Chief Keef

@Record Producer, Timeline and Personal Life

Chief Keef (Keith Kozart) is an American rapper, record producer and a mixtape artist

Aug 15, 1995

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: August 15, 1995
  • Nationality: American
  • Famous: Record Producer, Musicians, Composers, Singers, Rappers
  • City/State: Illinois
  • Known as: AlmightySo
  • Birth Place: Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Height: 183cm

Chief Keef born at

Chicago, Illinois, USA

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Birth Place

Keef became father of a child at the age of 16 with his then girlfriend with whom he had already parted ways. Later, he became a father of two more children and the claims kept coming his way where many women claimed him to be the father of their son. Keef never responded to the legal documents and this caused him more troubles.

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Personal Life

Keef is always ready for his family and has introduced three of his cousins through his record label Glory Boyz Entertainment. However, the criminal history of his family became the cause of the death of his cousin, Mario Hess, which left Keef in shock.

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Keef is currently residing in Los Angeles and says that the best part about the city is the silence, different from the chaos that New York City is.

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Personal Life

Chief Keef was born Keith Kozart in Chicago on 15th August 1995 in a financially unstable family. His mother conceived him when she was 16 and the information regarding his father is still not known. His grandmother became his legal guardian and named him after his deceased uncle. Keef spent early days of his childhood in a black neighborhood in city’s South side.

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Childhood & Early Life

He has said that rap music has had a great influence on him all his life and he started rapping at a tender age of 5, and by the time he was in the school, he already had a very decent fan base consisting of high school kids from his area. To create music and mixtapes, he used his mother’s Karaoke machine and blank tapes which he borrowed from his friends and neighbors.

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Childhood & Early Life

Keef was known to be a very smart kid and consistently scored good marks. He attended Dulles Elementary school when he started out and went on to attend a therapeutic day school and Dyett High school. Eventually, he got bored of the school and dropped out at the age of 15 to pursue a full time career in rapping and music.

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Childhood & Early Life

Keef brought his mixtapes out in the open in 2011 and got the immediate attention of the local kids and his schoolmates. However, during the same time, he got house arrested due to the accusations of possessing illegal firearms but he kept posting several videos to his YouTube account. He was already a minor celebrity among the locales, so his videos gained immense popularity.

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Career

When his house arrest finally came to an end after 2 months, WorldStarHipHop released a video on their YouTube channel which showed a little boy laughing hysterically on Keef’s release. It was a proof of his increasing popularity and the fact that he was getting famous among the professional circuits as well. Keef’s single ‘I don’t Like’ became immensely popular among the night club circuits of Chicago and that was when he got the attention of Kanye West and his career officially kickstarted.

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Kanye West was so much in love with ‘I don’t Like’ that he decided to create his own remix version of it with some famed rappers such as Big Sean and Pusha T. During the summer of 2012, Keef became a hot commodity among the record labels.

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Young Jeezy tried signing him under his label CTE World, but Keef insisted on waiting. As far as music was concerned, the test of 2012 was quite normal.

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Keef released his debut studio album ‘Finally Rich’ in December 2012 and featured songs in collaboration with successful names such as Rick Ross, Wiz Khalifa and 50 Cent. In January 2013, Keef finally signed with Interscope Records which included a three album contract along with the development of Keef’s own dream record label Glory Boyz Entertainment. In mid 2013, Gucci Mane made the announcement that Keef was going to be a part of 1017 Brick Squad Records.

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Keef was arrested many times during his teenage life. In 2011, he was arrested for possession of heroin and was put on house arrest. Later, he was arrested for shooting one of his fellow rappers. Apart from that, there are several of parole violation, drug abuse, marijuana consumption among other things. He is famously known as the perfect specimen of ‘Gangsta rap’.

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Controversies