Thraed of Chief Keef's "Bang 3" major label abum due in September

v intersting person

u want to do rap so u go somewhere that isnt particularly hot rapwise and by chance meet the people who you will help to blow the place up

he'd been recording keef since he was 10-11

Kenn, who declined to give his real name for this article, is originally from the Yamagata Prefecture of Japan. He produced the beat for “Bang,” as well as several of Keef’s other songs. He discovered hip-hop as a teenager living in Japan, and became a big fan of Dr. Dre, Nas and Cam’ron. (“[Stillmatic and Come Home With Me] are classics to me,” Kenn said when asked about his favorite performers. “I used to listen to those every day.”) When he turned 18, around 2005, Kenn moved to Tokyo, and within two years followed a friend to New York City. “I always looked up to him,” he explained. “He was doing music with people [in the U.S.]. I was like, I want to do music like him.” The United States completely changed Kenn’s perceptions of hip-hop. “Right here, everything is life-sized,” Kenn said in a thick accent. “Radio, parties, or even clothes, anything. This is real. In Japan, it’s different. People get older and they start to listen to it. Right here, it’s like babies listen to hip-hop, they grow up with the rhythm.”

he'd been recording keef since he was 10-11

― rap steve gadd (D-40), Thursday, September 4, 2014 4:30 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

crazy

some other good quotes here: http://somanyshrimp.com/2012/03/22/bang-the-launch-of-a-16-year-old-chicago-rapper/

yah p sure thats where i read abt it in the first place lol

good reporting fascinating story

more internet music people shd do reported pieces imho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii6z7mjUG7A

i find it interesting to look at his pre-fame videos, his rap style has always been weird but also considered

ya hes def trying harder at rapping in that one

the guy Odee who OBlock is named for is in that video

also chicago ahead of the curve on backward baseball caps

they def brought timberlands back too.

Don't mess w the dude in the mariners zip up

Timberlands never really went anywhere in mpls but I guess we get a lot of snow so

well yeah they didn't go anywhere in chicago either, they just became a mainstream fashion thing after this stuff popped off

I think Noz is right to push "Sosa style" as representative of nu keef ish, feels like a good rallying pt around which the rest of these records can rotate

https://twitter.com/a_plus/status/507763276005265408
https://twitter.com/a_plus/status/507763441789304832

some of this new stuff sounds like busdriver fell down a well

not sure i hear that, gotta say. it's like the anti-busdriver. keef likes to max out at four words per bar

unless you mean, like, when he fell in the well, the sentences broke off on the way down, or something

oh hemiola is the only creative jazzy flow is it :P

nah it's not so much any ott lyrical miracle stuff just mainly kinda the cali bro/gameshow host voice he puts on for 'i quote' or 'shooters' tbh

agree that "sosa style" is a good song for 2014 keef stuff to orbit around but i actually think it's one of his few songs from this year where he has a really dope & unique beat to work with (also "no")

sorta feel like keef has been working with kinda crappy/amateur beats for a while so i was particularly excited about his infamous 75%/40% tweet about recording 30 new songs with chop

anyway can't believe you're sleeping on "how it go" -- i think it's one of his few songs from this year that really nails the stylistic aesthetic of the song barely being held together without it, you know, actually not being held together (which is how i feel about something like "ight dow"). also weird mix of pathos and defiance that i think is particularly evocative here both vocally & lyrically

all these niggas up in they feelings
smokin loud pack i can't hear my feelings
all a nigga want is some billions
but i'm smokin loud pack as i spend my milions

http://i.imgur.com/q0s8HeP.png

ysi?

agree that "sosa style" is a good song for 2014 keef stuff to orbit around but i actually think it's one of his few songs from this year where he has a really dope & unique beat to work with (also "no")

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, September 5, 2014 9:49 AM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nah it's not even the only beat to use that trick ("Gucci Gang" illustrates how effective it is, though) and 12hunna is one of the best producers out ... listen to "hundreds" and "pull up" and "make it count," those are top of the line beats. The drum programming is so intricate and strange.

I notice there are actually a few "citgo" type songs but after the corny indie fuxx wave of citgo support I hestiate to enthuse about the "tec" style shit now.

That "Gucci Gang" track is crazy - first thing from Keef that I've heard for a while that's made me sit up and pay attention.

listen to "hundreds" and "pull up" and "make it count"

i've heard these songs.... i don't hear at all what you hear in those beats. they're completely non-functional.

if ilovemakonnen was rapping over these beats and vice was praising how "intricate and strange" the production is you'd be calling bullshit

also i have a pretty high tolerance for poorly produced beats but most of those 12hunna beats sound like total shit and i can't vibe to them at all

if ilovemakonnen was rapping over these beats and vice was praising how "intricate and strange" the production is you'd be calling bullshit

― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, September 5, 2014 10:52 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd be saying that if it was makonnen over 'sosa style' also. you're totally wrong man, i don't know how else to put it. try downloading the songs off itunes or something so you have them on good quality and aren't listening in a hasty 30 second itunes binge.

*youtube binge

lol @ you telling me to not listen to chief keef songs on youtube when that's how his music is consumed by 90% of people including his core fanbase

without fucking dj hustlenomics stepping all over the song smh

you don't know 12hunna beats until you hear them on vinyl

You're letting your fetish for melodic autotune pop cheese get in the way of your discernment here. the spindly beats w/ all the little pointillist details and disorienting grooves 12hunna is doing is way more interesting than 'how it go.' people are sleeping on it because the only versions are super tagged up by annoying dj hustlenomics drops on youtube so they can sell the NO DJs on itunes etc

whiney-level argument by j0rdan here

it's weird to hear you of all people fetishizing how "weird" and "interesting" the production is

i'm not 'fetishizing' it, you specifically said he gets wack beats and you're wrong

To be clear, it isn't the sort of thing I'd wanting to be listening to very much, if at all. Especially the video, really doesn't look like anyone's having much of a good time...

i think those 12hunna songs play far too much into keef's formless tendencies... i think something like "pull up" is much closer to the stuff of his 2013 mixtapes that you didn't really like than you want to admit

I imagine Keef being sort of just pushed in front of the camera in his drug stupor, everyone making sure he doesn't fall over or pass out unconscious.

really doesn't look like anyone's having much of a good time...

Wouldn't be too interested in CK if he were having a good time.

the 12hunna beats are purposefully "interesting" but to what end?

who produced "jet li"? that's the best kind of keef beat imo. it's like a midpoint between the effects 12hunna uses and something like jim jonsin that forces him to use more structure

"bang bros" beat >>>> any of those 12hunna songs you mentioned

no

i think you're following some previous idea of how his best stuff is supposed to sound & not letting yourself be flexible enough for the new direction. the way 'make it count' works is esp clever, beat builds up this mood by adding elements over time, then dropping out and picking up again as if losing and regaining energy, it's very disorienting and immersive

the complexity of the drum programming in a record like that or 'hundreds' is to an end, they all hang together—listen to the kick drop on 'hundreds' dropping in triplet pattern, it's got this like nervous momentum while the melody twists around in this weird fancy, regal feel ... idk this is hard to describe, but this stuff is super unique...the only record that the 12hunna stuff reminds me of is meek's 'off the corner'

oh god 'bang bros' is a perfect example, you're looking for one-note euphoria whereas this stuff is much more about queasy uncertainty, ambiguity, uneveness

sometimes in the sense that he misses them himself

zing

just having a blast revisiting bang 2, almighty so, and back from the dead 2

keef entered some kind of wormhole right after finally rich, mindbending music

faneto song of the decade

just having a blast revisiting bang 2, almighty so, and back from the dead 2

― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, October 1, 2019 3:18 PM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

^^^^

i shd do a comp of 'loosies' from that era

https://sisilafami.tumblr.com/post/95999019091/my-chief-keef-loosies-folder#notes

come real hard like the "g" that's after the "uh" in spaghetti

When a new rapper is not rapping offbeat i assume he's at least 29yo

— Balibz (@Balibz) March 5, 2021

haha

been thinking recently about how the two opinions deej was most pilloried for on ILX — that chief keef and lil peep are hugely important/influential—have come down incontrovertibly in his favor

I thought it was pretty clear at the time he was right, people just didn't want it to be true. :)

this made me google "j.i.d. age" and lo and behold, he's 30

my argument was that they were bad

^this, though i have a little room for keef in my heart

two recent guest verses go super hard.. i'm forecasting a major keef renaissance in 2024 if he keeps it up

sexxy red - ghetto princess ft. chief keef

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKQ7xrRVLtY

lil gnar, young nudy & chief keef - pb&j

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tn4lGtatbw

ghetto princess verse is insane

bitch this polo foreign, this is not ralph lauren
bout them blueberries, we will split a n**** orange
call you back i'm touring, you gone make me horny
ass redder than that flight i booked you for the morning
ferraris and porsches, they think i ride horses
all this lemon-lime i pour, they think sosa got an endorsement
tryna ball like chief so, you don't need no porsches
all you gotta do is have that sauce and that's important
i got alfredo, turn you to some ragu
wrist got the bitch stuck, looking like a statue
yeah my lamborghini fast, my hellcat's fast too
all these cats, you would think i bought em cause i had to
did i have to? man, i never do
from the trenches get rich, shit'll better you
at the venue, counting revenue
big forty-five, i don't care if you 7'2"
big forty-five, i don't care if it's seven of you

ghetto princess, great song.

"hellcats srts" had durk on the remix but it's prob the most keef-style song on the project

Brrt-brrt, yeah, hello, man, who this?
I don't know, I got you saved as, "Fat booty bitch"

haha wow yeah he went off

dirty nachos is amazing

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

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