Somehow Chicago has become one of the hottest locales in hip-hop at the moment. The curiosity is that the rappers popularizing the city's hip-hop scene are all coming from radically different directions...for example: Kanye West, Chance The Rapper and Chief Keef. A photo posted on Instagram Monday morning indicates that West and Keef may be collaborating however.
The photo, which was quickly removed, shows West, Interscope A&R man Larry Jackson and Keef sitting on a couch and working on laptops. What the grainy photo means remains to be seen, but its removal indicates the label isn't interested in us knowing about it. The popular rumor is that the pair is working on Keef's now notorious forthcoming mixtape Bang 3.
Keef reported during 2013 that Bang 3 would "raise the murder rate" in Chicago (already the nation's highest). We have no idea what that means, but if anyone knows how to program black-ops subliminal messages into a hip-hop beat, it's probably West.
Keeping it serious however, this won't be the first time the pair has done work together. West released a remix of Keef's hit "I Don't Like."
"I wasn't surprised," Keef said. "I was just like, 'Kanye? Kanye wanna get on "I Don't Like"?' But I could understand it, 'cause I know he be on it to talk about what he don't like. And I made the song and nobody had come out with that idea yet."
Although Keef is misguided in the notion that he was the first to release a song about not liking things, his analysis of West's personality is on point. West appreciation of Keef's forthright raps was apparently enough to include him on the track "Hold My Liquor" from Yeezus.
Bang 3 is due to drop on March 3. Lock the doors.
