lol
― 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