A Grand Don't Come for Free is the second studio album from British garage and Hip hop act The Streets. It was released on 18 May 2004 and is listed in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. It is a rap opera which follows the story of its protagonist's relationship with a girl named Simone, alongside the mysterious loss of £1000 from his home (the eponymous "grand") A Grand Don't Come for Free is the second studio album from British garage and Hip hop act The Streets. It was released on 18 May 2004 and is listed in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. It is a rap opera which follows the story of its protagonist's relationship with a girl named Simone, alongside the mysterious loss of £1000 from his home (the eponymous "grand") false 2024-02-04 13:35:02 A Grand Don't Come for Free 7.3 2004 2004-01-01 2004-01-01 51 Breaks;Electronic;Hip Hop;Uk Garage 112034 2115916 2e24044e-a62d-38cd-a81c-bb18568d69f7 6f607087-9c46-4bb2-a884-e4efc764554c 606032a2-ec19-32ca-a7c9-17a32dea72ae /media/data/media3/Music/The Streets/A Grand Don't Come for Free (2004)/folder.jpg The Streets AlbumArtist The Streets Artist The Streets The Streets 1 It Was Supposed to Be So Easy 03:55 2 Could Well Be In 04:23 3 Not Addicted 03:40 4 Blinded by the Lights 04:44 5 Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way 04:35 6 Get Out of My House 03:51 7 Fit but You Know It 04:14 8 Such a Twat 03:47 9 What Is He Thinking? 04:40 10 Dry Your Eyes 04:30 11 Empty Cans 08:14 The Streets is an English musical project led by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Mike Skinner. The project was founded in the early 90s, while Skinner was still a teenager; however, no music would formally eventuate until the early 2000s. In the initial run of The Streets, the project released five studio albums: Original Pirate Material (2002), A Grand Don't Come for Free (2004), The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living (2006), Everything Is Borrowed (2008) and Computers and Blues (2011). The Streets also released a string of successful singles during this time, which reached the Top 40 on the UK Singles chart – including "Has It Come to This?", "Fit but You Know It", "Dry Your Eyes" (the project's only number-one single), "When You Wasn't Famous" and "Prangin' Out". After disbanding The Streets in 2011, Skinner pursued several other musical projects before ultimately reviving the moniker in 2017. A mixtape, None of Us Are Getting Out of This Life Alive, was released in 2020. The Streets' sixth studio album, The Darker the Shadow the Brighter the Light, was released in September 2023. The Streets is considered one of the most important and influential acts within the trajectory of hip-hop, garage and grime music within the UK. In 2020, Pitchfork described Original Pirate Material as "a landmark for UK rap", while Dazed wrote in 2018 that the album "soundtracked the beginning of a decade – recovering from the Britpop hangover and comedown from New Labour euphoria – but also defined it."