Turn My Swag On is so far ahead of anything Keef has done - I don't find Soulja Boy a flat performer at all, he has a crucial energy that Keef lacks
― lex pretend, Sunday, 11 November 2012 12:45 (eleven years ago) link
I find the idea that 'I Don't Like' lacks energy a strange one.
― pandemic, Sunday, 11 November 2012 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
I find the idea that Chief Keef should rap with more energy and feeling a strange one.
― weak willie (longneck), Sunday, 11 November 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
well i was talking specifically about "Love Sosa" not his whole oeuvre
― a man d'Balmer (some dude), Sunday, 11 November 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
"turn my swag on" is probably better than anything keef has ever done, yeah
― flopson, Sunday, 11 November 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
but really... who's keeping score amirite?
― flopson, Sunday, 11 November 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
every interview w/him is all 'lol teenagers'
― lag∞n, Sunday, 11 November 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
I mean, to be fair, there's been at least one early single of his that was ok
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 12 November 2012 02:16 (eleven years ago) link
so yeah, this album is really good. Now I understand why Interscope stood by him.
― Evan R, Friday, 14 December 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
he's gonna be around for a bit
― salute me or crut me (J0rdan S.), Friday, 14 December 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, that seems certain now. And I have mixed feelings about that, but damn, if he can make an album like this at age 17, maybe he deserves to.
I get the Flockaveli comparisons to an extent, but for me the big difference is Flocka is very charismatic in his way, and he brings a fun energy. Keef is just vile dude with a bitter presence. Kind of amazing he parlayed that into such an effective album.
― Evan R, Friday, 14 December 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
he's a much better artist than anyone ever gave him credit for. very clearly not just riding on the tails of "i don't like" but slowly pushing his sound outward
― salute me or crut me (J0rdan S.), Friday, 14 December 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
i don't find keef that "vile" or "bitter" at all... like, he often sounds like he's taking glee in playing the "part" of a "rapper" on his songs, a kid who grew up listening to 50 cent inhabiting that role... like there's a lot of "fun energy" that you claim waka has, evan, in keef's music for me. he sounds fucking stoked to be rapping... am i the only one who feels this way?
― bish (bosch), don't kill my vibe (rennavate), Friday, 14 December 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
or maybe not stoked to be rapping as much as making rap songs, if that makes any sense at all...
I understand what you're saying. Keef is obviously engaged, and enjoying what he does—the record would be miserable if he didn't. But I don't sense the same "I'm loving every fucking minute of this" release from him that I do from Flocka. He takes a much more austere posture.
― Evan R, Friday, 14 December 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
― salute me or crut me (J0rdan S.), Friday, December 14, 2012 1:23 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
bottling this gem and releasing it back into the wild in december 2013 to see how it smells then
― Poli oppa lice style (some dude), Friday, 14 December 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
Lol
― Raymond Cummings, Friday, 14 December 2012 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
ha; Al's word choices are always so vivid. Love it.
― Evan R, Friday, 14 December 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
i usually don't mix that many metaphors tbh but i had just woken up from a nap
― Poli oppa lice style (some dude), Friday, 14 December 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
it's ok, they all land
― Evan R, Friday, 14 December 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
― Poli oppa lice style (some dude), Friday, December 14, 2012 2:21 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
i assume you'll be catching on right around then
― salute me or crut me (J0rdan S.), Friday, 14 December 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
where is this sudden meme about waka being joyous and charismatic coming from
― D-40, Friday, 14 December 2012 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
like you guys are thinking of his PETA ads and not his actual musical output
his personality is that way & his music has trended that way at times since flockaveli but flockaveli is not that way at all
― salute me or crut me (J0rdan S.), Friday, 14 December 2012 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
look at waka in the 'live by the gun' video & tell me hes not as or more detached & dead-eyed than keef has ever been
― D-40, Friday, 14 December 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
haha brutal zing j0rd
― Poli oppa lice style (some dude), Friday, 14 December 2012 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
deej you know you cherrypicked one waka video out of 200 others where he's pulling grinning and pulling faces all over the place
― Poli oppa lice style (some dude), Friday, 14 December 2012 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
lol pulling grinning sorry for typo
deej makes an important distinction tho
― salute me or crut me (J0rdan S.), Friday, 14 December 2012 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
at least as far as flockaveli goes
― salute me or crut me (J0rdan S.), Friday, 14 December 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
keef may take the same track as he continues to isolate himself from the streets... i mean his grimmest tracks are certainly the earliest
citgo is so good. it's the song soulja boy should of made.
― tpp, Friday, 14 December 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
'zan with that lean' era soulja boy that is
― tpp, Friday, 14 December 2012 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
― Poli oppa lice style (some dude), Friday, December 14, 2012 4:06 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
which? the one that springs to mind is the one with keef, who is also grinning.
to me what is interesting about keef's style is that it is at once 'deadened' as ppl have described its ... detached-ness, but projected. Like, his voice jumps forward. I feel like for most rappers when you try to put that kind of energy in it, you lose that detached 'cool' cf pusha t in 2012
― D-40, Friday, 14 December 2012 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
all of them besides 'live by the gun' iirc? like waka was hilarious in the 'bingo' video and that was one of his first big looks.
― Poli oppa lice style (some dude), Friday, 14 December 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
well it's not like the "i don't like" or "3hunna" videos depict a sad or detached keef. it's a different conversation.
― salute me or crut me (J0rdan S.), Friday, 14 December 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i'm not sure why videos were brought up to begin with just thought d-40's trying to hard w/ the waka video example
― Poli oppa lice style (some dude), Friday, 14 December 2012 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
ew gross i called deej 'd-40' what is happening to me
― Poli oppa lice style (some dude), Friday, 14 December 2012 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
what do they call you in the bay, '40 daughter'?
ok, well talk about his delivery on any track on waka's album.
― D-40, Friday, 14 December 2012 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
― Poli oppa lice style (some dude), Friday, December 14, 2012 4:17 PM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
i missed deej saying "video" cuz "live by the gun" is a pretty good counterexample to the narrative deej is trying to counter
― salute me or crut me (J0rdan S.), Friday, 14 December 2012 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
dude seems more interested in melody than waka
― tpp, Friday, 14 December 2012 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
ok look guys, forget the video -- i felt like live by the gun was a good example, visually, of waka's style more generally. his stuff that people really like almost never sounds 'joyous' or w/e, it's cement-brick-hard shit. right?
― D-40, Friday, 14 December 2012 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
'no hands' is joyous tho but it's kind of an outlier if his biggest (?) song
― tpp, Friday, 14 December 2012 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
i dunno out of his 5-10 biggest singles that only describes "hard in the paint" doesn't it? unless you're talking about his "core" fanbase's favorites vs. what most people actually know him for. xp
― some dude, Friday, 14 December 2012 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
"waka will you be my baby daddy?" NO! **throws cinder block into wall**
― some dude, Friday, 14 December 2012 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
i see 'hate being sober' being a radio smash tho and it's gonna be off keef's own back whereas you could prob argue 'no hands' was so popular cos of the sing-song hook.
― tpp, Friday, 14 December 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
i would agree waka has more charisma however
― tpp, Friday, 14 December 2012 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
(i hope you have more bottles)
― tpp, Friday, 14 December 2012 22:33 (eleven years ago) link
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 03:22 (two years ago) link
True it’s important ilx maintains condescension levels
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 04:01 (two years ago) link
I was being serious except for the last lineyou were right and we (or I specifically) was wrong! he ended up being that important
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 04:12 (two years ago) link
"they're not 'weird experiments,(...) they're just great rap projects"
This is not mutually exclusive. BFTD2 is weird. Keef has also a huge influence on hyperpop.
― ANU (sisilafami), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 16:25 (two years ago) link
Feel like you’re misunderstanding me — of course they’re creative & experimental but not imo in some way that’s somehow exceptional to rap artists when they’re in a creative zone generally. The exception w him is id say the frequency of the ideas, there’s room for a lot more variation & surprise as a result.
What joe said was “I do respect the way he’s out there doing his art” before dismissing that art out of hand, I think ppl tend to stigmatize stuff as weird that isn’t like … outsider art or some shit. It’s redefined the boundaries of the genre, of what is considered “normal”
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 17:37 (two years ago) link
i domt see how you can say his later work is more influential when there are literal english making right drill music mate, ALSO idk why i am the one being attacked here when i have always been supportive of keefs artistic flights of fancy
― lag∞n, Sunday, 8 August 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link
i even like his aggressively avant garde work that only ticktok teens can understand but still i prob wouldve enjoyed a more direct career trajectory from bang through finally rich and so on, theres def an interesting path not chosen there, particularly i really like how he used his voice early on, in some ways he became a more conventional rapper after that, somewhat compensating by adopting a loosey goosey style
― lag∞n, Sunday, 8 August 2021 16:46 (two years ago) link
UK drill & NY drill were initially impacted by Keef in obvious ways (ie the first GS9 tape has flips of Keef's post-Finally Rich song "Pull Up") but the main blueprint for the sound is Lil Herb & Bibby's "Kill Shit." Which in Chicago was kind of a brief window / angle of the sound around DJ L's production.
The way in which Keef's post-Finally Rich sound was influential is much more around Bang 2 & the loosies from that 2013-2015 period, and its influence isn't so much on 'drill' the way its conceived in ny/uk as much as rappers like uzi, kodak, 21, xxx, playboi carti, et al
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Monday, 9 August 2021 21:43 (two years ago) link
imo he made his voice *more* interesting not less after "Finally Rich" -- on FR he was doing that style where his voice casually rides the beat, sounds like Gucci Mane but his voice pops more to the front of the speaker where Gucci was kind of demur. But then he did that looser more aggressive attack & that's when his voice became way more malleable & started experimenting w/ darker melodies & textures & IMO showed much more the possibilities for vocal stylings that other artists picked up and ran off with
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Monday, 9 August 2021 21:45 (two years ago) link
new song is titanically great, goddamn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f36hvoQ-bCs
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 15 August 2022 23:41 (one year ago) link
https://hiphopdx.com/news/chief-keef-finally-rich-10th-anniversary-reissue
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 December 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
aoty
― devvvine, Monday, 5 December 2022 16:11 (one year ago) link
Mexicans in Chicago ✅✅ pic.twitter.com/K4qDsQap4B— El Sol Sale Pa Todos (@frijoliz) December 5, 2022
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 December 2022 16:40 (one year ago) link
the feeling is back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dDBzZ1_XYA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cql3XELoam4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL4XT91tUmU
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Friday, 10 May 2024 13:29 (two weeks ago) link
posted briefly in the other keef thread, on third listen... aoty
― devvvine, Friday, 10 May 2024 14:39 (two weeks ago) link
could easily list 10 or so highlights for this one. "neph nem," "grape trees," "treat myself," "i'm tryna sleep," "believe," "drifting away"
all self-produced too
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Friday, 10 May 2024 15:24 (two weeks ago) link
lol @ chief sosa made drill, kanye think he did too
― devvvine, Friday, 10 May 2024 15:33 (two weeks ago) link
ha yeah i've been playing "drifting away" enough for the past 24 hours or so that my wife is already like "this fuckin song again"
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Friday, 10 May 2024 15:49 (two weeks ago) link
7000 square feet n**** come from a damn cubicle!
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Friday, 10 May 2024 15:53 (two weeks ago) link
almighty so 2 is amazing but dirty nachos was just as good imo don’t sleep on it
― flopson, Friday, 10 May 2024 16:15 (two weeks ago) link
dirty nachos was a lot of fun, production is not on the same level tho.
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Friday, 10 May 2024 16:17 (two weeks ago) link
he raps his ass off on both, to be sure
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Friday, 10 May 2024 16:23 (two weeks ago) link
this is cool
Chief Keef sat down for an extremely rare interview with Zane Lowe to promote Almighty So 2. Now 29, Sosa discusses what it was like to blow up at 16 years old and how his life has changed since. Beautiful to see. pic.twitter.com/WfuPP9Sxmq— Andrew Barber (@fakeshoredrive) May 9, 2024
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 May 2024 16:25 (two weeks ago) link
I'm mad keen to hear the new one if it's a return to his best form.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 10 May 2024 17:32 (two weeks ago) link
"drifting away" is incredible. i love how he references cash money, cam'ron, gucci & kanye. the first time i was listening to it before he shouts out kanye's beats it was making me think of "let the beat build," which is ofc a kanye beat. anyway keef is a pivotal figure in the history of rap and i love that despite being positioned by a lot of people w/ in rap culture as a destroyer of all things sacred he actually knows his artistic lineage better than a lot of his critics do.
truck sit up like a cowboyi think i got more cars than every member of the hot boysand we got broomsticks, hogwarts and i ain't worried about the opps we don't fly the same airport
insanely good rapping on this song
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Friday, 10 May 2024 19:51 (two weeks ago) link
first couple listens i thought he was saying he wanted to beat kanye's ass
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Saturday, 11 May 2024 01:49 (two weeks ago) link
another really good interview: https://www.grammy.com/news/chief-keef-almighty-so-2-new-album-interview
had no idea that was fabo yelling on the "almighty" intro
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 16:44 (one week ago) link
I love this. “I start wearing yellow diamonds, it look like I peed myself” -- lol.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 17:47 (one week ago) link
very moving reading that article seeing what a good place he is and how restless his creative mindset is after the amount of terrible shit which got put on his shoulders and how patronising a lot of the early coverage of him was. love that he is still listening to mixtape gucci all the time.
― devvvine, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 09:07 (one week ago) link
― devvvine, Friday, 10 May 2024 15:39 (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink
will double down on this too
"believe" is so cool
― ufo, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 12:12 (one week ago) link
from that grammys interview:
From the beginning of your career, you've had this association with the word "turbulence." You use Turbo as an alter ego.[Laughs] How do you know all this? This is some Nardwuar s— right now, man.
[Laughs] How do you know all this? This is some Nardwuar s— right now, man.
― flopson, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 13:51 (one week ago) link
in fairness they aren't used to interviewers making even the slightest effort
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 13:56 (one week ago) link
the whole album's good but i just keep coming back to "believe"
― ufo, Saturday, 18 May 2024 09:53 (one week ago) link
best Cher cover
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 May 2024 09:57 (one week ago) link
https://open.substack.com/pub/ddrake/p/chief-keef-interview 2017 interview
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Saturday, 18 May 2024 15:58 (one week ago) link
“Jesus” is a journey
― flopson, Monday, 20 May 2024 21:58 (five days ago) link