Marracash on the clashes in Milan after Fedez's words: "Never praised violence"

The world of Italian rap commented on social media about the clashes and riots that occurred over the weekend of 17 and 18 October 2026 in Milan and other Italian cities.

On October 19, 2026, Marracash opened the debate: "You don't change things with kindness."

On 20 October 2026, Fedez followed up the issue with a long reflection on the Pulp Podcast page, where he addressed the themes of social inequality, economic redemption and the relationship between the symbols of luxury and the anger of those who do not have access to them.

“I know well the typical parable of rap, which takes you from nothing to exhibiting status symbols,” he wrote.

"I know the frustration of an ugly house in the suburbs, of a job or a shitty school, of not being able to buy anything nice. I also know the adrenaline of when the money arrives. This is why the shop windows in the center of Milan are the perfect target: they represent the tangible symbol of everything that those kids are denied."

Then, without directly quoting Marracash's previous words, he continued: "I also see artists and public figures celebrating the protest, joining it as if they were part of it, without realizing that they are also displayed in those shop windows."

Subsequently, the rapper broadened his reflection to the role of the entertainment world.

"We are the ones who promote that idea of ​​success. We are the ones who go to the fashion shows, post the luxury watches, the trips and the clothes", he explained.

“Protesters are not Pokémon to be launched for their own gain to try to intercept new audiences.”

Finally, he concluded: "At the end of the day your favorite rapper will return to the front row of the Louis Vuitton fashion shows and you, on the other side of the window, won't even realize that it was him who fueled that class hatred, in part. It was us too."

Shortly afterwards, Marracash, without directly quoting Fedez, responded to the criticisms of those who had read his words as an incitement to violence. In a comment under the first post, he wrote: "To all those indignant under this post, I have always been saying these things, from the first songs. Change artist. Violence must be condemned but also when the police beat up students, when there are helmets without serial numbers, the criminal shield. For a generation with no future, studying for nothing, destroyed by psychotropic drugs, marginalized in front of a showcase of status symbols that they will never have and the mantra that you are what you have and that is nothing. There are many forms of violence."

He then wrote a second post: "A couple of things don't sit well with me. The first is that I have never praised violence. We all agree to condemn violence, every type of violence."

He continued: "But when this violence happens, we need to ask ourselves questions. What leads minors to put on hoods and risk being beaten or arrested in the centre? Even in the madness of the gesture, they are a symptom of something. Of a failure of our society for which we are ALL responsible."

He added: "A growing resentment is maturing in everyone, a rejection, an unsustainability of life in this country and beyond. For now it concerns the weaker and marginalized classes, the suburbs and the second generations, but it is also growing in the middle class which is demonstrating peacefully".

Marracash had also rejected "the rhetoric of 'you have money, you can't talk'", because "having made money does not erase more than half of my life and above all does not prevent me from fighting for a fairer and more just world for everyone, nor from fighting for this".

Other rappers also weighed in on the debate. Specifically, Sayf (who together with Gué and Artie 5ive liked Marracash's post) expressed positions close to those of the Barona rapper.

“They tell us that the problem is violent demonstrations, but who is taking away people's right to a dignified future?”, he reflected.

"The violence of a few thus becomes the pretext to delegitimize the reasons of many and while we point the finger at the clashes we stop talking about the reasons that bring people to the streets. We forget the violence of a system that puts profit above the life and dignity of people, because the problem is not the division between right and left, but that between those above and those below and we are all on the same side: that of those below".

For colleague Nayt, then, "this domesticated society loves harmlessness, research and finds in everything it feeds on, and each individual cannot see more than a meter away from himself. But since we live together in this world, at a certain point, if you don't see the other, the other will come into your house to be seen. All this fake material well-being has made even the poorest bourgeois. Poor people and poor people".

Again, Luché published his song Se non c'è la rage in an Instagram Story and the words "I don't want union / I want division / I fight with those who have / My same mission".

Willie Peyote also took a stand during the concert at the Fabrique in Milan: "These days we hear a lot about the phrase "violence must always be condemned". All political parties competed to see who would say it first. I'm sure that some of you also think that violence must always be condemned. I understand it, but I don't agree, because violence must always be condemned, but we live in a very violent system. A system that is evicting us from our homes. We can't afford rent. afford us a full tank of petrol. Salaries have been stagnant for 30 years. Someone talks about rearmament, someone talks about sending them to the front."

He continued: "But above all, the people who are delegitimizing the protests of these days by talking only about violence are those who use violence as a stylistic feature, as a political program. They are people who talk about remigration, about removing the crime of femicide, who think that there are second-class Italians, who deny climate change and who, faced with 70,000 deaths in Gaza, turn the other way. But they are the same people who wanted a pardon for Mario Roggero, for legitimate defense. But when you see the abuses of power on the streets of the city, you think of shop windows, of things. The problem is that when it hurts us most, when violence on things scares us more than on people, that's where we lose. That's where the system wins and impoverishes us the most.

Finally, Nerone spoke: "Millions of people throughout Italy are protesting peacefully to try to make these money-eating scumbags heard. At the same time but not together with them, 400 underage clowns with sharks and holes in their brains have smashed up shops and cars like the worst of beasts. This rubbish has been exploited in favor of those who continue to pull the wool over poor people's eyes. People without answers who can't wait to have another problem they can't solve. Nobody knows how to solve a problem here. At least I don't make any promises."

From the Rome Film Festival, on the sidelines of the screening of the film At Sea by Alessandra Cutolo, Ghali expressed his opinion: "Let's think about those who are demonstrating peacefully because that's what counts. Those who are using violence and those who are taking to the streets to demonstrate for their rights at this moment are two very distinct things. Let's not get too distracted."

On the issues of social inequalities and rights, he underlined that young people have been "looking for answers for a while now, we must listen to them". In fact, it is "a real problem that affects our entire country". The artist also said he was "happy that people are taking to the streets to demonstrate their rights and seek answers, because what we are experiencing today in this country is not just a problem for young people but also for adults, and covers many sectors".

In an interview with the newspaper La Repubblica, the Turin rapper Frankie hi-nrg mc also commented on the positions taken by his colleagues. On Marracash's words, he said: ""You don't change things with good things" is a simplification that lends itself to exploitation, as has happened. I read it differently: in the streets there are hundreds of thousands of motivated people, who can't stand this life anymore. We must be careful to repress them further or, worse, ignore them, because the level of conflict could rise. They must be taken seriously".

The artist then highlighted the premise of Fedez's speech: ""Be wary of the rich". It is a dynamic as old as the world: that of the baron who claims to explain to the poor how to make a revolution. We are wary. And Fedez, allow me, is filling precisely that role: we are wary of him too".

He then highlighted what he believes to be the core of the problem: "The privatization of everything, the increase in the cost of living and, for kids, the lack of prospects. This is the first generation to grow up in a worse economic situation than their parents", and which he defined as "disappointed", "frustrated", "angry". Violence - which I do not justify, but whose causes must be understood - is only a marginal part of the discussion. The protests unite parents and children, while the looting - used more to discredit the majority of demonstrators than anything else - is a different reaction to the enormous inequalities accumulated in recent years."

On the possible role of rap in inciting violence, he specified: "Those who support it, as well as those who say that rap talks about nothing, are listening to the wrong one" because, simply, "art, rap in particular, has the task of highlighting the gray areas of reality". In fact, “the problem is not rap, but society itself. A reality based entirely on numbers, in which a person's worth is measured by what they own, inevitably leads to this. Music is a consequence of it, not the cause."