2024-03-20 15:14:42
By Mahdi Rahimi
Chief Keef is the most influential (or one of the most influential) rappers of the 10s. On “Dirty Nachos”, his current collab mixtape with Mike-WiLL-Made-It, one of the most important producers of the 10s, hosted by DJ Trapaholics, one of the most important mixtape DJs of the 10s (you can see a pattern). you see little of this significance – but it offers a good opportunity to talk regarding Chief Keef.
Eleven years ago, a video came out on YouTube of a boy from Chicago who was grounded and invited his friends to record a video of a song.
The number was called “I Don’t Like” and this boy rapped in an extremely distinctive voice regarding all the things he didn’t like. This included things like snitches, bad weed, centrists and liberals (“playing both sides, shit I don’t like”) and much more. This number became an absolute hit. A much better known rapper from Chicago recorded a remix to it, which both the rapper and the number’s producer, Young Chop, actually did found it terribly bad.
But with this remix at the latest, Chief Keef became very well known and “I Don’t Like” was the blink of an eye that initiated a whole subgenre called “drill”, which is now one of the most important directions in rap and, alongside Bobby Shmurda, pop Smoke, UK Drill and the Brooklyner HipHop Group 41 (also discussed in the reading group), is responsible for much of the music that is very popular among young people. Chief Keef then released his genre-defining album “Finally Rich,” which had several co-signs from important artists like 50 Cent and Rick Ross.
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If you read the reviews of Chief Keef around 2013, they sound like they were written by today’s boomers who see TikTok as the downfall of the West – i.e. Boomer doing Boomer things. From the accusation of Minstrel Show to remote diagnosis autism everything was there. But he himself used the money from his albums to move with his child, mother and grandma first to the suburbs and then to Los Angeles to escape all the stuff he rapped regarding. Because at the end of the day, Chief Keef was just a boy living among shitty people circumstances.
“Dirty Nachos”, the current mixtape, is certainly not the masterpiece that other works of his are, and it will not be remembered by anyone. It’s put together relatively carelessly and no one was really interested in the mixing and mastering. It is a compilation of various numbers that were probably all created in the last ten years. Apart from a number with Sexyy Red (“Damn Shorty”) and the three-year-old number “Bang Bang” discussed in the reading group, unfortunately not much is remembered. You can also ask yourself whether certain expressions are really necessary when you’re almost 30. Still, it doesn’t change the fact that Keef’s influence on an entire generation of rappers was as lasting and strong as that of few other rappers.
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