Rocco Hunt

Rocco Hunt, born Rocco Pagliarulo on November 21, 1994, in Salerno, is an Italian singer-songwriter and rapper who rose to prominence blending hip-hop with Neapolitan-dialect songwriting and mainstream Italian pop. Coming up through the Italian rap scene in the early 2010s, he distinguished himself by rapping and singing in Neapolitan, bringing the dialect and regional identity of southern Italy into a national pop context.

His breakthrough came with tracks like «Nu juorno buono», which helped establish him as a crossover figure between underground rap credibility and radio-friendly pop appeal. He went on to build a catalog of melodic, dialect-inflected songs including «Ti volevo dedicare», «Nisciun'», «Buonanotte amò», «O' posto mio» and «O' mar 'e o' sole», mixing rap cadences with sung hooks and warm, pop-oriented production.

Rocco Hunt has remained a consistent presence in Italian popular music, known for songs that carry a strong sense of place — Naples and southern Italy in particular — while still reaching a broad, mainstream audience. His work sits at the intersection of rap authenticity and pop accessibility, a combination that has made him one of the more recognizable voices of Neapolitan-inflected Italian music in the streaming era.