| Background: | solo_singer |
| Kid Yugi | |
| Birth Name: | Francesco Stasi |
| Birth Date: | 14 April 2001 |
| Birth Place: | Massafra, Italy |
| Occupation: | Rapper |
| Years Active: | 2020–present |
Kid Yugi, pseudonym of Francesco Stasi (born April 14, 2001), is an Italian rapper.
Born in Massafra and raised between Massafra and Bari, Stasi began rapping in his early teens, publishing his first official single as Kid Yugi, Grammelot, on Spotify in February 2022.
With the release of Grammelot he came to the attention of the Thaurus record label, with which he released various singles. A single named DEM was released in October 2022, in collaboration with rappers Tony Boy and Artie 5ive, that brought him more popularity.[1]
In November 2022, his first album, The Globe, was released and it certified gold.[2] It contains three songs certified gold, namely Grammelot, Il Filmografo and Il ferro di Čechov.
On September 23, 2023, he opened the Marrageddon Festival by Marracash in Milan, with Grammelot, Paradiso artificiale and Sintetico, broadcast live by Amazon Music[3] and Radio M2o.[4] Around the same time, he was involved in Salmo and Noyz Narcos' collaborative album Cvlt, contributing to the omonym track.[5]
In 2024, in January and February respectively, he released the singles Paganini and L'anticristo before the release, in March, of the second album I nomi del diavolo, which debuted directly at the top of the weekly FIMI Albums Chart[6] and it received platinum certification, while also receaving positive feedback on television, with the Italian news program TG1 dedicating a short report to it.[7] The album was also placed at the top of the Spotify Top Albums Debut Global chart, i.e. the chart of the most listened to new albums of the first days of March at a global level, excluding the USA.[8] There is the participation of rappers Tony Boy, Artie 5ive, Tedua, Papa V, Noyz Narcos, Ernia, Simba La Rue, Geolier and Sfera Ebbasta and a sampling of the Taranto singer Fido Guido. I nomi del diavolo, like the previous The Globe, is a concept album, in this case inspired, among other references, by William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies.[9]
On April 4, Kid Yugi was featured as a guest artist on producer Mace's third album, Māyā. He later also appeared on the albums Milano Angels by Shiva, Locura by Lazza and CONTAINERS by The Night Skinny.
Kid Yugi's rap is characterized by its references to theatre, cinema and literature. Frequent topics of his songs are the denunciation of the situation of Ilva in Taranto and the deaths it caused, love, guns and drug dealing.[10]