Chief Keef has faced ongoing legal issues during his career, including weapons possession charges, house arrest sentences, and a performance ban imposed by Chicago authorities.
66 Facts About Chief Keef
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Chief Keef was born Keith Farrelle Cozart in Chicago, Illinois, on August 15,1995, to Lolita Carter who was 15 and unwed.
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Chief Keef is named after his deceased uncle, Keith Carter, who was known as "Big Keef".
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Chief Keef lived at the Parkway Garden Homes located in the Washington Park neighborhood on the city's South Side, a stronghold for the Black Disciples street gang of which Chief Keef is a member.
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Chief Keef has been estranged from his biological father, Alfonso Cozart, since he was a minor.
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Chief Keef began rapping as a five-year-old using his mother's karaoke machine and tapes to record his music.
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Chief Keef dropped out of Dyett High School at age 15.
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In 2011, Chief Keef first attracted local attention from Chicago's South Side community with his mixtapes, The Glory Road and Bang.
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Chief Keef is featured on "Hold My Liquor", the fifth track on Kanye West's album, Yeezus, released on June 18,2013.
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On his 18th birthday, August 15,2013, Chief Keef celebrated by releasing the mixtape Bang, Pt.
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Chief Keef began experimenting with producing his music in 2014.
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In October 2014, Chief Keef was dropped by Interscope Records.
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Chief Keef confirmed via Twitter that every project he had planned, including the release of the long-awaited Bang 3, would still be released.
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Chief Keef self-produced 16 of the 20 songs on the mixtape.
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On February 18,2015, Chief Keef released Sorry 4 the Weight, a 20-track mixtape.
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Chief Keef later named his son Sno FilmOn Dot Com Cozart to promoteBang 3, but the label retracted their naming rights to his son.
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Chief Keef announced on Twitter he would be holding a free benefit concert as a tribute to Capo and encouraged concertgoers to donate to the Harris family.
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Chief Keef announced the formation of the Stop the Violence Now Foundation, in an attempt to decrease crime in Chicago.
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In March 2016, Chief Keef tweeted that he was retiring from rapping.
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Chief Keef released a 17-track mixtape Two Zero One Seven in January 2017.
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Chief Keef joined a long line of rappers, including Jay Z, Lupe Fiasco, Nicki Minaj and others, who claimed to have retired only to return to making music.
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Chief Keef released four mixtapes in the lead up to releasing his third album, Dedication, on December 1,2017.
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In 2018, Chief Keef was able to drop more mixtapes, such as Mansion Musick and Back from the Dead 3 and more mixtapes in The Leek series.
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Chief Keef did more features for musicians such as Playboi Carti, Soulja Boy, and G Herbo.
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Chief Keef later confirmed they were making a collaborative mixtape called Glotoven.
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Chief Keef then released a song with Youngboy Never Broke Again called "Fireman".
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In March 2020, Chief Keef earned his first major production credit on Lil Uzi Vert's second studio album, Eternal Atake, with the song "Chrome Heart Tags".
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Chief Keef was later featured on Uzi's album Lil Uzi Vert vs the World 2 with a vocal performance on the song "Bean ", which became his highest-charting song on the Hot 100 at number 19.
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However, on January 3,2014, Chief Keef said that Glory Boyz Entertainment was "no more", and he was starting a new record label named Glo Gang.
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Chief Keef was served with a request for child support by the child's mother.
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In September 2014, Chief Keef announced the birth of his third child, and his first son, whom he named Krue Karter Cozart.
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Chief Keef's step-brother was shot dead on January 2,2013.
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On January 27,2011, Chief Keef was apprehended on charges of heroin manufacture and distribution.
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Chief Keef dropped the coat, flashed a handgun and ran away.
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Chief Keef was charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a firearm on a police officer and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.
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Chief Keef was given a misdemeanor charge for resisting arrest.
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Chief Keef was held in the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center until a judge sentenced him to home confinement at his grandmother's house.
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On September 5,2012, Chicago Police stated Chief Keef was being investigated for a possible connection to the shooting death of fellow rapper and Englewood resident, Joseph Coleman, who performed under the stage name "Lil JoJo".
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Coleman's mother has openly maintained Chief Keef paid to have her son killed.
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On December 31,2012, Chief Keef was issued a judicial summons for a new and unrelated alleged parole violation.
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Chief Keef was taken into custody on January 15,2013, after a juvenile court judge ruled that the gun range interview video constituted a probation violation.
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On January 17,2013, Chief Keef was sued by Washington, DC-based promotion company Team Major for $75,000 for a missed show.
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Chief Keef never showed up and neither he nor his label has explained why he missed the date.
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Chief Keef ignored the lawsuit, and the court ordered him to pay $230,019 damages to Team Major by default.
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Chief Keef was arrested in an upscale hotel in DeKalb County, Georgia, for allegedly smoking marijuana in public and for disorderly conduct on May 20,2013.
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Chief Keef was ordered to pay a $531 fine, serve 18 months of probation, complete 60 hours of community service and undergo random drug tests.
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On October 15,2013, Chief Keef returned to jail for a 20-day sentence for a probation violation after testing positive for marijuana.
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However, on November 6,2013, Chief Keef was jailed on another probation violation.
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In June 2014, Chief Keef was evicted from his Highland Park home.
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In January 2017, Chief Keef was arrested for allegedly beating up and robbing a producer by the name of Ramsay Tha Great.
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Chief Keef claimed that Chief Keef stole his Rolex watch and pointed firearms at him.
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Chief Keef was arrested in South Dakota for smoking cannabis and possession of drug paraphernalia in June 2017.
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Chief Keef was able to make bail and took the charges to trial.
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Chief Keef is often seen as a representation of the "Chiraq" gangsta rap culture that is present in Chicago.
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Chief Keef often refers to himself as "Sosa" as do his peers and the media.
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Lupe Fiasco's criticisms of Chief Keef touched off a feud between the two.
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Additionally, Chief Keef's heavy use of adlibs, specifically the word "aye" as a large part of a song was a major influence on the Soundcloud rap subgenre and the artists that emerged from it.
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Chief Keef claimed that his account had been hacked and the tweet was not his.
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Later, Chief Keef uploaded an image onto Instagram featuring an alleged stolen chain belonging to rapper Quavo of Migos.
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Chief Keef was involved in a feud with rapper 6ix9ine in May 2018.
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Chief Keef was in a relationship with Tadoe but friendly with 6ix9ine.
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On June 2,2018, Chief Keef was fired upon outside the W Hotel in New York City.
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Chief Keef was not hit and there were no injuries from the incident.
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Chief Keef had offered his associate Kintea "Kooda B" McKenzie $20,000 to shoot at Cozart.
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On September 15,2012, Chief Keef uploaded a photograph of him receiving fellatio from a female fan onto Instagram, which he removed shortly afterwards.
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Chief Keef has since created another Instagram account, and has had his activities on the app mentioned by various outlets.