![]() Henceforth, however, following the release of the new album next month and subsequent live dates, the Streets will be no more. Nor can it be said that any of those characters are quite so complex or as interesting as Skinner himself, who in some ways became the very model of the modern recording artist, controlling every aspect of the Streets' career ("a very 360-degree artist", as he says) but one also wont to discuss Darwinian evolution or the theories of Nikola Tesla, neither of which are really contemporary pop fare. The cost he paid was a tailing off in commercial as well as critical acclaim but there is little disputing that, without the Streets, the charts today would look skew-whiffedly different – his influence on the confessional pop of the likes of Lily Allen as considerable as it is obvious on a new breed of UK rappers such as Plan B. The experience of fame and its bloody aftermath then produced two albums that traced Skinner's own moral – even spiritual – development. ![]()
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