Chief Keef: "I grew up on G-Unit, Beanie, Freeway, Wayne, Dip Set, I only know 1 Pac and Big song"

[DANJ!]

In a perfect world, all artists would respect their craft enough to know about the origins of what they do and so on and so forth, but it isn't a given. Realistically, you can't force a nikka to know or like something just because you think they should. And really some of this falls on the older generation, because it's the people of that generation that should be keeping it alive.

The difference with us '90s-era people is that although we were definitely into our present-day favorites, we still had that influence around. We had songs that sampled older songs which by extension got us to appreciate the older songs, we had older artists still making music that got airplay, etc. That's not really happening right now. Older artists are just old for the most part, and very few 90s songs are being sampled (because most of those songs themselves were sampling something else). The presence of that era is only being upheld thru nostalgia. And occasionally something will happen like "My Boo" becoming popular again for a few weeks. Other than that, young people in 2016 are very much removed from anything that's not happening in 2016... and their nostalgia is one totally different from ours.

 

[Whooty Chaser]

I'm the same age as Keef and grew on the same shyt minus G-Unit. I didn't give Pac a good listen(and I'm glad I did) until I was 17-18.

Even if some mentions Nas to me, the first albums that come to mind are Untitled, Distant Relatives, and Life is Good, not Illmatic.

 

[the cac mamba]

fukk all the respecting the culture, appreciation, etc....how is this just physically possible

how can your life experience leave you only knowing 1 pac and big song? i know hes exaggerating but that doesnt even make sense

 

[NvrCMyNut]

No one who has never heard a full Pac album should be a rapper. I'm 25 & missed their run but by 16/17 I had heard all of their albums

 

[Palm Tree's & Blunts]

Chicago rap scene is werid to be honest.

Like I never see the upcoming rappers give credit to twista, do or die, common, and hell even kanye.

 

[riddlerap]

makes me like Keef even more :keefyeah::thx50:

 

[Big Mark]

Keef is garbage. Everybody on the Southside of Chicago know that. His work shows he only listened to garbage rappers and hardly ever any big or pac.

 

[reserved_one]

Nah, I can't 100% believe him lol. I don't know how you can be from the ghetto and only heard one Pac & Biggie song . My parents were Pac & Biggie fans and constantly had their music on rotation when I was young. The first rap song I learned to recite was Hypnotize. Even down to to my auntees and uncles....they were bumping their shyt.

And in the ghetto, there was a good chance you'll hear a Pac song blasting from someone's car or apartment. My guess is that Keef was either sheltered growing up or he went out his way to not listen to Pac & Biggie. But I also forget that Keef is still young as fukk....He grew up in the youtube/worldstar era. But theres still no excuse to only know 1 song from to of the Goats when your a rapper.

 

[Still FloW]

GAWDFATHER FIF

 

[Edub]

Well do ya research lil nikka

 

[Professor Polo]

How can you grow up listening to those artists and spew the fukking garbage that you call rap?

 

[Da_Eggman]

Chicago rap scene is werid to be honest.

Like I never see the upcoming rappers give credit to twista, do or die, common, and hell even kanye.

Depends what part

Guys like chance..Joey purp... Lupe sure..,I'm sure other rappers coming up in that scene

But

I don't think y'all get really where Chief keef is from and the other savage/drill rappers

He gives no fukks about "history" or "culture"

He comes from a place where it's fukk everybody......I can't stress this enough they don't give a fukk what you done it's still fukk you

Y'all think he was on the internet downloading pac bootlegs or something

This kid was in the streets and listening to whatever the fukk they were playing

Y'all calling him stupid or disrespectful cuz he don't listen to the goats just don't get the kinda mindset these kids have there

 

[Tetris v2.0]

I respect his honesty but the fact that hes not inquisitive at all about his industry is kinda bullshyt and makes me lose respect for him as an artist

Think about a fashion designer who knows nothing about pioneers in the field, a modern actor who knows nothing about Marlon Brando etc etc

Why is this level of ignorance okay in Hip-Hop, from a Hip-Hop ARTIST not a random fan/consumer??

You work in this industry and only know ONE SONG from arguably the most famous artists in the genre???

 

[ISO]

I'm from Keef's generation I revisited and loved the classics...

It's a hyperbole on the Pac
Part but honestly the Biggie part is believable y'all lowkey overrate his impact on the rap game

Biggie literally has some of the biggest singles in hip hop history. It was hyperbole on Biggie too, everyone knows Juicy, Hypnotize, Mo Money Mo Problems. Who Shot Ya might be the most freestyled beat ever and B.I.G. is the most quoted and vocally sampled artist in rap.

 

[Palm Tree's & Blunts]

Depends what part

Guys like chance..Joey purp... Lupe sure..,I'm sure other rappers coming up in that scene

But

I don't think y'all get really where Chief keef is from and the other savage/drill rappers

He gives no fukks about "history" or "culture"

He comes from a place where it's fukk everybody......I can't stress this enough they don't give a fukk what you done it's still fukk you

Y'all think he was on the internet downloading pac bootlegs or something

This kid was in the streets and listening to whatever the fukk they were playing

Y'all calling him stupid or disrespectful cuz he don't listen to the goats just don't get the kinda mindset these kids have there

I could really care less what he listens to breh. It doesn't really matter, music is subjective anyways. At least he was honest and didn't act like a fake fan.