Rap meets literature, from Russian to British, straddling the representations of evil and good, in the music and words of Kid Yugi, who amazes and takes inspiration from Golding and Bulgakov for the new album, The Names of the Devil .
The work in question comes out on March 1st and has already sold 10,000 copies in physical formats.
"The idea of the project - said Kid Yugi, born Francesco Stasi - was to represent in a personal way all the manifestations of what is mysterious and evil, even in today's world, from Ilva to the concept of the southerner expressed as a challenge".
The album, a concept, arrives after the success of the previous The Globe.
Now surprisingly also the collaboration with Sfera Ebbasta on the album.
Inspired by works such as Lord of the Flies, Kid Yugi explores the theme of evil and its manifestation in the most diverse forms, even bizarre and extravagant, to shuffle and upset the cards on society's game table.
With him, for a long series of featuring, also Tedua, Ernia, Noyz Narcos, Geolier, Simba la Rue, Papa V, Tony Boy and Arie 5ive.
"It was not my intention to use the canonical names of evil - explained Kid Yugi - nor to make an encyclopedia. There are some canonical names, from Lord of the Flies to Lucifer, but I tried to make the story as personal as possible".
Fourteen, in total, are the tracks in the setlist, in which evil takes the most disparate forms and mixes with good.
Because, if you look closely, "what would your good do if evil didn't exist? And how would the earth appear if its shadows disappeared", wrote Bulgakov in the work that inspired Kid Yugi's album.
"It's an album in which there is a lot of me - explained the rapper - but the references to literature, like the cinematographic ones, remain because they are my fuel which I think will never run out. These are the beacons for my inspiration" .
That of a journey that starts from 'Antichrist' and reaches 'Lucifer', passing through the rhymes of 'Eva', Denaro' and also 'Ilva', the latter a representation of an evil seen by the rapper from Massafra, province of Taranto.
The cover is a tribute to Mikhail Bulgakov's famous work The Master and Margarita and refers to the scene of Satan's dance.
"In Russian literature - explained Kid Yugi - I have always found an essence of solemnity and such a refined way of representing human psychology that I immediately fell in love with it. The Master and Margarita is a masterpiece in its anti-authoritarian and anti-dictatorial. In this novel, I was greatly inspired by the feeling of revenge and hope of being able to subvert even a rotten system."
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