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Kid Yugi, pseudonym of Francesco Stasi (born April 14, 2001), is an Italian rapper.

Biography

Debut and The Globe

Born in Massafra and raised between Massafra and Bari, Stasi began rapping in his early teens, publishing his first official single as Kid Yugi, Grammelot, on Spotify in February 2022.

With the release of Grammelot he came to the attention of the Thaurus record label, with which he released various singles. A single named DEM was released in October 2022, in collaboration with rappers Tony Boy and Artie 5ive, that brought him more popularity.

In November 2022, his first album, The Globe, was released and it certified gold. It contains three songs certified gold, namely Grammelot, Il Filmografo and Il ferro di Čechov.

2023–present: Commercial success and I nomi del diavolo

On September 23, 2023, he opened the Marrageddon Festival by Marracash in Milan, with Grammelot, Paradiso artificiale and Sintetico, broadcast live by Amazon Music and Radio M2o. Around the same time, he was involved in Salmo and Noyz Narcos' collaborative album Cvlt, contributing to the omonym track.

In 2024, in January and February respectively, he released the singles Paganini and L'anticristo before the release, in March, of the second album I nomi del diavolo, which debuted directly at the top of the weekly FIMI Albums Chart and it received platinum certification, while also receaving positive feedback on television, with the Italian news program TG1 dedicating a short report to it. The album was also placed at the top of the Spotify Top Albums Debut Global chart, i.e. the chart of the most listened to new albums of the first days of March at a global level, excluding the USA. There is the participation of rappers Tony Boy, Artie 5ive, Tedua, Papa V, Noyz Narcos, Ernia, Simba La Rue, Geolier and Sfera Ebbasta and a sampling of the Taranto singer Fido Guido. I nomi del diavolo, like the previous The Globe, is a concept album, in this case inspired, among other references, by William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies.

On April 4, Kid Yugi was featured as a guest artist on producer Mace's third album, Māyā. He later also appeared on the albums Milano Angels by Shiva, Locura by Lazza and CONTAINERS by The Night Skinny.

Themes

Kid Yugi's rap is characterized by its references to theatre, cinema and literature. Frequent topics of his songs are the denunciation of the situation of Ilva in Taranto and the deaths it caused, love, guns and drug dealing.

Discography

Albums

• 2022 – The Globe
• 2024 – I nomi del diavolo

EPs

• 2023 – EP 5/3 (Real Talk)
• 2023 – Quarto di bue (with The Night Skinny)

Singles

• 2022 – Grammelot
• 2022 – Sturm und drang
• 2022 – Kabuki
• 2022 – King Lear (feat. Sosa Priority)
• 2022 – DEM (feat. Artie 5ive e Tony Boy)
• 2023 – Minaccia
• 2023 – Quarto di bue (with The Night Skinny)
• 2023 – Massafghanistan (with The Night Skinny)
• 2024 – Paganini
• 2024 – L'anticristo
• 2024 – Eva (feat. Tedua)
• 2024 – 64 barre da censura (Red Bull 64 Bars)
• 2024 – Donna

References

1. "Kid Yugi". Rapteratura (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-10-17.
2. ^ "Certificazioni - FIMI". www.fimi.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-10-17.
3. "Amazon Music, 'Marrageddon' in diretta su Twitch". musicbiz.rockol.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-10-17.
4. "Marrageddon, il live di Milano puoi ascoltarlo in diretta su m2o con Albertino e Wad". Radio m2o (in Italian). 2023-09-13. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
5. s.r.l, Rockol com. "√ CVLT (testo) di Salmo". Rockol (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-10-17.
6. "Classifiche WK 10 - FIMI". www.fimi.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-10-17.
7. Kid Yugi ed è uno dei talenti della nuova generazione rap. Retrieved 2024-10-17 – via www.facebook.com.
8. "'I nomi del diavolo' di Kid Yugi è primo nella classifica delle novità "global" di Spotify | Rolling Stone Italia" (in Italian). 2024-03-05. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
9. Crescenzo, Marco De (2024-02-29). "Recensione: KID YUGI - "I nomi del Diavolo"". Newsic.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-10-17.
10. "Kid Yugi e il gran ballo di Satana dentro l'Ilva di Taranto | Rolling Stone Italia" (in Italian). 2024-03-01. Retrieved 2024-10-17.

• 2001 births
• Living people
• Italian male rappers