Behind the beats, the sound and the rap bars – the unit of measurement of a verse – there is a talented twenty-four-year-old who navigates through emotions. Sgribaz, aka Lorenzo Calderone, a rapper from Cagliari, has built his musical path between dreams, obstacles and an expressive urgency without reticence.
After a two-year wait, Friday, February 7th, Emotional Kid , the new EP by Warner Music, will be released. Produced by his blood brother Enomoney, at first listen it is not just a tracklist, but a manifesto, an answer to the existential question: “What will I be?”. At twenty-five, these questions are a spark of maturity and introspection that not everyone has.
Lorenzo is aware of being, as a man and an artist, in progress : «My music evolves every day. I worked on the general message of the EP and I think it is a presentation of mine that comes very close to the idea», he says.
00Adolescenza (2020) was his first “spontaneous, unfiltered mixtape”, where the urgency to communicate outweighed the search for the perfect sound. In Cosa Saremo (2022) he began to question who he was and what he wanted to become. Today comes an answer: a more structured, but always dynamic, identity.
Emotional Kid, because Lorenzo feels "sensitive but not weak". Music dresses the person, as young as he is full of reflections, starting from the first autobiographical track Lorenzo . A life of emotions and events, to understand and overcome, not without wounds.
A nine-piece EP, a puzzle of a story, featuring artists such as Disme, 22simba, Praci, Luchetto and Quentin40: « It doesn't have everything of me, but it has a lot of me, starting from a sound that identifies me». The common thread? An emotional journey to search for the light through moments of darkness. In the first bar of Mood // Luna he sings 'Uscito dal buio, ora sono outside': «I've been through difficult times, bad times, and music is the path to return to the light». A journey of life and art, with a vivid representation: «The road between Cagliari and Villasimius, the sun and the darkness of the tunnels. The signs have been redone throughout the town. But the paint has also run out where the road surface is ruined».
