We have A Tribe Called Quest with We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service - the tribe's sixth and final album. What a blessing. I never thought this day would come, and I definitely wasn't expecting anything new to come about after we lost Phife earlier this year but here we are.

It's so beautiful to hear Phife's voice on something new even after he's passed - he left us with a hell of an album, and more than that, a legacy of game-changing hip-hop. I've often said that ATCQ are my favourite hip-hop collective - without them, the genre would've meant something completely different to me today. Having them back with that classic Tribe flow, accompanied by some of the today's current greats, it's exactly the way I'd have expected them return and it maybe even turned out better than I'd hoped.

Immediate stand outs from me were of course "Dis Generation", "We The People..." and "Conrad Tokyo (feat. Kendrick Lamar)". I've got to say that these three tracks might just have to be in the top ten instrumentals of the year for me (if I were making that list). These tracks go off! The first time to listened to "We The People..." I actually had to take it back to the beginning after 30 seconds. It ws too much - Q-Tip has most certainly not lost his touch with his bars or his beats.

Aside from this album, all I've had to listen to from Tribe was released either before I was actually born or before I could even remember anything - I've been listening to them for over 20 years and even now their new material stands out to me just as much as their old. Talk about ahead of their time! I can only hope that this record is something that, like me, future generations will be listening to as if it only just came out. Visionaries; every one of them, and they've left us with a beautiful piece of work. Really and truly, thank you 4 your service A Tribe Called Quest.

With Little Dragon kicking off their European Tour (in support of Nabuma Rubberband) in Paris tonight I thought it only right to post the chat a had a few days ago with their brilliant bassist - Fredrick Wallin. If you don't know who Little Dragon are yet, you're going to want to find out...

My brother came to me raving about this new band and the first thing I asked was "What do they sound like?" and when he answered "the modern day Fugees". I knew immediately that I had to give them a listen. This trio is just what I need in my life right now. After listening through some of their tracks on soundcloud, I've decided that they are definitely going to catch a lot of people's attention.

For a while I've been feeling like Hip-Hop and R&B in particular have really gone downhill in a lot of ways. Don't get me wrong there are still a few that portray what I feel the those genres are about but it's nice to have some new artists around that I feel really appreciate and pay homage to old school Hip-Hop.

HAWK HOUSE - Chill Pill (Experiment 2)