Plan B criticized the use of the term "chav" in a statement on his website ahead of the release of his new track "Ill Manors". He says the term is as derogatory as terms referring to race or sex. In the song, he addresses some of the causes of the 2011 England riots, including the prejudice towards the underclass in the country. In interviews, Plan B said he is not condoning the riots but explaining how attacking people for how they talk, dress or their lack of education makes them feel alienated from society.

1. Plan B criticises word chav ahead of Ill Manors release
Steve Holden, Newsbeat
Plan B has criticised people who use the word 'chav', in a statement on his website.
He says the term is "a derogatory phrase no different to the ones concerning race or sex".
The rapper says "certain sectors of Middle England" need to stop ridiculing the poor and less
fortunate.
His comments surround the release of new track Ill Manors which includes the lyric: "Oi look
there's a chav, that means council housed and violent."
It's a song which he says tries to try to address some of the causes of last summer's riots in
England.
Other lyrics include: "He's got a hoodie on give him a hug, on second thoughts don't, you don't
wanna get mugged."
In the statement to accompany the video, he criticised the use of the word chav by the media.
"The papers use it publicly," it read. "If they did the same with racial or sexist derogatory terms
it would be deemed, and rightly so, as offensive and politically incorrect. That in my opinion is
hypocrisy."
His statement went on: "I think one of the reasons (for the riots) is that there is a very public
prejudice in this country towards the underclass".
Plan B, whose real name is Ben Drew, recently spoke to Mistajam on BBC Radio 1Xtra about the
meanings behind the song.
I think one of the reasons (for the riots) is that there is a very public prejudice in this country
towards the underclass
Speaking then he said: "I'm not trying to condone what happened during the riots but those kids
have played into the hands of what Middle England thinks of them.
"When you attack someone for the way they talk, the way they dress, the music they listen to or
their lack of education and you do it publicly you make them alienated.
"Anyone beaten into that apathy won't care about society," he added. "They feel in their eyes
that society has made it very clear they don't care about them.
"Just because you were lucky to be born into a family that can afford to give you a good
education doesn't make you better than anyone, it makes you lucky."
Last year he posted a seven-minute video in which he questioned the rioters' motives.