Mon 13 Aug 2012
Chicago is going through a new changing of the guards. The younger kids of the city are quickly becoming more synonymous with Chi-Town than the vets. Rappers on the come-up like King L., Lil Mouse and of course Chief Keef are bringing their own brand of street music to the forefront. Perhaps, one of the most talked about rappers making noise in the Midwest is Chief Keef. His undeniable street anthem “I Don’t Like” and the infamous Kanye West x G.O.O.D. Music remix of the track has come with its fair share of controversy. When I spoke to Keef a few months back he revealed that he has never even spoken to Kanye, and that the mix was done without his creative input. He seemed somewhat thankful about it but clearly he didn’t feel like he was being granted an incredible favor. Most rappers would give a body part for a Kanye remix. However, for the teenage rapper, it looks like the gossip and chatter has proven too much for him. Yesterday, he let out a tweet directed at Mr. West. Let’s just say he isn’t grateful.
Read what Keef said about Kanye after the jump…
Do you think Keef is right or wrong for this?
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August 13th, 2012 at 10:12 am
That isn’t a diss that is pretty accurate actually. Ye hopped on the song becuz Keef already had respect and was starting to buzz. Especially didn’t help when he bastardized the song and hijacked it for his own use.
August 13th, 2012 at 10:19 am
i think Keef is a fool and just wants more attention. He might’ve had a buzz but he wasn’t hot till Kanye came in the picture.
August 13th, 2012 at 10:32 am
Here we go… Yet another hip-hop artist’s words getting twisted for a blog’s benefit and to create unecessary hype…
I’m not a fan of Keef (think he’s terrible), but he’s just saying Kanye didn’t get him to where he is now, he done it himself. It’s not a diss to Kanye… If he was dissing him he’d be using a lot stronger language than he’s used in his tweet. Things like “fuck that nigga” and so on.
August 13th, 2012 at 10:35 am
You have to realize 90% of hip hop fans outside of chi had no idea who Cheif Keef was before Kanye West did the remix. Miss info def wasn’t posting stuff about the new hot and comer on this site. A wise men told me, don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
August 13th, 2012 at 10:36 am
I swear that kid was another video scrolled on and passed on worldstar for me and still is……Keef is wack with all his remedial raps…..Good Music did him a favor….cause he doesnt have another song on the radio and they never play his original cut…..and have you ever seen this guy on an interview…..boy must’ve grew up eating lead chips
August 13th, 2012 at 10:37 am
I missed the part of that statement where he actually “dissed” kanye. But anyways Chief is absolutely correct, he made himself. I live in Atlanta and had heard the song being played on a regular basis about a month before the Kanye remix.
Ye did not find this man under a rock. The song was already hot in the streets, which is the reason Ye chose to remix it. If i’m wrong why don’t one of you aspiring rappers to get Ye to remix your b#llsh*t track.
August 13th, 2012 at 10:45 am
Obviously kanye actually did do something for this retard, this guy cant even rap i bet you that album is gonna be awful, hes acting like being at the bottom of the hot 300 means something
August 13th, 2012 at 10:54 am
Not everyone needs or wants a co-sign, the song was already hot. Y is it wrong for someone to stand on their own 2 feet, rather than someone “making” him hot.
August 13th, 2012 at 11:05 am
I think Keef is right to a certain extent. He definitely had buzz prior to Kanye hopping on the song. It’s just hard for me to believe that Keef would have gotten to the level that he is on now without Kanye hopping on the song.
I’m not saying that Keef wouldn’t have been capable of eventually getting into the mainstream (who knows at this point?), but I am saying that the “Kanye cosign” expedited that process.
Unless Kanye and G.O.O.D. is getting paid for their version of “I Don’t Like”, since when does an artist have to ask the original artist for permission, much less for their “creative input”, on a remix? It’s always been to my knowledge that when an artist likes a song, they take it, “remix” it, put it out, and that’s that. Right? No?
August 13th, 2012 at 11:25 am
“Who is Chief Keef again?? Oh yeah that kid that ruined the I don’t Like remix”
August 13th, 2012 at 11:58 am
Have any of you heard his music? I never heard of him before Kayne did the “remix”, afterwards I decided to check him out on YouTube and didn’t get through one song. Chief Keef is garbage.
If you want to listen to a dope teenager check out Joey Badass.
August 13th, 2012 at 12:01 pm
And Mikey Fresh this definitely isn’t a diss. you should change it to “Address” Kanye or something.
August 13th, 2012 at 12:14 pm
Why are we paying any attention to what a 16 middle school dropout has to say??
If you ever punished yourself by watching an interview with this dude you realize he is a complete idiot. His “career” is already almost over and it hasn’t started yet. I’m sure Ye laughed at this.
August 13th, 2012 at 12:23 pm
co-signs are everything
August 13th, 2012 at 1:09 pm
@E7ienne is on point! Kanye’s mix actually has lyricism in it which makes it dope. The Chief Keef version is a one hit wonder. If he’s so great, let’s see him do it again, better yet a whole album. This dude isn’t going beyond this song, good luck to him.
August 13th, 2012 at 1:43 pm
I AM FROM ILLINOIS (living in CA now) and downloaded his original song AND remix because of Kanye. Dude better learn quick not to step on toes so easily.
August 13th, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Yeah the post title did have me expecting something else. Is it disrespectful? No its just brash, juvenile and while it may be true is poor business, but Keef doesn’t strike me as one to be too concerned with business ethics.
August 13th, 2012 at 2:50 pm
Kanye is a tool who stole this kid’s song to give himself an edge. Kanye is too busy wearing women’s blouses, and rolling with Kardashians and Aziz Ansari to make anything as hard as Keef. Do I like Keef? absolutely not. “I don’t like” depresses me because I know it speaks to so many lost black men, but I respect Keef’s hustle. Kanye should retire somewhere with Kim K because he doesn’t care about signing Chicago artists, or doing anything to speak to the genocide on Chicago streets.
What doesn’t Kanye like? low thread count sheets, not taking a limousine everywhere, and not having the best seat at an Italian fashion show? Ye can eat a fat one.
August 13th, 2012 at 3:13 pm
This kid shouldnt get mad. When it comes to music Kanye is more P.Diddy than he is Dr. Dre. The dude is making a killing off other peoples shit. The is absolutely no originality to that gay fish
August 13th, 2012 at 3:35 pm
lil guy just trying to make a name for hiimself… Might need to put some of the drugs down though cuz he obviously high
August 13th, 2012 at 3:38 pm
Dude is Trash!i just want to cut his dreads off & shove em down his throat so he can’t rap no more.
August 13th, 2012 at 4:24 pm
Love the shots at Kanye for no reason, lets pretend Kanye hasn’t delivered close to 2 decays of musics, lets pretend Kanye doesn’t talk about the Chicago deaths in his songs, lets pretend Kanye and his late mother didn’t have a program that encouraged kids to stay in school. I hate that the black community feels it has to hold black artist above all other artist. Have Kanye given back to his community? YES, and that should be the end of the story.
Pretty sure you need to learn the true definition of stole, you acting like Kanye took the song and didn’t give the made credit or a verse.
People forget Kanye is a normal person just like you and me. He is a celeb so of course he has famous friends. Ask any heterosexual male if he would sleep with Kim K and I bet the majority of them will say yes in a heartbeat. I find it almost comical that once a black artist, entertainer, athlete gets money every one in the black community expects them to come back and give them hand outs. No other race has to deal with this bullshit, and from your comment the people that actually give back to their communities get thrown under the bus if they do something you don’t agree. Your damned if you do and damned if you don’t in today’s society.
August 13th, 2012 at 4:56 pm
its this,, keef already had a big ass buzz, all kanye did was add a lil extra attention his way, plus kanye should be acknowledging keef for stealing some of his shine, point blank kanye did nothing for his career get that straight,, to be honest the real Chicago don’t even like kanye west, he phony he fake, he selfish, and don’t do shit for Chicago,, Hollywood fake ass nigga….
August 13th, 2012 at 6:23 pm
This lame does everything to maintain the stigma that Black Males are inarticulate and unintellectual……the boy can’t even speak……so tell me again how Keef speaks for the disenfranchised Black masses?
August 13th, 2012 at 6:25 pm
Having a buzz in a single state or region doesn’t count…..Kanye bought him to the national forum…..oh and tell me again about Keef’s philanthropic efforts?
August 13th, 2012 at 6:26 pm
Yes he’s what I dnt like bang bang!
August 13th, 2012 at 8:54 pm
The fact that his vids had a million views on youtube but no label tried to holla until after the “I dont like” remix, means that Kanye played a part with that cosign.
But let’s be real here, we still skip Keef’s verse and act like it’s a Ye song.
August 14th, 2012 at 12:03 am
Cosign On that Joey BadAss!!
August 14th, 2012 at 1:16 am
Co-sign. “Hardknock”> Anything in Keefs Catalog.
August 14th, 2012 at 4:39 am
Mikey Fresh reached on this one…for the record! this wasn’t a diss…if anyone can understand how chief keef feels its an asshole himself like Kanye — one might argue his connection to Jay made him hot!! but Kanye would prob snap back that HEEE made his own buzz starting at through the wire (I’m talking rap wise, not the beats btw)
I bet u Jay Z wouldn’t take that as a “diss”! Mikey c’mon bruh — u keep it up & ur gonna come off like one of those media people that blew shit outta proportion during the east coast west coast beef foh lol
August 14th, 2012 at 8:31 am
Well lets state facts I heard of Keef one time on a podcast my boy Jensen does about new shit. A week later Kanye does what he does and makes his song listenable lol, and everyone now has heard of keef, well not everyone but a hell of alot more. The kid needs to relax no ones saying he didn’t put his work in to get where he is, but to suggest that Kanye west has nothing to do with the fact that he’s on rotation on Hot 97 is preposterous. Hey look at the bright side Amber Rose had to fuck Kanye to be relevant, Keef took the easy road lol.
August 14th, 2012 at 11:45 am
before kanye west came along Tryna steal his hype, he had three songs on youtube in the millions already, his song i don’t like had heavy rotation not only in the Midwest, but down south as well including texas, of course kanye brought a different kinda crowd his way like a older crowd, but youth run the music game know that and as his music goes its more for a younger crowd so all you ppl judging his music thats older than 25 its not for you anyway, if you don’t like it so be it, obviously somebody like it, interscope don’t handout 10 mill just cause….
August 17th, 2012 at 5:35 pm
Regardless of whether Kanye is lame or not; Chief Keef is trash. End of.
September 11th, 2012 at 3:35 pm
Spythe you preaching the truth bro!! I would shake your big toe!
April 5th, 2013 at 6:21 am
Chief keeps it real.. And we all know that…. Why does he gotta pretend? I respect the nigga n de music he makes,cuz I understand where he grew up,and he goTta represent his hOod…. But facing it,alota people still prefer the original “I Don’t Like”…. The remix bores me… Its just so Corny!!!
July 24th, 2013 at 7:35 pm
Don’t know if anyone adressed this yet or not but 300 is a gang reference. Has absolutely nothing to do with being on a music chart.
August 30th, 2013 at 1:14 pm
haha 300 a gang reference D.A. truee
August 30th, 2013 at 1:15 pm
300 is a gang reference. Look at you bein dumb.