THE BOX MEDLEY 10

The pulse of the city is translated into bass: a hot sound from the slums, where fashion coexists with danger, and pathos with everyday harshness. The space sounds like a carnival in disguise - Gucci next to an automatic weapon, new trainers and the old habit of hiding the truth under a loud chorus. Words are like marks on the skin: boasting, mourning for the lost, threats that sound almost like irony about one's own courage.

Here, celebration and anxiety live side by side and play off each other: the rhythm calls you to dance, while the lyrics remind you that behind the scenes there is always a roof of concrete and scars. All this cabaret brutality reads like a report on survival, packaged in a hit ‘come on, one more time’ - warmth and jokes that try to drown out the cold reckoning. It is especially touching - and frightening at the same time - how self-confidence turns into a mask that will inevitably be taken off at dawn.