Fenomeno (album)

Fenomeno is the ninth studio album by the Italian rapper Fabri Fibra. It was released on 7 April 2017 by Universal Music Group.

The album peaked at number one on the Italian Albums Chart, becoming the rapper fourth record project to achieve it. It was certified double platiunum by FIMI. It was promoted by three singles: "Fenomeno", "Pamplona" and "Stavo pensando a te".

Background and composition
After the unpromoted and surprise release of Squallor (2015), the rapper started to work on his ninth studio album. The album has severals producers and songwriters, includind Takagi & Ketra, Bassi Maestro, Club Dogo, Davide Petrella, Dario Faini, Theron Feemster and Snipe Young. The project featured less guest asrtists than his previus record project, collaborating with Thegiornalisti, Laioung and Italian writer and journalist Roberto Saviano.

The tracks deal with themes concerning the rapper's childhood, youth unemployment in italy, the change of the hip-hop and trap genre in Italy, as well as several debates with his brother Nesli and ironises Fedez's commercial rap.

Critics reception
Michele Boroni of Rockol described the album as an affirmation of "the primal success of rap in Italy as redemption for those who thought it was done". Although thematically similar to previous productions, the critic noted that "the complexity of certain convoluted, double-triple-meaning rhymes make way for drier stanzas" while the sounds are set on "much softer instrumental foundations".

Michele Monina of Il Fatto Quotidiano wrote that Fenomeno is "as far from the hostile Squallor as its logical consequence", who is composed of "straighter, lighter bases, over which Fibra does Fibra, with his highly recognisable flow" and "it is as cutting as perhaps ever, by virtue of a maturity, even of age".

Personnel
Performers Producers
 * Fabri Fibra
 * Thegiornalisti – track 6
 * Roberto Saviano – track 8
 * Laïoung – track 12
 * Neff-U – track 2
 * Takagi & Ketra – track 3
 * Big Fish – tracks 4 and 10
 * Alessandro Erba – track 4
 * Amadeus – track 7
 * Bassi Maestro – tracks 5 and 8
 * Mace – track 6
 * Demacio "Demo" Castellon, Mike Turco – track 9
 * Rhade – track 10
 * Shablo – track 11
 * Nebbia – track 12
 * Deleterio – track 13
 * 2nd Roof – track 14
 * Don Joe, Yung Snapp – track 15
 * Rey Reel – track 16
 * Bot – track 17