Rhymefest Goes In On Chief Keef!!

[mr. smoke weed]

Yes quote me completely out of context 5 pages later.

go 50 replies a page breh

 

[Still Benefited]

He speaks the truth though. And he doesn't seem to be doing for attention. Seems like he cares about his city

It is weird how people talk about finding soultions to the violence and murders in Chicago.

But yet the promote this young kid like he is the truth when he is literally a product of that enviroment. And dudes like Mikkey Halsted can't get any play

If he's a product of that environment doesn't that make him the truth? What's different from him and ice-t nwa? People said that same shyt about them promoting violence becuz it wuz real...why do people get scared of this rap shyt whenever its coming ffrom a real place lol...the gang banging is too serious y'all can't talk about that"..."y'all can't threaten each other in songs no more biggie and pac dead,shyt is too real now"..."young nikkas is really buck out here in chicago,u can't rap about bein young and wild Keef"...

 

[Consigliere]

"Many people will say “Chief Keef is a young black man making money who wouldn’t have had any other opportunity, why isn’t this a good thing?”. Which brings us back to the question, who is bank rolling this operation and why?"

 

[Don Dada F Poppa]

"Many people will say “Chief Keef is a young black man making money who wouldn’t have had any other opportunity, why isn’t this a good thing?”. Which brings us back to the question, who is bank rolling this operation and why?"

We're the ones bankrolling it. We're the ones who gave him his buzz. shyt, I can't tell you how many people came up to me when Back From The Dead [Keef tape] first dropped and said "Yo, you listen to Keef? shyt crank." It isn't a huge conspiracy, the industry created gangsta rap, and the younger generations merely mimic what the previous generation has done.

If you start educating these kids, then there won't be much conspiracy to talk about. Don't just point at the music industry, whose sole purpose is to generate PROFIT, but point a finger at the school systems

 

[iPod Raheem 2.0]

I read what he wrote. He spent 90% of the time talking down on Chief Keef, his style, and that brand of music. He spent far less time talking about anything else. He mentioned in passing that it is 'bigger than hip hop' but yet still felt the need to focus in on two rappers. Even the title of the article is focusing in on one small aspect and not bringing up the nuances of poor life in Chicago. It's not as simple as Chief Keef making a song about shooting a gun then people shoot guns after hearing it.

He called Chief Keef a 'bomb' that is going to destroy Chicago breh. The article wasn't about it being 'bigger than hip hop'

He wrote three short paragraphs so everything is kind of "mentioned in passing." If you actually read those paragraphs and walked away thinking 90% of it was about shytting on Chief Keef, then you need to step up your reading comprehension. He's saying more than that:

First, the title, "Chief Keef Is The Bomb," is just a play on words that is intended to be provocative, which is clear by its conveying multiple meanings:

1. It references Chief Keef's popularity and appeal right now (old slang)
2. It personifies him as the weapon that is destroying/killing the people in a community/city/culture (an obvious metaphor)
3. It alludes to him being used as a pawn to advance the financial interests of those who control the music business and the goals of the Prison Industrial Complex (another metaphor that is more obvious after reading what Fest wrote)

Chief Keef is just a provocative example to bring attention to Fest's larger thesis, which is that the music business and the people who control it are promoting music that is substantively about destruction and negativity because:

• this destruction and negativity is profitable for some (i.e. the people who control record labels, music television, and radio)
• there are people, some who are kids like Chief Keef, who are willing to be relatively cheap spokespeople to sell this message of destruction and negativity to their communities and the broader population
• these messages of destruction and negativity have some collateral effect in fostering/influencing/sustaining destructive and negative communities that regularly have their residents going to prison where they labor for free on behalf of the state or private corporations. In other words, the Chief Keefs of Chicago and other violent inner cities are promoted because their music encourages young people living in those same violent inner cities to keep doing what they're doing, which, unfortunately, but realistically, means going to prison.

If anything, Fest's comments are full of lament for the plight of the Chief Keefs who inhabit Chicago and other violent inner cities.

Now explain to me how you think this is just about shytting on Chief Keef.

 

[1017Breh]

Inno respect none of the old Chicago artist except twista lupe and bump j the rest of them fakkits could eat a dikk!! #3Hunna

 

[Dak Pickscott]

nah i'm fukkin with chief keef rhymefest betta eat dat ham.

 

[JasonSJackson]

The only thing that I don't like about Chief Keef is how all of these other rappers started riding the dude's dikk out of nowhere. All of sudden everyone is a big fan of dude? All of a sudden everyone is trying to hit him up, bringing him out on concerts, trying to sign him, do songs with him, and hang out? Why? Dude isn't that significant in the game yet. At least let him get acquainted with the game before sucking his dikk.

I think there is a lot of hypocrisy surrounding this kid doe. A lot of people are on his case for his lyrics, his behavior, and how he is promoting this type of behavior in one of the worst cities right now, but no one had a problem with these grown men doing it. Because Keef has a semblance of some type of truth to it everyone wants to get mad and get up in arms about it. Everyone was fine with everyone else rapping about murking dudes doe? Alright....

Kid is straight garbage and doesn't deserve even an ounce of the attention he is getting either.

u was on a roll till that last sentence......

 

[Pop123]

how did he go in on him? he's not calling out the puppet, he's calling out the puppetmasters

 

[JasonSJackson]

he a hood nikka who make hood music

aint no different then mobb deep back on the infamous, cnn on the war report etc.

rhymfest sounding like delores tucker

focus on william roberts III....thats the prison commericial.

 

[El Dinero]

Lupe grews dreads was about to put his album out when this young kid comes out of nowhere and gets signed so easily and suprise suprise he's from the chi and has short dreads like Lupe....

 

[JasonSJackson]

reading, thats the shyt we dont like

I wouldnt have even responded to this if my ol lady aint read your quote to me

 

[Red Maverick II]

But we shouldn't be relying on corporations to give us positive culture or healthy food. People gotta look out for themselves...

As sad as it is, some people just won't make it.

Too many can't think for themselves.

 

[Sir Brehsington]

sad but true

As sad as it is, some people just won't make it.

Too many can't think for themselves.

 

[DaveyDave]

Rhymefest wrote this but named Himself third in a list at the end? Doesn't make any sense there