{"id":2899,"date":"2011-08-01T22:25:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T05:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2011-08-01T22:26:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T05:26:35","slug":"plan-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/08\/plan-b\/","title":{"rendered":"PLAN B"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2900\" title=\"Plan-B-QandA\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Plan-B-QandA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Plan-B-QandA.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Plan-B-QandA-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>PLAN B<\/h2>\n<p><strong>HOMETOWN:<\/strong> London<br \/>\n<strong>influences:<\/strong> Eminem, Michael Jackson, the Prodigy<br \/>\n<strong>ALBUM:<\/strong> <em>The Defamation of Strickland Banks<\/em>, \t\t\tdue out in April<br \/>\n<strong>WEBSITE:<\/strong> time4planb.co.uk<\/p>\n<p>Plan B (born Ben Drew) began singing and playing guitar as a teenager before he turned his attention to rap, inspired by the example of the similarly hued Eminem. \u201cHe was brilliant, he changed the whole game,\u201d says Plan B. \u201cHe didn\u2019t just influence white rappers, he influenced everyone.\u201d His 2006 debut, <em>Who Needs Actions When You Got Words<\/em>, garnered attention in England and earned him acting roles in movies like <em>Harry Brown<\/em>. For his follow-up, <em>The Defamation of Strickland Banks<\/em>, he has returned to the soul music he loved as a child. To complement the music he created the titular character, an alter ego who Plan B says is \u201cobsessed with the \u201960s\u201d and dresses exclusively in period fashions; over the course of the album the character ends up imprisoned for a crime he didn\u2019t commit. \u201cI think they\u2019ll be shocked that I can actually sing,\u201d he says. \u201cDon\u2019t get me wrong, I\u2019m going to rap for as long as I can rap. I\u2019m going to rap until someone goes, \u2018Oi, mate, give it a rest.\u2019 But singing soul just feels the right thing to\u00a0do now. This is who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLAN B HOMETOWN: London influences: Eminem, Michael Jackson, the Prodigy ALBUM: The Defamation of Strickland Banks, due out in April WEBSITE: time4planb.co.uk Plan B (born Ben Drew) began singing and playing guitar as a teenager before he turned his attention to rap, inspired by the example of the similarly hued Eminem. \u201cHe was brilliant, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83],"tags":[1059,2232,2233,10160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2902,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions\/2902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}