The whole album feels like Zaytoven's second solo album,Ĭhief Keef was more a meme than a musician and all the music that he producedĪfter 2012 simply hurt the meme without really improving the musician.Keith Farrelle Cozart (born August 15, 1995), better known by his stage name Chief Keef, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer. Producer Zaytoven who had just debuted as a solo artist withĮlegant tracks like Sneeze obviously belong to Zaytoven. That's a simple reason why 3 was not as magical as 2. In the same year he released at least seven other mixtapes. Waka Flocka Flame's Hard in the Paint (2010),īack From the Dead 3 (2018) experimented again on unusual hip-hop formatsīut with no particular highlights and without the same degree of weirdness as Producer Lexus "Lex Luger" Lewis, the one who, in the early days of Two Zero One Seven (2017) are the collaborations with Mike Will Made-It polished his sound in Couple of Coats, and Young Chop returned to produce Can You Be My Friend.
Slow Dance, which border on romantic synth-pop) Produced by Chris "CBMIX" Barnett ( You My Number One and Thot Breaker (2017), half produced by himself under the moniker Turbo, Rich,įollowed by another avalanche of mixtapes.
Then came the album Bang 3 (2015), mostly produced by Darrell "ChopsquadDJ" Jackson and Xavier "Zaytoven" Dotson, a collection of much more normal and tedious tracks (save Ain't Missing You).Ĭhief Keef "retired" from rapping in 2016, which means that he released at least three mixtapes that year and then the album Dedication (2017), The mixtapes Nobody (2014) and Nobody 2 (2015), twoĬollaborations with producer Michael "12million" O'Brien,Īnd for the mixtapes Sorry 4 The Weight (2015), a tribute to Lil Wayne,Īlmighty DP (2015), a collaboration with producer Don "DP Beats" Paschal. Homie, Cops and Wayne that were actually quite intriguing In insanely grotesque and shamelessly mundane manners, yielding apparently The scene that would be labeled "mumble rap", "trap rap" and "drill rap".Īnother track went viral on the Internet: Faneto (2014).Ģ0-song mixtape Back From the Dead 2 (2014), entirely produced by him Were deliberately clumsy, sloppy, crude and brainless, sounding likeīut his personality was charismatic enough to influence a whole scene, (notably the production sparkling synths of Baby What's Wrong With You architected by PhatBoy and ISOBeats), Young Chop and containing another signature song, Love Sosa.Ĭhief Keep's many self-released projects, which included the mixtapesĪlmighty So (2013), with 15 songs produced by 15 different producers The spirit and the sound of that mixtape were turned into fun party music onįinally Rich (2012), also mostly produced by Save That Shit (similar in style to what Future was doing in Atlanta at the same time)Īnd one song featuring Louis "King Louie" Johnson, the original pioneer of "drill rap", whose debut mixtape ( Boss Shit) dates back to 2007. To create his personal mythology, not the music. Videogame-inspired chaos of True Religion Fein andīasically, Chief Keep's rapping was relevant only Not only the rhythm but also the melodies, and frequently mixed with The real musician was producer Tyree "Young Chop" Pittman,Īn artist of the sub-bass and of the horror synth lines, whose beats created Of painting the portrait of a soul-less nihilist. (mostly about guns and death) and a lot of posturing, with the combined effect The mixtape consists in bland rapping of repetitive lyrics
He became a national sensation thanks to the trap classic I Don't Like,įrom the mixtape Back From the Dead (2012). ( Copyright © 2019 Piero Scaruffi | Terms of Use)Ĭhief Keef (Chicago's rapper and street criminal Keith Cozart) was only 16 when
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