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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 ...read more
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.” Also for his fifth album Mike said he would abandon sampling and
use live musicians.
When playing live, Skinner is joined by Kevin Mark Trail on backing vocals, Johnny Drum Machine on drums, Wayne Fibes on guitar and
bass, Chris Brown on keyboards and Magic Mike on samplers. « hide |
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