Daniel Robert Epstein: The Streets - A Grand Don’t come for Free.”

damn! i love the streets!

The streets are fucking ace. Mike Skinner is talented as hell... I know people on totally opposite ends of the musical spectrum that find some appeal in his music. He just kinda tells it as he sees it; he talks about things that the majority of young people experience here, both highs and lows. Fucking genius.

Wow. Mikeee's been getting so much press lately it's kee-razy. I guess all good things must one day go pop.

haha

I've been digging the single hard. We just got the CD at work, so it's only a matter of time now...

where do you work?

funny guy. met him last year in miami. i love the streets

fuck yizzyeah

i am from the streets!

At a big corporate bookstore. I was surprised we got this in at all, let alone shortly after the release.

this interview wasn't so hot.

i don't know if it was the interviewer or the interviewee, but it just wasn't that interesting. For a good interview, download the last track on the "grand don't come for free" album from kazaa or something, it think it's called "interview." Mike is funny and gets to the root of the album and the interviewer is a funny as shit also.

What version of the album was it on?

Idon't know his first album. 'A Grand' is a great laugh. Like an English version of Eminem, but better. Not crass and not really hardcore at all. One of the most real things I've ever heard. Songs about losing a phone, money and a girl. Everyday people. Highly recommended.
Wake up Hip Hop heads.

I bought the new album not having heard the Streets before but having read a number of great reviews of both this and the last album. At first listen I was a little disappointed because frankly I thought the beats on the album were a little weak. However, once you realize that each song is really a spoken word narrative with the music serving to support that narrative, as opposed to something you put on to groove to, I think you get a better handle on the album.

It's quite an interesting album, with aspects that make me grin (I love the way he says "fink" when he means "think") and aspects that make me remember similar scenes in my own life (the song where he and his girlfriend split is surprisingly touching).