User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License additional terms may apply. Critics have cited Chief Keef as a major influence on contemporary hip hop through his impact on artists such as Lil Uzi Vert, 21 Savage, and various collaborations. In the following years, Keef has served up a continuous stream of releases, such as Back From the Dead 2 (2014), Bang 3 (2015), and Thot Breaker (2017). On July 7, 2012, it was announced that Chief Keef would be performing at the 2012 Lollapalooza music festival. It also caught fellow Chicago rapper Kanye West's attention, and West organized a remix of the song along with rappers Pusha T, Jadakiss and Big Sean.
After two locally successful mixtapes, "I Don't Like" became a local hit in Chicago. The attention he received grew in the short time between the release of several mixtapes and several of music videos, including "Bang", "3Hunna" and "I Don't Like". While under house arrest, Cozart posted several videos to his YouTube account. In December 2011, he was arrested on a weapons charge (aggravated unlawful use of a weapon) and put under house arrest at his grandmother's home. Keef's debut album Finally Rich was released in December 2012.Ĭozart attended Dulles Elementary School and later Banner High School on Chicago's South Side, which is where he got his career start. He released his debut mixtape The Glory Road on Jfollowed by Bang in October that year. Keef is also the CEO of his own label imprint Glory Boyz Entertainment, later renamed to Glo Gang. Known as one of the central pioneers and propagators of the prominent Chicago drill style, he was 16 upon signing a multi-million dollar record contract with Interscope Records. It’s definitely a front heavy album but the tracks on the back end are sleepers that will definitely be seen as good in the future.Keith Farrelle Cozart (born August 15, 1995), better known by his stage name Chief Keef, is an American rapper and producer from Chicago, Illinois. The only time we reach a similar peak is “Hadouken”. There’s more good songs and a couple of flops, but this is definitely the climax of the record in my eyes. That’s about half of the album right there. Just go listen to it, and you will understand what I am saying. I feel so dumb even trying to put into words how dope it is. The fucking bars! Like just listen to this track. We missed this when it dropped a few months ago, so our bad, but holy shit is this song amazing. Next we have “the Talk'', which I think is the best song on the album and one of the best songs Sosa’s made in a while. feels like a much better attempt at this and is actually catchy. It’s Sosa crooning with some of the weirdest background singing I’ve heard and ultimately a big miss. “Ice Cream Man” was the next track and I mention it because it honestly just sucks. At first I just thought of it as another Three 6 cover, which it sort of is, but Sosa is just so damn funny and ignorant here, it's perfect and really matches the energy of the original. “Like It's Yo Job” actually grew on me a lot. I love how raw Sosa is here, “I got problems I don’t wanna fix, but I need to / When you broke who fucking cares? When you rich they need you!” The next track “Say I Ain’t Pick Yo Weak Ass Up,” is another amazing beat, this time more traditional but the bars here are nonstop and the energy is amazing and Sosa’s adlibs here are fucking amazing. The next track, “See Through”, produced by Basskid, is a genius beat, with another super long build up to a smooth ass drop. Chief Keef’s last studio album, Dedication, was released in 2017, but since then he has released a number of mixtapes.
“Bitch Where” then perfectly transitions to “Tuxedo”, a classic Sosa drill vibe with one of the best beats on the album and a feature from Glo Gang affiliate Tadeo. The mixing on this entire album is insane too. I could go on and on about this one song, but there’s an amazing drop about halfway through that gives me chills. The phrasing of these bars are also amazing and so unique. Backed by a beautiful horn/synth combo, Sosa raps, “Made it out the Chi, if I didn’t, wouldn’t see today / It’s a setback, everytime I see the cage / You got warfare? If you do then we can play / It got real dark, I’m like bro I see the way.” There’s no drums, just Chief Keef almost acapella style for a rap song, reflecting on how far he has come. Just going in order you have an amazing opening run starting with “Bitch Where”, an E T H E R E A L track that truly feels like a celebration. Damn near every song on this record is either notable or just straight up fire.
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