giusto un giro" with Emis Killa and announced the inauguration of his own record label, La Roccia Music. On 22 December, Marracash conducts the first episode of MTV Spit, a television program focused on the rap battle between artists of the underground scene.

After the release of the collective album Genesis with the artists of the Rock Music of 2013, on 20 January 2015, he published his fourth studio album Status which reached the number 2 position of the Italian Albums Chart and 32 of the Swiss Charts. From the album he releases the homonymous single "Status", which peaked at number 2 of Italian Singles Chart, "Senza un posto nel mondo" with Tiziano Ferro, "In radio" and "Niente canzoni d'amore" with Federica Abbate.

In 2016 the rapper announced the release of a studio album with Gué Pequeno. Published on 24 June of the same year, the album is entitled Santeria and is composed of fifteen tracks, which became his first number one album. The forerunner single "Nulla accade", released on 7 June, is certified double platinum and reaches position number 16 of the Italian Singles Chart.

After the release of the album collecting hits for the 10th anniversary of Marracash's release, on 12 June 2019, he published the collaboration with singer Elodie, "Margarita", which peaked at number nine of Singles Chart and selling over 100,000 copies in Italy. On 31 October 2019, the sixth album of the rapper Persona is released. The album peaked at number one of FIMI Chart and receiving the double platinum certification. It was supported by several hit singles, including "Marylean", with Salmo and Nitro, "Crudelia - I nervi" and his number one song" Supreme - L'ego". On 6 March 2020 he released a new track "Neon - Le Ali" featuring Italian songwriter Elisa, peaking at number five of Italian Singles Chart. In 2020 the rapper collaborated with Dardust in "Defuera" and the third lead single from Persona "Sport - I muscoli", which peaked at number three of Italian Chart.

On 17 November 2021, Marracash surprisingly announced on Instagram his seventh studio album Noi, loro, gli altri (Us, Them, The Others), which was released two days later. The album, consisting of fourteen tracks, was entirely produced by Zef and Marz and features three guests: Gué Pequeno, Calcutta and Blanco. The first extract from the album was "Crazy Love", promoted by the related music video, starring his ex-girlfriend Elodie.

Music influences and style

Marracash performing in 2007

In a TV interview with AllMusic in July 2008, Marracash said he regularly listened to Metallica and 883 as a child. He takes inspiration from American artists such as Jay-Z, Drake, Kanye West, DJ Khaled, Nas, Kendrick Lamar, Wu-Tang Clan. From Italy, he cites Frankie Hi-NRG MC.

Marracash described his writing and writing process for the 2019 album Persona in an interview on Rolling Stone Italy: "It develops over time, in the sense that I mature stuff, it's something I do on an introspective level, I do it without writing. I just take notes and then at a certain point I throw them out, and when I started writing the pieces flowed out like blood from a wound." He then describes his feelings and the way he analyzes the situations he reports in the texts: "I exercise a constant self-consciousness that leads me to experience emotions very intensely. [...] But each time I tend to pull the rope a bit to its extreme and it is perhaps also a way to feel alive, a search for adrenaline, because in the end I detach myself enough to find them stronger than before."

Criticism and controversy

In 2006, when Marracash criticized Nesli's way of rapping through the song "Popular", a kind of rivalry between the two began. The following year, in fact, Nesli responded to Marracash with the song "Life is just one", accusing him of making neighborhood rhymes and being a chatterbox. Marracash's response came in 2008 with the song "Dritto al punto", in which he reversed the quotations made by the opposing rapper, who replied with "Riot", closing the debate.

On 14 January 2017, six months after the publication of Santeria, Marracash and Gué Pequeno gave an interview to Corriere della Sera, in which they commented on the musical style adopted by their colleagues Fedez and J-Ax, at the time close to the publication of Comunisti col Rolex, criticizing the artists and accusing them of masking their intent to make numbers and money with false intentions. Fedez responded to the accusations by explaining that the two rappers criticized the duo on purpose to have visibility, as well as calling Marracash a coward to not meet him during Moschino's fashion show; Marracash, referring to Fedez as "dwarf with Napoleon complex", denied what Fedez said about the fashion show, claiming that the colleague had not even sought eye contact with him on that occasion, and ironic about the choice to attend the parades with bodyguards.

Personal life

Between 2019 and 2021, the rapper was in a relationship with singer Elodie.

Discography

Studio albums

List of studio albums, with chart positions and certifications
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications
ITA SWI
Marracash 9
  • FIMI: Gold
Fino a qui tutto bene
  • Released: 13 July 2010
  • Label: Universal
  • Format: CD, digital download
7
  • FIMI: Gold
King del Rap
  • Released: 31 October 2011
  • Label: Universal
  • Format: CD, digital download, streaming
3
  • FIMI: Platinum
Status
  • Released: 20 January 2015
  • Label: Universal
  • Format: CD, digital download
2 32
  • FIMI: Platinum
Santeria (with Gué Pequeno)
  • Released: 24 June 2016
  • Label: Universal
  • Format: CD, LP, digital download
1 12
  • FIMI: 3× Platinum
Persona
  • Released: 31 October 2019
  • Label: Island
  • Format: CD, LP, digital download, streaming
1 48
  • FIMI: 7× Platinum
Noi, loro, gli altri
  • Released: 19 November 2021
  • Label: Island
  • Format: CD, LP, digital download, streaming
1 16
  • FIMI: 5× Platinum

Live albums

Title Album details
Santeria Live (with Gué Pequeno)
  • Released: 31 March 2017
  • Label: Universal
  • Format: CD, DVD, digital download

Mixtapes

Title Album details
Roccia Music I
  • Released: 2005
  • Label: independent
  • Format: digital download
Roccia Music II
  • Released: 2011
  • Label: Roccia Music
  • Format: digital download
Double Dragon Mixtape (with Gué Pequeno)
  • Released: 28 May 2016
  • Label: Universal
  • Format: digital download

Singles

As lead artist

List of singles as main artist, with chart positions, album name and certifications
Single Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
ITA
"Badabum Cha Cha" 2008 9 Marracash
"Estate in città"
"Non confondermi"
"Tutto questo" 2009
"Stupido" 2010 Fino a qui tutto bene
"Rivincita" (featuring Giusy Ferreri) 100
"Parole chiave"
"King del Rap" 2011 36 King del Rap
"Didinò" 63
"Sabbie mobili" 2012
"Giusto un giro" (featuring Emis Killa) 65
  • FIMI: Gold
"Se il mondo fosse" (with Emis Killa, Club Dogo and J-Ax) 2
  • FIMI: Platinum
Non-album singles
"La tipa del tipo" (with DJ Tayone) 2013 32
"Status" 2014 2
  • FIMI: Platinum
Status
"In radio" 2015 59
  • FIMI: Platinum
"Nella macchina" (featuring Neffa)
"Vita da star RMX/Playboy" (with Fabri Fibra)
"Senza un posto nel mondo" (featuring Tiziano Ferro)
"Catatonica" Status (Vendetta Edition)
"Niente canzoni d'amore" (featuring Federica Abbate) 2016 54
  • FIMI: 2× Platinum
"Nulla accade" (with Gué Pequeno) 16
  • FIMI: 2× Platinum
Santeria
"Insta Lova" (with Gué Pequeno) 24
  • FIMI: 2× Platinum
"Ninja" (with Gué Pequeno) 62 Santeria (Voodoo Edition)
"Scooteroni RMX" (with Gué Pequeno featuring Sfera Ebbasta) 62
  • FIMI: 3× Platinum
"Maserati" (with Il Profeta) 2017 Non-album single
"Business class" (featuring Rkomi) 2018 19
  • FIMI: Gold
Marracash (10 anni dopo)
"F.A.K.E." (with Don Joe and Jake La Furia) 2019 32 Non-album single
"Marylean" (with Salmo and Nitro) 3
  • FIMI: 2× Platinum
Machete Mixtape 4
"Non ci sto" (with Shablo and Carl Brave) 7
  • FIMI: Platinum
Non-album single
"Bravi a cadere - I polmoni" 8
  • FIMI: 3× Platinum
Persona
"Neon - Le ali" (featuring Elisa) 2020 5
  • FIMI: Platinum
"Sport - I muscoli" (featuring Luchè) 3
  • FIMI: 2× Platinum
"Crazy Love" 2021 2
  • FIMI: 3× Platinum
Noi, loro, gli altri
"Laurea ad honorem" (featuring Calcutta) 2022 8
  • FIMI: Platinum
"La pioggia alla domenica" (with Vasco Rossi) 11
  • FIMI: Gold
Non-album single
"Importante" 13
  • FIMI: Gold
Noi, loro, gli altri
"Un altro mondo" (with Merk & Kremont and Tananai 2023 17
  • FIMI: Platinum
Non-album single

As featured artist

List of singles as supporting artist, with chart positions, album name and certifications
Single Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album
ITA
"Come la" (The Bloody Beetroots featuring Marracash) 2009 63 Romborama
"Qualcuno normale" (Fabri Fibra featuring Marracash) 2011 Controcultura
"Noi siamo il club" (Club Dogo featuring Marracash) 2012 Noi siamo il club
"Non cambierò mai" (Baby K featuring Marracash) 2013 72
  • FIMI: Gold
Una seria
"Come ieri" (Giuliano Palma featuring Marracash) 63 Old Boy
"Milano Bachata" (Rkomi featuring Marracash) 2017 9
  • FIMI: 2× Platinum
Io in terra
"Pensare troppo mi fa male" (Federica Abbate featuring Marracash) 2018 In foto vengo male
"Margarita" (Elodie featuring Marracash) 2019 6
  • FIMI: 3× Platinum
This Is Elodie
"Barona" (Young Rame featuring Marracash) 2020 Le jeune Simba
"Defuera" (Dardust featuring Marracash, Ghali and Madame) 33
  • FIMI: Platinum
Non-album single
"Fantasmi" (DJ Tayone featuring Geolier and Marracash) 2021 18
  • FIMI: Gold
Djungle
"Solo lei ha quel che voglio 2021" (Sottotono featuring Marracash, Gué Pequeno and Tiziano Ferro) 51 Originali
"Le pietre non volano" (Luché featuring Marracash) 2022 11
  • FIMI: Gold
Dove volano le aquile

Other selected charted songs

List of selected non-single songs, with chart positions, album name and certifications
Single Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album Notes
ITA
"Salvador Dalí" (with Gué Pequeno) 2016 25
  • FIMI: 2× Platinum
Santeria
"Cosa mia" (with Gué Pequeno) 44
  • FIMI: Gold
"Money" (with Gué Pequeno) 50
  • FIMI: Gold
"Senza Dio" (with Gué Pequeno) 58
  • FIMI: Gold
"Ca$mere" (with Gué Pequeno) 52
  • FIMI: Platinum
Santeria (Voodoo Edition)
"Valentino" 2018 47 Marracash (10 anni dopo)
"Body Parts - I denti" 2019 9
  • FIMI: Platinum
Persona
"Qualcosa in cui credere - Lo scheletro" (featuring Gué Pequeno) 6
  • FIMI: Platinum
"Quelli che non pensano - Il cervello" (featuring Coez) 4
  • FIMI: Platinum
"Appartengo - Il sangue" (featuring Massimo Pericolo) 5
  • FIMI: Platinum
"Poco di buon - Il fegato" 13
  • FIMI: Gold
"Non sono Marra - La pelle" (featuring Mahmood) 11
  • FIMI: Platinum
"Supreme - L'ego" (with Tha Supreme and Sfera Ebbasta) 1
  • FIMI: 3× Platinum
"Da buttare - Il cazzo" 15
  • FIMI: Gold
"Crudelia - I nervi" 2
  • FIMI: 5× Platinum
"G.O.A.T. - Il cuore" 12
  • FIMI: Platinum
"Madame - L'anima" (featuring Madame) 7
  • FIMI: 2× Platinum
"Tutto questo - Gli occhi" 19
  • FIMI: Gold
"Greta Thunberg - Lo stomaco" (featuring Cosmo) 18
  • FIMI: Gold
"64 barre di paura" (with Marz) 2021 38
  • FIMI: Gold
Red Bull 64 Bars, The Album
"Loro" 6
  • FIMI: Gold
Noi, loro, gli altri
"Pagliaccio" 7
  • FIMI: Gold
"Infinity Love" (with Gué Pequeno) 1
  • FIMI: 4× Platinum
"Io" 3
  • FIMI: Platinum
"Cosplayer" 9
  • FIMI: Gold
"Dubbi" 5
  • FIMI: Platinum
"Noi" 10
  • FIMI: Gold
"Nemesi" (featuring Blanco) 4
  • FIMI: 2× Platinum

Guest appearances

Title Year Other artist(s) Album
"Hustelbound" 2005 Grand Agent, Don Joe, Vincenzo da Via Anfossi, Ask Regular
"Che nessuno si muova" Gué Pequeno Hashishinz Sound Vol. 1
"Boss!" Gué Pequeno, Vincenzo da Via Anfossi, Jake La Furia
"Il giustiziere della notte" 2006 Rischio, Vincenzo da Via Anfossi, Jake La Furia Reloaded - Lo spettacolo è finito Pt. 2
"D.O.G.O." Club Dogo Penna capitale
"Briatori"
"Mentalità da clan" 2007 Noyz Narcos Verano Zombie
"La gente fa…" EnMiCasa, Club Dogo, Vincenzo da Via Anfossi Senza respiro
"Puro Bogotà" Club Dogo, Vincenzo da Via Anfossi Vile denaro
"Pallottole nelle lettere" Space One, Club Dogo, Vincenzo da Via Anfossi Il ritorno
"Motolov Cocktail" Ted Bundy Motolov Cocktail
"Chi ci ferma" Montenero, Gué Pequeno, Jake La Furia Milano spara
"Popolari" 2008 Vincenzo da Via Anfossi L'ora d'aria
"Domani 21/04.09" 2009 Artisti Uniti per l'Abruzzo
"Meglio che morto" Club Dogo Dogocrazia
"Il commercialista" J-Ax Deca Dance
"Rap Stallions" Gué Pequeno, Izio Sklero Fastlife Mixtape Vol. 2 - Faster Life
"Nun me parla 'e strada" CoSang, El Koyote Vita bona
"Grand Guignol" 2010 Noyz Narcos Guilty
"Ciao proprio" Club Dogo Che bello essere noi
"Bla Bla" Emis Killa Champagne e spine
"Big!" 2011 Gué Pequeno, Jake La Furia, Nex Cassell, Ensi, 'Nto Il ragazzo d'oro
"Voglio fare i $" Entics Soundboy
"Blues" Fedez, Gué Pequeno Il mio primo disco da venduto
"Il mondo dei grandi" 2012 Emis Killa L'erba cattiva
"La prova vivente" Rapstar Non è gratis
"Rockstar" Luchè L1
"Dalle palazzine" 2013 Clementino, Noyz Narcos, Francesco Paura Mea Culpa
"Brivido" Gué Pequeno Bravo ragazzo
"Esercizio di stile" Jake La Furia, Gué Pequeno Musica commerciale
"Genesi" Corrado, Fred De Palma, Achille Lauro, Luchè, DJ Tayone Genesi
"Real Royal Street Rap" 2014 Achille Lauro Achille Idol immortale
"Dal centro all'hinterland" 2015 Clementino, Noyz Narcos Miracolo!
"Ora lo so" Achille Lauro Dio c'è
"XDVRMX" Sfera Ebbasta, Luchè XDVR Reloaded
"Relaxxx" 2017 Gué Pequeno Gentleman
"Modalità aereo" 2018 Gué Pequeno, Luchè Sinatra
"Pepita Bluemoon" Cor Veleno Lo spirito che suona
"Occh1 purpl3" 2019 Tha Supreme 23 6451
"Fiori" Gemitaiz, Madman, Gué Pequeno Scatola nera
"Street Advisor" Night Skinny, Noyz Narcos, Capo Plaza Mattoni
"Milano ovest" 2020 Shiva Routine
"Tardissimo" Gué Pequeno, Mahmood Mr. Fini
"Tik Tok" Sfera Ebbasta Famoso
"La chiave" 2021 Salmo Flop
"No Wallet" 2022 Paky Salvatore
"K.O." Gemitaiz, Coez Eclissi
"Noia" Fabri Fibra Caos
"Free Solo" Ghali Sensazioni ultra
"Free" 2023 Gué Pequeno Madreperla
"Il male che mi fai" Geolier Il coraggio dei bambini - Atto II
"Diluvio a luglio" Tedua La Divina Commedia

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