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Birmingham, United Kingdom (2002 – present)
Mike Skinner (born November 27, 1978), more commonly known by his stage name The Streets, is a rapper from Birmingham, England. He was born in Barnet in North London and that’s where his accent, sometimes called ‘Mockney’ by the press, comes from. You can hear his actual accent on the start of ‘Fake Streets Hats’ from his album The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living recorded in 2006. He moved to Birmingham shortly after he was born and is a Birmingham City fan. He has suffered from epilepsy since he was five.
He signed a five album record deal and has released four albums: Original Pirate Material (2002), A Grand Don’t Come for Free (2004), The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living (2006) and Everything Is Borrowed (2008).
The fourth album is said to be an uplifting album reflecting on life and the world, unlike his other three.
The album’s title track, ‘Everything Is Borrowed’ is a euphoric meditation on how to make the best of life’s infinite possibilities, containing the lyric, “I entered this world with nothing, and I left with nothing but love, everything else is just borrowed”. From this track we get to the album’s almost mystical finale, “The Escapist”, in which Mike Skinner is ‘Happily ponders the insignificance of little, fleeting, momentary me, under the dappled light of his favourite tree’.
The Streets’ fifth and final album is going to be called ‘Computers And Blues’ and Mike said “The final Streets album … will be dark and futuristic. I feel inspired by the synthesizer exhibition we visited in Graz.”
He signed a five album record deal and has released four albums: Original Pirate Material (2002), A Grand Don’t Come for Free (2004), The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living (2006) and Everything Is Borrowed (2008).
The fourth album is said to be an uplifting album reflecting on life and the world, unlike his other three.
The album’s title track, ‘Everything Is Borrowed’ is a euphoric meditation on how to make the best of life’s infinite possibilities, containing the lyric, “I entered this world with nothing, and I left with nothing but love, everything else is just borrowed”. From this track we get to the album’s almost mystical finale, “The Escapist”, in which Mike Skinner is ‘Happily ponders the insignificance of little, fleeting, momentary me, under the dappled light of his favourite tree’.
The Streets’ fifth and final album is going to be called ‘Computers And Blues’ and Mike said “The final Streets album … will be dark and futuristic. I feel inspired by the synthesizer exhibition we visited in Graz.”
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Original Pirate Material
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A Grand Don't Come for Free
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The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living
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Dry Your Eyes
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Aulin223 wrote:
download The Streets ringtones now for free at http://tiny.cc/ZxMoJ
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wiinter wrote:
@ashona233 you spam-whore, stop spamming!!
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mysecondtime wrote:
finally, i have a favorit band!
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okbabylol wrote:
Luv The Streets
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BBacid wrote:
I think more of grime...sometimes!
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hendy_2309 wrote:
Actually, what would you tag it as? It's not hip hop or rap either is it?
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mdoublej wrote:
well it isn't indie. haha thats for sure
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Sir_Ginge wrote:
not sure why its tagged as indie?
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Prokopov wrote:
Люблю его!!!
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sabacik wrote:
magic!
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ivo_gerner wrote:
I enjoy his songs more and more every time I listen to them.
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Si_pae wrote:
'A Grand Don't Come For Free' the best album
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Djvrazel wrote:
Yea. Lets Push things forward......Twinprov.com...if you like parody rap style of things like New Moon, Transformers, and Terminator
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saintsdontcry wrote:
Listen to the DOPEST dubstep remix of The Streets ever http://saintsdontcry.blogspot.com/2009/12/i-remixed-remix-and-it-was-back-to.html
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farid1007 wrote:
Radio
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_nekka wrote:
Anybody has "In the Middle" lyrics? Thanks!
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YNHOU wrote:
'A Grand Don't Come For Free' is still the best constructed album I have ever heard.
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Andesh wrote:
The irony of it all is amazing
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Wikihan wrote:
Why isn't Everything is borrowed listed here on last.fm? Strange, especially since the album is mindblowing
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osmark wrote:
the sound of living in birmingham
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