Terrible 17 / Sick Budd – Narco Blues

Lousy 17 and Sick Budd tell us about the album “Narco Blues”

from a lyrical and beats perspective in our new Aelle Beats & Barre format that aims to delve into the best rap records directly with the protagonists. If you haven't listened to “Narco Blues” yet, you are missing out on the album that raised, and by a lot, the bar for storytelling in Italian rap. It is not an easy listen, it is a knife that penetrates you inside, dark, claustrophobic, Lousy 17 is a disillusioned storyteller with the “last ones” as protagonists, he writes bars that carve raw images. Sick Budd, the producer, has created a tension-filled minimalist sound fabric that balances classic and current sounds. Our advice is to give the album a first listen, come back and hear Pessimo and Sick Budd's narrative, and then listen again to better grasp it all. Either way if you love rap, “Narco Blues” should be a must listen, light years away from the clones that populate the Italian “rap” scene.