Editing Original Pirate Material (section)

==Background==
Skinner has stated that his main early influences were from the United States, in particular [[Wu-Tang Clan]] rappers such as [[Raekwon]] and [[RZA]], as well as [[East Coast rap|East Coast]] rapper [[Nas]]'s album ''[[Illmatic]]''. However, Skinner attributes the album as emerging from the [[UK garage]] scene of the late 1990s.{{sfn|Skinner|2012|p=19}} His stance when making the album was to combine the UK garage sound with a lyrical content about "all the little adventures you go on" rather than the style of [[UK hip hop]], which he accused of being "someone from [[Reading, Berkshire|Reading]] pretending to be [[The Notorious B.I.G.|Biggie]] or [[Q-Tip (musician)|Q-Tip]]".{{sfn|Skinner|2012|p=21}}

Journalist [[Simon Reynolds]] identified the album's lyrical content as capturing UK garage's "submerged reality" as a genre not based in [[nightclub]]s. Outside London in the late 1990s, UK garage was rarely played in clubs but was instead found on [[pirate radio]] stations, reflected by the album's title.<ref>{{cite book |first=Simon |last=Reynolds |author-link=Simon Reynolds |title=Bring the Noise |publisher=[[Faber and Faber]] |location=London, England |page=340 |date=2007 |isbn=978-0-5712-3207-9}}</ref>