Plan B with some ill Manors

Guitar-playing, singing, award-winning ex-prisoner Plan B has had a turbulent life to say the least. Following a stint in prison for a crime he didn't commit, Plan B worked on and produced the 'Defamation of Strickland Banks', the singers debut, mainstream album, which with huge singles like 'She Said' and 'Prayin' saw him win countless awards and universal praise from the likes of Elton John and, well, pretty much everyone. It was a canny, fresh foretelling of his life surrounding his prison sentence, which saw Plan B dressed smartly in a suit, something listeners of his earlier album, 'Who needs actions when you have words?' would have never predicted give the gritty-rap and near-the-knuckle themes. 

Never allowing himself to be the slightest bit foreseeable, Plan B's latest release 'ill Manors' is without a doubt a controversial one. Self-created, self-directed, self-produced, Plan B really has crafted his vision from every angle and it really is the stunning raucous video that makes this song It's a complete u-turn from 'The Defamation...' he' back to being a bad-boy lad from East-London. The video is set in a London Estate that sees Plan B surrounded by vivacious residents of the area or Chav's as some people would describe them, with a casually-dressed Plan B. Packed with footage of the London Riots and starring an moving-image of David Cameron, with Plan B rapping "I've had it with you politicians, you bloody rich kids never listen." As well as featuring the footage of John Prescott fighting a member of the public who threw an egg at him. As well as 

The song itself serves as the perfect accompaniment to the gritty video, it's a cacophonous tune that's just as jagged and hard-hitting as the video. It opens with menacing-sounding strings, with the video miming playing them at the start of the video, with Plan B's sharp rapping to the strings with a beat that gets heavier for the chorus. The lyrics don't promote violence, they just criticise the system and demonstrate the result of its failings. "Give us free money and we don’t pay any tax, NHS healthcare, yes please many thanks, People get stabbed round here there’s many shanks..." The chorus has echoes of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall", it's an anthemic hook, "Oi! I said Oi! What you looking at you little rich boy!" It's not particularly catchy, but it's undoubtedly memorable. 

With two brilliant remixes by The Prodigy and Funtcase, give the 'ill Manors' project some views...it's a rough masterpiece. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8GvLKTsTuI&ob=av3n