These two videos were an introduction to the fandom behind Chief Keef. He was nothing more than a local sensation, unknown to just about anyone that didn’t attend a Chicago high school. He was stuck in his grandmother’s Southside Chicago apartment on house arrest for gun charges. At the time, Chief Keef was 16 years old, with a bubbling street single. “Chief Keef is outta prison!” he squeals. This clip featured a younger boy, profanely delirious like he’d just won the lottery. “Shut the fuck up!” Months before, another inescapable Keef-related video had been uploaded to WorldStarHipHop. “Fuckers in school always telling me, always in the barbershop, ‘Chief Keef ain’t ’bout this, Chief Keef ain’t ’bout that,’” he screamed. “You gon’ have fun with it.” That much is certain.In the summer of 2012, as Chief Keef’s momentum was picking up steam, a Chicago teenager tearfully and angrily addressed the critiques of his favorite rapper in a viral video filmed from the passenger seat of a parked car. “If you had a bad day at work and you put my music on in your car, you gon’ dance and you gon’ shake your head to it,” Dex said. It’s what got him through the hard times of his own life. Clearly a fan of collaboration - he was particularly psyched about what he has on the way with fellow Chicago native Lil Bibby - Dex has positioned himself as a master motivator, ever eager to share his spark. “I got motherfucking batteries inside me.” And he just wants to share that energy with everyone. “I’m like the Energizer guy,” Dex explained.
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“He’s one of the most positive guys I know,” Yachty said. Reached through Twitter, Yachty called Dex “one creative jitterbug.” Dex’s ability to make “10 songs a day,” according to Yachty, puts the pair on a similar wavelength as recording partners - their joint songs “We Next” and “4 Real” make them seem like two kids in a bouncy castle, thanks to Yachty’s knack for childlike melodies and Dex’s boundless enthusiasm. Now, Dex is one of 2016’s most exciting emerging rappers, alongside fellow devotees of dyed hair, Lil Uzi Vert and Lil Yachty.
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On “Hoes Mad,” he unrelentingly repeats the song’s title 26 times before beginning the first verse. On “Kanye,” he anchors every bar with the name of his hometown star. On Dex’s more unique stuff, he often latches onto a simple idea and runs with it. One of the Twinz, Sauce Walka, has criticized artists including Drake for sauce theft, but after Dex initiated a humble, mutually appreciative conversation, Walka returned the honor and appeared on the “Drip From My Walk” remix. To generate that kind of impact, he has been known to borrow familiar flows, like the seven-syllable bounce on “Drip From My Walk” that was pioneered by Houston’s Sauce Twinz. I got something to live for.” His mother’s name, Diane, is tattooed across his neck his left cheek bears the breast cancer awareness movement’s signature pink ribbon.ĭex specializes in the kind of rap that makes it hard to sit still: his songs bristle the back of your neck and shoot down your spine. “I lost my mom last year to breast cancer, and it really just pushed me ‘cause I got a daughter. “When you lose somebody close to you, real close, you either gon’ fuck up or show up,” he started, hesitating for a moment. Not long before that, he was coping with far worse. “Last year, 2015, I was selling drugs, on my momma,” he told me later.
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As Dex stood in one of New York’s most expensive neighborhoods, he took a moment to live-stream a video for his fans, reminding them, and himself, just how far he had come.