Saturday, April 17, 2010

Plan B Musical style


Plan B's controversial lyrical content delivered against guitar strumming has seen him dubbed "The British Eminem", or "Eminem meets Damien Rice". Though content wise, Plan states that with most of his songs he is "just telling a story" and that he is "just trying to portray something that's real that happens in everyday life". These stories are largely semi-fictional but include personal content as well. One song of which "Kids" was partially inspired by the murder of 10-year-old Damilola Taylor, in which Plan B tells the story of a 14-year-old who kills, rapes and mugs his victims. Some lyrics in the song allude to this, such as "hand over your money, your phone and your Pokémon cards". Drew points out, in a possibly subtle jibe at American rappers, that his life growing up is not interesting enough to write songs about, so he takes on characters in his songs to make interesting and, hopefully, thought-provoking music.

From 2010 onwards, as Plan B is set to release his highly anticipated follow up album 'The Defamation of Strickland Banks', he will focus more solely on his singing abilities, rather than rapping (although the album still contains a few rap verses in some of the songs).

On Soccer Am on the 9th of January 2010, Drew confirmed that he strongly believes his follow up CD will be a reggae album, and he will commit to it. In an interview with Contactmusic, B stated that he may do a reggae album in the future, but it was also entirely possible he would do a Dubstep album.


Plan B Tickets at Sold Out Ticket Market
Ticket Market for Plan B Tickets

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