Nobody captures the head-wrecking drama of ordinary life like the Brummy rap laureate
out to pasture in 2011, feeling he’d taken the nattering rapper formula as far as it could go. He’s since had a rethink and, after a number of comeback singles and a mixtape, now returns with the project’s sixth official album.
Witty, murky, twisting and turning, the record is a typically bravura salvo from pop’s resident everyman poet. It is also a reminder that nobody captures the head-wrecking drama of everyday life quite like Skinner chasing the rush of a killer couplet.is more than just another Streets LP, however. It doubles as a soundtrack to a movie of the same name that Skinner – the star, director, producer, writer and financier – has spent the past decade attempting to bring to the screen..
He shines, as ever, with his verbal agility and ability to make the personal universal. “My thoughts feel like cobwebs in a room no one’s been in,” he declares against a skittering dancehall groove on “Something to Hide”.… excels. “She had the look of a fox that isn’t walking away/ when you catch them on your street and it’s almost day,” he declares on “Walk of Shame”, his voice bathed in a dusky acoustic loop.
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