A one-man English rap crew known as The Streets, Mike Skinner adopted a rowdy, intoxicated persona on his 2002 debut, Original Pirate Material. That work and its two follow-ups made Skinner a star ...

The Streets' A Grand Don't Come for Free, Skinner's second album, has cemented his place straddling the urban hip-hop scene on one side and idiosyncratic English singer-songwriters on the other. He ...