After kicking around the fringes of hip hop for some 10 years in the wake of minor solo hit Legend Of A Cowgirl, Imani Coppola has teamed up with studio whiz Adam Pallin to fashion an R&B/pop hybrid, stuffed with fat soul samples and girl-group swing.

Recent single The World Should Revolve Around Me sets the pace, all brassy Jackson 5 delirium and a lyric that slides between bombastic and self-deprecating. The pair then pull off the nifty feat of matching its catchy-as-a-fire chorus 10 times over in an avalanche of likely smash hits, as Coppola lays down her family values in Go Hard Or Go Home or sends Amy Winehouse packing with the glorious Cryin' For The Queen.

The Stoop’s not just a feast of hooky joy. Quotable lines ping by at dizzying rate – from SMS treachery on LOL ( “Next time check the safety’s on/Trigger-happy fingers can expose a con”) to Liked You Better Before’s wry dissection of relationship breakdown (“Now your new ringtone is the theme of the Wicked Witch”) – with Coppola revelling in her decision to step out of the margins and embrace pop music. Witty, sassy and sweetly tuneful, she deserves her moment in the sun.