![]() And while Keef, born Keith Cozart, did not invent drill (that credit goes to the late Pac Man) no one - beyond Kanye West, at the time - rocked the world the way he did that year when he double-fisted pop culture with his mixtape Back from the Dead and, later that year, his debut album, Finally Rich.įeared and despised by the City of Chicago and rap purists alike, Keef blew up in a Chicagoland that, as it witnessed those landmark moments, suffered a heartbreaking year of gun violence, tallying over 500 homicides, while still reeling from the police shooting of Rekia Boyd - all under the notorious former Chicago mayor and vocal Chief Keef opp, Rahm Emanuel. It was a monumental year where we witnessed the rise of former Chicago Bull and then-reigning MVP Derrick Rose, former president Barack Obama winning re-election as the U.S.’s first Black president, and the hostile takeover of the infamous hip-hop subgenre drill by the 16-year-old enigma Chief Keef. Black Chicago culture practically smacked the country on its ass in an unprecedented victory lap in 2012.
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