PLAN B: The Defamation Of Strickland Banks – 2010 – Album review

PLAN B: The Defamation Of Strickland Banks – 2010 – Album review
HIGHLIGHTS: Pretty much all of it.
SOUNDBITE: “There’s people outside, telling me to watch my back/ If I want to survive, I gotta stop them in their tracks”
RATING: 5/5
Everybody knows by now that rapper Plan B barely raps on this and that contrary to his gritty rhyming (in that Carribean-inflected London accent all dem yout’ got nowadays) he mainly sings in a surprisingly good – er – I mean ‘girly’ - falsetto. Everybody also knows that this is a ‘concept’ album accompanied by a short film, the concept of which is that B is a soul singer called Strickland Banks ‘what gets framed by some puddy cuz he won’t put out’ – or something…So there’s no need for me to get bogged down in all that – I can just focus on the music. Since this is probably one of the biggest releases that’ll be checked on monkeyboxing.com this year, we thought it best to go the track-by-track route just like blogging giant Byron Crawford does. Or did. He doesn’t seem to be doing music lately…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM