Central Cee On Biking & Wellness | British Vogue

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Yeah, I used to just be on a bike

all day long back in the day.

I had nothing else to do, really.

I'd just ride around all day.

That's probably like a bit of a sense of, like, nostalgia.

Yeah, it just reminds me of, like,

of just being young, kind of, like, free.

Just, I guess it just kind of brings that feeling back.

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Sports.

I'm always thinking about the past in a good way,

but in such a good way that I even miss the pain.

That's why I even try and tell people that,

just embrace the struggle, bro.

'Cause one day, it's gonna be done.

I look back on them times

and actually somehow miss them still.

But yeah, I miss everything.

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Even when I'm doing music, I'm relaxing.

It's all kind of just one.

It's all kind of one. I'm always relaxed.

I was saying it to someone the other day.

I think they were asking me how does it feel like

being on stage and stuff like that.

But like I told them, like, I don't get high off it.

I'm calm, isn't it?

And I come off stage and I'm calm.

Before stage, I'm calm.

I need my people with me though, same time.

Like, I've done a few, like, stretches of shows

that I've been, like, by myself, and it's calm as well,

but I much prefer, like, when I got my brothers with me

and that it makes it feel less of like a job

and more like a, just like a celebration

or having fun kind of thing.

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Where we going?

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You know, it's mad, yeah,

like, I grew up in the city,

but when I was young, my mom,

she used to try and, like,

take us out to the nature.

I used to hate it. I used to hate getting dirty.

All them, like, you know, like even kiddie games,

like the sandpit and that, I hate that.

Hated the nature.

But now that as I grew up, I don't know,

I developed a love for it though.

Like, I prefer it.

I was talking about this with the guys the other day.

Kind of about, like,

where do they think the best nature is, yeah.

And, like, unpopular opinion,

I think I like the UK, you know?

UK countryside. I actually like it.

I don't know, I've been a lot of places

that obviously, the weather's better in certain places.

Jamaica's nice.

But I'll just be in the countryside in Great Britain.

Maybe it's, like, the nostalgia.

I think I've got, like, a nostalgia problem.

I don't know, is nostalgia, like, what is nostalgia?

Is it like a disease or something?

[Crew] It's something like love of the past.

It's just a feeling, isn't it?

Favorite place to ride my bike.

Luckily, I got now, just in my garden,

you know, got space too, man,

just rip it up and down the garden.

It's kind of, like, therapeutic, slightly.

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How do I balance my online and my offline life?

I don't know. My screen time's high.

Yeah, it's a bit unhealthy,

but there's a clear separation though.

Like, my online life is definitely work, isn't it?

I definitely feel like a healthy imposter syndrome.

Like, that's not really me, isn't it?

My phone is my phone.

My handle is Central Cee, isn't it?

But like, that's, I don't know.

Like, I've got a whole next thing going on,

like, off the phone, isn't it?

I'm saying it and I feel like I sound like I'm capping,

but it's like, it's in my bio, isn't it?

It says it's not real life and it's not on the Gram.

You'll see everything clean,

but it's good for them to know

that that's not the case, isn't it, 24

is that the Gram is the Gram.

Don't look up to me too much.

Don't try too hard to chase it and whatnot

'cause it's unattainable.

'Cause that's not even the life that I live.

Like, more time off camera, you'll see me,

I'm chilling, and yeah.

It's not lifestyle every day.

That's all it is. That's my only advice.

I kind of just say, Live yours

anytime someone asks me for some advice.

'Cause it's very vague, but it's like,

it goes such a long way that just,

yeah, don't try and live mine.

And likewise, to any other, like, person

that you see in the public eye.

Yeah, don't, like, die trying

to live someone else's life, isn't it?

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What's it like being on the cover of British Vogue?

I don't know. It's hard, man.

Like, it's just, it's big, isn't it?

It's, like, that legendary kind of thing.

Like, that's something,

that's something that I'd put on my wall.

Yeah, not everyone's got a cover of Vogue,

so I'll frame that.

I'll put that on the wall still. That's hard.

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Yeah, like, all of that's just a bonus now.

You know what I'm saying?

I've done what I needed to do.

Changed my family's life, isn't it?

Just like, that's it, that's all I wanted to do.

Everything else is a bonus now, isn't it?

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This summer will be, like, the first time I've got time

to actually even enjoy the fruits of my labor.

Like, the last three years since I've, like, blown up,

I've been working so hard.

I think like two years ago, I did like 200 shows

in one year.

So I literally never got to go home.

We've slowed down on the shows

and I'm gonna be working

on the music side of things and whatever.

So that gives me a bit of time to,

like, just enjoy, like, what I've actually kind of created

and be in one place for longer than a few days.

And yeah, we'll see. We'll see, isn't it?

We'll definitely be riding bikes though.

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