Rondodasosa on Creating Italian Drill, Getting Banned by Police, Becoming a Crip & More

Published April 5, 2024, 12:02 a.m. by Arrik Motley

rondodasosa was in LA and made a quick stop to talk about his rise, making drill big in Europe, working with US and UK artists, how he became a crip and more. https://www.instagram.com/rondodasosa/

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0:00 Intro

0:00 Adam on DMing Rondo when he was in Florence for his wedding. Rondo speaks on growing up in Milan, growing up in the Trenches of San Siro

3:00 Mostly grew up on Eminem and 50 Cent

3:40 Relationship with his father, leading the new wave of rappers in Italy, and if he listened to any Italian rappers growing up

5:30 Rondo on being influenced by Chief Keef and Chicago drill music. Adam asks Rondo where we got his name from, and getting arrested when he was younger

8:36 Adam ask if there is a dr*g problem in Italy, and Rondo says it’s hard for the youth of Italy to make money and get jobs

10:42 Rondo speaking on how fast his songs blew up. Rondo says the audience only enjoys an artist when they are struggling and hate on them when they get some money and fame.

13:55 Rondo on how he met with Central Cee in the UK. Rondo speaks on people copying his style. Rondo talks about learning English on his own after dropping out of school

17:30 Rondo says he wants to be the first Italian rapper to make it in America, and people always bringing up stereotypes about Italians and like the mafia and pasta.

21:25 Rondo says the New York pizza was trash, and Adam argues pizza in America is way better

22:38 Rondo on being on the Body Remix with Tion Wayne. Rondo explains what the spaghetti mafia is, and wanting to open up a spaghetti mafia store.

25:04 rondodasosa explains the “dasosa” from his name, not being able to perform in his city coz of his lyrics, and beef with other artist in the scene

28:53 Adam asks Rondo about his relationship with the police, Rondo on why he started representing Crip

32:15 Rondo speaks about how he knows Big U, checking in when going to different parts of the world. Rondo on meeting 60s from LA.

34:30 Adam is impressed with Rondos jewelry and he explains what they all mean

37:00 Rondo explains Italian slang terms to Adam, and wants him to meet Crip Mac. 41:00 Rondo hits Adam with a “Deez Nutz” joke.

41:19 Adam asks Rondo if there are a lot of illegal g__s and kn*ves in Italy. Adam and Rondo agree that getting st___ed is worse