Giacomo Nencioni examines migrant rappers on YouTube and finds that YouTube appears as an environment with a specific type of public sphere, based on a balance between nineteenth-century forms of entertainment and twentieth-century culture industry features. YouTube is a place in transformation, probably still in search of a stable identity and legitimation in the mediasphere, a prominent example of the remediation phase the media are going through and, above all, the birthplace of a new hybrid kind of public sphere that we must interpret and relate to.