Rapper Dide footballer in the Premier League? The mystery of the masked singer – Corriere.it

Rapper at home, footballer on the field. Thus reads the Instagram biography of Diderapper who hides his identity with a mask and fascinates the British public with over 1.2 million views on YouTube for his latest single Thrill, posted on April 14th.

Quality raps

The song’s lyrics imply that the artist is for a professional footballer, and one at the top level too, as he is expected to play in the Premier League, most likely for a London team. Fans are so on the hunt for her identity, unaware if Dide wants to protect her competitive career by doing (quality) raps in disguise or if she does it as a marketing stunt (a bit like our Myss Keta and Liberated). He wouldn’t be the first music-loving footballer. We remember both the former Real Madrid full-back Drenthe (who later became a nurse) and the former striker Dani Osvaldo, who left football to devote himself to music full-time, as well as players who do it for fun like Depay, the AC Milan player Leao or goalkeeper Gollini. No one seems to have the success of Dide, who in the clip, hidden under the mask of Margiela, seems to want to pay tribute to Kanye West.

References to London

Fans are sure he plays in London due to the many references to the City. Symbols such as the Shard appear in the Thrill video, then the very recognizable skyline of the English capital, finally the typical football fields in the frame of an architecture that recalls that of London, compared to other British cities. In the lyrics of the song, the rapper declares that he is part of a stays winning club, or rather a leading team, always called to win. Listening to the song, full of references to football, the artist also says that the newspapers will soon wonder which footballer he is, with also references to conquer all my goals, achieve one’s goals / goals, and to the goat, the greatest of all time , the greatest of all time. A sort of hermetic text that gives several clues about the possible identity of the rapper. Previously, in his first freestyle, under a post published on February 9th on Instagram, one could read in the description that a Premier League player had definitely entered the UK music industry.

Hypotheses about identity

The toto-nomi goes crazy on the web among fans and enthusiasts. Some think it is Wilfried Zaha of the Crystal Palace, others Noni Madueke of Chelsea or Bukayo Saka of Arsenal, still others, the majority, that is Eddie Nketiah always under the Gunners, also due to the assonance between his name and the pseudonym Dide.

Arsenal chasing the Premier League

Many bars of the last song also suggest the desire to win again, therefore attributable to a club like that of the Gunners (Every game like a final), who this year are back after 19 seasons to fight for the conquest of the Premier League League, followed by Guardiola’s Manchester City. Some fans have also found associations between the rapper’s gestures and the striker’s finger-to-the-sky cheer. Among other details, the rapper’s affirmation, in the first freestyle, that he doesn’t love Harry Kane or Tottenham. Finally, what for many is practically a test. Dide mentions a psalm from the Bible in the passage from Thrill. Many consider it a reference precisely to Nketiah, who has repeatedly revealed in the course of various interviews that he is a very believer. I’m very religious, so I know my time will come, she said recently. Maybe even in music?