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The New School
From garage pop to electro-rock, club rap to neo-soul, today’s scene is a polyphonic affair. W goes on the road with music’s rising stars. Click here to watch interviews with Cults, Plan B and Twin Shadow.
July 2011
Plan B
“People are less cynical in the States,” says Ben Drew, the
East London rapper and singer who goes by the name Plan B. “In
the UK they don’t know a good thing when it’s right in front
of them.” After his debut hard-core rap album sold poorly, Plan
B—who is also a successful actor in British gangster flicks like
2009’s Harry Brown—reinvented himself as a crooner on his
soul record The Defamation of Strickland Banks. A No. 1 hit in Britain,
it arrived on these shores in April. Despite the project’s
success, Plan B plans to return to underground rap for his next
offering. “It’s dark—not what you’d hear on the
radio,” he says. “But I can’t worry about radio play
if it will compromise the record. To be honest, there’s enough
bullshit in the industry right now.&rdquo
July 2011
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