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Chase & Status spurn Rihanna to work with UK artists (and Cee-Lo)

By | Published on Friday 28 January 2011

Chase & Status

Chase & Status have revealed that they knocked back the chance to have guest vocals from Rihanna on their new album, ‘No More Idols’, choosing instead to work exclusively with UK vocalists. And Cee-Lo. But Cee-Lo’s a nice guy, so it’s OK to make one exception.

Saul ‘Chase’ Milton told The Sun: “There was talk about working with Rihanna and other names linked to Roc Nation but we weren’t tempted. We wanted the album to showcase fresh and cutting edge UK talent. We’re known for working with new artists such as Plan B and that’s what really excites us. On the album we’ve worked with Clare Maguire – who just has this amazing voice and will appeal to everyone – Mali, Delilah and Tempa T, all of whom are wicked. We’ve also got tunes on there with White Lies and Tinie Tempah. Tinie is like your archetypal English gent but the track we’ve got him on is quite raw”.

He added: “Admittedly Cee-Lo isn’t British but he sings on a track called ‘Brixton Briefcase’, which is about London in the 80s when guys used to walk around with ghetto blasters on their shoulders. That’s what a Brixton briefcase is and Cee-Lo loved it. There was no ego at all. He was just like: ‘I’ll do whatever you want me to do’. Working with him was cool”.

‘No More Idols’ is out on Monday.



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