Riocontra, the art of speaking "backwards"

Say to your grandmother the poison will break it down.

incomprehensible or completely meaningless, you surely won't know what Riocontra is. Yes
It is a very particular jargon (let's say jágorge) born with the purpose of its speakers.
passionate about not letting others understand.
The Riocontra essentially consists of a variation of Italian obtained by applying to
Italian words - both common and slang - have different rules of variation based on inversion of
"syllable" (definition from "Treccani"). According to these very basic criteria, the word "drema"
it will correspond to 'mother' while the counterpart of 'good' will be however
it will be precisely the meaning of 'opposite'. Jargon does not have strict rules, but principles.
general principles that dominate its use and are mainly based on its aesthetics
sound, because the Riocontra must sound good, if it sounds like didarmenon it's not the Riocontra.

Where, who and how to speak. The story of the Riocontra

Most of the Riocontra speakers are located in Milan, especially in the Lambrate district.
In general, about 10 thousand people would understand the riocontra (passive competence), while only
1000 of these would also be able to speak it (active competence).
In fact, outbreaks of very similar dialects have been reported in other areas of Italy and the world.
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Riocontra is inspired by the French reality of Verlan /veʀ 'lɑ / (which ̃
means backwards /a lɑ 'vɛʀ /,
or "on the contrary"), but there is also the reverse of the suburbs of Buenos Aires. In Italy there are
instead less developed varieties, with slightly different rules from those of the Riocontra, such as the
Epic trancorioche of the Brescian area.

The Riocontra defines itself as a 'low tongue' ("lingua dal basso"), predominantly spoken by those who
He knows and above all lives on the road. They will be able to speak to both groups of children.
it rains ('old people'), all regulars of the arena ('notes') and some unsuspecting ones, but certainly
You won't hear it in the mouth of a cop ('poliziot') or a priest ('pret'). For this reason as well, more
that from standard Italian, the Riocontra picks the words to transform from the jargon of the neighborhoods, too
to be able to safeguard the 'roughness' of his speech.

The Riocontra language developed in the 1970s, in the social fabrics of small groups of 'paninari', to
they became famous thanks to Mauro di Francesco (Jena) and Diego Abatantuono (Domingo) in the film of
1983 "The Ras of the Quarter". In thescene dedicated to the RiocontraJena addresses Domingo speaking
dinogra (the "grain", that is, the money) asking in the end Tocapi? ("Got it?"). Domingo seems
to understand on the fly, responding 'That is, the other way around, practically', so Jena gives further demonstration
from Riocontra with a series of examples: 'Train becomes three. House, take out. Five, five.'
adding that "It's a way of speaking without being understood, you know. It's a jargon, a slang." Domingo,
Now intrigued, he tries to grapple with some isolated words, also coming
nicely questioned by the friend. This is the dialogue:
D: I mean, an interesting scheme. If you wanted to say dad, you say bobolo.

J: Eh no, no; no no. Only the determined words to shuffle the cards.
D: Map, third.
J:Vobra.
D: So then, child, they say bambi.
J: Yes.
D: Girl?
J:Nabambi. What does it mean?

D:Gasfi.
J: Of course. See that when you want to, you understand.

In the end, Domingo also tries to formulate a short sentence in Riocontra but, being still a
dilettante, makes a small mistake: For example, since I don't have the money to give you, I must ...
said ionon ho i dilso da dirta. Clearly, Domingo should not have said that anymore.
exactly applying a rule of metathesis that we will explore later.
The dialogue between Jena and Domingo was not the only cinematic appearance of the Riocontra. In
same year, in "Sapore di mare", there is a character known as "ilDogui" (Guido,
the archetype of the Milanese gentleman), who loves to have himself recognized by inverting the syllables of words.
However, despite the fleeting appearances before a national audience, the Riocontra remains
In the following years, a niche reality. Destined for extinction, the jargon, however, experiences a new
spring in the 2000s, this time in music and which we will address in the second part of the
our research. We first describe the fundamental characteristics of the Riocontra from a perspective
linguistco, observing the different levels of active competence.
Lotranqui, Riose, Feprossiolena. The three levels of Riocontra.
The Di Nobru brothers (Alfredo and Giovanni Di Bruno), great lovers of the Riocontra, wanted to
indicate the three speakers of Riocontra, each with a different level of competence.
1. At the first level we find ilLotranqui, "The tranquil." He knows only fifty words of
vocabulary diseba, almost all bisyllabic, and would not be able to formulate sentences of
complete sense;
The fifty words of the dictionary say: chiove ("elderly"), foba ("mustachioed"), gafi ("beautiful")
woman
(“cane”),saca(“casa”),(a) soca(“a caso”),labe(“bella”, “ciao”),gosu(“condimento”),gadro
(“droga”),tofa(“fato”, “drogato”), trofil (“filtro”),tefra(“fratello”),toga(“gato”),togela
gelato
very much
dick
history
semen
tragedy
 2. At a already defined level the Riose, 'The serious'. Can apply the main rules,
knows all methods of structuring words and therefore I say of rewriting Riocontra. I
Rivers can recognize each other and represent the true leisure of the dastra ('aunts of the street');
3. At a third level, a level called 'crazy', we have the 'professional'.
Attempt the impossible challenge of reversing tetrasyllabic words, applying
very complex rules. It can amuse its way of speaking, but it runs the risk of
exaggerate and make oneself a bit ridiculous.

The basic pronunciation. How to become a pro.

The inversion of the Riocontra does not change the pronunciation of the individual syllables and sounds, as happens
instead in French Verlan.
The easiest way to counteract words is to use 'the Cesempli method', to be adopted for
two-syllable words (“short”) and three-syllable words (“medium”). Short words simply require
the inversion of the syllables: "dog" –neca, "fool" –mosce, "disgust" –foschi, "slut" –iatro.
average words, using the Cesempli method, are instead created by shifting the last syllable
at the beginning while the first two form a single block: "kissing" - rebacia, "pleasure" - repiace,
sweep - broom.
As you will observe, all examples did not present double consonants, as these
they deserve a separate discussion. The Riocontra, normally, has no doubles: "old" - it rains,
"sbirro" - rosbi, "babbo" - boba. In some cases, however, the double can also be maintained at the beginning
dick
Another question that was discussed at length concerned the expression of gender ('masculine' and
"feminine") and number ("singular" and "plural") in Riocontra.
In the transition from language to slang, some words lose the distinction of gender with just
realization of the masculine that also applies to the feminine. It happens indeed: the Topela – the Topela
(“pelato/a”), ilboba– laboba(“babbo/a”), ilRosbi– laRosbi(“sbirro/a”), ilFepro– laFepro
("professor/a"), loZopa– laZopa("crazy"), ilChiove– laChiove("old"). In other cases, it
keep instead the declension of names between masculine and feminine, as in: ilPot – laPat
tpo/a
("son/daughter"), the janitor – the female janitor ("the janitor" – "the female janitor").

In Riocontra, singular and plural tend to become confused and almost always resist like
the unique form is the singular: ilTopela – iTopela (“peeled/s”), ilfoschia – ifoschia (“slap/s”)
Rosbi - iRosbi ("cop/i"), ilFoba - iFoba ("moustache/i", referring to the person who wears them), the
Gafi - leGafi ("fig" and "figs"), laRabi - leRabi ("beer/"s). However, there are some interesting
exceptions, since in some words a suffix in sibilant (/s/ or /z/) can be added to the singular
graphically represented with -s) or alveolar affricate (/ts/ graphically represented with -z) to transform it into
plural.
A1. They look good with the mustache – What a great big mouth.

A2. The clothes are in fashion – They are all the rage, we should wear them.

B1. Gino is the biggest loser - Nogi is the biggest fool.

B2. That is the class of losers - What a bunch of nonsense.

These are basically the basic rules for structuring sentences typical of a
"lotranqui". We can observe its main characteristics among the different sentence structures that
we have collected (for which we are also provided with their translation in Italian):

Waking up early is worse than an arm.

in the ass.
Tell your mom that the sauce was very
good.
3. "Taboo le zebras, the cops are coming!" - Get the little bombs, the police are arriving!
Oh uncle, did you eat the chicken? Pass me the
cane.
5. "This rabisa disciapidineca, chefoschi!" – This beer tastes like dog piss, how disgusting!
6. "That loser only talks about work... What a bummer!"
ball!
7. "Ozi, let's get together and do Baglioni!" - Brother, there are no obstacles, shall we get out of the way?
Beer is one of the best things in
life.
This pizza is fucking disgusting.
10. "I introduce you to that fat guy of my brother." - I introduce you to that fat brother of mine.
11. "Who is that bald guy with the ice cream looking at us?" - Who is that bald guy with the ice cream looking at us?
Take the car, we are going to the sea.
It's too nice to smoke joints!
"Il Tavernello is a wine of shit."
Let's go beat those shit bundles.
16. "Quelpotzapudirabidi farebioschi". – Queltpo stinks of beer to the point of being disgusting.
17. "Did you call grandpa and grandma?"
18. "My cousin discovered that it was still..."
a child.
19. "That is the coolest mom of the park." - That is the coolest mom of the park.
20. "Are we going to the station to get the slaps?"
You are a fool! You got tricked by the
spaccino.
Notes: the 'lotranqui' have formulated very simple sentences, mainly drawing from
vocabolario diseba(gafi,lobe,rabi,darme,topela,neca,gosu,tofa,tefra,togela,tasba,drema,
(di) tobru, zoca, nobambi, foschia, foschi, boba(z), ozi, sope, zome, novi, zapi). We can notice the
total absence of tetrasyllabic words ('long') in Riocontra: in fact, the word 'Tavernello' remains
unaltered. It is interesting to note the absolute prevalence of nouns and adjectives among the terms
they are rare, while there are few verbs: we only notice the occurrences of ditabu, tomangia, toscopa,
repicchia, refumaerefrega. But there were different other verb structures that can be re-contracted, which are
però rimaste inalterate: “svegliarsi”, “passa”, “parla”, “presento”, “guarda”, “prendi”, “andiamo”,
"(you) called", "to draw". Several of the transformed words are characteristic of Milanese slang.
rather than standard Italian: gosu (understood here as 'condiment'), bonze ('small cylinders')
barnello - canes
- problems), sciopa ("bundle" - fascist), grandrepaegrandrema ("grandfather" and "grandmother"), gafi, cispa
("spacci" – dealers). Finally, it is interesting to note the presence of words that differ from
it corresponded in standard Italian due to some "word plays": "coglioni" is made as
Baglioni in phrase 7 for a certain resonance with the surname of the singer Claudio Baglioni, but not
It is a word in Riocontra. The Bobaz of sentence 21 carries the suffix -z, but it is a singular word.

The method of the Impertofe, the Erremossa, and the Superlavoti. (Attention, for masters only)
delladastra!)
After a period of "apprenticeship", illotranqui acquires fluency and is now ready to
to move on to the next stage, that of Riose. Now, it can apply more complex rules and
to re-contraindicate longer words with greater fluency. To do this, it may use the method
of the Imperfect.
With the trisyllabic words (“mediums”) we have seen that we can also apply the method of
Examples, which bring the third and last syllable to the beginning of the word (toscopa, tomangia, nestazio,
nocugi, toparche, lobarne…), keeping the first and second together. However, Cesempli creates
problems in the case of words that start and end with a vowel: a word like "Ustone"
it would be made as is, but it is not very catchy. As we know, the only and sacred
The rule of Riocontra is that of Nosuo, which obliges us to make the words sound good. In this case,
So, it is appropriate to rely on the method of the Impertofe.
This method applies only to words with at least three syllables. Unlike the Cesempli,
this time the inversion occurs between the last two syllables with the first (or the first in the case of words with...
more than three syllables) which instead maintains the starting position: “Ustone” will this time be realized
like this, thus avoiding the unpleasant meeting between vowels. The method is called the Impertofe,
since it is based on an 'imperfect' inversion (imper-to-fe); in Cesempli, 'imperfect'
it would have sounded like 'Toimperfe', also not very catchy.

Osserviamo quindi alcuni esempi di parole isolate: “Ustone” – neusto ->unesto; “Anale” – leana
Alena; 'Aperta' - taaper -> ataper.
Some tips simplify the life of those who speak Riocontra, one of which would concern words.
that end in -tion that can be treated by default with the Impertofe method. More
specifically, we are talking in this context about the Nezio method. Let's see some quick examples:

erection
Certainly, the trisyllabic words in -tion that begin with a consonant can be rendered
also with the Cesempli method:
junction
The only exception is represented by the word 'situation', which will always be rendered.
only he/she/it will eat.

Another general principle concerns the metathesis of the alveolar vibrant (and, more rarely, of)
some other consonants), which is called Erremossa. It may happen, in fact, a vibrant
it comes to be found after the inversion in the final position of the word ('jargon' - goger), which however
it would slow down the characteristic speaking speed of someone who speaks Riocontra. So, when a word
It ends with the vibrant, the principle of Erremossa suggests we reintegrate it between the two syllables.
invert: “theft” –tofu(r)->torfu; “card” –teca(r)->terca; “death” –temo(r)->termo. Do
except for the word 'shit', which can be expressed either as a joke (with a silent 'r') or
eat me, sister.

Finally, we will perfectly apply the principle of Superlavoro ('superwork'), with which
to strengthen the value of adjectives and nouns. Adjectives are strengthened with the expression of
tobru(“di bruto”): “bellissimo” –lobe di tobru; “fichissima” –gafi di tobru; “schifosissimo” –
Foschi di tobru. The names are instead rendered at the superlavot with the prefixes "super", "mega" or "giga":
very good smoke
lit.
The only exception is represented this time by 'sfigatissimo' which will not be realized as a bob.
to bru, but comeboba of gnole ("wooden daddy"). In general, the principles can change diplaza.
Recently, it seems that a variation of the superlative form of tobru is asserting itself.
who is Bruno, who could easily become nobru. The beauty of Riocontra lies precisely in
this wonderful variety of ways and expressions didastraindastra.
As a fact for the illotranqui, we can therefore see some phrase structures of the Riosedelledastra.
from Milan:
1. 'You've broken my balls, stop barking.' - You've broken my balls, stop barking.
2. "Love, will you buy me the Riocontra dictionary?" - Love, will you buy me the dictionary of the
Riocontra?
3. "Appetite comes while eating, but also while fucking" - Appetite comes while eating, but also
sweeping.
4. "Today's single dish: lipise". - Today's single dish: peas.
In spring, the season of the mouse begins.
sorca.
Let's go right outside of the dick.
Come on in, it's open.
I had an erection during the course.
of language.
That dad hasn't learned the lesson yet.
lesson.
10. "There is no potion to become an expert." - There is no potion to become
sharp
11. "He is very good at performing oral sex."
come on.
12. "Remember, tomorrow there is the exercise of curiosity." - Remember, tomorrow there is the exercise.
of burglary.
Some parts of you give pure emotions.
14. "Lapatdelpotègafiditobru" - The lap of the pot is really beautiful.
If you don't pass that cannatfacciosupertobru. - If you don't pass that cannatfaccio
very ugly.
 16. In chemical fame, pasta with pesto is all the rage.
life.
17. "I am too fond of this meat broth!"
18. "They say that queltzio has the penis of a giant." - They say that queltzio has the penis of a
black.
If the ass is a big ass, the girl will be
beautiful.
I have hated a never-ending big deal.
Notes: iRios generally transforms longer words. For trisyllabic words, where it is
It is possible to use interchangeably the method of the sample and that of the empire, the Riose.
they almost always attach to Cesempli: toscassa, lipise, nestagio, nelezio, nepizio, nepippo. How
we saw, they could also have been statpossibili, some, stanegio, lenzio, ponazioepineppo.
The only trisyllable necessarily made with the Impertofe is 'ataper', since 'open' starts with it.
it ends with a vowel. There are also numerous words with more than three syllables, which never appeared
with ilotranqui. These are suits transformed with the Impertofe and the delnezio method:dizioriona,
appetite, primacy, easiness, execution, exercise, emotion. We note once again the
almost total absence of verbs among the re-contracted words: they are not transformed
“abbaiare”, “mangiando”, “scopando”, “comincia”, “andiamo”, “(ho) imparato”, “vieni”, “(ho)
had
(you) broke it into pieces. The Riose also make some super works: gafi of tobru (two
return), supertobruegiga place. Finally, there are certainly no words from the disebadel dictionary
Riocontra:gafi(twice),pot(twice),pat(twice),locu(twice),zoca(twice)
boba, vobra, stapa.

The Supertofe method of Feprossiolena

The Feprossiolena (“Professional”) is the highest level of complexity and the latest innovation.
brought to this language. The great enthusiasts of Riocontra narrate that it was born during a
an evening spent at the Lambrooklin Brewery, when the Chiove was asked (a sort of figure
mitca): “It’s raining, but parachute?”. He replied with great calm: “Rapaduteca”. Thus, from that
The day the Riocontra was enriched by the method of the Supertofe.

The Supertofe (from 'super+perfect' =super+to(per)fect=supertofe) is extremely complex and it

apply only to words with at least four syllables. The Supertofe method has no other rules
if not that inviolable of Nosuo: the word is divided into two or more parts each of which is treated separately.
these as a single word, applying the Cesempio or the Impertofe as appropriate.
We observe the twenty most significant words of the Feprossiolena, often learned by heart because
too difficult to be transformed on the spot:
Baciamano
Screwdriver
Cascamorto - scaCa-toMo(r) - Scacatormo
Dopopranzo - poDo-zoPran -> Podozopran
Ficcanaso
Tagrapoca
Party Pooper - staguastafe
Rude - LeMa-to(E)duca -> Lematoduca
Mezzobusto - zoMe-stoBu -> Zomestobu
Rapagliapi
Passport - saPa-toPo(r) -> Sapatorpo
Pescecane - Scepeneca
Purosangue - Ropuguesan
Puzzle - Pirompoca
Nutcracker
Bookmark
Tosolepa
snowplow
In reality, the fundamental words of the Supertofe seem to be nothing more than words.
composed, where each part is actually one of the simple words of the compound. All the individual
parts are always composed of two syllables, where only the Cesempli can be applied. The only
the exception is 'rude': in this case, the second part 'educated' would be tetrasyllabic and
it would necessarily require the Impertofe, but it is reconstructed as trisyllabic with the
removal of the initial vowel 'e' and the example applies: (lemma) todica.

The accent in the words Riocontra

The words Riocontra reward flat words, in which the accent falls on the penultimate syllable. The
we can observe by looking at Italian words with sdrucciole, piane and tronche rendered in Riocontra:

napèta
rapàsse; “sapida” –dasàpi;
wilderness
happy
raprènde
–radòrmi.
The exceptions are made up of verb forms accompanied by clitics. Let’s observe some examples:
suck it
Càlemela
Kiss it to me
The narrative texts in Riocontra by the Lo Nobru brothers
Alfredo and Giovanni Di Bruno wrote two brief texts, which serve in their
exercise manual for translation from Riocontra to Italian, but also offers some
interesting observation point:
There was a table, in a young village in the Tosperdunellegnacampa refuge Telambra, a gag, a news
unbobadignole. Every morning he woke up with the hangover. He wanted to discover everything.
Lagafi, but the Ilbobadignolesi put themselves in the way of their collapse.
gafispariva. One day, after being allowed to go back home, the eyes, while making themselves legible,
aspetòtoso sacailbobacon unazamadirofee lo coricò ditemazza. Then he returned to algiovilla
dallagafi,rosicuchefinaltemenavrebbetoscopaditobru. L’ozinon potevaresapeche la
patches if you wanted to sweep it was actually a land with dignity that, even without the boat, the
pretty, the sound would be just to repass you the tavia make ties.

"Once upon a time, in a secluded village in the countryside outside Lambrate, there was a girl, a
he is a great loser. Every morning he woke up with his dick turned. He wanted so much
to make out with the girl, but the loser always got in the way with his collection of
butterflies and the girl disappeared. One day, after months and months of hard fucking, the guy, tired
I waited under the house for the loser with an iron bat and knocked him down with blows.
Then he returned to the village from the girl, confident that he would finally get laid a lot.
but he couldn't know that the girl he wanted to screw was actually a wooden pussy
And that, even without the loser in the way, his fate would have been to spend his whole life
to do the handjobs.

One summer evening, I and the others went to buy some Tispaalpersutomerca,
There was a woman with a strange face of a vulture. Less Mahler that was behind it, nearby.
plazadei pretazzi. We arrive there with the lebighee, while we tie them up, Claude says: 'But this
Nosuo?". "Gofiditobru, it comes from there!" I said. We entered inside the 'stogiga neportodi.
Let's follow the song until we find ourselves in front of a small village.
always worthy. 'And if there's something inside that makes it brown?', I said. 'Go Isiszio', he tells me.
Claude. (Big Claude damn...). Alright, let's open the door and it seems that inside there is the
"What a pain!" I scream. Far from easy, they were his clumsy feet, all
biotech, as soon as they understood that we were monopedists, David Lachaperdereproprio,
They haven't let us down anymore. Tatan barotsio! I mean, when the hell will we get to do it again?
with the resound! Hello.

One summer evening, my companions and I went to buy some pasta.

supermarket, since there would be the party of a beautiful friend of a fool.
Thank goodness it was behind Porta Venezia, near the square of the pretazzi. We arrived there with the
bici e, mentre le leghiamo, Claude dice: “But this sound?”. “Great shit, it comes from there!”
I said. Let's go inside this big wooden door and follow the song until
that we don't find ourselves in front of a small door, always made of wood. "And what if inside there's..."
"Something bad?" I said. "Take it easy, uncle," Claude tells me. (Great Claude, damn...).
Well, let's open the door and it seems like the sun is inside: "What a kick!", I scream.
I. Not to mention the sun, it was full of beautiful nuns, all naked who, as soon as they understood that
 we were full of pasts, just forget it, they never let us go. Really nothing
Come on, when the hell are we going to have stories with the nuns again! Hi.

Notes: both tests present various recontra-words. The majority of these

is represented by words from the dictionary of seba: gafi (7 times), gofi (1 time), ozi (4 times), boba (4 times)
volte),gnole(5 volte), (di)tobru(4 volte),zoca(2 volte),zome(1 volta),saca(1 volta)tefra(s)(1
turn). Almost all of the re-contracted lexemes correspond to nominal nouns, but there...
they are also: two adverbs (presem, finamente), two prepositions (rifuoTelambra, tosoSaca), five
adjectives (I, Tuscan, rosy, knot, father), four participles with adjective or verbal function
(tosperdu, togira, toscopa, tosta) and three infinitives (rescopa, repassa, resape). There are also no lack of
superlavot:(boba) of gnole(2 times),(gafi) of tobru,(gofi) of tobru,giga neporto. All the words
trisillabiche sono realizzate con il Cesempli:giovilla(2 volte),tosperdu, gnacampa, telambra,
rescopa (2 times), lefarfa, toscopa, namat, temazza, rosicu, nodest, neporto, necanzo. They are
only two words with more than three syllables: finally (with Impertofe: final-te-men) and
persutomerca(conSupertofeper-su + to-mer-ca). Finally, we note in the second text several words
which are not characteristics of Riocontra, but in a broader sense of street slang: tspa
('pasts', a mix of water, ice, and liquor), vovaz ('stupid'), Less Mahler
(“menomale”),p.v.(“Porta Venezia”),fa brown(“fare nero”),bioto/a(“nudo/a”),David
Let it go, that's a lot of stuff -> really not bad!

"Mochia your pain will never be a weakness." The Riocontra in Italian rap and trap.
As we mentioned, Riocontra has become a leading figure in the rap/trap music scene.
Italian. As we know, rap draws heavily from street slang and, above all, the
The scene of Milan and its surroundings (the capital of Riocontra) is the most established in Italy.

The first attestations emerged already in 2005, in the piece "New Popeby Marracash from the album
"Roccia Music I": "I give you the ball, I give you the fire", with two very simple attestations of
Riocontra. In 2006, Francesco Cellamaro, known as Esa, performs in the track 'La Trappola' ft. Supa:
In the city, the kids speak in riddles / In the heat of the moment, they play with cash, a revolt is brewing.
The quote is interesting, as it also reveals the use of slang within the circle of the Calabrian rapper.
In 2012, it was Oscar White's turn with the 'bar' (the verse in rap slang) 'Lafiasacache you'
I send home backwards.
A lover of Riocontra is certainly Gué Pequeno, one of the most prominent names in the rap scene.
Italian and not only, which in 2009 raps in Dogorazia, the fourth album by Club Dogo: 'I don't eat'
roast beef (/’rosbi/) is the anagram of sbirro. In 2015, Gué repeats himself in the solo album Vero, where
in various tracks (“Bosseggiando”, “Fuori Orario”, “Pequeno” and “Nouveau Riche”) words appear
comelocu,iatro,gafienogra. The most relevant certification is however the zzocadiScooteroni”
("Omozigota gemella that messes me up, Eva Herzigova"), since the track with Marracash is
An absolute success, the hit goes double platinum and the expression in Riocontra makes a bit of the rounds everywhere.
Italy.
The piece in question is from 2016, which is also a year of extraordinary importance for the emergence
of the subgenre trap in Italy. The novelty now consists of the onomastic, as the so-called
Street named after the rapper of the new trap generation makes use of Riocontra: Mirko Manuele
Martorana is in artRkomi ("Mirko" -> mi-rko); Mario Molinari, previously known as
Then, it becomes 'Te Dua' also because 'Te Dua' means 'I love you' in Albanian.
history); in the crew of Tedua (the 'Wild Bandana') there is also Sangue, who will soon change the
his name is inGuesan; finally, the pseudonym of Jacopo Lazzarini is Lazza (hypocorism of the surname),
but he is often called Zzala, which is also the name of his debut album (released in 2017).
There are numerous attestations of Riocontra among the fabrics of these young arsssrap.

1. Tedua's albumOrange CountyIt has numerous in different traces:

"I am proud if unteframisfa / And it is not true that Tedua envies you"Circumference Valleyft. Izi);

"Snitch my comrades, homies / No, I honor you / Tefranon mensr then"Fifty FiftySt. Ghali;

Are you outside? / Bro, run run / Watch out, there's a ruckus outsideRun Run Freestyle);

Demo took me, I had a picture of who is poor / From a zonario But, Vaz Tè, IZI and his
"shelter"Bloodft. Blood);

They will end up making their own dreams angry/ Appear as they shouldOther Orange
County)”;

2. Lazza also seems to be a fan of Riocontra:

"Mom says come back soon / One of my brothers makes me look honest", "We'll Instagram you"
Exactly the release/ What a gem of your new single", "I don't make rhymes but slaps /
Faifoschi, I don't know what to do with it
(Fire);

"We can do it sister" and "They told me to think about doing the task/ And do it quickly
first burnSto Magazine Freestyle);

If you take a walk in the Cathedral / There is a statue of mine made of goldIll-mannereds);

"Is she wearing baggy clothes? / This one wants a pacifier like Maggie"Lario);

For the reason from Jovanot / I have the fixation so, so, so, so430);

I have a doctor nearby / My pulse tells you that she is not my one
my motherPoor You);

3. We also recover the personal challenge of the rapper Nerone, who has taken on writing.
of a text with only words at Riocontra (and it is known indeed howRiocontra Freestyle), of which
we report the initial 'bars':
Mochiala tuapatnonvotromaisochiu/Dova rifuoper lagafie per ilcobudellocu/ Le
Do you like to go to the beach today?
The same Nero, in collaboration with his two rapper friends Secco and Warez, founded the crew.
"The Miaccade llade Scacru" ("The Academy of Crusca"). The hip-hop trio had committed to
write only tessin Riocontra, trying that then faded over time, and to create a sort of
grammar of the Riocontra with fixed rules. "There is a need for standardization," said Nero.
at the crew presentation.
Even this objective, we would say of a normative stamp, has not gathered the fruits. A jargon is
in itself anarchic and escapes the very concept of rule. After all, the beauty of the Riocontra, a bit
like all special languages, it lies precisely in its astonishing variety of forms and realizations
Perfino at an individual level. Filling it with rules would be like condemning it to death.

by Manfredi Maria Tutoilmondo

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- “The Riocontra Illutostra - Third Edition” (2018) by brothers Alfredo and Giovanni Di Br
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- “The secretssfrom Riocontra, the jargon of the outskirts of Milan(2020) by Carlo Chiodo;
- “Language: look how I invert your syllables(2016) by Massimo Arcangeli and Sandro
Mariani