• Chief Keef Shares Weird New Song 'Wait' [LISTEN]

    If you've ever listened to a Chief Keef song and thought to yourself, "I would definitely be enjoying this more if he sounded more like a chipmunk," then you're in luck. The 19-year-old Chicago rapper's latest song "Wait" takes what sounds like a pretty standard Chief Keef number and speeds it up until the vocals become a flurry of squeaks and unnecessary Autotune. Most of the lyrics to the self-produced track become pretty incomprehensible, so good luck trying to rap along to this.

  • Kanye West, Meek Mill Recruit Young Chop For New Albums

    Kanye West has recruited Chicago producer Young Chop to contribute to his upcoming album, which is slated for release later this year. The 20-year-old producer, who previously worked with West on the Yeezus track "Guilt Trip," and is also contributing to Meek Mill's second album Dream Worth More Than Money, recently spoke to XXL about working with West.

  • CNBC Signs Chief Keef for Market Analysis Show 'Finally Rich'

    Many rappers have been entering industries outside of hip-hop, but Chief Keef's new gig takes the cake: The Chicago emcee has been signed on by CNBC as a stock market analyst and host. The rapper's half-hour program will be called Finally Rich: Chief Keef Hits Wall Street.

  • Chief Keef Gets Arrested, Releases Music Video for 'Make It Count'

    We've got good news and bad news for Chief Keef fans. The bad news has pretty much blown over already so we might as well talk about that first: The rapper was arrested on March 5 for DUI, but managed to keep the news under wraps until TMZ leaked the story on Monday.

  • Chief Keef May Be Moving to Los Angeles

    Chicago has got a boatload of rappers representing it. Huge names such as Kanye West, influential emcees like Lupe Fiasco, and acclaimed up-and-comers like Chance The Rapper. We admit that one name goes hand-in-hand with the Windy City like none other, and for all the wrong reasons: Chief Keef. That rapper may soon be heading west from his hometown however.

  • Chief Keef and Kanye West Collaborating on 'Bang 3'?

    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.

  • Chief Keef, The Game, Make Murder The Theme of Upcoming Mixtapes

    Entering 2013, we can already spot an uncomfortable theme popping up in the titles and descriptions of forthcoming mixtapes. HipHopDX released a list of tapes that you can expect during early 2014, and one concept is popular: Death. Specifically...yours.

  • Chief Keef Guarantees 'Bang 3' Mixtape Will Raise Chicago Murder Rate

    Chief Keef clearly wasn't satisfied when the FBI declared during September that his hometown, Chicago, had taken the crown for the city with the most murders in the United States (during 2012). Keef-being a stats wonk no doubt-realized that the high total meant nothing in relation to Chicago's overall population, the third highest in the nation. No, what he really wanted was the highest murder rate per capita, meaning the most murders-per-person in the population. And hence he began work on his mixtape Bang 3.
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