The 23-year-old west Londoner took to his Instagram last week to announce the upcoming project as well as drop a collaboration alongside streetwear brand Trapstar. The clothing drop featured tracksuits and tees in black and yellow with “23” printed on them.

This wasn’t central cee first clothing collaboration having worked with Trapstar before as well as Corteiz coming together to make merch for his debut project Wild West.

Alongside the collaboration with Trapstar, the talented rapper released a freestyle on his Instagram that currently sits on just over 1 million views, with comments from Lil Yachty, Bukayo Saka and Yung filly all giving the west London rapper his props. The freestyle saw cee in a black and yellow north face jacket and suggest that those colours may be the colour scheme for his next project, the same way orange was used so heavily by the artist for his debut project.

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The upcoming project 23 is available to preorder now but is yet to have a tracklist with the rapper sharing a photo on his Instagram of what looked to be a handwritten tracklist which shows there will be 15 tracks, one track containing features and his hit “Obsessed with you”, a track in which he sampled Pink pantheress “Just for me” and peaked in the official charts at 4th, it is the only track yet to be announced to feature on the project.

Central Cee is one of the biggest artists in the UK and is doing it all independently. His debut project Wild West which dropped in march of 2021 peaked on the charts at number 2 and since then the west Londoner has not looked back, picking up 2 rated awards, featuring on Ed Sheeransremix for his chart-topping track “Bad Habits”, featuring on The Kingsman soundtrack on a song alongside FKA Twigs titled “Measure of a Man” and so much more.

Central Cees upcoming project 23 is set to be released on the 25th of February and is available to pre-order here.

The single was teased on the artist TikTok account and was reposted by blog and fan pages across social media.

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The single is the west Londoner’s second solo single since his tape Wild West came out in march. Wild West peaked in the charts at 2nd staying there for 26 weeks. The first single was “Little bit of this” which Cee released in July and showed fans that he had been enjoying himself away from the spotlight after the success of his debut project.

The new track “Obsessed with you” samples the vocals of online sensation and artist Pinkpantheress from her track “Just for me”, which the artist just dropped the video for.

Similarly to Central Cee, Pinkpantheress is another artist who experienced theirs during the lockdown period.

Pinkpantheress originally went viral on TikTok with her songs being used by users as the backing track to their TikTok videos. The artist is slowly coming out of hiding having and still being quite a mysterious character. Her new video is the first time she has appeared in a music video with the rest of her release all being released as just an image on youtube.

Central Cee uploaded an animated video created by Kdc visions on his youtube and has racked up over 120,00 views in just under 4 hours on youtube and has over half a million streams despite only having been out since midnight on last Thursday.

The video for Centrals Cee new single “Obsessed with you” is available to watch here: