Central Cee's Everyday Essentials: What's in His Bag

There's a version of this format where a celebrity pulls out a Hermès wallet and a custom phone case and calls it a day. Central Cee doesn't do that.

This is a Vogue "What's in My Bag" video. Four minutes. No stylist energy. What comes out of the bag is a mix of practical, personal, and quietly weird — and that combination is what makes it interesting.

He's a UK rapper with serious numbers on Spotify. The Vogue channel does these with everyone from athletes to actors. But the items Central Cee picks say something specific about how he actually moves day to day — not how his PR team wants him to look.

The first thing worth noting is the Corteiz x Syna World balaclava. That's not a random piece of streetwear. Corteiz is a London brand that built its entire identity on scarcity and community — you couldn't just buy it, you had to know. Syna World is Central Cee's own imprint.

So carrying that specific collab in your bag is not an accident. It's a statement about where he comes from and what he's building.

It's also, practically, a balaclava. It keeps your face warm. London in winter is cold. Both things are true at once.

He carries AirPods Max. Not the standard AirPods — the big over-ear ones. They're £549. They're also genuinely good headphones if you're listening to music all day, which a working musician probably is.

The Louis Vuitton Waterfront Mules come out too. Slides you can slip on and off. Comfortable for a long day moving between studios, flights, interviews.

None of this is surprising for someone at his level. But it's not performative either — these are functional items he uses. The AirPods aren't sitting in their case untouched. The slides aren't for the photo.

Here's where it gets personal.

He carries Pukka Herbal Tea — chamomile and lavender. That's not a product placement. That's someone who looks after their throat and their sleep.

There's also a tongue scraper, which is one of those things that sounds odd until you think about it. Ayurvedic practice, used for centuries. Cleans bacteria off the tongue. A lot of people who take their health seriously use one.

And rice crackers from Lidl. Not some specialty snack. Lidl. That's a very grounded choice sitting next to the Louis Vuitton slides.

Then there's a Thai herbal inhaler — small plastic tube, menthol and camphor, clears the sinuses. Common in Southeast Asia. Not common in a UK rapper's bag. Which makes it interesting.

The last item is The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway.

It's 127 pages. It's about persistence and dignity and losing without being defeated. Hemingway wrote it in eight weeks after a decade of struggle. It won him the Nobel Prize.

You can read whatever you want into why Central Cee carries it. But it's not a book you carry to look smart — it's a book you carry because you've read it, or you're reading it, and something in it sits with you.

That's the detail that makes the whole bag feel real. Everything else you could explain away as practical or aesthetic. The Hemingway is a choice.

Taken together, the bag is: one cultural statement, one luxury flex, one piece of quality tech, and three or four things that a person carries when they're genuinely trying to feel good on long days far from home.

The tea. The inhaler. The crackers. The book.

That's the part of the format that works when it works — not the expensive items, but the small unglamorous ones. Those are the ones that tell you something true.

Central Cee is one of the biggest names in UK rap right now. And at the bottom of his bag is a Hemingway novel and a tongue scraper from Amazon. That's a more interesting portrait than any press shot.