Tempah: 'LP collaborations were natural'

Tinie Tempah has insisted that the collaborations on his upcoming album occurred naturally.

The London-born rapper, who releases his debut Disc-Overy next month, said that he wanted to work with acts he admired rather than having his label pick artists to feature on the LP.

"Everybody on the album I worked with I'm a real big fan of... Ellie Goulding, Kelly Rowland - those are all people I've wanted to work with for a little while," OMG Music quotes him as saying.

"At the start of the album process I had this huge wish list, with a million names of different artists like Michael Buble to Paolo Nutini, to Kasabian. As the year went on I started to meet some of these artists. I really got on well with Ellie, Kelly and Luke Still."

He continued: "Everything just happened very naturally and organically. I'm not a person who believes you should force anything to try to make it work. If it's meant to be, it will be and all those collaborations happened exactly like that."

Tempah releases his new single 'Written In The Stars' on September 27. The album, Disc-Overy, follows on October 4.

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