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Round 1 (early 1970s) - #2 The Who vs #15 The Eagles
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Round 1 (early 1970s) - #2 The Who vs #15 The Eagles 45 votes
#2 The Who
68%
31 votes
#15 The Eagles
31%
14 votes
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Keef's debut album Finally Rich was released on December 18, 2012, and featured singles such as "I Don't Like" and "Love Sosa". Since achieving commercial popularity, Keef has continued to experience ongoing legal issues. Despite being dropped from Interscope in late 2014, Keef continued self-releasing mixtapes through his Glo Gang label. Although Keef had originally planned Bang 3 to be released as his second album, a then-track from the album, "Nobody", developed into its own project. Keef released Nobody as a full-length album in December 2014, while continuing to delay the often-pushed back Bang 3.
Contents
1 Life and career
1.1 Early life (1995–2010)
1.2 Early years, Finally Rich, and subsequent mixtapes (2011–13)
1.3 Bang 3, Nobody, and The Cozart (2014–2016)
1.4 "Retirement" (2016–present)
2 Other ventures
2.1 Glo Gang
3 Personal life
3.1 Legal issues
4 Image
4.1 Controversies
4.1.1 Hip hop feuds
4.1.2 Instagram
5 Discography
6 References
6.1 Notes
Life and career
Early life (1995–2010)
Chief Keef was born Keith Cozart in Chicago, Illinois when his mother was 16, and is named after his deceased uncle.[3] He lived at the Parkway Garden Homes, located in the Washington Park neighborhood on the city's South Side.[4][5] Keef is estranged from his biological father;[6] when he was a minor, Keef's legal guardian was his grandmother, whom he lived with during his residence in Chicago.[7] He began rapping at a very young age, regularly listed as 5, using his mother's karaoke machine and blank tapes to record his music.[8] During his childhood, Keef attended Dulles Elementary School and the Banner School, a therapeutic day school.[8] Keef dropped out of Dyett High School at age 15.[9][10]
Early years, Finally Rich, and subsequent mixtapes (2011–13)
Kanye West, a fellow Chicagoan, discovered Chief Keef, and has since remixed his songs and collaborated with Keef.
In 2011, Keef first earned local attention from Chicago's South Side community with his mixtapes, The Glory Road and Bang.[11] In December, Keef fired gunshots from a Pontiac Grand Prix in Chicago's Washington Park neighborhood. Police showed up at the scene and the incident resulted in Keef being arrested and charged with unlawful use of a weapon. Keef was consequently placed under house arrest at his grandmother's house for 30 days, followed by another 30 days of home confinement. It has been noted that by the time this incident occurred, Keef had already achieved local South Side popularity, and that much of his early fan base consisted of high school students in the area.[12][13] While under house arrest, Keef posted several videos to his YouTube account.[14] These videos were at the forefront of Chicago's hip hop subgenre, drill.[14][15] The attention he received increased during the short time between the release of his mixtapes, Bang and Back From the Dead, and music videos, including "Bang", "3Hunna" and "I Don't Like".[12][16] Once his house arrest ended, WorldStarHipHop released a video of a child hysterically celebrating Keef's release from house arrest, affording Keef further virality.[12][13] Early in his music career, Keef's song "I Don't Like" became a local hit in Chicago, which was described by a local party promoter, as "the perfect Chicago song because 'niggas just hate everything out here.'"[13] It also caught fellow Chicago rapper Kanye West's attention, and West created a remix of the song with rappers Pusha T, Jadakiss and Big Sean.[17] In response to these events, David Drake of Spin writes that in 2012, Keef "suddenly shot up out of obscurity."[18]
In the summer of 2012, Keef was the subject of a bidding war with many labels to sign him, including Young Jeezy's CTE World.[19] While 2013 proved to be a relatively quiet year, in terms of his music output, Keef began the year by signing with Interscope Records, as a separate deal promised his own label imprint, Glory Boyz Entertainment (GBE).[19] The deal was worth $6,000,000 over a three album layout, as well as an additional $440,000 in advance, to establish GBE.[7] The deal also set up rights for Interscope to pull out of the contract in the case that Keef's debut album failed to sell 250,000 copies by December 2013.[20] Chief Keef's debut studio album Finally Rich, was released on December 18, 2012.[21] Featured guests on the album included rappers 50 Cent, Wiz Khalifa, Young Jeezy, Rick Ross and his fellow Glory Boyz member Lil Reese.[22]
On March 26, 2013, it was announced that Keef would be a part of XXL Magazine's 2013 Freshman Class.[23] On May 8, 2013, Gucci Mane announced via Twitter that Chief Keef was the newest member of 1017 Brick Squad Records.[24]
Keef was featured on "Hold My Liquor", the fifth track off Kanye West's album, Yeezus, released on June 18, 2013.[25] Keef's contributions to the track were praised by musician Lou Reed, with Reed stating, "'Hold My Liquor' is just heartbreaking, and particularly coming from where it's coming from – listen to that incredibly poignant hook from a tough guy like Chief Keef, wow."[26]
On his 18th birthday, August 15, 2013, Chief Keef celebrated by releasing the mixtape Bang, Pt. 2.[27] Bang, Pt. 2 was highly anticipated as the first project following his debut album, but received a mixed to negative critical response.[28] On October 12, 2013 a further mixtape, Almighty Sosa was released.[29] Like Bang, Pt. 2, Almighty So also received mixed to negative critical responses.[28][30] Following his October 2013 jail term (see § Legal issues), he began working on his second studio album and a biopic.[31]