Central Cee Says Drake Feature Would Have Been ‘Predictable’

U.K. rapper Central Cee recently dropped his impressive debut album Can’t Rush Greatness, but fans noticed one thing missing: a track featuring Drake.

While chatting with Dutch radio host Fernando Halman of FunX, Cench was asked if he had any songs with the Toronto rapper stashed away. “I’m sure there’s a Drake record in the vault still,” he answered. “It seemed, like, predictable. I think everybody was thinking there’s gonna be a Drake record on there. So I like the fact that there wasn’t.”

The two have been connected for a few years now, with Cee modeling for Drake’s Nike brand Nocta back in 2021, and they also linked up for an On the Radar freestyle in 2023, which just so happened to be Central Cee’s first Billboard Hot 100 entry.

No Drake feature aside, the British rapper did have notable guest appearances on the project. Latin rapper Young Miko assisted on “Gata,” 21 Savage tapped into his English roots by featuring on the track “GBP,” frequent collaborator Dave helped out on “CRG” (we need a whole LP, fellas), Chicago’s Lil Durk is on “Truth in the Lies,” arguably Britain’s greatest rap export Skepta appeared on the song “Ten” and, of course, we can’t forget Lil Baby who was on the hit record “Band4Band,” which has so far peaked at No. 18 on the Hot 100.

Central Cee also recently announced a massive 39-day Can’t Rush Greatness World Tour that begins April 1 in Norway and will end July 2 in Australia. Pre-sale tickets go on sale Wednesday (Jan. 29), with general tickets going on sale Friday (Jan. 31) at 10 a.m. local time.