In May 2013 he signed with 1017 Brick Squad Records. Featured guests on the album include rappers: 50 Cent, Wiz Khalifa, Young Jeezy, Rick Ross and his fellow Glory Boyz member Lil Reese. The deal gave Interscope the right to pull out of the contract if Chief Keef's debut album Finally Rich, released on December 18, 2012, had failed to sell 250,000 copies by December 2013. The deal was worth $6,000,000 over a three album layout, with an additional $440,000 advance to establish GBE. In a separate deal he was promised his own label imprint, Glory Boyz Entertainment (GBE). While 2012 proved to be a relatively quiet year in terms of his musical output, Chief Keef began the year by signing with Interscope Records. In the summer of 2012, Chief Keef was the subject of a bidding war among record labels wishing to sign him, including Young Jeezy's CTE World. As a result, Keef "suddenly shot up out of obscurity". It caught Kanye West's attention, and he remixed the song with rappers Pusha T, Jadakiss and Big Sean. A local party promoter called it "the perfect Chicago song because 'niggas just hate everything out here'". Keef's song "I Don't Like" became a hit in Chicago. While under house arrest, he posted several videos to his YouTube account, forerunners to Chicago's hip hop subgenre, drill. In December, he was arrested for firing a gun from his car in Chicago's Washington Park neighborhood he was placed under house arrest at his grandmother's residence for 30 days, followed by another 30 days of home confinement. In 2011, Chief Keef first attracted local attention from Chicago's South Side community with his mixtapes, The Glory Road and Bang. Kanye West (pictured), a fellow Chicagoan, remixed Keef's single " I Don't Like", raising his profile. Early years, Finally Rich, and subsequent mixtapes (2011–2013)
He dropped out of Dyett High School at age 15. During his childhood, Chief Keef attended Dulles Elementary School and the Banner School, a therapeutic day school. He began rapping as a five-year-old using his mother's karaoke machine and tapes to record his music. His legal guardian was his grandmother with whom he lived in Chicago. Ĭhief Keef has been estranged from his biological father, Alfonso Cozart, since he was a minor. He lived at the Parkway Garden Homes located in the Washington Park neighborhood on the city's South Side, a stronghold for the Black Disciples street gang of which Chief Keef is a member. He is named after his deceased uncle, Keith Carter, who was known as "Big Keef".
His music first became popular during his teen years in the early 2010s among high school students from Chicago's South Side.
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