Central Cee’s electrifying performance at this year’s Glastonbury Festival has garnered him significant plaudits from both fans and critics.
His performance on June 24 in Somerset County, England, included a performance of his super-hit song “Doja,” which elicited raucous applause from the live audience.
The “Sprinter” rapper received the most praise from his online fans, who are typically the harshest critics of all. A commenter on the BBC’s YouTube page commended Central Cee for “performing on these big stages with no backing track.” Meanwhile, a commenter on the 2Cool2Blog’s Instagram post predicted that Central Cee “gonna be the biggest thing from UK if he isn’t already.”
Hip Hop icon Busta Rhymes, who recently criticized singers at the Lovers & Friends festival for using backing tracks, will undoubtedly applaud Central Cee for his decision to play without a karaoke-style background track.
Busta noted how the new generation of artists has lost the art of live performance when performing on the Bling Stage at the Las Vegas festival last month. The New York MC claims that his contemporaries are “cut from a different cloth that they don’t manufacture anymore.”
“We are from a time when additives existed. No needless blending, diluting, or messing with the pure, holy, or sacred, he commanded the assembly. He concluded by saying, “We [are] the holy, sacred, and pure,” before starting his line from Chris Brown’s “Look At Me Now.”
The high standard he and his contemporaries thought was expected of them, and much more so because he was known as one of the most innovative Hip Hop artists, may have had an impact on his outlook on emerging musicians.
It makes sense why he has such high expectations given his lyrical prowess, dynamic delivery, and vibrant, zany videos.