![]() ![]() ![]() Keef and David, who paid for both victims’ funerals, planned to donate all proceeds from the show to the victims’ families. TV, after Interscope Records dropped the rapper in October 2014 - attempted to stage a benefit concert in Chicago for the families of both Capo and 13-month-old Dillan Harris, who was killed by an automobile as Capo’s alleged shooters fled police. To that end, Keef and his team - which now includes Greek billionaire heir Alki David, who recently signed Keef to a two-album deal with his company, FilmOn. He has been a vocal advocate for the “Stop the Violence” campaign in his native city, and his new single “Ain’t Missing You” preaches a message of anti-violence. Recently, however, Keef (real name: Keith Cozart) has changed his tune. The Promise & Perseverance of Detroit Rap's Rising Stars Both his cousin, Big Glo, and, on July 11, 22-year-old Marvin Carr, an associate of the rapper’s better-known as Capo, were victims of gun violence in the Chicago streets.Ĭhief Keef Announces Concert to Memorialize Toddler Killed After Capo Shooting in Chicago ![]() His songs regularly glorify guns and murder (“Pistol to his throat/ Blow this motherfucker, he gone choke,” he raps on “Faneto”), and he knows what he raps: Keef has a long criminal record that includes drug and felony gun charges, along with parole violations. The gang-affiliated rapper from the rough Englewood neighborhood - a hard-edged figurehead of the drill music scene who skyrocketed to fame in 2012 on the back of his viral hit “I Don’t Like,” later remixed by Kanye West - has released just one album, and yet he has become a magnet for outrage over the city’s well-publicized epidemic of violence. The concert had become the flashpoint of an ongoing outsized battle between 19-year-old Keef and officials in his hometown of Chicago. ![]()
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