It’s a family affair on Loyle Carner’s debut album.

The record’s final track, Sun of Jean, features a vocal appearance by his mum reading a poem and a sample of piano playing from his late step-dad.

The parental collaboration is something that seemed a natural fit for one of British music’s rising stars.

“I don’t think I was in a happy enough place a couple of years ago to write that song,” admits the rapper, real name Benjamin Coyle-Larner (his stage name being a spoonerism)

“It’s quite a bittersweet song but a couple of years ago I was just bitter – now I’ve got some beautiful people around me and it’s a lot easier to write something that feels like that. My mum was so all over appearing, although she was a bit nervous.

“But she just wanted to do right by me. I had no doubt in my mind that she would produce the goods and it was something that just felt right. My dad never had a piece of music out professionally so it made sense to me to pay homage to him through that.”

His family have influenced his career in several ways. It was while studying acting at the Brit School that his stepfather passed away, which saw Ben drop out of his studies and go home to support his family.

At the same time, he started working more and more on his music, and two years later he finds himself in the unexpected position of having a critically acclaimed Top 20 album, Yesterday’s Gone, and a tour taking place that stops at the Garage tomorrow night.

Lyrically, Ben writes on a varied selection of topics, from being diagnosed with ADHD to grief and friendship, while the song Isle of Arran looks at visits to his late grandfather, who lived in Scotland. It’s all set against a musical backdrop that switches from club friendly bangers to jazz and gospel influences, yet for all that he’s talented with words, actually seeing his album for the first time left Ben gobsmacked.

“It’s funny because I’ve usually got a knack with words but this was something where I was speechless,” he says.

“It was something that had been built up to for a long time, like a wedding day, where day by day it’s getting closer and all the people around you are excited for it. I guess it’s maybe more like giving birth, because it’s something that you love that’s going to be out.

“It’s a complete project and I’ve never been good at finishing them, so there is disbelief for me that it’s out there and being received quite well.”

Taking the record out on the road means the rapper will be re-visiting the album’s most emotional moments every night. That’s not something that he thinks will be too draining.

“It can be quite cathartic for me,” he adds.

“This is quite a long tour so it’s harder to hold that level of intensity every night, but it is something I enjoy. It’s nice to be in a room where people feel connected, though – I feed off the crowd and how they feel, and if they’re a bit more up for it, a bit more emotionally connected, then that’s when I can get even more invested.”

It isn’t just music he is busy with, though. Last year he helped to set up Chilli Con Carner, a charity aimed at helping teenagers with ADHD to cook, based around his own knowledge that cooking can be therapeutic.

“Hopefully it can continue to grow,” he says.

“It was such a refreshing thing to see when we did it. A lot of people have approached me and said it’s a good thing, or have actually heard of me through the cooking school, and that’s a beautiful thing that it’s helped people from different walks of life.

“Cooking and music are both creative things, so they resonate with me because of that.”

Loyle Carner, Garage, tomorrow, £15, 7pm