Tedua, pseudonym of Mario Molinari, is an Italian rapper born in Genoa on the 22nd of February 1994 from a not particularly wealthy family. At the age of only three he was entrusted to a foster family, due to the absence of the father and the constant travel of the mother. He will stay there only a few years, in fact he will move shortly after to Milan, to his maternal grandmother, and then again to the Genoese suburbs, where he grows up getting in touch with those who will later be the members of the Wild Bandana (Vaz Tè and Izi). In this period the three will soon give themselves stage names: Molinari will choose Incubo, a name then abandoned in favor of Duate.

His musical career has a prominent and began to assert itself in 2015, when he returned to Milan and met music producers well known such as Charlie Charles, Sick Luke and Chris Nolan. He begins to write and publish songs that will then be brought together in the first mixtape << Aspettando Orange County >> and will make them available to everyone as free. The disc anticipated a second mixtape, entitled << Orange County Mixtape >> which has 21 tracks produced by the aforementioned (Charlie Charles, Sick Luke and Chris Nolan) and has seen among the collaborations artists such as Sfera Ebbasta, Ghali, Rkomi, Izi and Vaz Tè, these already quite well known too, especially in Milan.

The Orange County cycle ends with the release of the third mixtape Orange County California. It is a new edition of Orange County Mixtape with the addition of six unpublished pieces; Orange County California was subsequently certified gold by FIMI for the over 25,000 copies sold.

From May 2017 he begins to release some singles until in March 2018 he releases his best known album as well as listened to: Mowgli. It has been welcomed positively by specialized critics, who recognize its innovation in both trap and classic hip hop sounds. The album also achieved good sales success, reaching the top of the FIMI Album chart.

Tedua has often claimed to have been stylistically inspired by the Italian rapper Dargen D’Amico, from whom he inherited the vision of music as a stream of consciousness: on the Mowgli disc there is a piece, Acqua (thinking about you), whose refrain is a reprise of the track Malpensandoti by D’Amico.
his musical style does not follow the typical sounds of Italian trap or even from traditional hip hop ones: in fact he does not always follow the base (almost never) and for this there are many different judgments: there are those who express approval and pleasure and those who disapprove his stylistic innovation.

-Giulia Pellicanò

A lie told to oneself may seem reality.

 (3 Chances)

I took the skeleton in the closet and fed it to the dogs.

 (Elisir)

How do you say what you don’t think?

(Natura, Mowgli)