Finally Rich - Chief Keef

getting to the bottom of this

haha i think it's funny that you still have this theory since his, ahem, timing is similar on a lot of tracks, especially the new stuff

still curious what that next level would consist of or if it's just "an approach to rhythm we can't really understand as having to do with our conceptions of what rhythm is"

haha i think it's funny that you still have this theory since his, ahem, timing is similar on a lot of tracks, especially the new stuff

― some dude, Saturday, August 10, 2013 6:55 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you still don't understand what i'm talking about, just fyi

there's a particular flow he does on that track that doesnt happen on ... any of his other songs

it's interesting that that trailer for a slick-looking "Citgo" video with Interscope logos all over it just showed up. you think that was just in the can for a long time or that they smell a hit and are still trying to do something with that album?

i don't think that song is a real world hit as much as an internet/critical hit. i know for a fact the video was just shot though—the guy who shot it manages yung gleesh and they were just in chicago a couple weeks ago

i did wonder about why that particular one went through the label whereas half keef's videos seem very evidently handled by keef & the videographer directly.

he is apparently dropping 'bang 2' in a couple days though

there is def an impetus for keef to hit the 250k mark by december though, i guess theres something in his contract where interscope could withhold releasing more albums if he doesnt hit that mark. i don't see why they would do that though, even if he didnt

they would def need another mini-hit for him to hit 250k by the end of the year

https://twitter.com/chartnews/status/355166634106826752

"macaroni time" might be his third biggest song ever... maybe fourth if you wanna include "bang"

Prez ‏@PrezidentYoung 10 Jul
He gotta clear 250k for him to keep the deal RT @chartnews US album sales @ChiefKeef, Finally Rich 1,819 (187,927 total)

ppl keep saying this but its not correct ... its that interscope has the option to hold up the release of a sophomore album.

btw the big lean / keef song in question has nearly a million views o_O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4jAa5Za-nQ

i imagine they'd keep him around even so for a second album since his music seems fairly inexpensive to make and he still does well virally without any traditional promotion

that said if they push a few singles and they don't really pop he could end up in one of those hellish deals

all we need now is a medium lean

lots rappers have gone GOLD and still get their follow-up album held up for so long that they inevitably give up and ask out of their contract or seem happy to get dropped, so it's not like anything's guaranteed either way. Keef doing all these songs/videos on his own and aligning with Gucci who hasn't seemed to even try to do anything with a major in years certainly indicates that he's not holding his breath for A&Rs to greenlight a 2nd album, which is why the "Citgo" thing surprised me.

250 is the new gold

i think the 250k thing is more of a semantic thing, like 'if you don't hit that number, we're not even obligated to work your next lead single and pretend to give you a release date.' xp

Prob true

I doubt the label is trying to wash their hands of him or anything though

xiu xiu up like o-dogg

"love sosa" remix ain't exactly helping your case deej: tinyurl.com/ka57yuv

http://tinyurl.com/ka57yuv

half way through his verse he speeds up the tempo

Reminds me of Trane...

Sun Ship era maybe

We was sittin’ there watchin’ the stage. Waitin’ for the man they called Chief Keef to come out and do his thing. It was me and my four droogs. Them bein’ Peter, Georgio and Dim; Dim being really Dim.

‘Round an hour’d passed and the place was packed straight through to the back. I’d just dropped some dollars for the Best Buy exclusive version of Finally Rich six months back. Now was the time, this was the place. The Harambee House. Chicago. 2012.

I was only there for the first night, see, but them cats at DatPiff just made my life complete. They put out a few mixtapes of all that sound. Keef put out those nights. But you know my type, man. Can’t afford to eat, let alone spend some heavy cash on internet. So I only got the essential. <i>Finally Rich</i> is one disc, makin’ it cheaper than an iPhone. And you only get the best stuff.

Man, the opening beauty of “Love Sosa” It’s like a dream I had: I floated on the River Nile, smokin’ some fresh weed, relaxin’. But I ain’t ever gonna see the Nile anyhow. This track’s as close as I come, and it’s close enough. Best of the best, though, has gotta be “Laughin' to the Bank.” It’s only when you listen to a perfect old rap tune like this that you realize how much "trap rave" is derived from this music. Keef takes it to heaven and back with some style, man. Some richness, daddy. It’s a sad thing his career was cut short by them jaws o’ label fuckery.

Shit, cat. It don’t make a difference. The man produced enough good music to last me a lifetime. This <i>Finally Rich</i> thing’s just another example of the genius of Keef.

--D-40

― finally rich, fun-packed, fulfilling (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, January 2, 2013 1:10 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rolls eyes, dies

now i feel bad that we've got the Keef thread and the Kreayshawn thread going on at the same time

if you guys like arguing w/ a wholly inaccurate caricature of what ive said then have fun

straw mans
thats that shit i dont like

that song is so catchy

we watched the video for "don't like" in my class last night because a st gave her first speech about him. it (the speech) was pretty good! another st said that he met keef at a car wash and he (ck) was friendly and shook his hand.

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/09/gangs-of-social-media/

piece is interesting although a lil weird in parts ... the way it suggests social media bears responsibility seems a lil odd

i found this piece very interesting, argues that violence overall has gone down, but violence inequality has increased drastically:
http://danielhertz.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/weve-talked-about-homicide-in-chicago-at-least-one-million-times-but-i-dont-think-this-has-come-up/

bears *most of* the responsibility, i should say

yeah, that hertz piece was v illuminating

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLWDM2uZr60#t=163

Not sure how much creativity this guy has in the tank, visually or lyrically.

his verse on the "F.D.B." remix is kind of hilariously poorly recorded, and there's a Young Dro interview where he confirms Keef is on the official remix so it's not like a sloppily tacked-on unofficial mixtape edit or something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d30pRWxLxrA

yeah seriously what in the absolute fuck is the deal with that

why would they include that? was it recorded in a soup can?

when that hemiola comes and...doesn't stop...

― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, November 25, 2013 6:14 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that verse is still awesome

as does this album.

haha I thought of this thread when Jordan said that but thought it would be petty to bring it up

Hemiola is a common musical term it's v telling that u all read so much more into it than was there

can we have a hip-hop hemiola thread?

how common would you say it is, like how often would you say musicians use it

i mean...there's a lot of hemiola in rap these days, people usually just call it "the migos flow" or back in the day might've said "bone thugs flow"... i just disagree that keef is using it at all in that big lean song. the meter of his verse and what beats his syllables are hitting on (or near) seems clear as day to me and it's not a hemiola thing at all imo.

hahaha oh god i didn't mean to actually start this up again i'm so sorry

this fredo santana song is all over the fucking place, er, I mean, he's truly a master of hemiola in the Elvin Jones tradition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcZp4YeCsB8

I hear hemiola constantly but I sing a lot of Byrd, Schütz, Palestrina, Gesualdo, Tallis, etc. Anyone doing Renaissance or baroque music is going to be intimately familiar with it; jazz musicians will also be familiar with the concept but I have no idea if they use the same terminology (having just learned last week that some jazz musicians call a score a "chart", I now assume there's a different term for everything in that world).

I am willing to bet money that no one in the studio told Keef that his hemiola was dope after any take.