“I don't want it to be like this major announcement,” he explains. “This is a Mix Master Mike record and MCA just happens to be on it. Which is awesome... I got the blessing from his wife, Dechen, who we’re close with. She liked the record and she was like, ‘Do it, use it’. She told me he would be proud.”

Reminiscing about his time with the Beasties, he says that Hello Nasty – the first record he worked on with them – is still his ultimate favourite of theirs.

“That one, sonically and as a whole body of work from beginning to end, for me, personally, just came out so brilliant. And shout out to Mario C (Hello Nasty’s producer) for engineering that. It was a collective effort.”

He tells the story of the making of Three MCs and One DJ, a classic Beastie Boys track which sees him namechecked in the chorus (“Mix Master Mike, whatcha got to say?”) and throughout.

“When I was recording Hello Nasty in the studio with the guys, I remember they would gather round the turntables. And I would just show off, and show them all this sh*t. And it’d be funny, looking at their faces, and their jaws on the floor like,” he says.

“I remember telling them really directly, ‘Hey, you should rhyme over this beat. I'm gonna scratch the drum and you should rhyme over this sh*t.’ I remember looking at Yauch going, ‘You guys should all write some lyrics to this.’

“They said, ‘Okay we'll be right back.’ They disappeared for four or five hours. And I recorded those drums with Mario C.”

He says creating the track was a moment that felt both “surreal” as a fan of the band at the time, and “very flattering”.

“Everything was scratched. That was the motivation,” he says. “It was like, we’re not using a drum machine. Everything we’re gonna do right now is gonna be human. That’s what you call the purest form of hip hop.”

“I got something in the mail two years after that,” he says. “And it was a Grammy award. So that's when it all came to me. I opened it and I was like, ‘Oh sh*t, that's a f*cking Grammy Award that just came to my door!’ It became real to me.”