Wednesday, April 18, 2007
 

Even though I tend to ignore music videos as facets for finding new material, there was one by an artist named Plan B that completely wowed me right before SXSW.  In fact I would have already posted about the rapper but that week was so crazy that I completely forgot about him until an email concerning his new album, Who Needs Actions When You Got Words, popped into my inbox yesterday.  The guy has an amazing voice and I'm incredibly excited to have a couple of songs from his tour only bootleg album, Paint It Blacker.  The disc contains a bunch of songs from Plan B's catalog that have been reworked and placed over music from Nirvana, Radiohead, the Rolling Stones and many more.  Enjoy.

:Plan B - Missing Links (Featuring Radiohead):  I was expecting this song to be good but I didn't think it was going to be this fantastic.  The hook is amazingly catchy and Radiohead's Pyramid Song is put to great use behind Plan B's onslaught of razor sharp lyrics that serve up a slice of his upbringing.  This is not Eminem meets Mike Skinner.  I think this guy has a whole lot of something entirely different going on and people just don't know what to think about it.  Feel free to hop on the bandwagon now.

:Plan B - More Is Enough (Featuring Epic Man):  Before you play this just go ahead and prepare yourself for some dancing by getting out of your seat.  The beat is a crazy good club thumping crowd pleaser and Plan B is so effortlessly charming and energetic that when he throws out Lady Sov's "Just do something random" line around the 2:00 mark it just makes me want to cheer even louder.  The biggest midget in the game only wishes she could be this infectious.

This is the video that instantly made me have a lot of interest in Plan B.  The stop motion is brilliantly done AND the song is badass.  Be prepared to watch this at least 12 times.

- John Laird -



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