The Streets On Twitter

With the exception of a few occassional funny fake celebrity accounts, my disdain for Twitter is palpable. That very disdain may stand a chance of subsiding, however, if more musical acts take a cue from The Streets and start using Twitter to release new tracks. Obviously giving away their art won't be the best distrubtion method for most artists until the music industry changes its business model to account for the digital age, but people like The Streets seem to understand where it's all heading.

What you need to know about the Streets: The Streets are one man, Mike Skinner. The music has been described as garage, rap, club, or "2-step" (?), and still that doesn't begin to describe it. You have a guy using a mock cockney accent half talking, half rapping and lyrics serving as a commentary on youth in Britain all over carefully manufactured instrumental beats and some well placed samples.

The Irony of It All: I've gotten a lot of people into The Streets with this song alone. In it, Skinner pits a drinker versus a drug user as a debate starter about which drug is actually worse for society. Hilarity ensues.

	The Streets - The Irony Of It All
	Found at skreemr.com