Plan B / Ben Drew
Plan B is a British rapper, singer-songwriter, actor and film director. He first emerged as a hip hop artist releasing his critically-acclaimed début album 'Who Needs Actions When You Got Words' in 2006. His second studio album 'The Defamation of Strickland Banks', released in2010, was a soul based album and it went straight into the UK album chart at number 1. He has also collaborated with other artists such as well known, dubstep and drum & bass, duo Chase & Status with the song 'End credits' which got into the top 10 of the music chart. back in 2009.
As well as his successful music career, Ben Drew has also had a successful film career as an actor.he has had roles in 'Adulthood' in 2008, the 2009 film 'Harry Brown' and also '4.3.2.1' in 2010. In 2011 he will release 'Ill Manors' his first film as a director.
Plan B's music work was mainly aimed at people who listen to grime and hip hop as his first album was in that genre. He was also born in London which has a big impact as that's where those genres mainly originated from. His second album though had a big change with the audience who would listen to his music. This is because it was soul music, which has a bigger audience then hip hop and grime so there was a much bigger variety of people listening to his music.
I think Plan B has been influenced by his upbringing and where he has lived during his childhood. He was born and raised in London so he had a tough upbringing and his music lets us know this as its about hard times in hard areas. His song 'Kids' is based upon a teenage life which involves drinking alcohol, killing, committing crime, under-age sex and pregnancy and drug abuse. The mayjority of his songs are inspired by his or others life liveing and growing up in London or other rough areas in the UK.
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