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Clemente Maccaro is proficient in freestyle in both Italian and Napulitan. After a successful solo career, Clementino joined forces with Fabri Fibra to form Rapstars, a partnership between mainstream and underground hip hop. Clementino has collaborated with numerous Napulitan artists. He recently collaborated with Foja to produce a song called Santa Lucia on Foja's latest album Miracoli & Rivoluzioni. Clementino even had a show on MTV called MTV Spit where he would face off with other rappers in freestyle challenges. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkroIK_KRqc

The inspiration for this song was a famous Pakistani song by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan called 'Mustt Mustt'. Merolla has drawn inspiration from other cultures, particularly from the southern hemisphere. His 2008 album 'Kokoro', in which he experimented with tribal rhythms, won a Lunezia Prize in the category of ethnic music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltkpFxKLE2s

This is La Maschera's latest single, and it's fantastic as always. For more info on the band, check World Beat's article on La Maschera. Like's Napoli's colaboration between Napoli-born Lorenzo Insigne and Senegal-born Kalidou Koulibaly, Napulitan band La Maschera collaborated with Senegalese musician Laye Ba with the song Te vengo a cercà. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqSWBeniDU0

The album (by the same name) is a collaboration between Dario Sansone of @FojaOfficial and Claudio Domestico (aka Gnut - @ClaudioGnut). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BShgOKlyaU

This song, performed by Paolo Maccaro and Marco Cassese, is probably TheRivati's most popular song.A few months after the original video was published, a rap version in collaboration with Clementino, was published and really took off.During the pandemic, TheRivati released two volumes of a Napulitan folk blues album, and it is just that: that same folk blue sound with the harmonica and all, just with Napulitan lyrics.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usaYsz0oxTQ

According to their website, "The key idea [of 'O Rom's music] is to blend traditional Neapolitan and Southern Italian music with Balkan music and traditional Romani and Gypsy music. Shukar Drom is featured on the soundtrack of Silvia Brunelli's La Santa Piccola, which was nominated for the Queer Lion Award at the 2021 Venice International Film Festival. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whtdz1KHMKw

Antonio Prestieri (professionally known as Maldestro) is both a playwright and a musician.  This song is from his second studio album 'I muri di Berlino'.Maldestro's second album 'Non trovo le parole' won second prize for Best Debut Album at the prestigious Targa Tenco awards.Maldestro's single 'Canzone per Federica' has won numerous awards, including finishing second amongst newcomers at the Sanremo Music Festival.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA6EcDzLEgY

According to Italian World Beat, "His music is a sort of odd ethnic cartoon, a concrete manga, a melody suspended between Vesuvius and Brazil. The rhythms of bossa nova and samba slip between Neapolitan dark alleys and sunny waterfronts".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz5WRKPE0is

Gragnaniello, who was born in the Quartieri Spagnoli, has been making music for a very long time. He starting playing guitar when he was 12 and the first band he formed was called Banchi Nuovi, which was named after the Committee of unemployed people to which he belonged.Gragnaniello is famous in his own right, but some of his best songs are ones that he wrote for others, like Cu’umme, which was recorded by Roberto Murolo and Mia Martini.The multi-talented Gragnaniello is also a composer of musical scores, plays and films. He has also composed songs for some pretty heavy hitters,…

The opening scene of the video is a tribute to Jorit’s painting of Sibilla Cumana. Andrea Tartaglia is a wildly talented artist.  In 2016 he collaborated with Daniele Sepe to produce Le Range Fellon.  For Tartaglia, le range fellon is “a small member of nature who shows his point of view on the mistreatment we reserve for nature.”In 2022, Tartaglia and Sepe released an updated, post-covid reggae version of the song entitled “Il Ritorno de Le Range Fellon.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tw4Wx2ksMQ