The \u201cyoung one,\u201d balanced somewhere between Kant and Lil Wayne, is a rare breed of Italian hip-hop head<\/strong>: a figure who moves fluidly across music, sport, and lifestyle with the same ease he flips a sample. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A multitalented operator who brings both passion and precision into the rap game, the kind of artist you can\u2019t ignore once you\u2019ve crossed his frequency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Born and raised in Monza to a Sicilian father and a mother from Lake Como, Giovane Platone aka Young Plato grew up in that half-industrial, half-romantic limbo that has shaped more than one restless creative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n His first steps into hip-hop came through graffiti crews; then came the beats \u2014 raw, sample-based, steeped in the culture. He\u2019s since built a tight orbit around collaborators like Ciccio<\/strong> (pka Doye Tex), Lillo <\/strong>(pka Click Head), and a handful of Milan scene heads, earning respect also from the likes of Night Skinny and Dee-Mo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before going all in on music, after uni, Plato did his time inside the corporate world \u2014 seven years as an account in distribution, learning the hard structure that would later help him run his own ship. Today, he\u2019s left that behind, trading forecasts and spreadsheets for drum machines and long runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because yes, Plato runs: a former track kid turned long-distance runner, all sweat and style. He even starred in a Nike spot, bridging performance and aesthetics with the same clarity he brings to the beat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the centre of it all sits his mantra: \u201cSport, Beats & So when Training Day<\/em> dropped \u2014 his latest release with mic partner Doye Tex \u2014 it felt like the right moment to call the philosopher-runner-producer-corporate-guy himself. To talk about inspirations, contradictions, and hip-hop not as a doctrine, but as a way of seeing the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Giovane Platone is a beautiful kind of mad \u2014 and like his ancient namesake, his ideas don\u2019t stay theoretical for long. They move, run, and hit, turning thought into rhythm and rhythm into life. Give me Giovane Platone in three words.<\/strong> How did you enter hip-hop?<\/strong> I\u2019m from Monza\u2014dad Sicilian, mom from Lake Como. I grew up there, still live there. The first serious moment came with Ciccio. His rap group broke up around 2019\u20132020, and we locked in: WRC 86 EP<\/em>, Leatherface 2<\/em>, and everything that followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then Lillo (Click Head) came in, the circle widened, and I understood what collaboration really means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/strettoblaster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Giovane-Platone-1-1024x538.jpg\")
Drugs<\/s> Culture<\/em>.\u201d A life philosophy as much as a creative statement<\/strong>. His academic background in philosophy shows through, with a thesis on empiricism, a mind wired for logic and curiosity. For him, Kant defines how philosophy should be done, and in rap, Pusha T is the Kant of cadence: methodical, precise, flawless.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
We had a long conversation, and this is just a glimpse into the beautiful mind of Young Plato.
Enjoy the run. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sport. Beats. Droogs. (LOL). Nah, make it “culture”. That\u2019s me. I live my passions hard\u2014music, training, life itself. Everything I do is about rhythm and movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Through graffiti. All my friends painted. I tried, but I wasn\u2019t that great, so I drifted toward beats. From day one, I made beats for rap, not for the algorithm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n