United Kingdom, April 12 -- Mike Skinner has swapped the excesses of fame for a quieter life as a father.

The 47-year-old rapper, best known for his work with The Streets, rose to prominence in the early 2000s with his album A Grand Don't Come for Free, a portrait of modern British life during the era of Tony Blair, and has now described his shift away from what he once called a "complete collapse in morality".

Mike later chronicled the pressures of fame in The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living, referencing drug binges and the excesses of the music industry, and is married to Claire Le Marquand, with whom he has two children: Amelia, 17, and George, 14.

Speaking to The Sunday Times Style Magazine, Mike described his current lifestyle ...