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, ...

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 ...

Chief Keef's new album with Mike WiLL Made-It, Dirty Nachos, shows just how far he's grown beyond the Chicago teen who stormed YouTube in 2012. Two new albums from former teen prodigies, the Chicago ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Drill rapper Chief Keef was born Keith Farrelle Cozart in Chicago in August of 1995 to a teenage mother. Estranged from his biological father, Chief Keef spent his formative years living at Parkway ...