Accompanying Skinner onstage will be an additional MC, bass player, keyboardist and drummer. Videos and other visuals will also beef up the energetic live show.

The Streets exploded onto the U.K. music scene last year when he released his single “Has It Come To This.” A few months later, his debut album Original Pirate Material arrived and changed the face of British rap.

With his tightly wound rhymes, the 23-year-old Birmingham-born London resident regularly spits out vignettes of Brit youth urban culture – a familiar territory to Skinner. Throw in some two-step/ragga/house beats and it’s easy to see why this unknown has garnered so much attention.

Original Pirate Material was favored to win the Mercury Music Prize this year, but surprisingly lost out to Ms. Dynamite – the bookies’ longshot.