New Chief Keef song 2014-09-18 by oltnabrick oltnabrick oltnabrick oltnabrick oltnabrick oltnabrick oltnabrick oltnabrick oltnabrick | 43 Comments |
Two years after blasting his way into the pop zeitgeist via Kanye’s remix of “I Don’t Like,” Chief Keef remains the poster boy for Chicago’s drill scene, despite the fact that he’s been moving away from that style’s blueprint for nearly as long. Earlier this year, he released the single “All I Care About” from his Bang 3 mixtape that split the difference between drill and the blues, mixing a twitchy beat made out of drill’s signature chattering hi-hats and funereal tolling bells with a yowling Auto-Tuned vocal part and a hypnotically circular melody, resulting in six minutes of heavy strangeness that doesn’t fit comfortably in any one established genre. (“Computerized gangster soul” might work.)
Last night he proved that his weird streak’s not only continuing, but intensifying when he posted a new single on YouTube. “Wait,” which Keef produced himself, is a strange mishmash of odd noises that shares some rhythmic qualities with rap but overall is more sonically similar to the experimental electronic music that back in the ’90s was called IDM, or “intelligent
dance music”—in particular in its glitchy hi-hats and the unexpectedly gentle synth lead that
sounds like something Aphex Twin might have made back in the Richard D. James Album era.
On its YouTube page the track is described as “speeded,” which seems to be the opposite of the “chopped and screwed” aesthetic that, 20 years after its invention by Houston’s DJ Screw, has embedded itself into the Top 40 thanks in large part to Beyoncé and Drake. Instead of slowing it to a cough-syrupy tempo, Keef’s gone the other way and sped everything up until his voice takes on a chipmunky pitch and the hi-hats blur into bursts of digital noise, sort of like the drill equivalent of happy hardcore techno.
It’s the most undeniably weird thing he’s ever done, and one of the weirdest things to pop up in the increasingly experimental rap scene in recent memory. But as strange as it is, it’s just as strangely addictive. (Raymer, 2014.)
"Wait":
Works Cited: Raymer, Miles. "Chief Keef's 'Wait': Weirdest Rap Song of the Week (or Maybe the Year)." Http://music-mix.ew.com/. N.p., 17 Sept. 2014. Web. 18 Sept. 2014.
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bang 3 is gonna be so raw tbh
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"sounds like something Aphex Twin might have made back during his Richard D. James Album era."
was skeptical but damn it kinda does
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waiting for the Chief to drop the drill shit and realize his full electronic potential; DJ Keef, it is time
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rt if u fuck with sosa's new joint and smoke bomb
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Why would anyone listen to this trash
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"Why would anyone listen to this trash"
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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'cause I can't wait,
for a bitch that's trying to play me,
like I'm GTA three...or fiiiiiiiive!
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lol
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god damn i fuck with this so hard
cant 'wait' for bang 3 fr
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Keef is inventing time signatures we're all too basic to understand. They'll study this in music theory classes 20 years from now.
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this is fuckin amazing any1 who says otherwise is a tru clown
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"I can't wait
for a bitch whos tryna play me
like gta 3 or 5"
omg
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its gta 3, 4 or 5
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wow. this is something else. How about that cover art, though?
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This might be the worst thing I've ever heard.
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Also the synopsis above is straight plagiarized from an Entertainment Weekly article. What the hell?
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It's actually cool, I write for them.
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Or you're a jackass. One of those.
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Both tbh
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lol no you don't write for them
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I'm confused. Aren't we suppose to write original articles on here or at least give credit to the source you're using? Kinda makes this site feel like a joke.
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Double boob post
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don't be confused cuz you're correct. but this place devolved into a self-parodying self-parody or something fucked in the core.
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"This site is a joke"
"Double boob post"
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upping the comment count as usual
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That's what happens when you post tbh
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habitually saying tbh as usual
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iconically
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delusional
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lol iamlegion likes avenged sevenfold
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i like avenged sevenfold, you gonna make fun of me too?
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hey hey hey hey hey hey break it up break it up
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Best rapper ever
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IAMLEGION
September 18th 2014
15 Comments
"Kinda makes this site feel like a joke."
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this is terrible but I can't tell if it's so terrible it's good or not
it's actually kind of genius of you think about it
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sosa please drop bang 3 i know u tellin niggas to wait but i been waitin the longest
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Correction - I like OLD Avenged Sevenfold.
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BETRAY - I can see why you'd point out me calling the site joke as stupid since it looks like I just found Sputnik but I've been visiting this site for years. Just thought I'd finally create a profile.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wjz4F6hyMY
new song and its basically even better than this.
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glo gang nigga we the fuckin shit
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Chief i used to fw u till u started droppin garbage im not a fan no more yo. I fucks wit herbo now
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Lmao you say his beats wack but you try making a beat.... SHIT IS HARD
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Maaan this shit rockin idk what y'all on. Play this in yo whip. Gotta have a system tho. You gon be boppin yo head like crazy hahahaha shit go tho.
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