Acoustic guitar-wielding rapper Plan B has hit back at hip-hop DJ Tim Westwood for criticising his ‘Fuck the police’ lyric.
Westwood criticised Plan B – real name Ben Drew – for recently performing a track on his show containing the lyric, ”Fuck the police is a ghetto state of mind,” – but Drew has responded by pouring scorn on the DJ for misinterpreting the line.
He tells the Scotsman, “Tim Westwood completely misunderstood that and had a go at me. This is the guy who is meant to be the godfather of hip hop on Radio One. He's been supporting hip hop all this time and he can't distinguish whether or not I'm going on his show and saying it in the way NWA meant it or saying it in a conscious way.
“In the context of that song, it doesn't mean 'Fuck the police', that's cool. We need the police. A lot of them abuse their power but we still need them. We need people putting the criminals away.”
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- Plan b needs to understand that the whole violence thing is under a microscope why give david cameron more amminition against hip hop. thank you westwood for standing up for hip hop think before u speak plan b or else u will have to have a plan c
- Westwood ’such an idiot. One minute he’z clowning around, the next minute hes the suppos-sed moral voice of the nation. Nah, B should juzt ignore him like the rest of uz do. Any 1 with half a brain knoz wot B iz on about.
- If people actually listen to the lyrics properly theyd realise what hes actually tryin to say. westwood's such a joke. Plan B's genius.
- Westwood is a faker. I've never seen someone less qualified to make commentary on rap, hip-hop, or otherwise. The guy can't even bob his head in time correctly. As for Plan B shitting on him for sucking up to the Yanks; uhh... they invented it kid. You're the one bitching someone else's genre. "**** tha Police" is NWA's line, not yours. Get over yourself...
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