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The fourth episode of the podcast Street Art: Urban Stories, produced by Wunderkammern gallery in collaboration with Artuu Lab, is now online! This episode explores the connection between street art and hip-hop culture — a deep bond that traces back to 1970s New York and has helped shape the urban identity of entire generations.
Special guests in this episode are Masito and Esa, two iconic figures of the Italian music and art scene. Through their stories, we retrace the shared origins of writing and hip-hop — two different languages united by the same spirit: resistance, creativity, and belonging.
Street art and hip-hop: a shared identity
Masito, rapper and writer, and Esa, MC and producer, bring their firsthand experience to the podcast — a life spent among stages, trains, and walls — offering an authentic insight into how urban writing and rap music have grown together. Both emerged as forms of expression born at the margins, grassroots communication tools that gave voice to the voiceless.
Their conversation touches on themes such as the collective nature of writing, the power of music as a cultural vehicle, and the street as a key place of meeting and learning. In the words of the guests, hip-hop culture is presented as a life school — teaching respect, language, and identity.
A story of sounds, colors, and cities
This fourth episode marks an important step in the podcast’s journey, which each week explores a different aspect of the vast world of urban art. After discussing art and politics with Biancoshock (episode 2) and the relationship between street art, galleries, and museums with Fanny Borel and Silvano Manganaro (episode 3), Street Art: Urban Stories now returns to the cultural roots of the movement, focusing on the influence of hip-hop.
Masito and Esa take listeners on a journey between memory and the present, where the city becomes a canvas, the voice a brush, and identity an artistic gesture.
Where to listen?
The podcast is available every Friday on Spotify, Spreaker, Amazon Music, Deezer, and many other platforms.
Next episode
Don’t miss the fifth episode, coming Friday, June 27, featuring Bo130 and Microbo — pioneers of writing in Italy. A new story that will delve into the roots of street art in our country and the role of women in the movement.