The past two years have been a rollercoaster for the Kid. He signed to underground powerhouse Duck Down Music NYC in 2011, releasing second album The Rose Tint in the US soon after and touring throughout North America with hip hop duo Aer.

Not wanting to rest on laurels, the start of 2013 saw Dallas enter the studio with production whizz kids Fire & Ice, note book in hand. Diamonds are made under pressure. In four months, Dallas had tweleve un-fuck-with-able finished tracks to put his name to.

D.Dot talks a big game but he's still a storyteller. Themes on Falling Into Place range from epic Django Unchained tales of escape on first single 'Runnin', to his tribute to the streets of South Auckland, 'Southside'. Arguably the biggest innovator in hip hop New Zealand has seen in two decades, Dallas has once again turned his eagle eye to finding new and unusual talent to mix in with his own. On 'The Wire' and 'The Gate' he collaborates with alt. pop icon Ruby Frost, the tracks bookending the album (both songs had been demo-ed a year before 'that' TV show, to quell any notions of bandwagon-jumping). Elsewhere in the tracklisting, up-and comers Spycc and Rokske rub shoulders with long time wingmen Sid Diamond, Mareko, PNC and US superstar rapper Freddie Gibbs.