Some good quotes here….Best Of Both Offices spoke with Rovan “Dro” Manuel — Chief Keef’s manager — on his recent situation, and he has a lot to positive to speak on concerning the young Chicago emcee:
A PLUS: What is the biggest misconception people have about Chief Keef?
DRO: That he’s a bad person, I guess, in the eyes of the Chicago [Police Department]. He’s not the first to put reality-based lyrics [in his music], as far as like talking about what’s going on in the inner-city for real. I think that it’s kinda messed up that they wanna blame him for all the murders, all the crime and all this other stuff that’s going on in Chicago. Keef is a minor. You can look back 18 years in the same neighborhoods where he was growing up and see that they were doing the same damn thing, know what I mean?He’s got a lot of stuff he needs to learn. It’s not like he came from a neighborhood where it’s 90-percent Jewish and schools are teaching him this-and-that. He didn’t come from that.
When I think of Chicago Hip-Hop, I think Common, Kanye and Lupe and on a street level, Bump J. To me, it seems like they were trying to hide those problems from us.
Yeah. You tell me one person on the West Side of Chicago in the hood that’s riding around on a skateboard. That’s not happening. No disrespect to Lupe, but you know, let’s keep it real and that’s what Keef’s all about, keeping it real. That’s not what the streets are like in Chicago.So what exactly happened on the day Chief Keef was scheduled to fly to Las Vegas to shoot the “Hate Being Sober” video?
Aww man. I don’t know exactly what happened with that. The label hooked it up and they set it up with Keef and they didn’t set it up with Keef’s team. So, when it came time to fly out, he missed the first flight. Then he missed the second one. And then it was just like, you know, “Well we gonna come do it at another date, if that’s fine with you.” [Laughs.] It was nothing other than that, you know, all the rumors…Do you think Pitchfork is the reason Keef is locked up right now?
Pitchfork and whoever set that interview up, not saying any names, but yeah. I think so.I don’t know what they had when they booked that or whatever, but I’m pretty sure they did. You can’t cry over spilled milk, you gotta roll with the punches.
I got a message from him that he’s had a wake-up call. This is a wake-up call for him. It wasn’t even his fault that it happened, but it happened.
