

It’s full of guttural, instinctive slow-churn stompers - strange new mutations of the kind of drill music that Chief Keef made famous in the first place. Instead, that title is based on a punchline: “Got a chopstick same size as Kevin Hart, but I ain’t picking Big Sean up.”) On first listen, though, 4NEM sounds great. (There’s a song called “Picking Big Sean Up,” but Big Sean isn’t on it. It’s hard.ĤNEM is not a marquee release, and its only guest-rappers are frequent collaborators Tadoe and Ballout. Chief Keef, born Keith Cozart, was only 17 when he released his 2012 debut album, Finally Rich, a record with two of Chicago drill musics most iconic songs. Today, though, Keef has released the new full-length 4NEM, his first official album since 2017’s Dedication. (Keef did perform at two Rolling Loud festivals this year, but he was also booked for the $UICIDEBOY$’ Grey Day tour, and he didn’t show up for a single one of those dates.) Keef has been making a collaborative album with Mike Will Made-It, but we have no idea when or even if that’s coming out.

Up until now, Chief Keef has been spending 2021 releasing one-off YouTube tracks and no-showing the concerts he’d been booked to play. Everyone else is out here fucking up, but Sosa just made a new album of bangers. Miraculously enough, the only Chicago rap star who’d in the news today for non-problematic reasons is Chief Keef, the onetime enfant terrible who spread drill music to the rest of the world and who can no longer go back to Chicago. Meanwhile, Lil Durk just came out with a new Morgan Wallen collaboration. According to a new report, Kanye West’s whole trainwreck of a presidential campaign was secretly run by Republican operatives.
