Chief Keef Under Backlash of Scorn for Mocking Rival’s Death
By Lora Neng
WWW.STREETGANGS.COM STAFF WRITER
September 7, 2012
Sometimes even if the run-of-the-mill verbal sparring in Hip-Hop doesn’t escalate to physical outbreak, a diss can go too far. Following his scornful mockery of rap rival Lil JoJo’s death, Chief Keef came under a blitzkrieg of shaming criticism.
Joseph “Lil JoJo” Coleman died of a gunshot on Wednesday after disclosing his location on Twitter, the news of which prompted Chief Keef to tweet, “HahahahahhahahahahahahahaahhAAHAHAHAHA #RichNiggaShit.” He further derided, “Its Sad Cuz Dat Nigga Jojo Wanted To Be Jus Like Us #LMAO.” The Hip-Hop feud between the two Chicagoans is well-known, but fellow Chi-Town rapper Lupe Fiasco couldn’t help calling out the poor judgment of Keef’s reaction.
“Chief Keef scares me. Not him specifically, but just the culture that he represents,” stated Lupe, thinking of his family in Chicago. “When you drive through Chicago…The hoodlums, the gangsters, and the ones you see killing each other. And the murder rate in Chicago is skyrocketing and you see who’s doing it and perpetrating it, they all look like Chief Keef.”
City residents expressed their fatigue over suffering Chicago’s endemic crime and have called on Interscope to drop Keef from their label, while Pitchfork publicly spoke out against trivializing gun violence. Investigations into Keef’s gang ties have yet to reveal any connections to Lil JoJo’s murder.
Tags: Chicago shooting, Chief Keef, controversy, Lil JoJo, lupe fiasco
Posted by Lora
on Sep 7 2012. Filed under Entertainment.
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This is sad truly, but people from Chicago know this is more than just a rap beef. Chicago has a black gang culture that started nearly half a century ago. I stay on the South Side of Chicago in the Woodlawn Area which is just east of the Englewood Area. The two gangs represented by these clicks are the Black Disciples and the Gangster Disciples, and they have been going at it in Englewood for decades. The whole 3Hunna references the Black Disciples Gang which Cheef Keef is a member of, and sadly, Little JoJo made a song call 3Hunnak where he and his entourage (assumingly members of the Gangster Disciples) where shouting out BDK which means Black Disciple Killer. Now I’m not one who will profess to know exactly what happen, I’m just suggesting that this is slightly bigger than just a sensationalize rap beef that the media i…s portraying it as. The gang war has been on, and neither of these characters started this mess that they are currently in. And I’m not by any means excusing the Carnage because it is senseless at the end of the day. I just think that this is more a reflection of the unfortunate gang culture plaguing Chicago that has this city steeped so far in blood that some Sociologist have suggested the city is dying. I understand Lupe and Rhyme Fest, because the youth are slightly different due to the incarceration of the gang chiefs. And while Chitown has always gang banged, rap artist like Common (who used to be a Vice Lord), Psycho Drama (Vice Lord Affiliated), and Crucial Conflict (Vice Lords), Twister, Children of the Ghetto, all either current of former gang affiliated people never disrespected other gangs on wax. They knew not to play around with Chicago’s treacherous gang culture. But the youth, without the guidance and enforced accountability of gang chiefs, are more careless in the promotion of the existing violence. I hope that we as Chicagoans can help lessen the carnage for the sake of our youth.