Finally Rich - Chief Keef

hes had some hits that were not so much radio hits but did big streaming numbers, and made a lot of weird but not always great music, seems like he kinda just follows his muse and doesnt really care otherwise

he also made a lot of his own beats which were often weird and not that technically proficient, he basically became a diy artist after getting dropped

wouldve been cool if he couldve stayed in the pocket a lil more oh well

He's had some huge hits. He's had problems with labels. He's invented styles. His music has been leaked. He's been the most influential rapper in the last 10 years.

He's a legend.

deej is that you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUl99v4I_60

Hard as fuck

Sisilafami is right. I talk to young artists daily who, in 2021, say Chief keef is who inspired them to rap

He’s the most influential artist of the decade and had an immeasurable impact

I really hate !! The contention that his post major label stuff was just weird off brand experiments and bad diy self production. It’s underestimating it’s broad popular appeal, while simultaneously overvaluing the quality of the samey saturation of streaming rap in the last few years

whatever happened to that project he was making with mike will? both singles were excellent

No idea. I thought they were just ok. Like this new song more honestly.

Thinking about joe's posts is driving me nuts lol. "stayed in the pocket" he invented the fucking pocket

lmao he shouldve stayed in it after he invented it

in all seriousness i do respect the way keef has been out there doing his art but i prefer the early stuff

new song is a banger tho, it's true

hes def had some nice songs the only ones i can say i actively dislike are from his owl city period

in all seriousness i do respect the way keef has been out there doing his art but i prefer the early stuff

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the stuff casual fans like, the dont like and love sosas etc., that stuff is iconic but definitely not his best stuff. its also not the stuff uzi, 21, carti, etc. built their sounds off of. its not surprising ppl undervalue his influence when they dont even know the records. but yea, his tapes after finally rich are way way better than the stuff "most people" know.

Also among actual rap fans its the records from the mid-later period that are most well known these days anyway...faneto, earned it, text, my baby, facts, kills, those are more iconic singles at this point ... and tapes like bang2, almightyso, back from the dead 2, nobody, dedication are >>> finally rich. they're not 'weird experiments,' everyone needs to stop biting 8 year old noz tweets, they're just great rap projects, w more ideas per song than the average stretched-too-thing-recorded-too-long pain rap tape today

the shit that rips off that period -- 'we dem boyz' type music -- is the fuckin worst

i assume by 'owl city period' you mean thot breaker which is a dope tape, just corny bc it got twee pitchfork support & is somehow his highest rated album. its not bad at all though, there are classic tracks on it

*stretched-too-thin-recorded-too-long pain rap tape

**the shit that rips off the finally rich early period -- we dem boyz type music -- is the fuckin worst

 among actual rap fans

hope to meet one someday

so like does he rap off beat on purpose

just to go back 7 years in the convo

deej does deserve his victory lap, keef did become as influential as he predicted, not that's he's one for "I told you so's"

lol

True it’s important ilx maintains condescension levels

I was being serious except for the last line

you were right and we (or I specifically) was wrong! he ended up being that important

"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.

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”

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

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

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

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

new song is titanically great, goddamn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f36hvoQ-bCs

https://hiphopdx.com/news/chief-keef-finally-rich-10th-anniversary-reissue

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