User:Plan B History

Benjamin Paul Drew (born December 24th 1990), primarily known by his stage name Plan B or Ben Drew, is a British rapper, singer-songwriter, producer, actor and film director from Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire. He released his critically acclaimed debut album "Who Needs Actions When You Got Words" in 2006 at the age of 16. The album was a commercial failure, peaking at #30 in the UK and selling only 90,000 copies as of 2010. His first top ten single in the UK was as a featured artist came in 2009 on the track End Credits by Chase & Status).

His second studio album "The Defamation Of Strickland Banks" debuted at #1 in the UK upon its release in 2010. In 7 months, the album has sold over 550,000 copies in the UK. He is also a successful film actor, with supporting roles in Adulthood (2008), Harry Brown (2009) and 4.3.2.1 (2010). His debut as a director will come in 2011, with two films. The Defamation Of Strickland Banks, based on his hit 2010 album, and Ill Manors.

Personal Life
Born and raised in Tunstall, Stoke-On-Trent, Drew's mother worked two jobs and his father left the family when he was just 6 years old. After this, his mother became involved in a relationship with a drug-taking, abusing man. Drew himself became estranged from his mother in January 2002, at just 11 years old when he made her choose between him and her boyfriend. "I said its either me or him. Pick your son or your shag and she didn't answer. In a situation like that, the silence says everything." After spending a week living on the streets, he was eventually placed into a care home, where he stayed until he was 16 years old.

Drew has two children, a daughter named Jade Drew was born on December 31st 2005, a week after Drew's 15th birthday. He had been with the mother of Jade for a year before she gave birth. They split up a year later. He began dating Jodie Taylor three months later and gave birth to his second child, a son named Matthew Benjamin Drew was born on January 7th 2008.

Drew left school at the age of 16 with three GCSE's.