Se l’hip hop vede la luce nella spontaneità delle feste casalinghe del Bronx, il primo disco, l’ingresso nel mondo commerciale, è tutt’altro che genuino. Una mera operazione discografica dell’etichetta Sugarhill Records, che assembla la Sugarhill Gang come si sarebbe fatto con gruppi pop alla Backstreet Boys. Il singolo è Rapper’s Delight, di una quindicina di minuti, l’anno il 1979…
“The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story”.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The apartment is in an 19th century building, recently restored, along one of the most elegant and fashionable streets of the city, famous for its clothes shops, the theatre and bars. It's the big avenue that marks the northern limit of the ancient neighborhood in Roma, the legendary Rione Monti, full of alleys, churches and small squares. New meeting point for young people, few steps away from the Colosseum. The possibility to live the two souls of Roma, so big and cozy, The Great Beauty ! :-)
