Central Cee gets “Boy Better Know” tattoo, Skepta replies

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Jan 28, 2025 - 01:28

Central Cee gets “Boy Better Know” tattoo, Skepta replies

Skepta and Central Cee at 2024 GQ Men of the Year Awards. Photo credit: Dave Benett/Getty Images.

Central Cee paid homage to the grime legend Skepta by getting a tattoo of the Boy Better Know logo on a livestream.

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Last Friday (January 24), the rapper went on PlaqueBoyMax’s live stream for an ‘In The Booth’ studio session and made the dreamy drill song ’24 Hours’ together. The duo also listened to Cee’s new debut album ‘Can’t Rush Greatness’ – which features the Tottenham rapper on the energetic and hard-hitting ‘Ten’.

While listening to the record, a tattoo artist showed up and Cench chose to get an outline of the iconic block-lettered logo of Boy Better Know – the pioneering grime collective founded by Skepta and his brother JME back in 2005.

“I wanted to get something for, like, Skepta, like a Boy Better Know tatt’ or something,” Cench revealed. “Man really grew up on Skep’, like, and the fact on the album and that – that’s one big accolade for man, but I don’t know.”