Making the songs is the easy bit, he says, the fun thing. We keep our coats on and warm our fingers on the cups as we talk about his life and about the challenges of being an independent artist. We are in a north Dublin coffee shop so chilled we can see our breath in the air.

The resulting album, November Medicine, has been ready for more than a year, but he has been waiting for the right moment to release it. The Dublin rapper, aka Neal Keating, has made new music “from those bits – or the basement, as I call it”. But I think you have to go through a lot of shite sometimes to come out stronger on the other side. It’s mad how one shift can snowball into lots of things. One moment you are living a relatively stable life, Nealo is saying, talking slowly and quietly, as if he can barely believe what he is saying – “you’re in a relationship, you have a baby, you have a job” – and then you fast-forward a year “and you’re living as a stranger in someone’s house with a cot beside your bed.

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