how did he even figure to go to chicago its very cosmic
― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 September 2014 14:28 (nine years ago) link
I guess he was in DC for a while first?
― The Reverend, Thursday, 4 September 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
NYC. He had to leave for a situation he wouldn't explain to me. I asked he decided on Chicago and his non-answer was that he was either going to go to Miami or Chicago.
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
v intersting person
― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
u want to do rap so u go somewhere that isnt particularly hot rapwise and by chance meet the people who you will help to blow the place up
― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:28 (nine years ago) link
he'd been recording keef since he was 10-11
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
Kenn, who declined to give his real name for this article, is originally from the Yamagata Prefecture of Japan. He produced the beat for “Bang,” as well as several of Keef’s other songs. He discovered hip-hop as a teenager living in Japan, and became a big fan of Dr. Dre, Nas and Cam’ron. (“[Stillmatic and Come Home With Me] are classics to me,” Kenn said when asked about his favorite performers. “I used to listen to those every day.”) When he turned 18, around 2005, Kenn moved to Tokyo, and within two years followed a friend to New York City. “I always looked up to him,” he explained. “He was doing music with people [in the U.S.]. I was like, I want to do music like him.” The United States completely changed Kenn’s perceptions of hip-hop. “Right here, everything is life-sized,” Kenn said in a thick accent. “Radio, parties, or even clothes, anything. This is real. In Japan, it’s different. People get older and they start to listen to it. Right here, it’s like babies listen to hip-hop, they grow up with the rhythm.”
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Thursday, September 4, 2014 4:30 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
crazy
― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
some other good quotes here: http://somanyshrimp.com/2012/03/22/bang-the-launch-of-a-16-year-old-chicago-rapper/
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
yah p sure thats where i read abt it in the first place lol
― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
good reporting fascinating story
― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
more internet music people shd do reported pieces imho
― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii6z7mjUG7A
i find it interesting to look at his pre-fame videos, his rap style has always been weird but also considered
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:52 (nine years ago) link
ya hes def trying harder at rapping in that one
― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
the guy Odee who OBlock is named for is in that video
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
also chicago ahead of the curve on backward baseball caps
― lag∞n, Thursday, 4 September 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
they def brought timberlands back too.
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Thursday, 4 September 2014 21:01 (nine years ago) link
Don't mess w the dude in the mariners zip up
― rap steve (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 September 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
Timberlands never really went anywhere in mpls but I guess we get a lot of snow so
― rap steve (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 September 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
well yeah they didn't go anywhere in chicago either, they just became a mainstream fashion thing after this stuff popped off
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Thursday, 4 September 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
I think Noz is right to push "Sosa style" as representative of nu keef ish, feels like a good rallying pt around which the rest of these records can rotate
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Thursday, 4 September 2014 23:48 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/a_plus/status/507763276005265408https://twitter.com/a_plus/status/507763441789304832
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, 5 September 2014 08:24 (nine years ago) link
some of this new stuff sounds like busdriver fell down a well
― r|t|c, Friday, 5 September 2014 09:05 (nine years ago) link
not sure i hear that, gotta say. it's like the anti-busdriver. keef likes to max out at four words per bar
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, 5 September 2014 10:19 (nine years ago) link
unless you mean, like, when he fell in the well, the sentences broke off on the way down, or something
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, 5 September 2014 10:23 (nine years ago) link
oh hemiola is the only creative jazzy flow is it :P
nah it's not so much any ott lyrical miracle stuff just mainly kinda the cali bro/gameshow host voice he puts on for 'i quote' or 'shooters' tbh
― r|t|c, Friday, 5 September 2014 12:12 (nine years ago) link
agree that "sosa style" is a good song for 2014 keef stuff to orbit around but i actually think it's one of his few songs from this year where he has a really dope & unique beat to work with (also "no")
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 5 September 2014 14:49 (nine years ago) link
sorta feel like keef has been working with kinda crappy/amateur beats for a while so i was particularly excited about his infamous 75%/40% tweet about recording 30 new songs with chop
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 5 September 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
anyway can't believe you're sleeping on "how it go" -- i think it's one of his few songs from this year that really nails the stylistic aesthetic of the song barely being held together without it, you know, actually not being held together (which is how i feel about something like "ight dow"). also weird mix of pathos and defiance that i think is particularly evocative here both vocally & lyrically
all these niggas up in they feelingssmokin loud pack i can't hear my feelingsall a nigga want is some billionsbut i'm smokin loud pack as i spend my milions
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 5 September 2014 15:06 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/q0s8HeP.png
ysi?
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 September 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, September 5, 2014 9:49 AM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
nah it's not even the only beat to use that trick ("Gucci Gang" illustrates how effective it is, though) and 12hunna is one of the best producers out ... listen to "hundreds" and "pull up" and "make it count," those are top of the line beats. The drum programming is so intricate and strange.
I notice there are actually a few "citgo" type songs but after the corny indie fuxx wave of citgo support I hestiate to enthuse about the "tec" style shit now.
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, 5 September 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
That "Gucci Gang" track is crazy - first thing from Keef that I've heard for a while that's made me sit up and pay attention.
― MikoMcha, Friday, 5 September 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
listen to "hundreds" and "pull up" and "make it count"
i've heard these songs.... i don't hear at all what you hear in those beats. they're completely non-functional.
if ilovemakonnen was rapping over these beats and vice was praising how "intricate and strange" the production is you'd be calling bullshit
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 5 September 2014 15:52 (nine years ago) link
also i have a pretty high tolerance for poorly produced beats but most of those 12hunna beats sound like total shit and i can't vibe to them at all
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 5 September 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, September 5, 2014 10:52 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'd be saying that if it was makonnen over 'sosa style' also. you're totally wrong man, i don't know how else to put it. try downloading the songs off itunes or something so you have them on good quality and aren't listening in a hasty 30 second itunes binge.
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, 5 September 2014 15:57 (nine years ago) link
*youtube binge
lol @ you telling me to not listen to chief keef songs on youtube when that's how his music is consumed by 90% of people including his core fanbase
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 5 September 2014 15:58 (nine years ago) link
without fucking dj hustlenomics stepping all over the song smh
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, 5 September 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link
you don't know 12hunna beats until you hear them on vinyl
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 5 September 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
You're letting your fetish for melodic autotune pop cheese get in the way of your discernment here. the spindly beats w/ all the little pointillist details and disorienting grooves 12hunna is doing is way more interesting than 'how it go.' people are sleeping on it because the only versions are super tagged up by annoying dj hustlenomics drops on youtube so they can sell the NO DJs on itunes etc
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, 5 September 2014 16:03 (nine years ago) link
whiney-level argument by j0rdan here
it's weird to hear you of all people fetishizing how "weird" and "interesting" the production is
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 5 September 2014 16:06 (nine years ago) link
i'm not 'fetishizing' it, you specifically said he gets wack beats and you're wrong
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, 5 September 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
To be clear, it isn't the sort of thing I'd wanting to be listening to very much, if at all. Especially the video, really doesn't look like anyone's having much of a good time...
― MikoMcha, Friday, 5 September 2014 16:08 (nine years ago) link
i think those 12hunna songs play far too much into keef's formless tendencies... i think something like "pull up" is much closer to the stuff of his 2013 mixtapes that you didn't really like than you want to admit
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 5 September 2014 16:09 (nine years ago) link
I imagine Keef being sort of just pushed in front of the camera in his drug stupor, everyone making sure he doesn't fall over or pass out unconscious.
― MikoMcha, Friday, 5 September 2014 16:11 (nine years ago) link
really doesn't look like anyone's having much of a good time...
Wouldn't be too interested in CK if he were having a good time.
― the one where, as balls alludes (Eazy), Friday, 5 September 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
the 12hunna beats are purposefully "interesting" but to what end?
who produced "jet li"? that's the best kind of keef beat imo. it's like a midpoint between the effects 12hunna uses and something like jim jonsin that forces him to use more structure
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 5 September 2014 16:14 (nine years ago) link
"bang bros" beat >>>> any of those 12hunna songs you mentioned
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 5 September 2014 16:17 (nine years ago) link
no
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, 5 September 2014 16:21 (nine years ago) link
is really good, obsessed with 'bestie' - such a strange fog of a song
― devvvine, Thursday, 29 November 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
how sad should I be feeling that I had to stay home because I had a headache instead of seeing this tour?
― mh, Thursday, 29 November 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
his live shows are very hit or miss, fwiw
but ive seen some great ones
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Thursday, 29 November 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link
sometimes in the sense that he misses them himself
zing
― mh, Thursday, 29 November 2018 22:03 (five years ago) link
just having a blast revisiting bang 2, almighty so, and back from the dead 2
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 20:18 (four years ago) link
keef entered some kind of wormhole right after finally rich, mindbending music
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
faneto song of the decade
― lowercase (eric), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, October 1, 2019 3:18 PM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
^^^^
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 03:30 (four years ago) link
i shd do a comp of 'loosies' from that era
https://sisilafami.tumblr.com/post/95999019091/my-chief-keef-loosies-folder#notes
― ANU (sisilafami), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 09:04 (four years ago) link
come real hard like the "g" that's after the "uh" in spaghetti
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 15:00 (four years ago) link
When a new rapper is not rapping offbeat i assume he's at least 29yo— Balibz (@Balibz) March 5, 2021
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 5 March 2021 17:19 (three years ago) link
haha
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 5 March 2021 17:24 (three years ago) link
been thinking recently about how the two opinions deej was most pilloried for on ILX — that chief keef and lil peep are hugely important/influential—have come down incontrovertibly in his favor
― J0rdan S., Friday, 5 March 2021 17:29 (three years ago) link
I thought it was pretty clear at the time he was right, people just didn't want it to be true. :)
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 5 March 2021 17:35 (three years ago) link
this made me google "j.i.d. age" and lo and behold, he's 30
― little johnny juul (voodoo chili), Friday, 5 March 2021 17:44 (three years ago) link
my argument was that they were bad
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Friday, 5 March 2021 17:46 (three years ago) link
^this, though i have a little room for keef in my heart
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 March 2021 17:57 (three years ago) link
two recent guest verses go super hard.. i'm forecasting a major keef renaissance in 2024 if he keeps it up
sexxy red - ghetto princess ft. chief keef
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKQ7xrRVLtY
lil gnar, young nudy & chief keef - pb&j
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tn4lGtatbw
― flopson, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 08:50 (four months ago) link
ghetto princess verse is insane
bitch this polo foreign, this is not ralph laurenbout them blueberries, we will split a n**** orangecall you back i'm touring, you gone make me hornyass redder than that flight i booked you for the morningferraris and porsches, they think i ride horsesall this lemon-lime i pour, they think sosa got an endorsementtryna ball like chief so, you don't need no porschesall you gotta do is have that sauce and that's importanti got alfredo, turn you to some raguwrist got the bitch stuck, looking like a statueyeah my lamborghini fast, my hellcat's fast tooall these cats, you would think i bought em cause i had todid i have to? man, i never dofrom the trenches get rich, shit'll better youat the venue, counting revenuebig forty-five, i don't care if you 7'2"big forty-five, i don't care if it's seven of you
― flopson, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 08:58 (four months ago) link
ghetto princess, great song.
"hellcats srts" had durk on the remix but it's prob the most keef-style song on the project
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 16:31 (four months ago) link
Brrt-brrt, yeah, hello, man, who this?I don't know, I got you saved as, "Fat booty bitch"
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 19:15 (four months ago) link
haha wow yeah he went off
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 6 December 2023 19:22 (four months ago) link
dirty nachos is amazing
― flopson, Sunday, 17 March 2024 23:12 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVwjL_yJrSk
― flopson, Sunday, 17 March 2024 23:13 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWUDbCEYEqs
― flopson, Sunday, 17 March 2024 23:15 (one month ago) link