Mike Skinner, the musical mastermind behind The Streets, once again melds hip-hop, dub, ska, UK garage beats, and his unique rhyme style to deliver a sound like nothing else. Instead of the snapshot imagery of the last album, "Original Pirate Material," "A Grand..." is one continuous narrative, following Skinner through a day of victories, defeats, and battles. "On the new album Skinner steps away from scene affiliations and into more exploratory spaces. The result actually comes off more genuinely hip-hop    [ read more ]

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Genre challenging musical genius Mike Skinner returns with his brilliant 3rd studio album, The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living. This autobiographical masterpiece retells Mike's life from street kid to celebrity in the UK. Drugs, sex, loss, love, scandal, and violence echo throughout this magnum opus from the lead single "When You Wasn't Famous" until the end.

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Mike Skinner, 22, is the musical mastermind behind U.K. phenomenon, The Streets. When you meet Mike, with his slight figure, gray hoodie, shiny white Nikes, and gentle Birmingham accent, the phrase 'bling bling' isn't what instantly springs to mind. But his debut, ?Original Pirate Material? is the next evolutionary leap for British urban music. It might not be the poppiest album you've ever heard, or the darkest, or the most likely to stir up pandemonium on the dance floor, yet Mike's MC chats offer unparal   [ read more ]

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RESTOCK. This is the first US single release by the Streets, featuring a worldwide exclusive remix by Mr. Figit, Big$hot's drum and bass remix, Jammer's UK Garage remix, and the non-LP cut "Give Me My Lighter Back." Maxim and Entertainment Weekly's rated the Streets' debut as #1 Album of the Year, and it was Rolling Stone's #1 Debut of the Year.

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The first time people heard The Streets' Mercury Prize-nominated debut Original Pirate Material, they couldn't make their minds up whether the person making this music was black or white, from London or the Midlands, deadly serious or a totally joker. We know who Mike Skinner is now (or at least we thought we knew). So for him to have come up with a record which surprises and delights the listener as much as everything is borrowed is, if anything, an even more impressive achievement.    [ read more ]

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The Streets' tour de force of post rave culture, 'Weak Become Heroes', has been given a thorough working over in an appropriate house and breaks fashion. Featuring remixes by Mike Skinner, Ashley Beedle and Steve Osborne. As a bonus there's also a Streets remix of 'Let's Push Things Forward', featuring Roll Deep, and a rant against mates who don't pay their way called 'Give Me My Lighter Back'.

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When Streets tracks first appeared in DJ sets and on garage mix albums circa 2000, they made for an interesting change of pace; instead of hyper-speed ragga chatting or candy-coated divas (or both), listeners heard banging tracks hosted by a strangely conversational bloke with a mock cockney accent and a half-singing, half-rapping delivery. It was Mike Skinner, producer and MC, the half-clued-up, half-clueless voice behind club hits "Has It Come to This?" and {&"Let's Push Things Fo   [ read more ]

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Mike Skinner has a problem, and from the sound of it, it's life-threatening. He opens his second Streets full-length by moaning "It was supposed to be so easy..." as though he's about to deliver his deathbed confession, the classic tale of a crime gone wrong. Instead, three minutes later, it's clear what the "it" was: walking down to bring back a DVD rental, taking some money out of the machine, and calling his mother, who he'd just left at home, to tell her he wouldn't be back for tea. Believe it or    [ read more ]

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By the end of the last Streets album, The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living, listeners and even most fans were ready for Mike Skinner to stop complaining about the perils of celebrity. Skinner sounded crass and cynical, utterly disgusted with his life and very bitter about what it had become. (In so doing, it proved that he's one of the most honest songwriters to ever step up to a microphone.) Everything Is Borrowed is a neat about-face, a record that couldn't be more different from its pred   [ read more ]

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