Every rap artist self-respecting, before breaking into this world, must go through a mess tin. A kind of unwritten law, which the emerging they accept to do experience, shape one’s style and train in the writing is in the freestyle, two fundamental elements for this musical genre.
It is the case of Not Good, preudonym of Jari Melia. Let’s find out who is the new star of the rap music scene, which has started to shine even coming to collaborate with others big names of Italian rap.
Who is Not Good: from the “wall” to Emis Killa
Not Good, at the registry office Jari Melia, born in 1997. He is passionate about rap from a very young age and begins to move i first steps in this particular world in the 2012, just 15 years, a period in which he begins to frequent the symbolic place of the Milanese rap scene known by fans of this culture as “the Wall”.
The historic meeting point in San Babila square, already active in the 1980s, had seen names like Dj Enzo, J-Ax, Dargen D’amico and the former component of the Club Dogo, Gue Pequeno before they began to build their respective musical careers away from the place that formed them.
The beginnings in rap music
Like many other artists before him therefore, Not Good also follows the same path that will then lead him to be increasingly known to the niche public.
He starts first by participating in various groups with other rappers and then detaches from them and undertakes one career from soloist.
Up to that moment it was possible to hear his own first tracks from independent artist only on YouTube where Not Good had its own space to make itself known through its music and thus starting to build a fanbase.
The debut of Not Good
To consolidate his path in the Italian rap music scene known to a much wider audience is the meeting with the rapper Emis Killa. In 2020 in fact, Not Good participates in the creation of the deluxe edition of “17 “, album by Emis Killa in cooperation with Jake The Fury, another piece by Club Dogo, together with Gue Pequeno. In fact, we find the voice of the young talent in the remix “The seed of evil”.
The success obtained allows him, immediately after the collaboration with Emis Killa, to launch his own first official single titled “A few G”.
The young career
In 2020 Not Good’s career, albeit still very young, seems to have started. After the important collaboration that consecrated him to success and his first single, the young rapper is ready to go out with another musical effort together with Monster, in the registry office Giorgio Ferrario.
The two, in the studio, unite their own stories and their own experiences for the birth of “Killer”, which through the metaphor of the murderer (killer, in fact) tells the discomfort of relate to the world and the repressed anger that follows. The piece with dark sounds and sharp phrases is made unique by the detail marriage of styles of the two artists.