Analysing the song Ill Manors for my Wordpress blog

1. PLAN B
ILL MANORS
A presentation confronting the stereotypes and messages put
across by the media

2. PLAN B AS AN ARTIST
• English Rapper
• 22nd October 1983
• London Born & Raised
• Father “Disappeared”
• Outcast (Between Middle & Working class)
• Sarcastic in his lyrics

3. PLAN B’S APPROACH TOWARDS GENDERS
WITHIN ITS VIDEO
• Very Few Females
• Mostly male

4. PLAN B’S USE OF AGE WITHIN ITS VIDEO
• Teenagers
• Young adults
Police officer punching or pushing
a fully grown male rioter/protestor

5. PLAN B’S APPROACH TOWARDS ETHNICITY
WITHIN ITS VIDEO
• Caucasian
• Black
• Minorities

6. PLAN B’S APPROACH TOWARDS SOCIAL
CLASS WITHIN ITS VIDEO
• Upper class are disliked
• Politicians
• Ignorant
• Don’t understand the problems of being in a
Council estate just see the people there as the
Problem
• Middle class & Working class
• They struggle and nobody helps
• Plan B has been in this situation
“And if we see any rich kids on
the way
We’ll make ‘em wish they
stayed inside”
“Council kids
Scum of the
Earth”
Boris
Johnson
known for
his ill regard
towards the
poorer
citizens

7. KEY PARTS OF THE SONG EXPLAINED
• Urban Safari
• Wild
• untamed
• Concrete jungle
• “Hug a hoodie”
• Ill Manors.
• Manor-Home
• Manner- behaviour
• References to other songs and artists that support the message and idea
• Another brick in the wall- higher class dislike teens although they are the future
• I predict a riot- London riots featured within the song
• Never miss a beat- supports the message and theme of the song
• Plan B often sarcastically agrees with the stereotypes of working and middle class and then debunks the stereotype