GUE-FASTLIFE-5-Audio-Luxury-ALBUM-2026
Guè is now as punctual as a Swiss watch. And perhaps it's not just a metaphor: living across the border for some time seems to have instilled in him an almost maniacal discipline.
The latest works arrive regularly at the beginning of the year and this “Fastlife 5: Audio Luxury” also respects the Guè roadmap, without surprises either on the calendar or on the conceptual level.
The methodology, after all, is an integral part of the character. Guè: a few seconds are enough to recognize one of his records. Stamp, writing, imagery are now a registered trademark.
The operation is analytical: celebrate twenty years of a saga that has weaned generations of listeners, but do it with the detached gaze of someone who has already decoded every cog of the game.
“Fastlife 5 – Audio Luxury” has a declared double function: to celebrate twenty years of an aesthetic that has set the standard and, at the same time, to offer a new perspective to the contemporary urban scene. Not a tired self-celebration, but an upgrade in language and quotes.
To achieve this, Guè relies on two absolute guarantees of European hip hop. Cookin Soul, cult Valencian producer and winner of a Grammy Award, signs the entire production: compact, layered, street but never neglected beats, with an almost artisanal attention to detail. Bassi Maestro, historical presence and trusted ally, takes care of the mix and mastering, giving the album a tonal coherence that makes it compact from start to finish.
The 15 tracks flow like a manifesto of classic rap updated to contemporary codes: controlled rawness, explicit references to the fundamentals of the genre and a gaze that never takes refuge in sterile revival. Even the choice of featuring follows a precise logic, far from the algorithm and the hunt for an easy hit. Here there are friends, accomplices, esteemed figures.
The roster is transversal and significant: Marracash, an essential presence for reading Italian rap of the last twenty years; B-Real by Cypress Hill, Freddie Gibbs and Larry June for the international side; new recruits like Sayf, Promessa, Joshua, Enny P and the Mexican Alemán, reiterating Guè's attention to what moves beneath the mainstream surface. A generational map rather than a list of names.
The closing is entrusted to an intimately symbolic choice: Celine G, daughter of Guè (born in 2021), appears on the cover – shot by Federico Hurth – and in the song Loquito. A gesture that places him in a precise tradition of pop and hip hop music, from Stevie Wonder to Jay-Z to Kendrick Lamar, where fatherhood becomes a declaration of status, continuity and controlled vulnerability.
Fastlife 5: Audio Luxury does not reinvent Guè, but crystallizes his identity in an adult, conscious and still competitive form. A record that doesn't ask everyone to like it, but reiterates who commands the language when it comes to high-level Italian rap.
Summary: Beat 10, lyrics are not those of Guè, nothing new.
A manual of high-end urban aesthetics.
TO LISTEN NOW
The World is Yours – Last Train 2 Shibuya – Pimp 101
TO BE SKIPPED IMMEDIATELY
It's 100% Guè style. Take it or leave it!
SCORE: 7.50
TRACKLIST
INTRO (with. Lil Mozzarella)
THE WORLD IS YOURS (feat. Joshua)
LOQUITO (with. Celine G)
COLD
SPENDIN (feat. Marracash)
BORN & GROWN (feat. Promessa)
LAST TRAIN 2 SHIBUYA (feat. Sayf)
SIG SAUER (feat. B-Real)
HIGH X2 (feat. Larry June)
TRUE STORY
FREAK! (feat. Enny P)
LA REINA DEL SUR (feat. Alemàn)
PIMP101
THINK ABOUT IT (feat. Freddie Gibbs)
GOAT
