Mike's subtle yet crafty lyricism and the saucy, electric music productions constantly vie and bid for first place, with neither overtaking the other, but the push and pull is part of the appealing main attraction. The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living is an exercise in empty nothingness.
The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living. He's very original, hard-to-categorize, and doesn't sound like a lot of other hiphop acts.Show your cultural savvy by supporting one of today's best rap artists The album ends somewhat abruptly, but there is so much lasting value and memorability here that it doesn't really matter. If you can handle a more abrasive Mike Skinner, this is still a great album full of excellent beats and amusing turns of phrase.With 'The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living,' The Streets complete a trifecta of hot albumsThe Streets, which is British garage emcee Mike Skinner and his artist accompaniment (Johnny Drum Machine, Kevin Mark Trail and Leo The Lion), unroll more of their easy electro-smooth, elegantly melodic, UK hip hop in their third LP, The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living, almost to the prediction of fans who have already been through their first two classic albums, Original Pirate Material and A Grand Don't Come For Free, and who may want something completely different altogether. Really what this means is that this album has some of the best and worst moments of The Streets. You can still see all customer reviews for the product. 2564632302; CD). Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. The Streets (Mike Skinner) is one of my favorite artists around. The Streets, which is British garage emcee Mike Skinner and his artist accompaniment (Johnny Drum Machine, Kevin Mark Trail and Leo The Lion), unroll more of their easy electro-smooth, elegantly melodic, UK hip hop in their third LP, The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living, almost to the prediction of fans who have already been through their first two classic albums, Original Pirate Material and A Grand Don't Come For Free, and who may want something completely different altogether. Being a newcomer to The Streets, I am thoroughly amazed by how solid, clever, and brilliant this album is! For this CD though, they could never have ire for the band. Ever sense I have first heard them Even so, the warm keyboards of Pranging Out, the choir of miscreants on Never Went To Church and passionate but yowly Two Nations (a tribute originally meant for Notorious BIG's Duets album but rejected due to unsympathetic lines such as `we gave you John Lennon, even though you shot him as well') ensure that The Hardest Way is an accessible album in spite of Skinner lyrically beating himself up about his materialism and shallow relationships in stanzas that stop just short of a surrogate suicide note. M ike Skinner scans as a hip-hop artist for the American press because he talks rather than sings, but The Streets’ genre-defying music has little precedent, a detailed patchwork of emphatic storytelling and bleepy-symphonic production that suggests garage-meets-Super-Nintendo. Mike dishes on relationships, women, fame, life and the musical and cultural differences between New York and London (and the United States and England if you want to get broader). With 'The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living,' The Streets complete a trifecta of hot albums Get scans of reviews, we beg to chart up Tell my mum over tea, the press have started up We've spent a fortune 'Cause with ghost buying it's the end for tune We need to sell some records soon It's the hardest way to make an easy living The party stage is a bit nearer to delivery It's the hardest way to make an easy living