Gibbs, a 33-year-old Indiana rapper, may be a decade older than most of this audience but his career is just taking off after 2013's ESGN paved the way for the well-received 2014 album Piñata (produced by Madlib) and then last November's Shadow of a Doubt.

Three albums in three years, each packed with rapid-fire tracks of about three minutes. Did someone say impatient?

He arrived on stage just after 11pm late, drunk and obnoxious. And we lapped up every bit of it.

His attention span was shot, jumping between a capella raps, heaving beats, rambling banter and 30-second glimpses of tracks like Rob Me a Nigga and Deeper that instantly had the small room going wild.

The shirt quickly came off and the rhymes, despite his inebriated state, were still spectacularly proficient and impenetrable. He was hungry, lithe and deliciously good.