Thraed of Chief Keef's "Bang 3" major label abum due in September

I love watching deej in the Keef threads because he treats every 6 months like Keef is moving from Revolver to Sgt. Peps

― bozack horseman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, September 16, 2014 12:58 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for the past 2 years its been a perpetual game of ppl saying he was on the last of his 15 minutes yet he remains one of the only rap rookie able to push out major label albums, has sustained as one of the genre's most popular artists, and has continually evolved as a performer. u write mash notes to marginal heard-by-15-people cassette tape only releases so

has sustained as one of the genre's most popular artists

?? really?

able to push out major label albums

i'll believe it when this supposed second Interscope album actually hits stores tbh

he has been kind of impressively resilient on an "always in the top artists on livemixtapes" level but i mean 2 years ago you were saying keef-branded headphones were gonna be a big christmas list item

i mean but what about guys like drake or macklemore or wayne or like ppl that are actually popular

'actually popular' wtf?

some rappers are more popular than him; most are less

he has been kind of impressively resilient on an "always in the top artists on livemixtapes" level but i mean 2 years ago you were saying keef-branded headphones were gonna be a big christmas list item

― some dude, Tuesday, September 16, 2014 9:32 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

quote me

this is the current livemixtapes top ten:
1. Migos
2. Kevin Gates
3. Gucci Mane
4. Rich Homie Quan
5. Young Thug
6. Young Jeezy
7. Lil Boosie
8. Lil Wayne
9. Chief Keef
10. Yo Gotti

notable that the only guys there that haven't had mainstream radio hits in the last few months are Gucci and Keef (and Kevin Gates, although he's starting to break through to radio right now). Gucci is obviously kind of a unique case, but clearly Keef is hanging onto the mixtape audience better than, like, Ca$h Out or LoveRance or whoever else had one big radio song 2 years ago.

if they weren't going to be extraordinarily overpriced I'd buy you a pair of beats by keef's for xmas next year

― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, January 8, 2013 10:51 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol that was funny but not really what you implied i said

two notes about his lack of chart success: first is that his biggest songs came right before the digital streams were incorporated into charts. second is that i've heard that a lot of radio PDs were shook by the 'chicago violence' negative publicity and wouldn't play his stuff. (Or any of the drill stuff)

in my world of young people chief keef was like all anyone talked about for months around the release of finally rich, i'm genuinely not sure those same people remember who he is anymore

(i know that is not specifically what you're claiming about his popularity but)

oh jeez sorry you just said they'd be on sale and expensive not that people would buy them, is my face red

i remember a few months after "Love Sosa" peaked on the charts i spent a weekend in South Carolina and it was the #1 song on the station down there. it seemed like his stuff kinda spread out regionally and didn't all hit at once. i think he just didn't hit all regions on the same level. he never seemed to make a heavy impact in Baltimore (where Boosie and Gucci and Meek have super strong fanbases).

continued presence at the top of mixtape charts despite lack of radio hits suggests he has a dece hardcore fanbase which is a p cool thing to have and a good place to build from im rating chief keef a strong buy our highest rating

he also routinely gets views in the low millions on youtube for all those random songs he does videos for that i guess weren't even on mixtapes?

Stop trying to make chief kerf happen

cheam kreaf is good af tho

a good place to build from im rating chief keef a strong buy our highest rating

― lag∞n, Tuesday, September 16, 2014 10:23 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what's keef's market cap?

cheam kreaf is good af tho

― lag∞n, Tuesday, September 16, 2014 11:46 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what about crӕm of...nevermind

~35m youtube views

http://i.imgur.com/C06QyLC.png

xp

there's a special place in hell for people who do acoustic guitar covers of rap songs

that pitch shifted song he just posted on youtube is p dope

oh jeez sorry you just said they'd be on sale and expensive not that people would buy them, is my face red

im confused about your point. they did release them as i recall

no idea how they sold, not sure you do either

at any rate he's released about 20 singles this year and uploaded them directly to itunes...people are listening to them, the last cut on shmurda/gs9's mixtape is the instrumental to 'pull up,' and at least in chicago he's still the go-to rap dude. also: apparently the 11th-most googled rapper in the country according to google analytics, two spots above kendrick lamar lol

haha ok shows what i know, i had no clue the keef headphones actually came out, n/m

i am on the tinfoil hat squad with deej regarding "hot nigga" rocketing up near the top 10 in the span of like a single month despite it being a rip off chicago rap songs that had mild if any chart or radio success

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XCioHuced4

fuck with it

i am on the tinfoil hat squad with deej regarding "hot nigga" rocketing up near the top 10 in the span of like a single month despite it being a rip off chicago rap songs that had mild if any chart or radio success

― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, September 17, 2014 9:52 AM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

def in a drill style but a hot song all its own

its more exuberant than the standard drill register

which chicago rap songs did "hot nigga" rip off

def in a drill style but a hot song all its own

― lag∞n, Wednesday, September 17, 2014 10:19 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

no i agree totally, it's just.... suspicious

agreed

Bobby Shmurda jacked a beat from a Lloyd Banks song that was made by the producer of Meek Mill's biggest hits, nothing about the song really scans to be as more Chicago than east coast. I feel like Chicago came up and claimed ownership of this whole post-regional trap/nu-gangsta rap diaspora that is happening in dozens of different cities.

I mean he says "thot" but the whole world took that from Chicago a good while ago already

lol @ that sped up version of wait being all over youtube. Here's the original version: http://www.soundcloudfile.com/fphbi5 (seems like he did this song in the last few days because he recently put up the beat to this on ig in the studio)

Something about his music I find leaves me a bit cold though. Even the songs that I love seem too distant at times.

They also say "with the shits" and "broski" and us other Chicago slang, come on al. The use of adlibs, the video style, shmurda even says they were inspired by drill in interviews. And in his interview for global grind he basically says that pre-keef street rap was basically dead in his neighborhood and after everyone wanted to be a rapper

I do think the song is good and adds its own unique flavor to it, but saying it's not influenced by drill is nonsense

I mean he says "thot" but the whole world took that from Chicago a good while ago already

― some dude, Wednesday, September 17, 2014 11:03 AM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The whole world took that from ... Drill music. And, uh, "shmoney dance" is a takeoff on the name "money dance"...

ok i'm not talking about slang or video style or even his inspiration, what chicago songs does "hot nigga" SOUND like? bobby shmurda doesn't rap like any chicago rapper i can think of, it's much more...straightforward rapping, cleaner-sounding beats

i think it sounds chicago bc chicago figured out an east coast urban meets down south rap style & that's basically what this is ...

ppl keep talking about the beat like it's so farfetched that it would be used in chicago but there are plenty of chicago beatmakers who make east coast sounding beats in the street rap scene too like chase davis

i guess if you thought 'drill' was all fake lex luger you might get confused but

well lil durk has plenty of songs that sound like meek mill... his whole "52 bars" series, really

like this is a pure shmurda blueprint

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgj4aV9GLbc

king L has done a bunch of lyrical songs over jahlil beats sounding productions

east coast dudes seem more into the lil reese / LA Capone / Lil Herb type dudes who have a more NY friendly delivery IME.

herb is another good example

there were a lot of people who fucked w/ reese most of all ... most people i talked to in ny thought he was the real talent or w/e the same way DC seems to have adopted Durk

yeah but his music doesn't sound like shmurda, i think there was just something in his attitude that appealed to new york types

his music at least was way more straightforward than keef's

anyway most of the hyped 'crossover' songs out of Chicago since Finally Rich have been dogshit with no radio potential, including that crit bait I TERRIFY MY CITY one, you gotta be pretty dense to wonder why "Hot Nigga" and not those songs