Gemitaiz
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Gemitaiz | |
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.jpg) Gemitaiz performing during Wind Music Awards in 2016 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | Davide De Luca 4 November 1988 Rome, Italy |
| Genres | Hip hop |
| Occupation | Rapper |
| Years active | 2003-present |
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Davide De Luca (born 4 November 1988), known professionally as Gemitaiz, is an Italian rapper. Besides his solo work, he has collaborated with many artists, most notably the Italian rapper MadMan.[1][2] He was born in Rome. From 2007 to 2011 he was a member of the "Xtreme Team", a collective of rappers from Rome with Canesecco.[3] His debut solo album came out in May 2013, with the title "L'unico compromesso" ("The Only Compromise"). It ended up peaking at the #3 spot on the Italian charts.[4]
Career
[edit source]2003-2013: Early years and L'unico compromesso
[edit source]Gemitaiz entered the music industry in 2003. Due to his collaboration with rapper Canesecco, between 2006 and 2009 he released three mixtapes—Affare romano (2006), Affare romano vol. 2 (2007), and Affare romano zero (2009)—which featured collaborations with a large part of Rome’s underground rap scene. In 2008, a theft incident occurred at Etto’s recording studio, where the tracks ready for their solo CDs were stolen. The remaining tracks were released in an unmixed compilation titled No(mix)tape.
In 2009, he signed with Honiro Label, through which he released the solo mixtapes Quello che vi consiglio (2009), Quello che vi consiglio vol. 2 (2010), Quello che vi consiglio III (2012), and in collaboration with Canesecco, he released the mixtapes Xtreme Time (2010) and Xtreme Quality Mixtape (2011). Both of these latter mixtapes were released under the name Xtreme Team. In 2011, he began collaborating with rapper MadMan, with whom he released the mixtape Haterproof (2011) and the EP Detto, fatto. (2012). These were both released by Honiro Label as well.
In 2012, the rapper left Honiro Label to sign a record deal with Tanta Roba, a label founded by Gué Pequeno and DJ Harsh. On this label, Gemitaiz released his debut album, titled L'unico compromesso (2013). The album was a success, reaching number three on the Italian album chart.[5] That same year, he released the mixtape "What I Recommend Vol. 4", preceded by the track "Intro".
2014: Arrest and Kepler
[edit source]On 29 January 2014, Gemitaiz was arrested in Rome on charges of drug possession and distribution. The rapper was stopped and searched on the street; he was then found in possession of ketamine and marijuana.[6] During a subsequent search of his home, the Carabinieri discovered additional narcotics, hashish, and a precision scale. Gemitaiz was placed under house arrest and entered into a plea bargain the following month, accepting a sentence of one year and ten months in prison (suspended).[7]
That same year, Gemitaiz teamed up with MadMan again to release the single "Non se ne parla", which was made available for digital download on April 2.[8] The single preceded the release of the rappers’ album, titled Kepler, which was released on May 24 by Tanta Roba. The album debuted at number one on the Italian album chart,[9] and was certified gold by FIMI just two months after its release.[10]
Discography
[edit source]Albums
[edit source]| Title | Year | Peak positions | Certification[11] | |
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| ITA [12] |
SWI [13] | |||
| Haterproof
(with MadMan) |
2011 | — | — | |
| L'unico compromesso | 2013 | 3 | — |
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| Kepler (with MadMan) |
2014 | 1 | — |
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| Nonostante tutto | 2016 | 1 | 56 |
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| Davide | 2018 | 1 | — |
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| Scatola nera (with MadMan) |
2019 | 1 | 99 |
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| Eclissi | 2022 | 1 [14] | — | |
| Elsewhere | 2025 | 2 [15] | — | |
EPs
[edit source]| Title | Year | Peak positions |
|---|---|---|
| ITA [12] | ||
| Detto, fatto. (with MadMan) |
2013 | 24 |
Mixtapes
[edit source]| Title | Year | Peak positions |
|---|---|---|
| ITA [12] | ||
| QVC Collection | 2018 | 27 |
| QVC8 | 2018 | 17 |
| QVC9 | 2020 | 2 |
| QVC 10 – Quello che vi consiglio Vol. 10 | 2023 | 1 [16] |
Collaborative mixtapes (with Xtreme Team)
[edit source]- 2006: Affare romano vol. 1 (with Xtreme Team)
- 2007: Affare romano vol. 2 (with Xtreme Team)
- 2008: No(mix)tape (with Xtreme Team)
- 2009: Affare romano zero (with Xtreme Team)
- 2010: Xtreme Time (with Xtreme Team)
- 2011: Xtreme Quality (with Xtreme Team)
Singles
[edit source]| Title | Year | Peak positions | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| ITA [12] | |||
| "Fuori di qua (Out of My Way, Pt. 2)" (with MadMan) |
2013 | 18 | L'unico compromesso |
| "Oro & argento" | 2017 | 2 | Davide |
| "Fuori" | 5 | ||
| "Davide" (feat. Coez) |
2018 | 2 | |
| "Veleno 7" (with MadMan) |
2019 | 1 | Scatola nera |
Featured in
[edit source]| Title | Year | Peak positions | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| ITA [12] | |||
| "Albe nere" (Deleterio feat. MadMan & Gemitaiz) |
2014 | 91 | Dadaismo |
| "Ulalala" (Achille Lauro feat. Gemitaiz) |
2016 | 70 | Ragazzi madre |
| "Papparapà" (Nerone feat. Gemitaiz & Salmo) |
2017 | 63 | Max |
| "Veleno 6" (MadMan feat. Gemitaiz) |
67 | MM Vol. 2 | |
| "04:20" (Ensi feat. Gemitaiz & MadMan) |
69 | V | |
| "Thoiry RMX" (Achille Lauro feat. Gemitaiz, Quentin40 & Puritano) |
2018 | 36 | |
| "Hollywood" (MadMan feat. Gemitaiz) |
30 | Back Home | |
| "Brillo" (Vegas Jones feat. Gemitaiz & MadMan) |
15 | Bellaria | |
| "Malibu" (Carl Brave feat. Gemitaiz) |
11 | Notti brave | |
| "Purple Rain" (Achille Lauro & Boss Doms feat. Gemitaiz & Frenetik&Orang3) |
43 | Pour l'amour | |
| "Giornate vuote" (Frenetik & Orang3 feat. Gemitaiz) |
2019 | 13 | |
| "Cuore rotto" (Rocco Hunt feat. Gemitaiz) |
97 | ||
| "Stanotte" (Gemello feat. Gemitaiz) |
69 | ||
| "Alleluia" (Clementino feat. Gemitaiz) |
73 | Tarantelle | |
| "Rap Shit" (Nitro feat. Tha Supreme, Gemitaiz) |
2020 | 10 | GarbAge |
| "Rap City" (Tedua, Gemitaiz, MadMan & Chris Nolan) |
25 | Vita vera Mixtape [Aspettando la divina commedia] | |
| "Foto" (Izi, Gemitaiz & MadMan) |
48 | ||
| "Dal tramonto all'alba" (Mace feat. Venerus, Gemitaiz) |
2021 | 12 | OBE |
| "Candyman" (Mace feat Gemitaiz) |
36 | ||
Other songs
[edit source]| Title | Year | Peak positions | Certifications | Album | |
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| ITA [12] | |||||
| "Haterproof 2" (with MadMan) |
2014 | 15 | Kepler | ||
| "Sempre in giro" (with MadMan) |
92 | ||||
| "Bene" | 2016 | 62 | Nonostante tutto | ||
| "Inedito" (with Pedar Poy & MadMan) |
71 | QVC6 (Mixtape) | |||
| "Forte" | 82 | Nonostante tutto | |||
| "Non me ne vado" (feat. Emis Killa) |
90 | ||||
| "Coma" (feat. Victor Kwality) |
75 | Nonostante tutto (Reloaded) | |||
| "Tanta Roba Anthem" (feat. Guè Pequeno) |
2018 | 17 | Davide | ||
| "Paradise Lost" | 21 | ||||
| "Keanu Reeves" (feat. Achille Lauro) |
16 | ||||
| "Holy Grail" (feat. MadMan) |
22 | ||||
| "Pezzo trap" (feat. Fabri Fibra) |
23 | ||||
| "Lo sai che ci penso" | 37 | ||||
| "Chiamate perse" | 38 | ||||
| "Diverso" | 44 | ||||
| "Alaska" (feat. Priestess) |
50 | ||||
| "Un giro con noi" | 54 | ||||
| "Questa qua" | 76 | ||||
| "Buonanotte" | 83 | ||||
| "Rollin'" (with Mixer T) |
12 | QVC8 | |||
| "Senza di me" (feat. Venerus & Franco 126) |
12 | ||||
| "Toradol" | 2019 | 12 | |||
| "Giuro che" (feat. Priestess & Quentin40) |
16 | ||||
| "Bad Boys" (feat. Ketama126) |
20 | ||||
| "Che ci faccio" (with Mixer T) |
23 | ||||
| "Mammastomale" (with Machete & Izi feat. Salmo) |
9 | Machete Mixtape 4 | |||
| "Fuori e dentro" (with MadMan & tha Supreme) |
2 | Scatola nera | |||
| "Esagono" (with MadMan & Salmo) |
6 | ||||
| "Karate" (with MadMan & Mahmood) |
8 | ||||
| "Fiori" (with MadMan, Marracash & Guè Pequeno) |
9 | ||||
| "Come me" (with MadMan) |
12 | ||||
| "Scatola nera" (with MadMan & Giorgia) |
13 | ||||
| "¥€$" (with MadMan) |
14 | ||||
| "Che ore sono" (with MadMan & Venerus) |
18 | ||||
| "Californication" (with MadMan) |
20 | ||||
| "Tutto OK" (with MadMan) |
32 | ||||
| "Mondo di fango" | 2020 | 10 | QVC9 | ||
| "Alright" (feat. Emis Killa & Geolier) |
13 | ||||
| "In una Benz" (feat. Fabri Fibra) |
16 | ||||
| "Marte" (feat. Izi) |
17 | ||||
| "QVC9" | 19 | ||||
| "Fair" (feat. MadMan) |
30 | ||||
| "Rollercoaster" (feat. Carl Brave) |
31 | ||||
| "Russian Roulette" | 34 | ||||
| "Outro In the Night" | 39 | ||||
| "Money Money" (feat. Ensi & Speranza) |
41 | ||||
| "<3" | 43 | ||||
| "Più di così (Gemitaiz )" (feat. D'African) |
47 | ||||
| "Trap Emo Rmx" (feat. Achille Lauro) |
49 | ||||
| "—" denotes an item that did not chart in that country. | |||||
External links
[edit source]References
[edit source]- ↑ Repubblica: 'Scatola Nera', il nuovo disco di Gemitaiz & MadMan: "Insieme ci prendiamo una pausa da noi stessi" (in Italian)
- ↑ Sky Italy: Hit Parade: al numero uno Gemitaiz & Madman (in Italian)
- ↑ CaneSecco torna a parlare di Gemitaiz, Xtreme Team e MadMan (in Italian)
- ↑ "Gemitaiz Biography". Concerty.com.
- ↑ "GEMITAIZ - L'UNICO COMPROMESSO (ALBUM)". italiancharts.com. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
- ↑ Giuseppe Scarpa (January 30, 2014). "Musica e spaccio - Arrestato il rapper Gemitaiz". La Repubblica. Retrieved October 21, 2014.
- ↑ "DROGA, CONDANNATO RAPPER GEMITAIZ | Rome, la Repubblica.it". Retrieved October 21, 2014.
{{cite web}}:|archive-url=requires|archive-date=(help); Unknown parameter|dead-url=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ↑ "Non Se Ne Parla - Single". iTunes. Retrieved September 12, 2014.
- ↑ "Classifica settimanale WK 22 (dal 26-05-2014 al 01-06-2014)". Italian Music Industry Federation. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
{{cite web}}:|archive-url=requires|archive-date=(help); Unknown parameter|dead-url=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ↑ "L'album "KEPLER" è disco d'oro". Retrieved September 12, 2014.
{{cite web}}:|archive-url=requires|archive-date=(help); Unknown parameter|dead-url=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|site=ignored (help) - ↑ FIMI - Certificazioni
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Gemitaiz discography". italiancharts.com. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
- ↑ "Gemitaiz discography". hitparade.ch. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
- ↑ "Album – Classifica settimanale WK 20 (dal 13.05.2022 al 19.05.2022)" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
- ↑ "Album – Classifica settimanale WK 51 (dal 12.12.2025 al 18.12.2025)" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Retrieved 20 December 2025.
- ↑ "Album – Classifica settimanale WK 51 (dal 15.12.2023 al 21.12.2023)" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
- ↑ "Gemitaiz & MadMan feat. Marracash & Guè Pequeño". Retrieved March 22, 2021.
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