The Streets couldn’t have come at a better time. The charts are full of novelty dance/garage tunes who are tellin’ us about how there’s only ’21 seconds to go' and how they’re “luvin’ it, luvin’ it, luvin’ it”, to the point where dance culture as a whole is considered some sort of mainstream joke. The Streets rap about real-life, about sex, drugs, the dole, music and admittedly Playstations. Basically about the lives of the kids who buy UK garage records.
“Original pirate material, you’re listening to the streets,” Mike Skinner (the sole member of The Streets) raps, in a part Brummie part Brixton accent, during the opening beats of 'Has It Come To This?'. Already its clear as day that this isn’t your typical UK Garage tune. It doesn’t have the cheesey hooks or the novelty gimmicks of the two-step, which is clogging the charts and hogging the dancefloor. It’s just a hard and desperate attempt to save any credibility UK Garage has at the present. And it’s that good it almost pulls it off.
A truly refreshing release, and a remarkable debut, and one which has finally given me a little respect for two-step. Well nearly.
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I do hear what you're saying about it not being like the commercial "UK garage" crap that's around but it's still awful. It's badly sung, very very badly constructed and extremely repetitive. It soon becomes clear that this guy has nothing of note to "sing" about when he starts banging on about all the places his underground train stops at. And let's not forget the very nasty "Ah. Ah. Ah." bit as well which sounds like a ham-fisted 6 year old has got busy with a sampler. Very messy, and I honestly can't believe it's got as much radio play as it has. The one thing it does convince me of however is that it's come from the streets, it really does sound like it.
Martin.
The Streets - Has It Come To This?
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