If the hip-hop of JUNIOR CALLY (born Antonio Signore in 1991) often sounds fast-paced, aggressive and like he’s fighting for his life, it’s because he’s been there and done that. As a teenager he experienced four difficult years of illness, and that history can be felt in the palpable sense of urgency that informs much of the Rome-born rapper’s diverse, pop-inflected oeuvre. It’s as true of the full-throated chanting of “Bulldozer” as it is of the groove-laden “NO GRAZIE”—both a cri de cœur against populism and a definitive statement of purpose.