Drill’s raw, sunless beats have found fertile ground in Zone 7 of Milan, where Vale Pain and his unruly cohort of rappers craft their scalding take on the genre. The border-busting cut “Louboutin”—a collab with Rondodasosa, a fellow member of nimble local crew SEVEN 7oo—strikingly encapsulates the harshness and bassy, exhilarating hooks that drive this corner of the city. The rapper looks more inwards on 2022 album PAIN, merging the romantic “Te Quiero”—sampling Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me”—with “Orfanelli”, a seemingly feather-light, guitar-inflected ballad inspired by the loss of his father.