Plan B may have “conquered soul music” (AAARRRRGH) and is now planning to conquer reggae with his new LP (AAAAARGH! MAKE IT STOP! PLEASE!), but he hasn’t always been the post-millennia answer to Brian Harvey.
No, once upon a time, he was scrotey drug dealer who thought it was okay to stab people.
Not our words folks, rather, Plan B, a man who has a career solely because Amy Winehouse failed to make a follow-up record to ‘Back To Black’.
Originally, Plan B was just another R’n’B singer, pulling off Lee Ryan warbles and passing himself off as a mini Wu affiliate. Which means that he dealt drugs a bit before his music career took off. This, naturally, means that he’s ‘keeping it real’. Not like those posh kids Adele and Jessie J who went to Brit School.
Talking to a newspaper you haven’t read, the crooner said that he dealt weed before he recorded his awful ‘Who Needs Actions When You Got Words’ album.
He also talked about stabbing people. Not actually stabbing people, just talking about stabbing people.
“I already knew I wanted to do music but I had this other side to me that said if anyone fucks with me it’s OK to go and stab them.
“I did something illegal because I was on the dole. I didn’t sell hard drugs. I just sold spliff and I feel the same way about that as I did then. I think a bit of weed is fine and it is no different to alcohol.”
Of course, we can attribute this ‘troubled’ view on the world down to the fact he came from a broken home, mainly because it slots neatly into everyone’s preconceived notions of those who grew up in a ‘broken home’ and create hip-hop.
Talking about his dad who walked out on him (presumably after hearing the youngster singing), he said:
“He denies everything – all our memories of him, anything negative. He said it’s just distorted versions of the truth my mother implanted in my head.
“I’m a grown man and the guy was coming to my house talking to me like I was six years old, telling me not to swear. I’m like, ‘You’re lucky I didn’t smash your fucking face in’.
“He wasn’t in my life and it was his decision. Now he’s not in my life and it’s my decision. Finally, I got what I wanted – closure.”
And we’ll be getting closure on Plan in the year 2012, when we see his reggae album in the bargain bin at the local record shop.
(That ‘She Said’ was kinda catchy though wasn’t it?)
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Swineshead says
Bit harsh.
He’s alright (even if I’ve heard that song that goes ‘oh oh oh oh ohhhh’ far too many times on trailers and links). His music’s not for me but I’d rather he was doing well at the Brits than many, many others.