“I have been told for a long time that I have Asperger’s”: Damso speaks openly

Damso is back in stores sooner than expected. While he affirmed last July that BĒYĀH, expected in May 2025, was his next album – and also the last -, the Belgian rapper released this Friday a new opus called I lied and produced completely independently since he no longer has a record company. “I can do what I want, how I want, when I want. I don't want to ask someone for permission for my music, which I put all my soul into.”he explains in a long interview with Le Parisien/Aujourd’hui en France.

Damso on his autism in I lied

“My microphone is my best friend. I built a relationship with him, a bit like a loved one to whom you can tell everything.”confides the one who gives himself up like never before in this record. He mentions in particular, in the song OF DAMASCUSthe disorder that some people have always diagnosed him with. “Since I was 4 years old, I have been told in a pejorative way, either that I am HPI, or autistic, or in the moon, in short, in my thing. (…) I have been told for a very long time that I have Asperger's, but in a pejorative way. When I went to look for information, indeed, it's true that it resembles me on little things like this form of focus on things and a sort of social incompatibility”details the rapper, specifying that “never went very far in reflection”.

Damso and his mental feeling

Without filter, Damso also talks to our colleagues about his discomfort and his long periods of depression. “I have been so dark at times that I would have preferred not to exist. But the moments of depression are fewer than before, it's like a microclimate. You just have to adapt to these moments and I do it in a peaceful way. It doesn't matter when it rains or when it's a little hot. Before, I was struggling, I always wanted the sun. Today, I changed my thinking: I'm happy to experience all these. even the darkest emotions, because it makes everything stronger”, he admits, assuring that he is feeling better today “morally, mentally and physically”. “JI questioned myself, I had a lot of deaths of close people in a short time around me and I just understood that you should not live for people, but for yourself. Because when we leave, we leave alone.”