Between this and Too Much Brandy are my top favorites. Let's Push Things Forward was my first video circa 2003 or so, and this album has staying power. Also Stay Positive is creepily still relevant a decade and a half later. Skinner is a legend.
This video is deceptively simple. It's just him with rapping at the camera in various locations. There's no crazy special effects but it flows and tells the story so well. I bet it took a lot of work to choreograph. Also, there needs to be a HD version of this video out there.
I remember seeing The Streets at Reading Festival 2002 in the dance tent. It was a bit special. Life's been up and down since I walked from that crowd.
London is loved and respected by all of Europe. You are our capital, not only because of your mere size but also because of London's influence over the World. Keep it up. Greetings from Sweden/Volvo Land
A new day another morning after, leaning back on my chair in a greasy spoon cafeteria Last night was some beer laryness done our way but again we're back in the light of day Chatting shit, sitting at the wall table telling jokes playing with the salt, lookin' out the window Girl brings 2 plates of full English over with plenty of scrambled eggs and plenty of fried tomato Get my phone out, 'bout to give this girl a shout, see if she had a nice time last night up town Ask if she fancies trying it again sometime then Cal grabs the phone like oi oi oi! Hold it down boy, your head's getting blurred I know you can't stop thinking of her By all means you can vibe with this girl But just don't mug yourself, that's all don't mug yourself! Seriously Mick you fucker No no no Cos ya know what I mean Don't mug yourself I'm fucking, I'm know way really d'ya know what I mean I can take it or leave it, believe, and then Calvins like oi You need to hold it down Jack, put your phone back Quit staring into space and eat your snack, that's that She'll want you much for not hanging on Stop me if I'm wrong, stop me if I'm wrong Why should she be the one who decides whether its off or on or on or off or on Now the girl's rude, I know she's rude but she screwed right through you, you'll be on your knees soon Hold it down boy, your head's getting blurred I know you cant stop thinking of her By all means you can vibe with this girl Bust just don't mug yourself, that's all don't mug yourself! And I'm like, honestly it's not like that, your acting like I'm prancing like a sap Jumping when she claps and that, oi Do you really think I act wack cos I'm tellin' ya serving the aces and it's game set and match Perfectly in control of this goal, I got the lead role, won't be fooled and I'm older than you're told Girl sold, high speeds gold, game over game over too cold Hold it down boy, your head's getting blurred I know you can't stop thinking of her By all means you can vibe with this girl But just don't mug yourself, that's all don't mug yourself! Hold it down boy, your head's getting blurred I know you can't stop thinking of her By all means you can vibe with this girl But just don't mug yourself, that's all don't mug yourself! Hold it down boy, your head's getting blurred! I know you can't stop thinking of her! Like girl is she as smelly ala piss! She must have crab and fuckin' shrimp in her teeth!
way before the word grime or hip hop was thought of, in the 1920's-30's,there was artists like Willie Brown, Woody Guthrie doing talking blues....American Beat poets in the 60's such as Bob Kaufman,Jack Kerouac were rhyming over musical beats and later in the 70s, artists such as Ian Dury, John Cooper Clarke were rhyming over beats so it ain't just a hiphop black or white thing,or grime ...funny how each generation thinks it invented a new way...their way...yet it been around since beginning since people told stories to the beat of a drum...
Oh God... I have tears on my eyes... (nahhh)... itsI just that I stumbled by accident on this song... and I can not believe that I forgot that I loved this song many years ago when MTV was playing some good music...
you can sit here n think of what youve done in your life and think you are very unique, but its all bin done before by millions of people.. mike skinner has the abillity to put it into words
happened to see a Streets video on Much Music a few minutes ago...just made me jump on youtube to bring up all the old songs...still got The Street CD somewhere...got the last 2...
Everybody thinks this is UK Hip Hop but it's actually Punk music. This sort of music was around when Lovers Rock was in the in thing during the 80's. British Reggae gave birth to this with a bit of Breakbeat of course.
Havent followed this whole conversation but I think the word we'r looking for is dialect. There are many different dialects in the UK whether it be scouse (Liverpool), geordie (Newcastle), Brummie (Birmingham), Black Country (West Brom, Wolverhampton) and I think Mike Skinner is somewhere near the last two. I quite like the guy, at least he's being himself and not copying American rap.
@onepiecesuit if you dont like the song dont comment. just because its different doesnt make it shit. the streets are fucking influential and pretty innovative. skinner is a fresh lyricist and everyone can relate to what he writes. They might not be to everyones taste but if its not yours then get out
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His delivery is so relaxed and just perfect haha
This song is what I need right now... In the process of mugging myself
randoman11 Don't mug yourself.
In the same boat, what happened in the end?
We've all been their, I know you can't stop thinking of her but hold it down boy!!!
Same g, needed this song to put me in my place
Possibly the most accurate song ever?
You mean acute
Joshua Muller no accurate!
Ha ha so true
God would love it if you mugged yourself till the end
Probably
Heres a song to have a listen to before you go make yourself look a complete tit. :)
fuckin aye, some serious wisdom here
This is actually really good advice for anyone who meets a girl, lol. Dont chase!
So glad I found this guy again. Had a friend in highschool that was always playing The Streets, and Hot Chip on our drives. RIP Jake 🙏
never has there been another Mike Skinner! mixes with old school grime artists too both my favourite types of music
Can't believe this tune is now 10 years old. what an old school gem!
How do you feel now mark? 20 years
Hehe, last of good music
Still a gem innit
U wot m8?
Between this and Too Much Brandy are my top favorites. Let's Push Things Forward was my first video circa 2003 or so, and this album has staying power. Also Stay Positive is creepily still relevant a decade and a half later. Skinner is a legend.
Haha I keep coming back to this song when my "edz gettin blurred."
My name is also Jack lol
how many bloody times do you have a sit down with the lads and give them this talk :')
James P Woods damn dude, you’re hurt bad. hope shit gets better for you
Lol that towie advert made me remember this lol the streets was brilliant
Same here! :)
same forgot about this tune
Phil bert same here ha ha ha
Haha me too. The only good thing to come from Towie's existence is that the advert reminded me I needed this song.
👌👌
Nice Fred Perry shirt oi oi oi
Listened to this over and over again. I left the UK 18 mths ago and watching this made me miss the place for the 1st time strangely
Don't mug yourselves, mates
im from the states and i heard Brian Belo singing this on BB 07 so i looked it up haha!
Great little bubbling tune. Reminds me of when I used to work in a shithole in Peckham.
listen to this every single time beforE first date with new potencial girlfriend :D
you're a smart man.
+Marinko Rokvic Well played sir
+Marinko Rokvic the way it's gotta be. take care fam
So you've only listened to this song once?
ha ha ha
If only I heard this song 6 months ago.
Yo i read this message and it said you sent that 6 months
+Kick OfTragedy that is comedy gold lmaoooo
Mike Skinner was actually kinda fit back then
+TheHilikus89 Too much Stella will do that
+TheHilikus89
I Still would
He looks fine now. Less of a scally if anything. Suits a beard.
TheHilikus89 omg I know right 😉
And don't he know it....
Discovered this one waaaay too late :(
Its never too late
my first big love was the same as the relationship mikes rappin about and at the same time love it.... and mike-oooooh baby xxxxxxxx
national treasure
The clip must be watched when tuning in. Just like "Fit"
🎧👈Those are a must. Vibes are off the chart. 😎
i fucking love his simple cheaply made beats
sick little break down at the end. pure nostalgia gold
I might’ve heard this song JUST in time, cheers boys
This song reminds me of my childhood always use to listen to this song when I went to sleep
just had a naughty night listening to these geeeeeeezers
Ah 10 years old still a massive banger cheers skinner :)
It’s crazy to think my dad was 2 years above mike skinner in the same school
Love mike skinner! It's is the first song I heard by him so many years ago and still love it :)
God damn, he looks so young in this... Time flies..
This video is deceptively simple. It's just him with rapping at the camera in various locations. There's no crazy special effects but it flows and tells the story so well. I bet it took a lot of work to choreograph. Also, there needs to be a HD version of this video out there.
how fast has time gone
i havent heard this song for ages. its a wicked tune!!! brings back good memories. looking forward to some new streets material
How often can a song actually make you laugh out loud?
with mike's songs?! EVERY FREAKING TIME
Listen to colt.45 by afroman. Shits so funny
Viagra Boys - Sports
I remember seeing The Streets at Reading Festival 2002 in the dance tent. It was a bit special.
Life's been up and down since I walked from that crowd.
Love British hip hop so much :)
not hiphop its grime
I've never heard that term, soz :) Australian!
haha not many people have but british hip-hop is called grime
marc padmore
Thankyou for telling me :) Always good to use the right term :) British music is the best in the world imo :)
This aint grime you melt.
Man I heard this in a electro swing mix about a year ago and been trying to find it since can’t believe I finally did it
this was on some random CD me and my sister had as a kid, it is so weird listening to it again.
Wow. I am impressed. This is a really really cool song with a cool story. - I really had to smiiile. :-) Nice rhythm.
The lyrics in this song have such a true meaning.
I like it.
Its fun and has a good message.
Don't ever crawl.
Show weakness and you lose her forever!
Miss this kind of music
Feel old
Mike Skinner....talent
fuck i cant believe it has been 10 years!
14 :O
London is loved and respected by all of Europe.
You are our capital, not only because of your mere size but also because of London's influence over the World.
Keep it up. Greetings from Sweden/Volvo Land
A new day another morning after, leaning back on my chair in a greasy spoon cafeteria
Last night was some beer laryness done our way but again we're back in the light of day
Chatting shit, sitting at the wall table telling jokes playing with the salt, lookin' out the window
Girl brings 2 plates of full English over with plenty of scrambled eggs and plenty of fried tomato
Get my phone out, 'bout to give this girl a shout, see if she had a nice time last night up town
Ask if she fancies trying it again sometime then Cal grabs the phone like oi oi oi!
Hold it down boy, your head's getting blurred
I know you can't stop thinking of her
By all means you can vibe with this girl
But just don't mug yourself, that's all don't mug yourself!
Seriously Mick you fucker
No no no Cos ya know what I mean
Don't mug yourself
I'm fucking, I'm know way really d'ya know what I mean
I can take it or leave it, believe, and then Calvins like oi
You need to hold it down Jack, put your phone back
Quit staring into space and eat your snack, that's that
She'll want you much for not hanging on
Stop me if I'm wrong, stop me if I'm wrong
Why should she be the one who decides whether its off or on or on or off or on
Now the girl's rude, I know she's rude but she screwed right through you, you'll be on your
knees soon
Hold it down boy, your head's getting blurred
I know you cant stop thinking of her
By all means you can vibe with this girl
Bust just don't mug yourself, that's all don't mug yourself!
And I'm like, honestly it's not like that, your acting like I'm prancing like a sap
Jumping when she claps and that, oi
Do you really think I act wack cos I'm tellin' ya serving the aces and it's game set and match
Perfectly in control of this goal, I got the lead role, won't be fooled and I'm older than you're told
Girl sold, high speeds gold, game over game over too cold
Hold it down boy, your head's getting blurred
I know you can't stop thinking of her
By all means you can vibe with this girl
But just don't mug yourself, that's all don't mug yourself!
Hold it down boy, your head's getting blurred
I know you can't stop thinking of her
By all means you can vibe with this girl
But just don't mug yourself, that's all don't mug yourself!
Hold it down boy, your head's getting blurred!
I know you can't stop thinking of her!
Like girl is she as smelly ala piss!
She must have crab and fuckin' shrimp in her teeth!
tamata*
way before the word grime or hip hop was thought of, in the 1920's-30's,there was artists like Willie Brown, Woody Guthrie doing talking blues....American Beat poets in the 60's such as Bob Kaufman,Jack Kerouac were rhyming over musical beats and later in the 70s, artists such as Ian Dury, John Cooper Clarke were rhyming over beats so it ain't just a hiphop black or white thing,or grime ...funny how each generation thinks it invented a new way...their way...yet it been around since beginning since people told stories to the beat of a drum...
i tried to mug myself once i lost 2 teeth but gained £20 so id say it was quite succesful
Oh God... I have tears on my eyes... (nahhh)... itsI just that I stumbled by accident on this song... and I can not believe that I forgot that I loved this song many years ago when MTV was playing some good music...
2015 i still don't mug myself
Twelve yr ago and I’m still listening in 2018
what´s the name of the song playing at the end ?
but i know that i have heard the full song with that exact same beat in my friends car..
Nikki Wijk its called same old thing by the streets mate
Louthal
thx so much bro:D
Nikki Wijk
that beat is from "New World Symphony" by Dvorak by the way
Which is pretty cool I guess
Look Ben
zane lowe and doorly dropped this at ibiza rocks last week...inanse...what a tune, the place erupted! big up skinner
I wish I took the advise of this song sooner XD.
This stuff goes right over my head...
Wow i just now realized he sampled the beginning of Dvoraks 9th.
David S. Eh? Which part?
Gerhard Symons 2:28 onwards
Personally, I don't hear it.
Gerhard Symons www.whosampled.com/The-Streets/
I take your word for it, even though I like Dvořak and live in Prague!
Needed this so badly right now lol.
'Edd was getting blurred.
just came back from tenerife and i think i mugged myself :(
you can sit here n think of what youve done in your life and think you are very unique, but its all bin done before by millions of people.. mike skinner has the abillity to put it into words
Joe Ledley vine :)
come again?
Nonce
happened to see a Streets video on Much Music a few minutes ago...just made me jump on youtube to bring up all the old songs...still got The Street CD somewhere...got the last 2...
working class english people are no different to working class irish its not funny
probably becuz most english working class are irish
+boo urns working class english??? where?? how??
+Bestia Borealis England
Same thing
+boo urns Except one used to have a farm but now works as a bellhop where his farm used to be.
This stuff goes right through my head.
oi oi oi oi
I love the extra britishness on this jam 🔥♥️ this song always lightens the mood
Everybody thinks this is UK Hip Hop but it's actually Punk music. This sort of music was around when Lovers Rock was in the in thing during the 80's. British Reggae gave birth to this with a bit of Breakbeat of course.
"Done our way, but then again, back in the light of day" is the new best way to call oneself a "night owl".
Ahhh, this song. Good memories.
I listen to this on the way to school to wake me up :)
Saw the streets a few years back in Dublin, Mike shouted "HELLO LONDON" and for the most they werent too happy about it. ha.
Omg ain't heard this for time brings back funny memories
I just heard this song last night and I can't stop listening and laughing XD
Love this ! He did it at Brixon 2011
Ahh the second song I heard by the Streets and made me fall in love with their music
Звездаааааа, avanti stella rosa, Милано је наш!!!
no. Mike is the best.
Oi the Rasta homeless guy bit gets me every time😂
Drinking tea right now and watching this… I feel so British yet I'm not.
@SatayBeef Hey, it's called 'Same Old Thing' from The Streets first album, Original Pirate Material
Hahaha. Too funny. I nearly spewed perfectly good beer when I laughed.
god i miss the streets man!! banger tune!
Callie Scott darker the shadow the brighter the light ~~>>
Havent followed this whole conversation but I think the word we'r looking for is dialect. There are many different dialects in the UK whether it be scouse (Liverpool), geordie (Newcastle), Brummie (Birmingham), Black Country (West Brom, Wolverhampton) and I think Mike Skinner is somewhere near the last two.
I quite like the guy, at least he's being himself and not copying American rap.
is there an extended version of the second part of the song at all?
Brown and Booker sent me here... Muggin' themselves in Canada.
I like it, and the beat from the end is pretty cool
The end..... No words needed.
carnt get this tune out of my head amazing
Haha, it's good when everyone in the room joins in with saying " don't mug yourself" at him.
stop me if im wrong,stop me if im wrong LOL
that beat at the end is dope!
;'( i remember this !
So sad..HAPPY MUSIC !
Am i only one who turned this song up to the max when it came on !
This deserves more views... I like :)
Still bangin this shiz 2022
@onepiecesuit if you dont like the song dont comment. just because its different doesnt make it shit. the streets are fucking influential and pretty innovative. skinner is a fresh lyricist and everyone can relate to what he writes. They might not be to everyones taste but if its not yours then get out
Makes me feel so old to see TH-cam vids that are now 11 years old. I remember this video like it was yesterday. Haha
Fuck.
Never gets old
I never had good enough friends like this. They would just laugh at me 😂
This was released over a decade ago and it's still relevant. I don't think three more years is going to make much of a difference.
is there a version with decent sound quality?