Plan B Prepares For New Album
Plan B, is soon to release an album off the back of his successful single She Said.
Plan B told BBC Newsbeat: "It's called The Defamation Of Strickland Banks because the media built him up and now they're tearing him down. It happens a lot in this country. It's basically six different short stories that are linked together but are all narrated by a different hip-hop song.
"It's reminiscent of the first album (2006's Who Needs Actions When You Got Words) - it's very dark hip-hop. It's about forgotten ends in London. I'm from one of them - Forest Gate. I want to tell a story about what I know. It's kind of like a musical.”
Plan B went on to add that he is planning to focus on breaking the UK before he even thinks about heading over to America:
"I'll focus on selling records here. If we break it here, that's the only time you even bother wasting money over there. I've done it before, I brought the whole band over there and it just hurt me in the pocket. Afterwards I looked at it and just thought, 'That was a waste of money and a waste of my time'.”
The Defamation Of Strickland Banks is released on 12 April