Urban preview: Q-Tip, London

In some instances "old school", can almost denote mild disdain. Q-Tip is old school in the same kind of way that Eton and Harrow are old schools. Revered, of substantial reputation, in the past 10 years the sometime leader of A Tribe Called Quest - a group in the vanguard of early-90s, Afrocentric, "conscious" hip-hop - has not pushed too hard in his career, more let it come to him. In some respects, his hands have been tied; his record company declined to release the follow-up to solo album Amplified. After a spell dating Nicole Kidman, and a subsequent upturn in his profile, a new Q-Tip album, The Renaissance, fairly leaped out at the end of 2008. Strangely back-loaded with great tracks, the album is Q-Tip's method all over - patience eventually reaping its own reward.