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1Xtra Rap List: Central Cee, Doechii, Dave and more

Xtra’s Rap List returns with Central Cee, Doechii, J. Cole, Dave and 21 Savage leading the charge on this week’s essential rap, drill and hip-hop rotation.

This is 1Xtra’s Rap List, your essential guide to the week’s biggest rap, drill, grime and hip-hop records. If it’s shaping the culture, it’s landing here.

Central Cee, Doechii and J. Cole are setting levels, with Dave, 21 Savage, Ms Banks and EssDeKid keeping the pressure high. From viral moments to heavyweight drops and collabs that dominate your timeline, this is what’s running rap right now.

Only the most talked-about tracks make the cut. The ones your group chat’s debating. The ones artists are backing. The ones moving from the scene straight into rotation.

Fully certified by 1Xtra, Rap List is your no-skip rundown of the best, the newest and the most in-demand rap out now. Stay ahead of the curve or catch what you’ve missed. If you care about where rap’s heading, this is where you lock in.

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Music Played

  • Doechii & SZA

    Girl, Get Up.

    • Top Dawg Entertainment / Capitol Records.

  • Scorcher & Kasst8

    Roads (feat. Kasst8)

    • Lizzy Records.

  • M Huncho

    Championship

    • 10K Projects.

  • Aya Nakamura

    Désarmer

    • Warner Music France.

  • J. Cole

    SAFETY

    • The Fall-Off.
    • Cole World Inc. / Interscope Records.
    • 3.

  • Clavish & Chy Cartier

    CC Walk

    • Yesterday Was Once Tomorrow.
    • Clavish.

  • Central Cee

    Iceman Freestyle

    • Columbia.

  • EsDeeKid & Yeat

    Made It On Our Own

    • Captial Records.

  • ODUMODUBLVCK

    Big Time (feat. Wizkid)

    • Native Sounds/Def Jam PS.

  • Ms Banks

    WHY?

    • SOUTH LDN LOVER GIRL.
    • Belive UK.

  • D‐Block Europe

    PRIVATE FLIGHTS (feat. Nemzzz)

  • Baby Keem

    Good Flirts (feat. Kendrick Lamar & Momo Boyd)

    • Ca$ino.
    • pgLang / Columbia Records.
    • 4.

  • Dave

    Raindance (feat. Tems)

    • Neighbourhood Recordings.

  • EsDeeKid

    Omens

    • Omens.
    • 2026 XV Records / Lizzy Records.

  • Baby Keem

    Ca$ino

    • pgLang LLC.

  • Kidwild

    Still Indecisive

    • Kidwild.

  • Ludacris

    44 Bars

    • Def Jam.

  • Don Toliver

    ATM

    • OCTANE.
    • CactusJack/Donnway/ATL.

  • Blanco

    Akaza

    • Paradise On A Lifeboat.
    • Believe UK.

  • Shelailai

    London's Burning

    • 1 Records.

  • 21Savage

    DOG (feat. GloRilla)

    • WHAT HAPPENED TO THE STREETS?.
    • Slaughter Gang, LLC/Epic Records.

  • AJ Tracey, Blade Brown & Carns Hill

    Ibiza

    • Revenge Records.

  • Mobb Deep

    Down For You (feat. Jorja Smith & Nas)

    • Infinite.
    • Mass Appeal.
    • 6.

  • Kofi Stone

    Flowers Flow (Remix) (feat. D Double E)

    • Tru Community.

  • Kraff Gad

    F1

  • Blxst

    Aye Girl

    • Blxst LLC / Empire.

  • Fredo

    Birthday (feat. Burna Boy & Steel Banglez)

    • Since 93 / RCA.

  • EsDeeKid

    Century

    • XV RECORDS /.

  • KiLLOWEN

    Naughties

  • Wale

    City On Fire (feat. Odeal)

  • Ms Banks

    NO LOVE (feat. Tiggs da Author)

    • SOUTH LDN LOVER GIRL.
    • Believe Uk.

  • Baby Keem & Kendrick Lamar

    Family Ties

    • Columbia.

  • Baby Keem & Kendrick Lamar

    Family Ties

    • pgLang / Columbia.

  • Headie One

    Bellingham

    • Bellingham.
    • One Records.

  • DaBaby

    POP DAT THANG

    • BE MORE GRATEFUL.
    • South Coast Music Group & Interscope Records.

  • KiLLOWEN

    Motion Sickness (feat. Songer)

  • J. Cole & PJ

    Legacy

    • The Fall-Off.
    • Cole World Inc. / Interscope Records.
    • 6.

  • Wretch 32 & Avelino

    More Fire More Flamez

    • Wretch 32 Limited.

  • Meekz

    Bk2life

    • TRU ENT.

  • Don Toliver

    Body

    • OCTANE.
    • Atlantic Records.
    • 2.

  • J Hus & Skepta

    Outside

    • Militér Music / EMPIRE.

  • Pozer & Kasst 8

    What's Good

    • Pozer.

  • J Emz

    Up & Stuck

Broadcast

  • Sat 21 Mar 202601:00
    BBC Radio 1Xtra