The Streets - "Escapist"

Usually, rap/hip-hop/grime from the UK makes me wants to punch homeless babies in the face. I can't stand it. The beats are horrible, the lyrics are horrible, and a ghetto British accent is like taking a corkscrew to the ears.

That said . . .The Streets has been an exception to that many times, and Mike Skinner does it again. He's much more poetic than his counterparts and tends to use tracks that are alot more musical than the arrhythmic thumping found elsewhere in the Queendom.