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Young Chop Talks Relationship With Chief Keef, Getting Drugged, And Why Kanye West Is A “User”, & wants Lupe & Twista to help stop the violence in Chi-Raq
Young Chop has been in the news for all the wrong things recently. First he hopped on Instagram and threw shots at Kanye West, and then he got into it with security at a release party for his mixtape. You can go to his Instagram right now and hear his side of these stories. Chop is all about transparency.
But what he’s really known for are his monstrous beats. In 2011, a buzzing local Chicago artist named Chief Keef released a mixtape called Bang, and though Young Chop only produced one song (“Smash”) their chemistry led to a full-length collaboration called Back From The Dead. That tape had a little song called “Don’t Like.” You may have heard of it.
Back From The Dead put Keef on the nation’s map with Chop as the main architect of his sound. By 2012 Keef landed a deal with Interscope and dropped his debut album Finally Rich, where Chop produced six more songs like “Love Sosa” and “Hate Bein’ Sober.” They were by far the hottest duo in hip-hop.
And then things got weird. Keef was dropped from the label, Chop started vaguely criticizing Keef, and the two seemed to drift apart. In 2013 Chop released his debut solo project Precious and started cultivating other artists (like Johnny May Cash and King James 100) and producers (like Chopsquad DJ) for his own ChopSquad Records. Chicago artists often rib each other and bicker in public, so Chop and Keef have reconciled their differences, but as you’ll read, they aren’t making music together right now.
During our exclusive sit down with Young Chop, he talked about his relationship with Chief Keef, his honest feelings on Kanye West, and why he feels like he’s been screwed a couple times in the industry.
WatchLOUD: How’s life?
Young Chop: Life right now… it comes with bumps. But I’m getting over it. Just doing me.
You’ve got a new project on the way, right?
Yeah I’m working on the ChopSquad album. It’s gonna be a mixtape but you know I call it an album because that’s what it’s gonna sound like. And I’m working on my EP right now. Gonna drop my EP first then drop that ChopSquad thang and fu*k the industry up.
Who’re you working with for the EP?
All my producers and my people. My own engineers, my own mastering people. Graphics, everything. We got all that over here.
I saw you on Instagram saying you’re trying to put the GLOTF album together. How’s that going?
For real. It’s just one person though – Chief Keef. That’s the only person we gotta get on board. Durk ready. Everybody ready, we just gotta get Keef motherfu*kin’ a.ss in tune with the sh*t, make him see the bigger picture. That sh*t’s gonna be big. Trust and believe me. I’m talking ‘bout…huge. Tours, everything. I put that “Decline” record together.
I love that record.
Come on, now…tell me I don’t know how to do this sh*t! I released it. That’s my record, though. I’m the baby Khaled. khaled getting his due
https://www.youtube.com/w... ?v=wLpCkuftmJM
Why’d you feel the need to say that?
Because I be reading comments and sh*t like “Keef put you on” and all this. I be like nah…you got it fu*ked up. I was the first one signed. How someone put me on? It just helped…you ain’t put me on. If you put me on, you going to the labels and telling them about me. That’s what putting a n*gga on is. But no, you did not. You feel me? It is what it is. We still brothers though.
You said you got drugged once too.
]Yeah man. I can’t talk about that right now, but it was some fu*ked up sh*t. And that was recently. I’m learning from it. That’s the worst sh*t I’ve ever been through because I ain’t know I was on them drugs until I went to the hospital.
What drug was it? Do you know?
Yes I know exactly what drugs I was on. They was telling me these drugs and I’m like, “I’ve never taken these drugs in my life. Ever.” Like I would never ever plan on taking these drugs. And this some sh*t that will make you schizophrenic, that’s what they say. I was losing my mind at the same time. For real, I was wondering like it was something wrong with me and I ain’t figuring the sh*t out. Like why am I thinking motherfu*kers out to get me and everything? I’m thinking these things and I know it’s not me.
Then they take me to the hospital. They say you on these types of drugs. I say…”What!?” Never taken them a day in my life. And that’s fu*ked up that a motherfu*ker did that.
Did that fu*k your relationship up with people?
Yup. Tremendously. I do all my own sh*t now. I’m not fu*king with n*ggas. Like…nobody.
And you were out somewhere when this happened?
I was in L.A. I lived in L.A.
https://www.youtube.com/w... ?v=p1JJkMD1hE4
I was reading your Reddit AMA from about two weeks ago and you said Kanye is a genius and a cool dude.
He is…BUT it comes with a BUT on that. He’s a fu*king user. Because if you so big on Chicago music right now, you would sign these guys. Because you got a label deal, I don’t have a label deal. I can’t sign nobody. I cannot help them. You have the power to help these people. You been in it for a long time. You can come and really build a fu*king label. You can build your G.O.O.D. Music label there!
I’m not saying sign every last person that’s in Chicago, but n*gga you had the chance to sign Chief Keef. He didn’t even have a deal at the time! You missed out, like…what the fu*k? I’m lost right now.
People love when Keef and Kanye work together.
They do…but you know, that wouldn’t have happened if we didn’t make them songs. Because the n*gga came to get beats from me first. And then he’s like, “Oh…I wanna get on the ‘Don’t Like.’” I was like cool. Because I’m the only one with the session, the masters, I got everything. Still do. I knew that would be a good look. Why not?
Then afterwards, I start peeping the little slick sh*t. Like why would you not send us the song? Keef didn’t even know the fu*king song was on the G.O.O.D. Music album [Cruel Summer] until I told him. On my grandmother’s grave.
So how did Kanye get the song?
They remixed it. I gave him the MP3. This off a two track. This not even tracked out or nothing, so they put the album out without even tracking it out. But I’m still trying to figure out how the fu*k did [Keef] not know his song was on a n*gga album! The beat sounded different a little bit, but that was a sample they added in there. I’m not finna keep talking about this motherfu*king song, this was years ago, but it was fishy anyway.
It took them a long time to register the song to ASCAP and sh*t. I was confused, like hold on…I never said nothing about it but I always thought about it. And then when I go back recently and look at my ASCAP and sh*t, it’s there. What are the odds of this? I haven’t signed off on this. Or did I? I don’t know.
There were people sh*tting on you for what you said…
Yeah because they don’t fu*king know. They think Kanye is a fu*king god. That n*gga ain’t no fu*king god. He might say he’s a god, but he’s not a fu*king god. We’re all fu*king gods, but he think he beyond a god, though. He’s not that god he wanna be. The higher power. Listen to his songs, “One man should not have all that power.” Listen to him. He saying these things. He wanna be God.
There were people saying he’s used people his whole career.
Man…I’m cutting this sh*t off because this sh*t will really go deep. And n*ggas ain’t ducking sh*t.
Did anyone from Chicago hit you up about your comments?
No. I’m the king of Chicago. They not gonna go against my word. n*ggas ain’t out there. I’m out there. I’m in the streets of Chicago. I’m still on the south side of Chicago where I been at. Nothing’s gonna change that because I haven’t done anything wrong to anybody. When n*ggas see me, it’s love. And it would probably be the same way if [Kanye] would come there and do that. It’d probably be a better fu*king thing in Chicago. Like, bro…bring your a.ss back to the city. Walk around that bi*ch. Stop these n*ggas from k!lling each other. That’s what I’m on. It should not be that. Why all rappers getting into it with each other? And we gotta see these n*ggas in our city. But when I go to Atlanta, if they do got beef with a n*gga, they not gonna show it. It’s weird to me.
Chicago n*ggas, we different from them. If we got beef with a n*gga, we got beef with a n*gga. It’s way different. Same with New York. If n*ggas got beef in New York, they got beef with the n*gga. They gonna come see you. I know that. Atlanta, they different, it’s different down there. But if [Kanye] would just show his face in the city, that’s all I want him to do. Instead of just doing a big a.ss concert. Walk around that motherfu*ker. Nobody is gonna touch you, trust and believe me. Just go to the hood. If the n*gga would come through there and politic with n*ggas, this sh*t would be crazy! That’s all I want from n*ggas.
You think what you’re doing is helping stop violence in Chicago?
Bro…I can’t do it by myself though. It takes all these big n*ggas too. Lupe Fiasco, Twista, all these n*ggas. They’re from the hood, but they’re from a different era. That’s what it is. They’re from the ‘90s era, so it’s different, but n*ggas would still listen to them. Boy if Kanye West walked through Chicago, do you know how motherfu*kers would be looking, bro? Does he know how big that would be? Just to walk through that bi*ch. They don’t have respect for him! I’m telling you this!
[Someone mentions Waka Flocka coming to Chicago to help stop violence]
Yeah how you bringing these Southern n*ggas? It’s cool though. But if they bring Gucci through that bi*ch? Oh my god. Free Guwop. Gucci will forever live. That’s where n*ggas getting their lingo from, Gucci. Jeezy cool, we fu*k with Jeezy, he invented the trap sh*t, cool, But when Gucci came, bro? He was speaking our language. n*gga I was in high school. Gucci putting out n*ggas – Flocka, OJ. Everybody know he brought them n*ggas out. Same as Nicki Minaj, French Montana – bro, come on now. n*ggas really look up to Gucci.
Part 2-> post #24
Young Chop has been in the news for all the wrong things recently. First he hopped on Instagram and threw shots at Kanye West, and then he got into it with security at a release party for his mixtape. You can go to his Instagram right now and hear his side of these stories. Chop is all about transparency.
But what he’s really known for are his monstrous beats. In 2011, a buzzing local Chicago artist named Chief Keef released a mixtape called Bang, and though Young Chop only produced one song (“Smash”) their chemistry led to a full-length collaboration called Back From The Dead. That tape had a little song called “Don’t Like.” You may have heard of it.
Back From The Dead put Keef on the nation’s map with Chop as the main architect of his sound. By 2012 Keef landed a deal with Interscope and dropped his debut album Finally Rich, where Chop produced six more songs like “Love Sosa” and “Hate Bein’ Sober.” They were by far the hottest duo in hip-hop.
And then things got weird. Keef was dropped from the label, Chop started vaguely criticizing Keef, and the two seemed to drift apart. In 2013 Chop released his debut solo project Precious and started cultivating other artists (like Johnny May Cash and King James 100) and producers (like Chopsquad DJ) for his own ChopSquad Records. Chicago artists often rib each other and bicker in public, so Chop and Keef have reconciled their differences, but as you’ll read, they aren’t making music together right now.
During our exclusive sit down with Young Chop, he talked about his relationship with Chief Keef, his honest feelings on Kanye West, and why he feels like he’s been screwed a couple times in the industry.
WatchLOUD: How’s life?
Young Chop: Life right now… it comes with bumps. But I’m getting over it. Just doing me.
You’ve got a new project on the way, right?
Yeah I’m working on the ChopSquad album. It’s gonna be a mixtape but you know I call it an album because that’s what it’s gonna sound like. And I’m working on my EP right now. Gonna drop my EP first then drop that ChopSquad thang and fu*k the industry up.
Who’re you working with for the EP?
All my producers and my people. My own engineers, my own mastering people. Graphics, everything. We got all that over here.
I saw you on Instagram saying you’re trying to put the GLOTF album together. How’s that going?
For real. It’s just one person though – Chief Keef. That’s the only person we gotta get on board. Durk ready. Everybody ready, we just gotta get Keef motherfu*kin’ a.ss in tune with the sh*t, make him see the bigger picture. That sh*t’s gonna be big. Trust and believe me. I’m talking ‘bout…huge. Tours, everything. I put that “Decline” record together.
I love that record.
Come on, now…tell me I don’t know how to do this sh*t! I released it. That’s my record, though. I’m the baby Khaled. khaled getting his due
https://www.youtube.com/w... ?v=wLpCkuftmJM
Why’d you feel the need to say that?
Because I be reading comments and sh*t like “Keef put you on” and all this. I be like nah…you got it fu*ked up. I was the first one signed. How someone put me on? It just helped…you ain’t put me on. If you put me on, you going to the labels and telling them about me. That’s what putting a n*gga on is. But no, you did not. You feel me? It is what it is. We still brothers though.
You said you got drugged once too.
]Yeah man. I can’t talk about that right now, but it was some fu*ked up sh*t. And that was recently. I’m learning from it. That’s the worst sh*t I’ve ever been through because I ain’t know I was on them drugs until I went to the hospital.
What drug was it? Do you know?
Yes I know exactly what drugs I was on. They was telling me these drugs and I’m like, “I’ve never taken these drugs in my life. Ever.” Like I would never ever plan on taking these drugs. And this some sh*t that will make you schizophrenic, that’s what they say. I was losing my mind at the same time. For real, I was wondering like it was something wrong with me and I ain’t figuring the sh*t out. Like why am I thinking motherfu*kers out to get me and everything? I’m thinking these things and I know it’s not me.
Then they take me to the hospital. They say you on these types of drugs. I say…”What!?” Never taken them a day in my life. And that’s fu*ked up that a motherfu*ker did that.
Did that fu*k your relationship up with people?
Yup. Tremendously. I do all my own sh*t now. I’m not fu*king with n*ggas. Like…nobody.
And you were out somewhere when this happened?
I was in L.A. I lived in L.A.
https://www.youtube.com/w... ?v=p1JJkMD1hE4
I was reading your Reddit AMA from about two weeks ago and you said Kanye is a genius and a cool dude.
He is…BUT it comes with a BUT on that. He’s a fu*king user. Because if you so big on Chicago music right now, you would sign these guys. Because you got a label deal, I don’t have a label deal. I can’t sign nobody. I cannot help them. You have the power to help these people. You been in it for a long time. You can come and really build a fu*king label. You can build your G.O.O.D. Music label there!
I’m not saying sign every last person that’s in Chicago, but n*gga you had the chance to sign Chief Keef. He didn’t even have a deal at the time! You missed out, like…what the fu*k? I’m lost right now.
People love when Keef and Kanye work together.
They do…but you know, that wouldn’t have happened if we didn’t make them songs. Because the n*gga came to get beats from me first. And then he’s like, “Oh…I wanna get on the ‘Don’t Like.’” I was like cool. Because I’m the only one with the session, the masters, I got everything. Still do. I knew that would be a good look. Why not?
Then afterwards, I start peeping the little slick sh*t. Like why would you not send us the song? Keef didn’t even know the fu*king song was on the G.O.O.D. Music album [Cruel Summer] until I told him. On my grandmother’s grave.
So how did Kanye get the song?
They remixed it. I gave him the MP3. This off a two track. This not even tracked out or nothing, so they put the album out without even tracking it out. But I’m still trying to figure out how the fu*k did [Keef] not know his song was on a n*gga album! The beat sounded different a little bit, but that was a sample they added in there. I’m not finna keep talking about this motherfu*king song, this was years ago, but it was fishy anyway.
It took them a long time to register the song to ASCAP and sh*t. I was confused, like hold on…I never said nothing about it but I always thought about it. And then when I go back recently and look at my ASCAP and sh*t, it’s there. What are the odds of this? I haven’t signed off on this. Or did I? I don’t know.
There were people sh*tting on you for what you said…
Yeah because they don’t fu*king know. They think Kanye is a fu*king god. That n*gga ain’t no fu*king god. He might say he’s a god, but he’s not a fu*king god. We’re all fu*king gods, but he think he beyond a god, though. He’s not that god he wanna be. The higher power. Listen to his songs, “One man should not have all that power.” Listen to him. He saying these things. He wanna be God.
There were people saying he’s used people his whole career.
Man…I’m cutting this sh*t off because this sh*t will really go deep. And n*ggas ain’t ducking sh*t.
Did anyone from Chicago hit you up about your comments?
No. I’m the king of Chicago. They not gonna go against my word. n*ggas ain’t out there. I’m out there. I’m in the streets of Chicago. I’m still on the south side of Chicago where I been at. Nothing’s gonna change that because I haven’t done anything wrong to anybody. When n*ggas see me, it’s love. And it would probably be the same way if [Kanye] would come there and do that. It’d probably be a better fu*king thing in Chicago. Like, bro…bring your a.ss back to the city. Walk around that bi*ch. Stop these n*ggas from k!lling each other. That’s what I’m on. It should not be that. Why all rappers getting into it with each other? And we gotta see these n*ggas in our city. But when I go to Atlanta, if they do got beef with a n*gga, they not gonna show it. It’s weird to me.
Chicago n*ggas, we different from them. If we got beef with a n*gga, we got beef with a n*gga. It’s way different. Same with New York. If n*ggas got beef in New York, they got beef with the n*gga. They gonna come see you. I know that. Atlanta, they different, it’s different down there. But if [Kanye] would just show his face in the city, that’s all I want him to do. Instead of just doing a big a.ss concert. Walk around that motherfu*ker. Nobody is gonna touch you, trust and believe me. Just go to the hood. If the n*gga would come through there and politic with n*ggas, this sh*t would be crazy! That’s all I want from n*ggas.
You think what you’re doing is helping stop violence in Chicago?
Bro…I can’t do it by myself though. It takes all these big n*ggas too. Lupe Fiasco, Twista, all these n*ggas. They’re from the hood, but they’re from a different era. That’s what it is. They’re from the ‘90s era, so it’s different, but n*ggas would still listen to them. Boy if Kanye West walked through Chicago, do you know how motherfu*kers would be looking, bro? Does he know how big that would be? Just to walk through that bi*ch. They don’t have respect for him! I’m telling you this!
[Someone mentions Waka Flocka coming to Chicago to help stop violence]
Yeah how you bringing these Southern n*ggas? It’s cool though. But if they bring Gucci through that bi*ch? Oh my god. Free Guwop. Gucci will forever live. That’s where n*ggas getting their lingo from, Gucci. Jeezy cool, we fu*k with Jeezy, he invented the trap sh*t, cool, But when Gucci came, bro? He was speaking our language. n*gga I was in high school. Gucci putting out n*ggas – Flocka, OJ. Everybody know he brought them n*ggas out. Same as Nicki Minaj, French Montana – bro, come on now. n*ggas really look up to Gucci.
Part 2-> post #24
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You know this n1gga is salty when Chief Keef don't got any problems with kanye