• Chief Keef may be Moving to Los Angeles, what happens to Chicago 'drill' rap scene?

    Chicago has got a boatload of rappers representing it. Huge names such as Kanye West, influential emcees like Lupe Fiasco, and acclaimed up-and-comers like Chance The Rapper. We admit that one name goes hand-in-hand with the Windy City like none other, and for all the wrong reasons: Chief Keef. That rapper may soon be heading west from his hometown however.

  • Chief Keef and Kanye West photographed together, possibly collaborating on 'Bang 3'

    Somehow Chicago has become one of the hottest locales in hip-hop at the moment. The curiosity is that the rappers popularizing the city's hip-hop scene are all coming from radically different directions...for example: Kanye West, Chance The Rapper and Chief Keef. A photo posted on Instagram Monday morning indicates that West and Keef may be collaborating however.

  • Chief Keef guarantees 'Bang 3' mixtape will raise Chicago murder rate

    Chief Keef clearly wasn't satisfied when the FBI declared during September that his hometown, Chicago, had taken the crown for the city with the most murders in the United States (during 2012). Keef-being a stats wonk no doubt-realized that the high total meant nothing in relation to Chicago's overall population, the third highest in the nation. No, what he really wanted was the highest murder rate per capita, meaning the most murders-per-person in the population. And hence he began work on his mixtape Bang 3.
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