Plan B Goes Back To His Roots With Next Release
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Wednesday, 27 October 2010 |
Written by James Conlon
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Rapper, director and general boy-wonder Plan B has declared that his next album won't be commercial, and it will deny critics the opportunity to label him as a 'one-hit wonder'.
In an interview at the Q Awards earlier this week, where he was awarded with the ‘Breakthrough Artist’ award, he admitted: "I'm going underground again - I'm doing my hip hop record. When I bring my next record out everybody's going to be, 'He's a fader, he's a one-hit wonder’. But people in the know about music won't...they'll love it because I'm going to make it great.”
"It's not going to be on radio and everyone who's offering up to give me free cars or whatever are gonna stop." He admitted.
However, when asked about the possibility of a return to his recent soul sound, Plan B (real name Ben Drew), wasn’t taking any ideas off the table: “I can be mainstream whenever I want. I just want to make good art, good music and that's what I'm going to do. It's not like I made a conscious decision to go mainstream, I just made a soul record without much swearing in it."
Plan B’s current release, ‘The Defamation of Strickland Banks’, has seen the rapper break through into the mainstream music scene: the singer has made a number of major television and festival appearances this summer, as well as receiving awards from almost every corner of the music scene.
His follow-up album, entitled ‘The Ballad Of Belmarsh’, is reported to be a hip hop-centred continuation in the story of Plan B's alter ego Strickland Banks. Plan B is also currently in the process of directing his first major-length film, ‘Ill Manners’.
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