"I'm a jerk, I like speed… Right or wrong, whoever judges it θα will judge…" said the popular rapper Mad Clip a few months ago a few hours after his cinematic pursuit in the streets of Athens and his arrest for speeding and violation of red lights.
This uncontrollable passion for speed, which he did not hesitate to confess in public, turned out to be fatal as he took his own life, at the age of just 34, and having managed to live, for only a short time, his dream.
The dark boy who was born in a slum outside New York where he lived his teenage years before settling permanently in Greece, in 2016, after the separation of his parents, dreamed of escaping everything that drowned him and tasted success, fame, big life, beautiful girls, expensive cars. The song and specifically the trap, the most popular musical genre in today's youth, was his passport to the passage to the glamorous world he so passionately dreamed of.
Besides, he listened to hip hop music from a very young age and he had promised himself that one day he would also become a rapper: “With music you become immortal. Even artists who have passed away, you listen to them and they are as if they are coming to life again. I then said to myself, that it does not make sense to just live, to die and not be remembered by anyone. I did not start music for money. I wanted to leave a legacy, a story, a footprint. "May someone ever listen to me and say that Mad Clip was a lad who did something," he had confessed in an interview. Then of course he could not have imagined that fate would bring him face to face with death so soon…
He made his musical start with OE in 2004 making pieces with English lyrics. Crucial to his journey, however, was his acquaintance with rapper Taki Tsan who helped him release his first single entitled "Trelos", at the age of 27. From there, the road to success opened wide for him. He joined the staff of the record company Capital Music and began to establish himself, gradually, as one of the most sought after representatives of the domestic trap scene.
Peter Anastasopoulos was renamed Mad Clip, a name that comes from the initials of the phrase "Money and Drugs Can't Live in Poverty", and you literally drove You Tube crazy with the tracks to occasionally exceed 100 million views! Almost all the teenage mobile phones played his songs and the young people moved to the rhythms of his successes, including "Dealer", "Conditions", "Megistanas", "MAMA", "Yachts".
In some of them he even collaborated with the well-known names of the pop scene such as Eleni Foureira, Josephine and others. In total, he managed to release three albums, "Amerianos", "Super Tpapper" and "Super Trapper II".
Mad Clip occupied the media in February, as it had become known that he did not stop in traffic control, while he had followed a cinematic pursuit. The police brought him in a little while later. Eventually no case was filed against him and he was released.
As he said, he had experienced many of the exaggerated incidents he described in the lyrics of his songs. He had chosen to follow… his madness, to live in the red, to be carried away by his passions, to run with a thousand, to provoke fate… Unfortunately, he paid dearly for it ..
Source: Protothema.gr