Fake For Real - Tag - Chief KeefThe English written companion of Fake For Real: since 1997, reviews and articles about rap music2024-03-11T20:40:46+01:00Sylvain Bertoturn:md5:a035ff44a020bb716e18191580d6e9ecDotclearCHIEF KEEF - 4NEMurn:md5:ec1632a45b179b6e7a0b318ba4c3c4f42022-01-25T22:16:00+01:002023-07-27T17:31:25+02:00codotusylvAlbums2021ChicagoChief KeefDrill MusicGlory Boyz Entertainment <p>In the last few years, Chief Keef didn't stop being the prolific rapper we know. He collaborated with Zaytoven and he provided follow-ups to the <em>Leek</em> and <em>GloFiles</em> mixtapes. None of these, though, pretended to be an official work. The only one that can be qualified as such is the album he released in 2021, the first since <em>Dedication</em>, four years earlier.</p>
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<p>And damned… it was definitely worth the wait. Here, Chief Keef is euphoric and triumphant. He starts <em>4NEM</em> with a reminder that, in Chicago – he lives in L.A., nowadays – he was a survivor, which his grandmother confirms on the first track, "Bitch Where". And on the rest of the album, Keith Cozart proves it: he is still alive, he is even at his very best.</p>
<p>"Foenem" is some slang from Chicago that designates a clan, friends, close ones. And actually, this album is entirely that: an entrenchment into Chief Keef's old foundations. The only guests are Tadoe and BallOut, two pillars of his Glo Gang collective, and the music looks like he's back to basics.</p>
<p>Incendiary tracks such as "Tuxedo", "Say I Ain’t Pick Yo Weak Ass Up" and "Picking Big Sean Up" remind us about everything the original drill music owes to Lex Luger and Waka Flocka, with their hedonism, violence, and nihilism, and with their defiant and boisterous trap music that likes to play the same simplistic melodies over different octaves.</p>
<p>There are other influences, like Memphis, when Chief Keef uses the old production style of the city on "Shady", when he changes Three 6 Mafia's "Slob On My Knob" into “Like It’s Yo Job”, with the same pornographic approach as the original, or when he hijacks Young Buck's "Stomp", also produced by DJ Paul and Juicy J, on his own “Hadouken”.</p>
<p>Recently, some blamed J. Cole for looting hip-hop in a similar way. However, while the Fayetteville guy tries to mimic his idols, Chief Keef just follows his instinct and desires. He never sacrificed them to his career plans. And when he goes back to the sound that defined him, it's not to tread water.</p>
<p>Chief Keef doesn't make his influences look clean. Quite the opposite: he mistreats them, crudely, like with the amazing drums and brutal admonitions on "See Through", the changes of tone on "The Talk", "Hadouken", and "Picking Big Sean Up", or the peculiar flow he arrogates on "Yes Sir".</p>
<p>Apart from bland moments such as the lazily Auto-Tuned "Ice Cream Man", "Wazzup" and "I Don't Think They Love Me", this is Chief Keef like in the early days, but in 2021.</p>
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https://english.fakeforreal.net/index.php/post/2022/CHIEF-KEEF-4NEM#comment-formhttps://english.fakeforreal.net/index.php/feed/atom/comments/3373CHIEF KEEF - Two Zero One Sevenurn:md5:1b9d53aeec2b756315e2d2f4ed38da962017-03-16T22:53:00+01:002023-01-21T23:11:07+01:00codotusylvMixtapesChief Keef <p>Things are going fast, in rap music. Chief Keef's fate is a proof of this. Five years earlier, in 2012, he was on the verge of becoming the master of the world. The big thing, by then, was Chicago's drill music, and the young rapper was incontestably its figurehead. Multiple media talked about him, as many labels courted him, and he had the opportunity to release a popular album. One year later, he joined Gucci Mane's 1017 Brick Squad crew, he featured on Kanye West's <em>Yeezus</em>, and even Lou Reed praised him. But suddenly, it was over. Chief Keef had to deal with judiciary issues, he was dropped from Interscope, and after having built his success out of a populist stance, he turned more or less experimental. He even left Chicago, he announced he would retire from music, and he didn't release any project in 2016.</p>
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<p>2017, though, was another story. In the very first day of the new year, he released a mixtape named after it. And this release, its lo-fi sound and approximate mix put aside, happened to be quite good. Chief Keef, it is known, is not a lyricist. He is something superior: he is a musician. He has an excellent ear, which allows him to put together a curious mix of sing-songs and harsh words on "Fix That", and to make these sound cohesive. He is less belligerent than before, and sometimes he is singing some strange and frail songs, like with "Falling on the Floor". Even his "bang bangs", his signature, sound soft and susurrated. But still: his tired, worn and aged tone is as impactful as his brash lyrics of yesterday.</p>
<p>Chief Keef covers most of the production work, along with the loyal Young Chop, and another star on the decline, Lex Luger. Almost no-one is invited to rap along himself, except Tadoe. And though, <em>Two Zero One Seven</em> is super diverse: "Short", "Go", and the outstanding "Stand Down", are supported by a trap music artillery; the melody on "So Tree" is catchy, as well as the relentless piano keys on "Dope Smokes"; and there are a few indolent tracks. The rapper and producer plays with various colors. He also has a great idea: inserting, in the very middle of the project, just after its best half, the atypical "Hit the Lotto", a song sung with Auto-Tune, with the support of his only other guest on the project: his own sister Kash.</p>
<p>In the year Two Zero One Seven, Chief Keef is no longer the center of all attentions, but he is as relevant as ever. He released something like twenty projects in his career, went through a series of mischief, got three or four more or less official children, and developed a passion for painting. And though, in addition to all of this, he started the year with one of its best project. And the guy is only 21. There are people like this, offering to themselves full and exciting lives.</p>https://english.fakeforreal.net/index.php/post/2017/CHIEF-KEEF-Two-Zero-One-Seven#comment-formhttps://english.fakeforreal.net/index.php/feed/atom/comments/2854CHIEF KEEF - Back From The Deadurn:md5:83f76e78e0c790b19880527304711af12014-03-05T23:19:00+01:002023-10-07T14:09:59+02:00codotusylvMixtapes2012ChicagoChief KeefDJ MoondawgDJ VictoriouzDrill MusicGlory Boyz Entertainment <p>It is no coincidence if, in February this year, Chief Keef announced the release of a mixtape called <em>Back From The Dead 2</em>. While titling it as the release that revealed him, the figurehead of Chicago's drill music scene probably wants to put 2013 - a year marked by his mischiefs and mediocre mixtapes - behind him. He might want to make it as successful as the original release, quite probably his best, to this day.</p>
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<p>The title sets the tone. In 2012, when pretending to be back from the dead, Chief Keef alludes to his time in prison, and more generally to the disreputable districts he is from, areas invaded by drugs, gangs, and violence, where criminality is standard and parenthood happens shortly after puberty: at the age of sixteen, "Chief" Keith Cozart already fathered a daughter, while his own mother is still in her early thirties.</p>
<p>The lyrics are the usual subject matters of gangsta rap. This is the manifesto of self-proclaimed monsters, but with a thrill of reality and danger. This is something prone to challenge and to hurt the most gentrified portions of rap music.</p>
<p>Chief Keef, though, is a man of his times. His rhymes are not sophisticated, they are mostly made of slogans and adlibs, such as his signature, the “bang bangs” he keeps on repeating. He is not a lyrical acrobat but, a bit like Waka Flocka, a rapper he’s often been compared with, he compensates this with his presence, his diction, and his catchy hooks, his aggressive and asocial personality as a boy who burned his life at both ends, his juvenile insolence, his “couldn't-give-a-damn” personality, and unstoppable beats.</p>
<p>Produced by Young Chop, the music is melodic and catchy, but it hits hard, using sirens and gun sounds ad nauseam. It bangs with the irresistible "I Don't Like", with Lil Reese, Chief Keef’s defining hit single, the one that caught the attention of Kanye, Pusha T, and other hip-hop figureheads. And it does it again, elsewhere on this first-class mixtape.</p>
<p><em>Back From The Dead</em> is short enough to be full of bangers. It is almost all good as <em>Finally Rich</em>, Chief Keef's first official album, he will release a few months later, at the end of 2012, a year he started among the dead, and he will end rich and famous, heralded as a young new hero of modern hip-hop.</p>
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