900 metri - Matteo Pelli feat.Bassi Maestro

What this video is

Released in October/November 2009, '900 Metri' is a rare Italian multimedia artifact: a hip-hop single conceived explicitly as the sonic companion to a literary work — Matteo Pelli's novel of the same name. Pelli was a prominent Italian-Swiss television presenter and novelist based in Lugano/Ticino, and his collaboration with Bassi Maestro — a Milan-based underground rap pioneer active since 1988 — bridged the…

Why it matters

Represents a significant cross-cultural node within Italian underground hip-hop: a Milano boom-bap veteran (Bassi Maestro) collaborating with a Ticino media personality (Matteo Pelli) on a track that doubles as literary soundtrack — a rare format in Italian rap history. Documents the geographic…