Central Cee

CTL-E-5749 · Person · musician · 1998–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07015 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5749.

Central Cee, born Oakley Neil Caesar-Su on 4 June 1998 in Ladbroke Grove, London, England, and raised in Shepherd's Bush, is a British rapper who carried UK drill to a global audience. His father is of Guyanese and Chinese ancestry and his mother is English, per sourced interview-based reporting — the heritage this record documents as his line into the Black British music story the graph tells. He broke through in 2020 with "Day in the Life" and "Loading"; the mixtapes Wild West (2021, UK No. 2) and 23 (2022, UK No. 1) followed, and "Doja" (2022) reached UK No. 2. "Sprinter," with Dave, spent ten consecutive weeks at UK No. 1 in 2023, then the longest-running UK rap No. 1. Signed to Columbia in June 2023, his debut album Can't Rush Greatness (24 January 2025) hit UK No. 1 and US No. 9 — the first UK rap album to reach the US top ten.

The record

• Also known as: Oakley Neil Caesar-Su, Oakley Caesar-Su

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 1 — 747 Program, Wave 7; first packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Central Cee entity in the live graph at 3,443 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5749 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 230 (Rappers list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Diaspora scope — British rapper whose father is of Guyanese (Afro-Guyanese) and Chinese ancestry, per sourced interview-based reporting; a central figure of Black British music. Vital status: LIVING — debut album released January 2025; performed at the O2 Arena, London, 24 April 2025. CONFLICTS CARRIED: Low-authority sites variously describe his mother as Irish or add Ecuadorian/Arawak ancestry; those versions are unsupported and are not carried. Only the interview-sourced parentage in the description is asserted. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): "Sprinter" (with Dave) spent ten consecutive weeks at UK No. 1 (2023), then the longest-running UK rap No. 1; Can't Rush Greatness debuted at UK No. 1 and US No. 9 — the first UK rap album in the US top ten — Official Charts/Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons and label/press photography of this subject exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5749-central-cee.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject; the three catalog string-hits for "Ne-Yo" resolve to Nina Simone and John Coltrane rows, not Ne-Yo billings); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio; the subject's recordings are third-party copyrighted material). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings are third-party )

Sources

• Wikipedia, "Central Cee" — born Oakley Neil Caesar-Su, 4 June 1998, Ladbroke Grove, London; father's Guyanese and Chinese ancestry, English mother; career chronology — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Cee (build store)
• Official Charts reporting via Music News — "Sprinter" ten weeks at UK No. 1 — http://www.music-news.com/news/UK/179345/Central-Cee-Dave-aim-for-highest-new-entry-with-CRG (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, "Can't Rush Greatness" — UK No. 1 (42,472 units) and US Billboard 200 No. 9 (37,000 units) debuts — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%27t_Rush_Greatness (build store)

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