Even Chief Keef might look at that like "Nah" and Keef smokes blunts the length of baby's arms.
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"My new mixtape is titled Aaliyah Keef 'cause, well Aaliyah is my cute side and she a legend, and Keef is my favorite rapper," she said.
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Although no one is connecting prior incidents, you may recall earlier this year someone fired shots at Chief Keef, and at the time Keef was beefing with Tekashi.
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Chief Keef still doesn't want to utter Tekashi69's name after the rainbow-haired MC was linked to a shooting involving Keef -- but he's more than happy to talk symphonies.
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Chief Keef endangered the lives of 3 female college students who say they've been forced to flee their crib after Keef sent his 1.11 million Twitter followers on the attack.
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That today you can buy cannabis at your local dispensary with an equal or higher THC count than keef, but you will not experience the enticing visions associated with keef in literature.
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Keef and them were younger, but Fredo was about 16.
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We've reached out to Chief Keef, but no word back.
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Keef smoking originated in North Africa and the Middle East.
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Now, at long last, the video is here, with Keef atop a throne, Keef performing shows, and, naturally, lots of zoo animals ("I'm a gorilla in the fucking coupe / finna pull up in the zoo").
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Keef and Tekashi have been beefing on social media for months.
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Chief Keef is back to scare the shit out of me.
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Keef and his friend heard shots and saw a muzzle flash.
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Keef is the third book in the RKS Library Editions series.
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We're told Keef and one other individual were taken into custody.
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Chief Keef—all of these people are from the same place.
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In Keef terms, it will probably last a couple of weeks.
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Featuring Chief Keef, Vic Mensa, Common, Lil Durk, and Young Chop.
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But you know, Chief Keef brought the light to all the young'ns.
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Remember, Tekashi and Keef had been beefing leading up to the shooting.
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Keef was booked for robbery and is being held on $500,000 bail.
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What do you get for Chief Keef, the stoner who has everything?
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Like, I'm not sure if that was intentional, but well done Keef!
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He also detailed his beefs with Casanova, Trippie Redd, and Chief Keef.
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Hernandez also admitted to ordering a hit on rival rapper Chief Keef.
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Keef submitted to a urine test, and now we know the results, and they're pretty amazing ... Keef had the following drugs in his system: -- Morphine-- Codeine-- Promethazine-- THC-- Hydrocodone-- Norcodeine-- Dihydrocodeine-- Hydromorphone 8 drugs (EIGHT) in his system.
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It's unclear if there's video showing them actually firing at, but missing Keef.
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"Pull Up Wit Ah Stick" immediately calls to mind Chicago rapper Chief Keef.
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You can watch Noisey Chicago, featuring Chief Keef and Vic Mensa, right here.
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Keef glides in with a slick, laid back delivery to close it out.
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Aside from Keef, the album features Birdman, Famous Dex, Zoey Dollaz, and more.
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He also detailed his beefs with rappers Casanova, Trippie Redd, and Chief Keef.
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We're told NYPD has 2 suspects based on surveillance video, and know they stalked Keef the night of the shooting -- first showing up at China Chalet restaurant where Keef was hanging downtown ... then jumping into a dark-colored Ford Econovan.
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I thought it was funny when you and Chief Keef was doing the paintball.
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Keef became the movement's star, but Fredo, Keef's older cousin, seemed a necessary element.
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If Keef fathered Lil Uzi's style, Fredo had the coldblooded blueprint for 21 Savage.
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Chief Keef is so anti-sobriety even his birthday cake is under the influence.
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He facilitated the unlikely, but stellar, pairing of Swae Lee and Chief Keef ("Nightcrawler").
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As we reported, shots were fired at Keef last weekend in NYC, but missed.
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BTW ... we learned firsthand how out of it Keef can be ... on "TMZ Live"
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For some people, that rapper was Soulja Boi, for others it was Chief Keef.
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AND CHIEF KEEF IS COMING BY LATER TO PLAY VIDEO GAMES IN VIRTUAL REALITY!
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Although mock-duck is actually great in Thai food—someone should tell Chief Keef.
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He said everyone at the party went "crazy" when "Faneto" by Chief Keef started playing.
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Mostly, "Love Sosa" concerns the universal adoration of Keef by his haters and random women.
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McKenzie was allegedly paid $10k to shoot Chief Keef ... according to our law enforcement sources.
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Hookahs, flying carpets, and Arabia—keef has a lot of wild images associated with it.
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A judge is ordering Keef to pay each woman $564 per month, starting in January.
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Idk. Last night, Keef dropped a track from Thot Breaker called "Get Sleep" vis WSHH.
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He has also become known for feuds with other rappers, including YG and Chief Keef.
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Can't say we're surprised -- Keef has missed a court date or two in the past.
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VICE talked to Stephen J. Gertz, who worked on the books and was a colleague of Dr. Siegal, to find out why drugs have always been in our lives, what the concept behind "keef wisdom" is, and what modern marijuana smokers can learn from Keef.
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We're told police are calling the men "persons of interest" in the attempted shooting of Keef.
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Look no further than T.W. Coakley's semi-autobiographical novel, Keef: A Story of Intoxication, Love & Death.
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Remember, 6ix9ine and Keef were beefing all spring over social media leading up to the shooting.
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As we reported ... Keef was busted at an airport in Sioux Falls back in June 2017.
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Keef, who makes weed his moniker, makes a case for smoking and driving ... a terrible case.
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Reese featured Keef in his track, "Traffic" ... which has more than 1.6 million views on YouTube.
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Although it appears no one threw stuff, they did shoot videos ... some of which Keef reposted.
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Tekashi had also been beefing with Chief Keef, who was targeted by shooters back in June.
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The Chicago rapper who is a cousin of Chief Keef was at his L.A. home Friday.
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Chief Keef was distraught about his cousin's death and the two had big plans, she said.
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Keef Palas, founded in 2016 by Claire O'Keefe and Eugenia Oliva, features jewelry designed to decay.
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Soulja Boy Soulja Boy and fellow rapper Chief Keef have been feuding for a while now, and Keef has twice tweeted out numbers he claimed was Soulja Boy's, and things escalated quickly: Soulja Boy threatened Keef's life on Facebook, before claiming his account had been hacked.
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HE PHOTOSHOPPED A PIC OF ME WITH CHIEF KEEF & SENT OUT THESE CHRISTMAS CARDS😭😭 pic.twitter.
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Chicago rapper Chief Keef was detained in Miami on Saturday, according to police reports obtained by PEOPLE.
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The plant earrings Solange wears are from an amazing project on ephemeral Mediterranean jewelry called Keef Palas.
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Chief Keef was busted at an airport in South Dakota after forgetting he had drugs on him.
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The trend, however, extends to Raekwon, Curren$y, Chief Keef, 50 Cent, Young Thug… Pretty much anyone.
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At home, watching videos of a 17-year-old Chief Keef before he defined an entire generation?
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Today, Mike Will released "Come Down," a light and bouncy track featuring Chief Keef and Rae Sremmurd.
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To start the second season off, Dr. Singh welcomes legendary Chicago rapper Chief Keef into his office.
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Today, we're premiering his newest song, "Ride Wit Me" which snags a guest verse from Chief Keef.
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Chief Keef is free to drive around without fear of getting pulled over ... for unlicensed driving, anyway.
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They've had heated exchanges on social media recently, and Keef was shot at in NYC earlier this month.
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The book chronicles the New England author's experiences smoking the stuff to attain "keef wisdom" back in 1897.
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As we reported, someone opened fire on Keef while he was outside the W Hotel in Times Square.
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And then -- because the Keef beef isn't enough -- he hurled a shot at J. Cole and his fans!
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On it, Glizzy dissed Chief Keef on his own "3Hunna" beat after the two exchanged words on Twitter.
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It included contributions from his cousin, Chief Keef, and fellow Chicagoans King L, Lil Durk, and Lil Reese.
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There's a host of features as well, including Ty Dolla $ign, Weezer, Chief Keef, Pusha T, and more.
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"You ain't gonna get me for s—," Chief Keef can be heard telling an officer in one Instagram post.
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When he was on "TMZ Live," he denied any involvement in the incident, and downplayed any static with Keef.
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Chief Keef was just cuffed by Miami Beach cops after a traffic stop that led to a drug investigation.
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If not for the speedy reflexes of a dude working security, Keef would be in a hospital right now.
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Chief Keef just dodged jail time in his South Dakota airport drug case ... thanks to a sweet plea deal.
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Chief Keef had a pharmacy of drugs in his system when he was busted for DUI ... TMZ has learned.
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"It was good to be able to hug you," Keef posted to Instagram the day after his cousin passed.
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Law enforcement sources tell us ... Keef was shot at around 6 AM outside the W Hotel in Times Square.
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He adopted some of the gang's tactics, giving orders to a friend to shoot at Chief Keef, a rival.
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Tekashi69 has a direct connection to a person of interest in the Chief Keef shooting in NYC ... TMZ has learned.
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Tonight on VICELAND's The Therapist, Chicago rapper Chief Keef sits down with Dr. Siri Sat Nam Singh for a session.
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The heavy drug use is interesting ... as part of his probation, Chief Keef is barred from using intoxicants in excess.
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If Keef misses the court date, he might wish he'd taken the dive -- at least he'd have a doctor's note.
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It opens with Trouble surrounded by guns in broad daylight, a cleaner take on the look Keef would later use.
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While Keef played the enigmatic auteur, a distant center of gravity unto himself, Fredo was more of an affable networker.
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They've reached out to Chief Keef to get him to pay for their relocation, but haven't heard back from him.
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Chief Keef got shot at early Saturday morning in NYC, but fortunately the shooter -- or shooters -- missed ... TMZ has learned.
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Mid-interview, Mr. Moscowitz called a representative of Chief Keef to offer $10,000 for a verse on Smokepurpp's coming mixtape.
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Days after the Keef incident, cops say different members of that same crew hit RiRi and Rams star Robert Woods.
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But Keef says the real issue was his attempt to bring them back to L.A. ... not that he got caught.
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Tekashi69 denies his crew took a shot at Chief Keef ... in fact, he says his MO is the opposite of violence.
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Our guy complimented his fashion choices, but when we tried to ask about 6ix9ine ... Keef quickly warned us off that topic.
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But once Keef started to go crazy, people find out, and realize this shit's gonna happen if we take it seriously.
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That particular Keef record peaked at 78 in 2015, so we're guessing Tekashi only wants it around to troll his rival.
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" His "proof" was based on the word of GulagBear, the creator of a video called "Chief Keef Dancing to Alabama N****.
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For instance, he named the alleged trigger man in the attempted shooting of Chief Keef -- and that guy's since been indicted.
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As we first reported ... 2 men, including a known Tekashi associate, tracked down Keef in NYC and opened fire but missed.
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We broke the story ... Keef was arrested in April in Miami, after cops say they saw him doing a weed deal.
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As usual with Chief Keef, his charm and magnetism carry the clip where others like him might lean on the scenery.
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An early fascination with Chief Keef by the mainstream music press quickly reverted to a safer norm when harsher realities intruded.
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Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... cops responded to a small fender bender in Hollywood in September, in which Keef was involved.
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Chief Keef has been charged with a DUI after cops pulled him over in a traffic stop-turned-drug bust this weekend.
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After a few rounds of pool accompanied by a collection of Keef songs improbably stashed on the jukebox, it's time to depart.
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Our photog gently broached the subject ... someone took aim at Keef outside the W Hotel in Times Square around 6 AM Saturday.
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You can read it here but like Chief Keef, they're not about dramatics and begin it with the number one earner, Beyoncé.
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We broke the story ... law enforcement sources tell us Tekashi dropped a dime on the alleged trigger man in the Keef shooting.
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User statistics showed "Chief keef dancing to Alabama Nig—-" had stopped generating revenue soon after it was uploaded, over 9 months ago.
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We got Tekashi at the Montage hotel in Bev Hills Saturday, hours after someone took a shot at Keef in NYC's Times Square.
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All the young creatives I know listen to critically-befuddling US musicians like: Young Thug, Lil Yachty, Chief Keef & Shake 070 right now.
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We broke the story ... Chief Keef was busted for DUI last year in Miami, after cops pulled him over in his green Lamborghini.
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Law enforcement sources tell us ... investigators working on the June 2 attempted shooting of Chief Keef are now convinced 6ix9ine ordered the hit.
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Tekashi69 appears to have ordered his goons to shoot up Chief Keef's cousin, days before Keef narrowly escaped gunfire in New York City.
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The production on the 17-track tape is mostly handled by Keef himself, barring a few assists from Young Chop and Lex Luger.
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Chief Keef is the poster boy and maestro of that movement for a reason, which is what makes him and drill so special.
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Or maybe it's just a reminder that Keef still has the throne and to be on the lookout for more from him soon.
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There is a follow-up to the "Ransom" mixtape, "Ransom 2," which includes collaborations with Chief Keef, Big Sean, Future, and Young Thug.
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Of course, someone did indeed open fire on Keef and his cousin in June 2018 in Times Square, just days after Tekashi's offer.
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She only found out about the cover art because one of Teresa's daughter's friends follows Keef and noticed the cover art matched the crib.
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Chief Keef showed that rappers didn't need lots of money or the eyes of gatekeepers like MTV and BET to have a hit video.
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Keef was Coakley's first and only novel, inspired, it appears, by his attraction to the oriental-themed paintings of Benjamin Constant and Rudolph Ernst.
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I really only paid attention to Chief Keef, Tracy T,—he need to drop some more music—21 Savage when he first came out.
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Tekashi69 is distancing himself from any involvement in the attempted shooting of Chief Keef, and says Keef's got no one to blame ... but himself.
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The self-proclaimed "youngest flexer of the century" rose to notoriety after starring in a diss battle video alongside rapper Chief Keef at Coachella.
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The festival is set to feature an edibles cooking contest, high-tech vape pen demonstrations, and performances by Ludacris, Chief Keef, and B-Real.
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It focused on drill artists like Chief Keef, Lil Durk, Lil Reese, and Young Chop and was controversial in its portrayal of the city.
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Law enforcement sources tell us Keef was driving a green Lamborghini when his passenger allegedly got out and started talking with the vehicle behind theirs.
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At this time, we're told Keef and 4 others have been brought in for questioning ... but he hasn't been officially booked or charged with anything.
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Chief Keef just caught a huge break in his DUI case ... getting a pretty sweet plea deal that will keep the rapper out of jail.
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Teresa Giudice claims Chief Keef plastered the inside of her mansion on the cover of his mixtape without getting permission ... so she's gunning to sue.
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The record features collaborations with Skepta, Lil Uzi Vert, Pi'erre Bourne, Nicki Minaj, Bryson Tiller, Chief Keef, Gunna, Red Coldhearted, Young Thug, and Young Nudy.
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The song was produced by famed CashMoneyAP who has been responsible for making beats for artists like Lil Wayne, Chief Keef, Lil Skies, and more.
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Still, Fredo was not unskilled as a musician, even if his proximity to the talents of Keef, Reese, and Lil Durk helped elevate his sound.
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After a day of go-karting, shopping, and video games, we join him at his first Los Angeles show, where he performs after Chief Keef.
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According to a TMZ report published on Wednesday, three of 6ix9ine's associates have since been indicted for the attempted murder of Chicago rapper Chief Keef.
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Mr. Coleman was killed in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago after a war of words over social media with several rival rappers, including Chief Keef.
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Factor in discrepancies on Lil Uzi Vert's Eternal Atake, and fans were unclear if the Chief Keef and Uzi collaboration would ever be officially released.
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BTW ... Bieber's new Kobe art is from the same folks who decked out his crib and hooked up Chief Keef with $40k of '90s nostalgia.
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And, remember, one of the guys who police say tailed Chief Keef prior to the shooting is a "known associate" with direct ties to Tekashi.
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Remember, authorities say Keef had 4 blunts and an edible in his backpack, and the edible wrapper clearly said it contained 200 mg of THC.
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If you ask Morgan Svobodny's friends and family, she dropped out of college, is pregnant and is living happily with her new boyfriend, rapper Chief Keef.
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Such costs are also the reason that her company's signature pre-roll, which comes dipped in concentrate and dusted with keef, is no longer on offer.
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After driving to midtown, we're told the suspects parked the van around the block from the W and walked to the hotel to wait for Keef.
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According to docs obtained by TMZ, a judge went all Maury by declaring Keef is the father because he never responded or objected to the case.
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Chief Keef took a leap onstage that turned into him taking a huge dive offstage ... and coming dangerously close to busting his ass and his head.
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On Thursday, the day before Tekashi's court records were unsealed, three additional men were implicated in the attempted shooting of Chief Keef, according to Page Six.
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It's interesting ... the video was recorded in late May, just days before someone shot at and missed Chief Keef at the W Hotel in Times Square.
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"He was a very stand-up dude," says DJ Kenn, the producer who lived around Keef's family from 2008 and recorded Keef and Fredo's earliest music.
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We talk to Chief Keef, Lil Durk, Young Chop, Vic Mensa, Common, and many more to piece together where the city's been and where it's headed.
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J.C. "Thot Breaker," the new mixtape by Chief Keef, has an unusually high percentage of love songs, and "Whoa" is the most psychedelic of the bunch.
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Chief Keef issued a short message about his cousin via his verified Twitter account Saturday afternoon, but has not yet responded to CNN's requests for comment.
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Chief Keef knows why he got busted at a South Dakota airport ... problem is he should've figured this out BEFORE he tried to board a plane.
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"God, y'all some broke boys" doesn't sound as though Keef is just scoffing at everyone who isn't GBE, he's actively disappointed at the fate of his rivals.
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Chief Keef was mum as hell Saturday at LAX ... refusing to talk about someone who fired a shot at him earlier in the day across the country.
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Gucci Mane, along with past and present label signees like Waka Flocka Flame, Young Thug, Chief Keef, and others caused devil's lettuce to become legal up here.
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Instead, he loads the top half of his second album up with as many guests as he can find: Miguel, Jeremih, Ty Dolla $ign, Chief Keef, etc.
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With the new year just hours old, Chicago rapper Chief Keef has stormed in with a new mixtape, Two Zero One Seven, his first project since 2015.
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Chief Keef let a little thing like a court date for a fender bender balloon into an arrest warrant ... and now he's wanted by cops in Cali.
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That summer, Mr. Hernandez testified, he paid a Nine Trey member to shoot at the rapper, Chief Keef, who was staying at a hotel in Times Square.
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Remember, police are still investigating Tekashi after one of his known associates was found to be tailing Keef, leading up to someone opening fire on him in NYC.
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Since September, I've been in a very serious relationship with an amazing guy named Keith Cozart, a famous rapper who some of you may know as Chief Keef.
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He seems to have too busy hanging with his friends, smoking weed, making beats, and geeking out to Chief Keef to worry about album sales or another tour.
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Keef, who is generally quiet and reserved, shared a surprising amount of detail about his home life, remembering a whole slew of cousins that he admired growing up.
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Law enforcement sources say NYPD wants to see if Tekashi has any connection to the 2 men who shot at Keef outside the W Hotel in Times Square.
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" Our favorite lyric: "I'm a gorilla in the fuckin' coupe / Finna pull up in the zoo / I'm like Chief Keef meet Rafiki, who been lyin' "King" to you?
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Whereas other rappers would pivot between braggadocious and rueful from song-to-song, Keef explores all manner of moods within the confines of a seemingly one-note concept.
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Tekashi posted a clip at the Gucci store in NYC with stacks in his hand and Slim, who calls out Keef as a deadbeat dad in the clip.
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"I Don't Like," perhaps the purest example of the style, showed Keef, Lil Reese, Young Chop, and all their friends shirtless and turning up in a living room.
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Thankfully, Keef was re-released by Process Media in 2017 through a collaboration with RKS Library, which houses the second largest collection of drug lit in the world.
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The photo was of a Coca-Cola ad that played before a video titled "Chief Keef dancing to Alabama Nig—-," a song by racist country singer Johnny Rebel.
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Chief Keef is damn lucky cops were in his neighborhood, and caught 3 alleged burglars red-handed -- but not before one of them opened fire ... TMZ has learned.
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The last time the two appeared on the same track was for the club-ready "Night Call" from Travis Scott's Rodeo album which featured Swae Lee and Keef.
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As you can see, Keef is hanging up some of the new art in his son's room ... and we're told his daughter's room is getting decked out too.
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Chief Keef doesn't think he's going to jail despite there being a warrant out for his arrest in Miami after he was a no-show this week in court.
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We broke the story ... Chief Keef failed to show up Tuesday for his arraignment on DUI and weed possession charges, so an arrest warrant was issued in his name.
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The collective's contributors have also been making memes out of contributors' inspirational quotes, as well as connecting with groups who have similar ambitions, like Keef Ward's Art With Teeth.
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Law enforcement sources tell us ... Keef was wanted for questioning in the armed home invasion, and they got a warrant to search his pad in Tarzana, CA Thursday night.
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Showing Guwop levels of work ethic, Keef released Two Zero One Seven on New Year's Day, and is already back with a new project—the adorably titled Thot Breaker.
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Adamn's voice is deep and gravelly, giving weight to his own Ja Rule comparison, and he has a bit of the abrupt, direct cadence of fellow Chicagoan Chief Keef.
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On "Slow Dance," by far the prettiest and most romantic Chief Keef song ever made, his voice melts into a vocoded soundscape, like Daft Punk's "Digital Love" on Xanax.
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They are the bad-boy junior league of the genre's emerging psychedelic era, inheritors of experimentalists like Lil Uzi Vert, Young Thug and the internet-rap hero Chief Keef.
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Befitting the union of rap's two great countries, the guest list runs the gamut from rising GTA talent like Killy and Pressa to living American legends like Chief Keef.
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The storyteller must then weave such experiences with characters, settings, and plots that create meaning in a world which might otherwise reject the significance of keef or other cannabis preparations.
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TMZ broke the story ... on top of the racketeering charges, the feds are also now looking into the Chief Keef shooting case 'cause cops think 6ix9ine implicated himself on tape.
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The highest-ranking debut came from the rapper Chief Keef, whose "GloToven" mixtape, with the Atlanta producer Zaytoven, lands at No. 153 with 8 million streams and 491 albums sold.
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Fans debated the legitimacy of his gang affiliations, the morality of supporting a sex offender, and 6ix26ine's penchant for baiting other artists, like Chief Keef and YG, through social media.
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It was something that I'd definitely taken note of when I was working as an A&R at Interscope, with artists like Chief Keef, who was doing so well [streaming].
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I'm a huge Chief Keef fan, I have been for a long time, I really love his music a lot and listen to pretty much everything that he puts out.
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Artists as successful as A$AP Rocky, Chief Keef, and Joey Badass have all admitted to searching for their own names as a way of sourcing new beats on YouTube.
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Sources close to Keef tell us he was sick of "riding dirty" -- taking back streets when he was out in one of his luxury whips in order to dodge cops.
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Chief Keef is off the hook after his former music producer accused him of breaking into his home and then beating and robbing him with an AK-47 in hand.
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Chief Keef Olly Alexander from Years & Years Years & Years - "King"Years & Years - "Real"Years & Years - "If You're Over Me" Years & Years - "All For You" Kweku CollinsKweku Collins - "Sisko and Kasidy" feat.
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Keef is open to Singh's guidance, with the episode focusing on the doctor trying to coax the rapper into shedding his "bad boy" image, and make positive changes in his life.
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Tekashi69 isn't trying to hide it, he's got a major sweet tooth when it comes to his upcoming tour, but he also feels the need for more beef ... with Chief Keef.
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Cops are taking a hard look at Tekashi69 to see what, if any, role he played in the events leading up to the attempted shooting of Chief Keef ... TMZ has learned.
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Tonight's episode sees Chicago's own Chief Keef who, despite the recent success of his album Thotbreaker, has had rough experiences in the past regarding the law, and spending time in prison.
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Three known associates of Tekashi 6ix9ine just got slapped with federal indictments, and law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... Tekashi dropped the dime on one of them for the Chief Keef shooting.
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All of these terms refer to the sticky THC crystals that make your buds look frosty AF. Apparently, keef has been a big thing with Western stoners for quite awhile, too.
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Moments after the game was over, WR Alshon Jeffery took his celebration to IG live and got live with his teammates ... while Chief Keef and Meek Mill blasted in the background.
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Yet unlike many artists from his generation, when Chicago rap's current renaissance began in 2012, Twista embraced the new movement typified by artists like Chief Keef, Lil Durk, and King Louie.
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Santana was the cousin of Chief Keef (real name Keith Cozart), the best known of the young generation of Chicago rappers to have emerged on the music scene in recent years.
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Young artists like Lil Yachty and Lil Uzi Vert, following in the tradition of innovators like Chief Keef and iLoveMakonnen, have reshaped hip-hop's ascendent sound into something more atmospheric and melodic.
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Lil Tay has also been filmed or photographed with rappers like Chief Keef and Lil Pump, appeared in a Jake Paul YouTube video, and was most recently interviewed by Good Morning America.
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More specifically, we're told McKenzie (aka Kooda B) was indicted right after Tekashi spoke with investigators and pinned him as the trigger man at the Keef shooting last June in Times Square.
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Coakley was born 16 years after Poe's death and, as Dr. Siegal notes, it's as if Coakley discovered an unpublished manuscript by E.A.P. Keef is simply a masterful imitation of Poe's style.
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The horse-drawn hearse was decorated by vibrant orange flowers spelling "Keef" and "Chief", while his infamous fluorescent green microphone and an elegant arrangement of white and red roses adorned the coffin.
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Keef just moved into a new pad a couple weeks ago and RAW Rolling Papers wanted to send him a housewarming gift -- 5,000 pre-rolled papers, including 500 that are foot-long.
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On top of community members, we talked to Chief Keef, Lil Durk, Vic Mensa, Young Chop, Common, and many more to piece together where the city has been and where it's headed.
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Alongside Young Thug on the fleet-footed "Choppa Won't Miss" and Chief Keef on "Mileage," Carti barely even forms coherent thoughts, so certain is he that energy alone will pull things through.
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Yachty's music is a swirling mixture of texture-heavy, melodic, post-regional sounds deeply indebted to the breakthrough sonic playfulness of recent predecessors like Chief Keef, A$AP Rocky, and Young Thug.
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Harris grew up with her single mom and two older brothers near Chicago's notorious Parkway Garden Homes; she attended the same elementary school as future drill phenoms Chief Keef and Lil Reese.
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Traditionalists have every right to be terrified; kids who barely remember a time before the sounds of artists like Young Thug and Chief Keef were ascendent have every right to be excited.
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Lucky for us, Keef has broken his silence and in a new interview with XXL, he spoke about his influence, getting offered to be Apple Music's first signee, and his recording process.
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I think one of the reasons I took it was because a lot of the juke music and Chicago rap at the time referenced Xanax a lot—Lil Durk, Chief Keef, Rashad.
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He also admitted to having paid a Nine Trey member to shoot at the rapper Chief Keef in the summer of 2018 when he was staying at a hotel in Times Square.
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"New Patek," released late last night, was produced by Dolan Beats (Chief Keef, Lil Yachty); he lays down some very Zaytoven-esque piano while Uzi raps about diamonds and shoes and oral sex.
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Chief Keef failed to set an alarm or reminder on his phone -- that's gotta be what happened -- and as a result there's a warrant out in Miami for his arrest ... TMZ has learned.
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Me and F1LTHY stayed with Nedarb last summer while we were out in LA for the Matt Ox x Chief Keef shows, and me and Nedarb started talking about doing a project eventually.
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The most popular theory behind this fued's genesis is that by Keef being close to Fat Trel—the Northeast DC native and Glizzy's long time rival—he went at Glizzy to show solidarity.
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Stephanie Keef and Isaac Budmen of Budmen Industries designed a visor they could print on the 16 3D printers that are running non-stop in the basement of their Liverpool, New York, home.
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A guy named Grant Zimmerman worked for Alki and says he booked Chief Keef to be the subject of a new hologram, and was promised a piece of the action, but got stiffed.
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I grew up grounded in 80s and 90s hip-hop, but I've also appreciated the post-Lil Wayne slurring renaissance that's seen Chief Keef and Gucci Mane to take drawling to new heights.
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TMZ broke the story ... NYPD was taking a closer look at 6ix9ine's potential ties to the men who followed Keef from a downtown Manhattan restaurant, and then uptown to the W in Times Square.
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Xzibit even drops by to get in on the feast, treating himself to a lamb chop paired with asparagus and salsa verde—brought together with some high-grade keef and a THC-laden marinade.
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Cops say Chief had a ton of drugs in his system when he was arrested, and the list is pretty wild ... Keef tested positive for Morphine, Codeine, Promethazine, THC, Hydrocodone, Norcodeine, Dihydrocodeine and Hydromorphone.
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That spontaneity, borne out of genuine lust for a piece of music, is felt in the final product, as well as the bond that Keef and the other Glo Boys share with each other.
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The Facebook Live video, recorded on Tuesday, opened with what looked like a happy family enjoying a car ride, singing along to a song by rapper Chief Keef as it played on the radio.
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Under the auspices of public safety, the City of Chicago barred drill artists from working in their hometown, going so far as to prevent a hologram of Keef from "performing" even in neighboring Indiana.
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It's all reinforced through this consumer culture filter, down to the celebration of self-abuse by those canonized as 'tortured souls,' whether you're talking Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love or Future and Chief Keef.
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Our sources say Tekashi and crew feel the real reason they were refused entry is because of Tekashi's recent antics, including his feud with Chief Keef, and they've made stuff up to illegally bar him.
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He's a mallrat raised on three decades worth of emo and influenced by the changing face of rap from Yung Lean to Lil Uzi Vert, Chief Keef to Odd Future, RiFF RAFF to The Weeknd.
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Of Apple Music's attempt to acquire him, he said: Apple Music's head of content, Larry Jackson, who recruited Keef to Interscope, confirmed that he did make the offer but didn't expect the rapper to bite.
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The web of celeb burglaries just got a little more tangled -- one of the 4 people arrested for hitting Rihanna's crib had also been busted for a Chief Keef home invasion where shots were fired.
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Tekashi69 is adding more fuel to the fire in his war with fellow rapper Chief Keef, this time by taking Keef's baby mama, Slim Danger, out on a $75k shopping spree at Gucci for her birthday.
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Last summer, shows by the rapper Chief Keef, who had been linked to gang violence in Chicago and served time on gun charges, were canceled even though the rapper was to appear only digitally, via hologram.
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It was also based in a real familial dynamic; when his 16-year-old cousin Chief Keef blew up, Fredo Santana was a relative elder at 21, and he'd embraced the role well before their fame.
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With its sullenly angelic Chief Keef/Justin Vernon duet and that superlaser of a Mike Dean guitar solo, "Hold My Liquor" is a lighter-waver, "Comfortably Numb" for the brain-addled denizens of some future megalopolis.
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But even with his influence being so evident on the genre, Keef has granted a very limited amount of people access to his life and artistic process, especially after being dropped from Interscope Records in 2014.
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The last time I had been to this lot was two years ago for another, slightly different act of protest: seeing a rare one-off performance of the Chief Keef hologram banned from Chicago and Hammond, Indiana.
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When the man in the passenger seat threatens to beat the asses of those who don't believe Chief Keef is about that life, we feel his frustration, but also his utmost pride and loyalty to Glo Gang.
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Fredo was not the best rapper in the crew, and his best work was often in collaboration with more sophisticated songwriters; while Keef artfully negotiated the tension between intuition and craft, as a rapper, Fredo leaned amateur.
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He detailed his beefs with the rappers Casanova, Trippie Redd, and Chief Keef, as well as started another with Cardi B.Along with the gang-related charges, Hernandez has faced legal trouble in separate cases on earlier occasions.
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Just think back to some of the classic Twitter beefs of all time: Joan Rivers versus Rihanna, Katy Perry versus Chief Keef, and of course, what we thought was the greatest Twitter beef of all—the Arab Spring.
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Organizers for this year's HIGH TIMES Cannabis Cup -- which kicks off in March -- tell us weed is NOT allowed at the event this year, and that goes for headliners Ludacris, Chief Keef and Cypress Hill's B-Real too.
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For example, Kodak's charges wouldn't be eligible for deferred prosecution in Illinois, where Chief Keef is from: In Cook County, the "deferred prosecution" program cannot be invoked for a violent offense, a DUI, or possession of a weapon.
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Still-breathing musicians also made use of the technology, including the rapper Chief Keef, who in 2175, as a means of avoiding outstanding legal warrants, beamed a hologram performance from California to a music festival in Hammond, Ind.
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Tekashi69 might have way more legal woes on the horizon than the full plate he's already dealing with, 'cause the feds are looking into the Chief Keef shooting case, in which cops think 6ix9ine implicated himself on tape.
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Law enforcement sources tell us ... NYPD investigators are calling Tekashi a "known associate" of one of 2 men seen on surveillance cameras tracking Keef around NYC in the hours before someone opened fire on him outside the W Hotel.
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Whether in the sing-song hook of "Hate Being Sober," the choppy bravado of "Don't Like," the lo-fi grit of "3Hunna," or the ambient drift of "Citgo," Keef forecasted basically every trend of hyped 2017 music in 20163.
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On OX, his debut proper, he sounds disturbingly self-assured, holding himself together on tracks with Valee and Chief Keef, flexing constantly, bragging about putting "thirteen racks in my motor" as if he's anywhere near the legal driving age.
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High-profile burglaries have plagued the Los Angeles area for well over a year now, with celeb victims like Rihanna, Yasiel Puig, Taylor Swift, Chief Keef, Christina Milian and other stars who were set to be targets of robberies.
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All of the new art pieces are made of hand-cut wood, covered with acrylic paint and finished with a coat of resin ... and they're from the same folks who hooked up Chief Keef with $40k of '90s nostalgia.
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He was raised there largely by a single mother, coming to music through childhood piano lessons and from listening to local rappers like Kanye West and Chief Keef, along with rock acts like Senses Fail, Paramore and Billy Idol.
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He was raised there largely by a single mother, coming to music through childhood piano lessons and from listening to local rappers like Kanye West and Chief Keef, along with rock acts like Senses Fail, Paramore and Billy Idol.
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This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. While the rest of us have spent January in a weeks-long bleary eyed hungover state trying to adjust to the strange new world of 2017, Chief Keef is already on his second mixtape.
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Some question whether or not Shy would have gone on to any success had he not dissed Keef and Trel within months of each other, but even two wildly entertaining jabs at popular rappers can't sustain someone for over five years.
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His first full-length project since his 2013 post-Kids These Days debut Innanetape, it boasts a stable of all-star guests like Weezer, Pusha-T Chief Keef, Joey Purp, the Internet's Syd, The-Dream, Ty Dolla $ign, and others.
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Now the earrings are shipped internationally and stocked in Paris at Villa Rose, a housewares store in the Ninth Arrondissement, and Galeries Lafayette's À Rebours, the department store's novelty collection, where the Keef Palas stock is displayed in a refrigerator.
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His music is woozy, emotional goo, a disgorgement of heartbreak, boastfulness and drugged-out memento mori that reflects influences as disparate as rappers like Chief Keef and Drake, and early 2000s rock bands like Fall Out Boy and Escape the Fate.
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There are those artists who feel the need to act like assholes in the run-up to an album release, believing that all PR is good PR. Then there's Chief Keef, who's so prolific that barely even tweets about a new project now.
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Chief Keef didn't invent the models of documentary-style videos or of viral YouTube fame, but he brought them together more effectively than anyone before him, spawning an entirely new kind of artistic narrative and changing the look of rap in the process.
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Known as "disco rap" at the time, according to legend it was Keef who coined the term "hip hop" while teasing a friend who has just joined the Army, scat-singing "hip/hop/hip/hop" in a cadence that mocked military marches.
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Even poems about more famous people, like the poet Gwendolyn Brooks or the rapper Chief Keef, retain the same intimacy of "Albert Parsons Can Hang," as if Coval is saying he knows these people because they all have Chicago in their bones.
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But what his breakout song "Kill Shit" with longtime friend Lil Herb (now G Herbo) lacked in straightforward sing-song viral hit potential compared to Chief Keef or grandiose musical ambition compared to Chance the Rapper, it made up for in mesmerizing presence.
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It was the perfect foil to the more R&B-leaning rap sounds that began to emerge a few years prior, and it proved once again why Chief Keef is the standard-bearer for one of the most important scenes in rap.
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Others played to the crowd's interests, emblematized by the staccato pugnacity of NLE Choppa's "Shotta Flow" and the reliably explosive Chief Keef chestnut "Faneto" from all the way back in 2014, a time that was effectively the birthplace of this generation's taste.
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Featuring longtime collaborators like SneakGuapo and enlisting some of underground production's big hitters including Ryan Hemsworth and OhZone (Chief Keef, Skeme, Lil Durk) to sculpt a tundra-like atmosphere, Celebrity Etiquette is a magnum opus from a rapper who prioritizes realness above all else.
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D Gainz, the unofficial videographer of the Chicago drill scene in its heyday, had grown distant from Keef in the weeks leading up to the release of "Love Sosa," citing the rapper's busy schedule and his possible involvement with the murder of Lil JoJo.
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I Know What You Did Last Winter—like recent releases from Yachty, Lil Uzi Vert, and others—feels like the product of dedicated rap oddballs like Chief Keef, Lil B, and Makonnen trickling down into youth culture and inspiring new strangeness of their own.
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I had so much trust in Chief Keef and Thot Breaker that I lobbied for it to be named VICE Magazine's Album of the Month in January 2015 despite having not heard it and not realizing that it wouldn't come out for two years.
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As a teenager, he was a member of popular local group Pakk Boyz who, like many kids across the country at that time, were empowered by the DIY approach to song and video making that helped Chief Keef and his fellow Chicago drill artists become international superstars.
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Besides Gucci's affiliation with every hot young Atlanta producer, the list of artists that fell under the 1017 umbrella included a who's who of today's trap rap scene: OJ da Juiceman, Peewee Longway, Young Thug, Young Dolph, Migos, Chief Keef, Young Scooter, and Waka Flocka Flame.
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That project hoisted him up as the next teenage darling of street music—like Wayne in '99 and Chief Keef in 2011—whose marketability and appeal relied heavily on the juxtaposition of his barely broken voice and baby face with his relationship with guns and drugs.
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Photo by Bridges Chicago hip-hop has seen its share of breakout stars in recent years: from Chance the Rapper, Vic Mensa, and other members of the Save Money collective like Towkio and Joey Purp to Chief Keef, Lil Durk and their fellow disciples of drill.
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Chief Keef, who has faced a series of arrests and stints in jail and was eventually dropped from his deal Interscope, might have benefitted from such an approach and been less inclined to announce his "retirement" from rapping earlier this year, at the ripe age of 20 years old.
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Conversely, others like Chief Keef and YG continue to regrettably entangle themselves in social media fueled beefs with him, giving both dubious rap blogs and prestige music media outlets alike the sort of tabloid-level back-and-forth coverage that assuredly benefits all quarreling parties and their careers.
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On a new episode of BONG APPÉTIT, VICELAND host Abdullah Saeed invites innovative Korean chef Deuki Hong to raid the weed pantry and make keef-breaded chicken wings and infused kimchi-Spam stew accompanied by the most-infused item we've had on the show so far: deep-fried cannabis leaves.
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There is an entire subgenre of warped Auto-Tune rap (think Young Thug, Chief Keef, and Future) that can trace its origins to this era of Lil Wayne, and Alex is one of the leading chroniclers of said subgenre, so I advise listening closely to what he has to say.
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The well of influence Peep's drawing from here undoubtedly includes pop-punk, but his music is largely if not primarily informed by such post-#bars pioneers such as Speaker Knockerz and Chief Keef, the bespoke scumbaggery of early Weeknd, Riff Raff's refractive loopiness, and the discursive rambunction of SpaceGhostPurrp's Raider Klan.
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Original photo concepts for Sticky Fingers, that infamous vinyl sleeve with real zipper, and a giant print of the Goats Head Soup sleeve photo usher you on to Andy Warhol polaroids of Mick and Keef mucking around, and Charlie's sketches for tour posters — as well as some of the posters themselves.
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And customers have included the New York-based chef and food artist Laila Gohar, who wore the garlic earrings at her wedding; a 60-year-old man in rural northern Spain seeking an unusual anniversary gift for his wife; and a Dubai-based society bride who wanted her attendants in Keef Palas creations.
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Between then and now, the painfully-modest, bleach-blonde mullet'd, self-taught director-editor has added the likes of Kim and Kanye, Travis Scott, Drake, 21 Savage, Tyga, Chief Keef, FKA Twigs, Diplo and A$AP Rocky to his curriculum vitae, and now calls some of modern hip hop's biggest names his good friends.
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For this generation, the tree of influence is short and irregularly shaped: Soulja Boy for self-started, Internet-driven fame; ASAP Rocky and the rest of the ASAP Mob for flamboyance and for eradicating regional loyalty; Chief Keef for the disassembly of traditional ideas about verse structure; Young Thug for radiant weirdness and genuine indifference.
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This strategy was not driven so much by Silicon Valley thinkers as record label veterans — namely the Apple Music executives Jimmy Iovine, a former producer who was a founder of Interscope and Beats by Dr. Dre, and Larry Jackson, a onetime A&R man who signed acts like Chief Keef and Lana Del Rey.
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In this utopia, currency is in the form of reposts, the universally accepted greatest television series is not The Wire but Dragon Ball Z, high fashion is a long sleeve black t-shirt with the word "Friends" printed in bold across the front, and the founding father is a 16-year old by the name of Chief Keef.
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If Chief Keef blazed the trail for rap songs as mush-mouthed sing-alongs, Uzi is the proper arrival, pushing that sound into more colorful, gleeful territory with the help of a murderers' row of current producers that includes FKi, Sonny Digital, and TM88, as well as one of the architects of Keef's own evolution, DP Beats.
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As part of his plea, Tekashi — known for his album Day69: Graduation Day — admitted to joining the gang in the fall 2017, and hiring a fellow gang member to "shoot at" rap rival Chief Keef in June 2018, in order to "maintain or increase my own standing in Nine Trey," according to documents cited by TMZ.
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As part of his plea, Tekashi — known for his album Day69: Graduation Day and hit "Fefe" with Nicki Minaj — admitted to joining the gang in the fall 2017, and hiring a fellow gang member to "shoot at" rap rival Chief Keef in June 2018, in order to "maintain or increase my own standing in Nine Trey," according to documents cited by TMZ.
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Someone even created an ad lib visualizer to be enjoyed while listening to C U L T U R E. Just about every notable rapper of the past few years has had an ad lib that distinguishes them from their peers; Lil B's "wooh" inspires joy, Chief Keef popularized "bang bang," and the late Bankroll Fresh would screech "STREEET" in his rhymes.
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The stars are young (Chicago had Chief Keef, who signed to Interscope at 16; London has Loski, whose break-out single "Hazards" was released when he was the same age); the music is concrete-hard, typically reflecting the harsh realities encroaching on its creators; and crucially—of the moment—it's being pinpointed as part of a decade-high spike in teenage homicide rates.
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You may have waking dreams but, rather than being rapturously transported to an exotic world featuring veiled and alluring women of the East during an ecstatic hallucination, you're more likely to keep keef-inspired company with barmaids from Hooters imagined within curls of smoke, perhaps crave a Snickers candy bar, and/or simply zone-out in front of the TV watching reruns of Lost in Space.
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Eschewing the massive scale of Rock the Bells or the party-lines baggage of Paid Dues, Day N Night's debut brought a comprehensive look at rap in 222 to Orange County, with a lineup ranging from established stars and influencers to more acute, of-the-moment flashes: ASAP Rocky, Young Thug, Metro Boomin, Mike WiLL Made It, Chief Keef, Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Yachty, Post Malone, Maxo Kream, and so on.
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Head Wound City - "Old Age Takes Too Long"Die Antwoord - "Bum Bum"El Toro Fuerte - "Sur" 18+ - "Drama" No Parents - "Back of a Napkin" Three 6 Mafia - "Poppin' My Collar"DJ Screw - "Bang Screw"Miike Snow - "Genghis Khan"Neil Young - "Harvest Moon"Bleached - "Desolate Town" Last Days of Humanity - "A Divine Proclamation of Finishing the Present Existence"Andy Milonakis - "Twitter Dat"Three Loco - "Jump Rope" Chief Keef ft.
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Outlaw appeal has long been integral to hip-hop — think Tupac Shakur, 50 Cent, Chief Keef and dozens more — and rappers from this new generation with difficult back stories are in the early stages of their careers, in a genre in which tolerance of complicated histories tends to be high, and in which skepticism about institutions like law enforcement can reframe someone accused of a crime as an anti-authoritarian folk hero.
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