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Plan B (Music)
Plan B (real name Benjamin Paul Ballance-Drew, born 22 October 1983) is an English rapper, singer, songwriter, actor and filmmaker from London.

He started his career in 2005 and released his debut album the following year.

He also directed and scored the film Ill Manors in 2012, who Ed Skrein appeared in.

Not to be confused with the Puerto Rican reggaetón duo also called Plan B.


Discography:

  • Who Needs Actions When You Got Words (2006)
  • The Defamation of Strickland Banks (2010)
  • Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose (2018)

Who Needs Actions When You Got Tropes:

  • A Wild Rapper Appears!: He started off as a rapper, but for his concept album The Defamation of Strickland Banks he alternated between singing and rapping, sometimes within the same song, resulting in a one-man version of this (though his rapping and singing voices are so different that it's easy to think the trope's being played straight). His breakthrough hit "She Said" is a shining example: if you don't know about the rap verse in advance, then it'll hit you out of nowhere.
  • Face on the Cover: The cover of Who Needs Actions When You Got Words shows him sitting on a leather chair in a desolate room.
  • Genre Shift: When he first got into music he played R&B but later shifted to Alternative Hip Hop due to feeling uncomfortable with the genre.
  • Real Life Writes the Plot: "Kidz" was based on the murder of Damilola Taylor.
  • Special Guest: The Earlies in "Breakdown".

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