The fallout over Chief Keef's canceled benefit concert in Chicago last weekend peaked today when the young rapper called out the city's mayor Rahm Emanuel with some choice words. "I was really shocked," Keef told Billboard about the concert being unceremoniously canceled by city officials. The hologram performance was planned as a benefit for two victims of Chicago's gun violence earlier this month. When Chicago officials banned the concert the hologram performance was instead moved over to Indiana's Craze Fest. Shortly after Keef's hologram performance began, the feed was cut, and the mayor of Hammond, where Craze Fest takes place, took all the credit.
“I don’t even know Chief Keef,” Mayor Thomas McDermott told Billboard. “But in my opinion, he glamorizes gang-lifestyle, anti-cop, anti-women, pro drug-use. This was a public venue and surrounded by a residential neighborhood. We don’t want to invite the possibility of some of the gangs that are terrorizing Chicago right now to come to Northwest Indiana.”
Speaking about the lead-up to the performance and its eventual cancelation, Keef said, "[City officials] just be hating. They don’t want to see a young black man be successful and try to do something good. It’s crazy."
As for Keef's message to Rahm Emmanuel? "If you ask me, man," he said, "f**k the mayor with a sandpaper dick! Say it like that."
