Blood, rape, sodomy, underage sex, honour killings, violence, necrophilia, obscene language.

It is all there on Who Needs Actions When You Got Words, the explosive debut album from 22-year-old East London rapper, Ben Drew.

Accompanying himself on an acoustic guitar and playing in a curiously folksy, fingerpicking style, the man who calls himself Plan B spits out X-rated tales of ordinary life with as much graphic detail and sharp dialogue as a Quentin Tarantino film.

The prevailing mood is fierce anger - unsurprising, given Plan B's past.

Raised by his mum - who gave him his first guitar when he was 14 - in Forest Gate, he never knew his father. His stepfather was a crack addict who abused his mother and abused him.

"I had the confidence beaten out of me," he says. "My pessimism stems from having a hard time.

"I went through a lot of years taking s*** from people, feeling like a mug, getting mugged, getting robbed, feeling like a wimp. One day I snapped. I started calling myself Plan B and stopped taking any more f****** b******. That was it."

If you feel disturbed by Plan B's songs, rife as they are with horror stories, take heed: There is no use seeking consolation in the idea he might be scaremongering. "The truth is scary," he says. "Don't be so f****** ignorant."

"The world is completely f***** up. No one believes in anything real anymore, most people are more interested in watching Big Brother. No one has any morals or respect for their elders, politicians are all w******, policemen are all d*** heads.

"I don't find the world a very sincere place to live right now.

"I want to expose the truth and talk about real issues that people ignore because they are too comfortable. If music is the way I can get through to people, then so be it.

"I'm not going to write gimmicky pop songs about love or going down the pub or whatever. I tried that R'n'B s*** and I got sick of it. It wasn't me.

"I thought, I'm gonna do things on my own terms and be whoever I want. There are people out there who might not like what I am saying but I would rather die for my beliefs than live a lie.

"Freedom of speech is the most important thing to me."

When he tires of making music, Plan B will start making films: "There ain't nothing cool about being a 40-year-old rapper," he says. "besides, by then, the amount I smoke, I'm going to be running out of breath."