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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 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 R...
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Top 10 The Streets Songs
Blinded by the Lights
Fit But You Know It
Dry Your Eyes
Turn The Page
Don't Mug Yourself
Let's Push Things Forward
Could Well Be In
Sharp Darts
Same Old Thing
It's Too Late
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Top 10 The Streets Albums
A Grand Don't Come for Free
Original Pirate Material
The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living
Dry Your Eyes
Fit but You Know It
All Got Our Runnins
Blinded by the Lights
The Hardest Way to Make an Eas
Don't Mug Yourself
Weak Become Heroes
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