Plan B
The Defamation Of Strickland Banks

East End geezer Ben Drew started out as a teenage soul singer before calling himself Plan B, becoming a rapper and recording the critically well-recei...

Who knew that northern soul and rap colliding on an album could sound so, so good With his second album Plan B hasn’t merely made improvements, conso...

A white, British rapper becomes a retro-soul singer, for a concept album about a man jailed for a crime he didn’t commit...and it kind of worksStarti...

The soul record's a tough nut to crack in our post-Winehouse age. It's an oeuvre that demands potato sacks full of emotion, spread across everything f...

High unemployment clearly isn’t affecting UK MCs, as they keep popping up in new jobs. Ms Dynamite has reappeared as a breakstep vocalist on DJ Zinc’s...

When Ben Drew (aka Plan B)'s furious debut provoked a fuss four long years ago, most of it predictably centred on the grime-dabblers' white skin and t...

Tell me you saw this coming.Ben Drew has followed the pitiless social realism of his debut, the excellent but harrowing Who Needs Actions When You G...

With two film roles under his belt (Adulthood and Harry Brown), the east London rapper Ben Drew has already signalled that the talent behind his lyric...

The adage that you have all your life to write your first album could have been created with Plan B in mind. Released four years ago, Who Needs Action...

When he first appeared, Ben Drew – Plan B – was often represented as the surly, aggressive face of hoody Britain. In fact, his 2006 debut album, Who N...