Mike Skinner reads an extract from The Story of the Streets

Mike Skinner reads an extract from The Story of the Streets | In my teens, I’d had a mate a few years older than me who was really into hip-hop and used to sell a bit of weed. He went to London once to try and buy quite a big quantity and ended up getting robbed at gun¬point. At that stage I remember thinking, ’Fuck! Birmingham is bad enough, what must London be like?’