Persona (Marracash album)

Persona is a studio album by Italian rapper Marracash, released on 31 October 2019 by Island Records and Universal Music Italia.^[2] The album originally consisted of 15 tracks. The song "Neon – Le ali", written and performed with Italian singer Elisa, was also composed for the album, but it was not completed on time. Despite not being included on Persona, the track was released as a single in March 2020, and added to the track listing of Persona's streaming version.^[3]

Persona
Studio album by Marracash
Released	31 October 2019
Genre	Alternative hip hop conscious hip hop^[1]
Label	Island Records Universal Music Italia
Producer	Marz Low Kidd TY1 Zef Dardust Charlie Charles Demo Casanova Rashaad Wiggins Big Fish Takagi & Ketra
Marracash chronology
Santeria (2016) Persona (2019) Noi, loro, gli altri (2021)

Praised by Italian music critics, the album placed at number one on Rolling Stone Italia's list of the Best Albums of 2019. It also became a commercial success, spending six non-consecutive weeks atop the FIMI Italian Albums Chart.^[4] After placing at number five on the Italian year-end albums chart of 2019, it also became the top-selling record of 2020 in Italy.^[5] As of January 2021, all its 15 original tracks, as well as "Neon - Le ali", were certified platinum in Italy, while the album was certified quadruple platinum by the Federation of the Italian Music Industry, denoting 200,000 equivalent album units.^[5]

Critical reception

Persona was very well received by several Italian music critics. Rockol.it gave the album a rating of 8 out of 10, highlighting Marracash' ability to describe his personal crisis while keeping himself far away from rap clichés, and praising the production's cohesion with lyrical content, as well as featured artists' connection with the view expressed by Marracash in its album.^[6] Federico Traversa described it as "one of the best rap albums of the last ten years", applauding its cultural depth.^[7]

Writing for the Italian version of GQ, Giuditta Avellina considered the album as a proof of Marracash still being "the King of Rap" in Italy.^[8] Ernesto Assante placed Persona among the 15 best Italian albums of 2019 on la Repubblica, describing it as "a perfect album, rap, hip hop, electronic music, sharp word and love lyrics".^[9] According to Rolling Stone Italia, it was the best Italian album of the year, with Marta Blumi Tripodi writing that "Persona was able to get everyone to agree and, most of all, to touch and emotionally involve everyone".^[10]

Track listing

Original tracklist^[11]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Body Parts - I denti"	Fabio Rizzo Alessandro Pulga Lorenzo Paolo Spinosa	Marz Low Kidd	2:36
2.	"Qualcosa in cui credere - Lo scheletro" (featuring Gué Pequeno)	Rizzo Pulga Cosimo Fini	Marz	3:32
3.	"Quelli che non pensano - Il cervello" (featuring Coez)	Rizzo Silvano Albanese Giulia Puzzo Sebastiano Ruocco Francesco Di Gesù Davide Petrella Gianluca Cranco	TY1	3:10
4.	"Appartengo - Il sangue" (featuring Massimo Pericolo)	Rizzo Pulga Alessandro Vanetti	Marz	4:15
5.	"Poco di buono - Il fegato"	Rizzo Pulga	Marz	3:05
6.	"Bravi a cadere - I polmoni"	Rizzo Pulga Lorenzo Urciullo Luca Serpenti Antonio Di Matino Davide Petrella Stefano Tognini	Zef Marz	3:20
7.	"Non sono Marra - La pelle" (featuring Mahmood)	Rizzo Alessandro Mahmoud Giampaolo Parisi Dario Faini Cranco	TY1 Dardust	3:08
8.	"Supreme - L'ego" (featuring Tha Supreme and Sfera Ebbasta)	Rizzo Pulga Davide Mattei Gionata Boschetti Paolo Alberto Monachetti	Marz Charlie Charles	3:43
9.	"Sport - I muscoli" (featuring Luchè)	Rizzo Luca Imprudente Demo Casanova Spinosa Rashaad Wiggins	Low Kidd Demo Casanova Rashaad Wiggins	3:22
10.	"Da buttare - Il ca**o"	Rizzo Spinosa	Low Kidd	3:24
11.	"Crudelia - I nervi"	Rizzo Pulga Tognini	Marz Zef	3:50
12.	"G.O.A.T - Il cuore"	Rizzo Massimiliano Dagani	Big Fish	3:30
13.	"Madame - L'anima" (featuring Madame)	Rizzo Pulga Francesca Calearo	Marz	3:41
14.	"Tutto questo niente - Gli occhi"	Rizzo Pulga	Marz	3:30
15.	"Greta Thunberg - Lo stomaco" (featuring Cosmo)	Rizzo Pulga Marco Jacopo Bianchi	Marz	2:46

Streaming additional tracks^[12]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
16.	"Sport + Muscoli" (Remix version featuring Luché, Lazza, Paki and Taxi B)	Rizzo Castellon Davide Lazzarini Spinosa Imprudente Michele Ballabene Vincenzo Mattera	Low Kidd Demo Casanova Rashaad Wiggins	4:46
17.	"Neon – Le ali" (featuring Elisa)	Rizzo Elisa Toffoli Alessandro Merli Fabio Clemente Petrella	Takagi & Ketra Marz

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2019)	Peak position
Italian Albums (FIMI)^[4]	1
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)^[13]	48

Year-end charts

Chart (2019)	Position
Italian Albums (FIMI)^[14]	5
Chart (2020)	Position
Italian Albums (FIMI)^[15]	1
Chart (2021)	Position
Italian Albums (FIMI)^[16]	17
Chart (2023)	Position
Italian Albums (FIMI)^[17]	18

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Italy (FIMI)^[18]	7× Platinum	350,000^‡
^‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

1. Carlotta Fiandaca (31 October 2019). "Marracash − Recensione − Persona (Rap, Hip-Hop, Trap)" (in Italian). Rockit.it. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
2. "Marracash, esce il 31 ottobre il nuovo lp Persona". Il Messaggero (in Italian). 15 October 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
3. Giulia Ciavarelli (6 March 2020). "Marracash: Neon – Le ali è il nuovo singolo con Elisa". TV Sorrisi e Canzoni (in Italian).
4. "Italiancharts.com – Marracash – Persona". Hung Medien. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
5. "Marracash: Persona è il disco più venduto del 2020 con un bottino di 16 dischi di platino e 7 oro" (in Italian). AllMusicItalia.it. 8 January 2021. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
6. Claudio Cabona (31 October 2019). "Marracash vince perché combatte ancora contro se stesso" (in Italian). Rockol.it. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
7. "Marracash Persona: Recensione di uno dei migliori dischi rap degli ultimi 10 anni" (in Italian). AllMusicItalia.it.
8. Giuditta Avellina (9 November 2019). "Marracash in Persona, il nuovo album è una bomba". GQ (in Italian). Retrieved 9 January 2021.
9. Ernesto Assante (31 December 2019). "I migliori 15 dischi italiani del 2019, da Capossela a Coez". la Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 9 January 2021.
10. Alessandro Zaghi, Andrea Coclite, Claudio Tedesco, Edoardo Vitale, Filippo Ferrari, Giorgio Moltisanti, Luigi Costanzo, Marta Blumi Tripodi, Mattia Barro, Michele Bisceglia. "I 20 migliori dischi italiani del 2019". Rolling Stone (in Italian).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
11. "Marracash. Svelata la tracklist e i produttori del nuovo album, Persona" (in Italian). AllMusicItalia.it. 30 October 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
12. "Persona − Marracash". Apple.com. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
13. "Swisscharts.com – Marracash – Persona". Hung Medien. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
14. (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Archived from the original on 11 January 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
15. "Persona di Marracash è l'album più venduto del 2020" (in Italian). Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata. 7 January 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
16. "Classifica annuale 2021" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
17. "Classifica annuale 2023 (dal 30.12.2022 al 28.12.2023)" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
18. "Italian album certifications – Marracash – Persona" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Retrieved 27 March 2023. Select "2023" in the "Anno" drop-down menu. Select "Persona" in the "Filtra" field. Select "Album e Compilation" under "Sezione".