His unique sound is characterized by his use of acoustic guitar and lyrics involving drugs, rape, murder and under-age sex. He came fourth in the BBC's "Sound of 2006" competition.
Plan B's controversial lyrical content delivered against guitar strumming has seen him dubbed "The British Eminem", or "Eminem meets Damien Rice". However, content-wise, Plan B states that with most of his songs he is "just telling a story" and that he is "just trying to portray something that's real that happens in everyday life". These stories are largely semi-fictional, but include personal content as well. One song "Kids" was partially inspired by the murder of 10-year-old Damilola Taylor, and Plan B tells the story of a 14-year-old who kills, rapes and mugs his victims. Some lyrics in the song allude to this, such as "hand over your money, your phone and your Pokémon cards". Drew points out, in a possibly subtle jibe at American rappers, that his life growing up is not interesting enough to write songs about, so he takes on characters in his songs to make interesting and, hopefully, thought-provoking music.
From 2010 onwards, as Plan B is set to release his highly anticipated follow up album 'The Defamation of Strickland Banks', he will focus more on his singing abilities, rather than rapping (although the album still contains a few rap verses in some of the songs).
On Soccer AM on 9 January 2010, Drew confirmed that he strongly believes his follow-up CD will be a reggae album, and he will commit to it.
In an interview with Contactmusic, B stated that he may do a reggae album in the future, but it was also entirely possible he would do a Dubstep album.
Earlier on in the very same interview, he confirmed he hasn't quit hip-hop music, as the Strickland Banks soul album is just a one-off, and that there will be a couple more hip hop albums in the near future. "Just straight forward Plan B hip hop that you're used to, we have a couple of them coming out before I decide to do that." said Drew.
He followed that up by saying "I wanna get the Strickland Banks campaign out the way; I want to shoot a short film around it, so the videos and that go together as a sort of musical feature film. I want to then release The Ballad Of Belmarsh [his follow-up hip hop record] and then I want to shoot my film, my directorial début, Ill Manors and that's also music-based, a musical again. It will be the reverse of Strickland Banks, so the film will come out first and the soundtrack will come out after that, so I've got a busy year ahead of me doing all that. Then 2011 I guess I'll start work on something new".
He has been cited by head and founder of Acid Jazz Records Eddie Piller as one of the figureheads of New Mod mixing hip-hop and soul music.
Discography
Main article: Plan B discography
Studio Albums
- Who Needs Actions When You Got Words (2006)
- The Defamation of Strickland Banks (2010)
- The Ballad of Belmarsh (TBC)[13]
Mixtapes
- It's Time 4 Plan B (2006)
- Paint It Blacker (2007)
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