“WTR #NEWRAPBATTLE” – It is the final hours of excitement for rappers and their fans: everything is ready for tomorrow, Wednesday 13 April, 22:00, at the Hard Rock Cafe in Florence, where a highly anticipated television contest for rappers will take place, thanks to the collaboration of Casalpiano Studios Association of Alberto Gerli, Giulia Fantozzi and Ian Cecil Scott, creators and managers of the project.
After the online selection of 16 participants, all of whom faced each other in 3 rounds — freestyle, free theme and chosen theme — in front of the jury composed of the promoters of the contest, the time has come to decide the winner, who will also get the chance to produce an EP distributed online by Casalpiano Studios in 240 countries around the world.
The semi-final on 8 April last brought Sandro Paoli, aka Drega, Balda, whose alias is Andrea Baldaccini, and Edoardo Benevides Costa — rapping under the pseudonym of Reizon — to the stage of the Florentine Cafe, as well as Master G, the stage name of Gabriele Scarciello. The four finalists will perform well-known rhythmic puns, both thematic and improvised, to express their feelings, some using a beatbox base. These talented musicians have the incredible ability to reproduce all the sounds of instruments such as drums, percussion and many others through the use of only the mouth and voice.
On the jury Tommaso Dettori, Florence Marketing Coordinator of Hard Rock Cafe Florence, Laura Colistra and Ylenia Cancelli, journalists of the Beakoff web portal.