Formed in Birmingham, England in 1994, The Streets is rapper, musician,
songwriter and producer Mike Skinner and a rotating cast of collaborators.
Offering a distinctly British take on hip-hop, Mike Skinner’s lager-swilling
social commentary, humour, and honesty melded garage, rap, punk and dub into
brash, swaggering portraits of youth culture. Equally popular with urban, indie
and pop fans, debut album Original Pirate Material (2002) introduced Skinner as
a razor-tongued urban poet telling tales of binge-drinking party nights. Working
around the concept of Mike Skinner searching...