looking forward to this album...

He's the Tennents Super-drinking geezer who's been compared to Dostoevsky and Pepys. The cutting edge hip-hop artist who wowed Radio 2 audiences. Now Mike Skinner, also known as the Streets, is back and he is as honest and controversial as ever.

The Streets' next album will address celebrity, but Skinner's celebrity life involves losing hundreds of thousands of pounds spread betting, getting punched by his manager and taking crack cocaine with a woman pop singer the night before she appeared on Saturday morning show CD-UK.

also, here's the video for his new single