Central Cee shares ‘No Introduction’ video and joins line-up for Skepta’s Huge Smoke competition 2025

Central Cee has shared the music video for ‘No Introduction’, and joined the line-up for the 2025 version of Skepta‘s Huge Smoke competition. Discover out extra under.

The brand new music video comes on the heels of the UK rap icon sharing his long-awaited debut album ‘Can’t Rush Greatness‘ in the beginning of the 12 months, and kicking off his tour of the UK and Europe earlier this month in celebration of the LP.

For the brand new visible accompaniment for the album opener, the West London rapper combines an assortment of footage from him on the current run of reside exhibits. This contains clips of him performing in entrance of hundreds, backstage on the venues and clips of the varied cities he has just lately visited.

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Alongside the brand new music video, information has additionally been shared at present (April 29) that Central Cee has joined the invoice for the upcoming 2025 version of Skepta’s personal competition, Huge Smoke.

The 2-day occasion is ready to run between Saturday August 9 and Sunday August 10, and can return to the standard website of Crystal Palace Park in London. Central Cee can be acting on the primary day of the competition, and joins others on the invoice together with rising star Chy Cartier, grime veteran Chip— who is ready to drop a brand new album this month — B2B from JME and Frisco, two icons of the UK impartial scene who can be performing back-to-back.

The Saturday instalment can be headlined by Skepta himself, and Sunday will see him return to the stage below his Más Tiempo label for a full day of dance, this time behind the decks. The total line-up for that can be shared at a later date.

“Cench is undeniably dominating the UK rap sport in the intervening time,” mentioned Skepta about Central Cee becoming a member of the 2025 invoice. “It’s each an honour and privilege so as to add him to Huge Smoke’s line-up.” Visit here for tickets.

In January, NME gave the rapper’s debut album a four-star overview and described it as seeing him take a “deeper” method to songwriting.

“Central Cee may simply stay hidden behind his signature mystique, however as a substitute tells the story of a boy turned man all whereas on the world’s stage,” it learn. “No smoke and mirrors, the album is authentically Cench each step of the best way.”