His hard-hitting hip-hop record Ill Manors accompanies his film of the same name - a tale of life on the streets of London.

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Plan B's Ill Manors is up for best contemporary song, while the like-named film in which it appears, which he directed, is nominated for best original film score.

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Cynics might argue that a more accurate view of modern Britain could come from the likes of Plan B, whose "Ill Manors" single sticks the knife into Cameron's Britain, but a gig at Buckingham Palace was never going to be the place for punk sentiment.

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