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 hiphop 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 gunpoint. At that stage I remember thinking, Fuck Birmingham is bad enough, what must London be like