Before he was arrested in December 2011, Chief Keef was a 16-year-old budding rap star. He'd released a song, "Bang," which had more than 400,000 views on YouTube, along with a mixtape that he'd ...

Since he was released from Interscope Records, Chief Keef has decided to take his career into his own hands. Yesterday (Nov. 9), Sosa took to his YouTube page and uploaded three mixtapes and an EP, ...

"Keef has done more to publicize the fact that Chicago has a crime problem than the crime problem has publicized Keef," says hip-hop journalist David Drake. Credit: Aundre Larrow Back in April ...

Two years and change after 2012's Chicago street-rap boom, it's hard to think of a more dramatic fall from almost-mainstream grace than that of Chief Keef. Now 19, he remains the poster-boy for drill ...

Now some seven years later, 50 Cent has dropped the version that only him and Wiz ended up shooting, sans Chief Keef, on his official YouTube page. The duo smoke and drive dune buggies somewhere out ...

Five years ago, Chief Keef was hip-hop’s next big thing. Rising out of Chicago’s rough Englewood neighborhood with a hit single at the age of 16, the rapper, born Keith Farrelle Shantique Cozart, ...

When DJ outfit Groupie Love, aka rapper Vic Mensa and producer Smoko Ono, played Emporium in Wicker Park late Monday night I managed to catch a little bit of their set. I didn’t stick around long ...

The anticipation surrounding Chief Keef’s return to the Chicago area is at a fever pitch. Locals and industry insiders are already using phrases like “historic” and “iconic” to describe the rapper’s ...

Update: a must-read from Miles Raymer: "This isn't rap beef. This is gang beef in a rap setting." As the new year broke, Keith Cozart was a 16-year-old from the South Side with a 31-year-old mother, a ...