Chief Keef is one of the most iconic rappers in Hip Hop history.
At only 15 years old, the south side Chicago rapper took the rap game by storm after being
one of the first people to really put Chicago drill music on the map.
Chief Keef’s demonic style of hip hop was like nothing we’ve ever seen before and
had everyone from the streets all the way to the suburbs anxiously waiting for the next
Chief Keef record to be released.
But it wasn’t just the sound of the music that created all this hype around Chief Keef
and the Chicago drill scene, it was rather the actual lyrics he was saying in his music.
It was all authentic.
Nobody even questioned it for a second.
All it took was 30 seconds of a Chief Keef song and music video to figure out that Sosa
was about that life.
Whether he did the dirt himself or was around people who did, everyone knew that there wasn’t
any lies being told in his music… and Keef and his affiliates have the rap sheet to prove
it.
Here is an exclusive inside look at the Criminal History of Chief Keef.
Chief Keef's first documented run in with the law happened at the age of 15 on January
27, 2011.
Details are scarce on this arrest but from what I can understand from said charges is
that a young Sosa was either caught at the trap house or in the process of selling what
was produced from the trap house.
Whatever it was, Chief Keef was detained in the act and was charged with manufacture and
delivery of heroin near a school, public housing building, or park.
Keef was charged with a Class X felony but keep in mind he was only 15 at the time which
obviously made him a minor.
In Chicago, Juvenile offenders are found to be “delinquent” of the charges rather
than “guilty” of the charges.
Sosa was let out of jail but sentenced to home confinement on the charge.
The second arrest of Chief Keef happened on December 2, 2011, almost a year after his
first arrest.
Sources say that police responded to a call of shots fired in the 6100 block of South
Indiana.
When officers arrived, they spotted Chief Keef walking out the front door of his grandma’s
apartment complex in the 6100 block of South Michigan, holding a coat over his hands that
were in front of his waistband.
Officers tried to stop and question the Chief but instead of cooperating, Sosa dropped the
coat, flashed a blue-steel handgun and sprinted through the vacant lot next door to the apartments.
Several officers immediately gave chase to the fleeing Chief who allegedly would stop
and turn towards the police and point his pistol at the officers.
This caused the officers to pull out their weapons as well and even though Sosa did not
shoot at the officers, the officers shot at him multiple times but missed.
After shots were fired, Chief Keef continued running for his life before other officers
caught him a half a block away in a alley of the 6100 block of South Indiana.
One officer claimed to have suffered multiple bruises in the act of trying to detain the
Chief.
They also alleged that Chief Keef ditched his pistol throughout the chase but it was
soon recovered moments later… completely loaded and ready to go.
Chief Keef was charged with four felonies for this incident which included three counts
of aggravated assault with a firearm on a police officer and aggravated unlawful use
of a weapon.
They also charged the Chief with a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest.
Sosa was held in the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center for a good while until the
judge sentenced the Chief to house arrest at his grandma’s house.
This next incident wasn’t an arrest but rather a pretty well known investigation involving
Chief Keef about the murder of rival rapper Lil JoJo.
For those of you who are unaware, Chief Keef and the rest of GBE were going back and forth
with a rival rapper named Lil JoJo.
Just days before the tragic slaying of Lil JoJo, a video went viral of one of Chief Keef’s
good friends “Lil Reese” threatening to kill Lil JoJo after JoJo drove by their neighborhood
taunting them.
Later that week, JoJo was killed while riding his bike.
Chief Keef took to Twitter the day after the incident tweeting “Its sad cus….
JoJo wanted to be just like us #LMAO”.
Despite the clear taunting online, no charges were filed.
It is possible that no charges were filed due to Chief Keef claiming a hacker tweeted
those tweets but JoJo’s brother begs to differ.
Whatever the case might be, JoJo’s murder is still unsolved to this day.
After a few months of staying out of trouble, Chief Keef was ordered back into court for
a probation violation stemming from a previous gun conviction.
Authorities say that Keef went to a gun range for a music video shoot in New York.
Chief Keef apparently wasn’t allowed to be anywhere near firearms as one of his conditions
of probation so when the Judge found out about this… he wasn’t happy.
The judge sentenced Keef to 60 days in juvenile detention.
At the sentencing Chief Keef said this to the judge, “I am a very good-hearted person,
I am sorry for anything that I have done wrong….
Give me a chance.”
3 months after his last sentencing, Chief Keef was arrested yet again in Atlanta for
disorderly conduct after a security guard at Le Meridien Atlanta Perimeter Hotel called
911 on the Chief after claiming he was “rolling marijuana” in his hotel room.
Chief Keef told TMZ his side of the story which he claimed happened like this:
"So me and my homie Tray Savage was in the hotel room chillin' when some fat ass security
guard started knocking on the door talking about he needed to fix a water leak."
"So his ass walked in and started looking around at us and immediately gave me the racist
look then started talking sh*t to me."
"I told him, 'I thought you wanted to fix a water leak?'
Which he obviously lied 'cause there was no water leaking."
"Then he immediately started talking sh*t to us.
He told me that he was going to call the police on me so I called him a bitch."
"He kept saying how the police about to be on their way to lock me up so I blew smoke
in his face and pulled out 30 racks and said I got the bond money -- there is more where
this come from."
Keef says he felt the security guard was "racist from the moment he walked in the room.”
When TMZ asked if the Chief was smoking weed in the hotel room his response was this:
"As for what I was smoking in the room, everyone needs to listen to my song with Uncle Ro 'All
I Smoke Is Gas.'"
The next day Sosa tweeted this to let his fans know he was free:
“Jus Got Out Of Dekalb County jail In Atlanta, Mad As fk”
There was no update on what happened later into the case but we can probably assume that
the charges were dismissed.
Sosa’s next arrest happened on May 29th, 2013 just days after his arrest in Atlanta.
During the early morning hours, the Chief was caught going 110mph in a 55mph zone while
riding in his BMW X6 on the Edens Expressway in Northfield Chicago.
When the police asked Mr. Keef the simple question of “Did you know your car car was
going 110 mph?”
The Chief gave them the iconic response of “Well it’s a fast car that’s why I bought
it.”
In the end, Chief Keef was taken away in cuffs and was cited with going twice over the posted
speed limit and for violating stipulations on his driver’s permit.
Less than a month later, Chief Keef was ordered back into court for his speeding incident
on the 29th.
At sentencing, The 17 year old rap legend pled guilty to doing 110 mph in a 55 mph zone
and was giving 18 months of probation, 60 hours of community service, random drug tests,
eight hours of traffic school, and a $531 fine.
The Chief was now free to leave but as he left the Skokie courthouse, police arrested
him once again on a misdemeanor trespassing charge.
The Chief was then re-booked and released moments later.
Now after spending the summer as a law abiding citizen, Chief Keef turned himself in on October
15, 2013 to the Cook County authorities after testing positive for marijuana.
The judge sentenced the Chief to 20 days in county jail and was released on November 8,
2013.
On his way out of jail, Chief Keef was notified that one of his conditions to get out required
going to rehab for his weed problems..
So the Chief did just that and immediately flew to beautiful Los Angeles, California
and checked himself into rehab.
After spending a couple months in rehab, Chief Keef was free to return home to his mansion
in Chicago.
Almost immediately after returning home, the Chief went back to his old ways and began
chiefin on that good south side Chicago kush like nothing ever happened.
But that didn’t last for too long because on March 5th, 2014, less than two weeks after
checking out of rehab, Chief Keef was pulled over in Highland Park, Illinois, early in
the morning for having expired tags on his 2010 Jeep Cherokee.
When officers approached the vehicle, they claimed it “reeked of pot” and the Chief
allegedly “admitted to smoking pot before driving.”
The police then made the Chief do a “field sobriety test” and lets just say….
The Chief failed.
Chief Keef was eventually charged with DUI, driving on a suspended license, and cited
for having no proof of insurance.
Mr. Keef was quickly released after posting a $300 bail.
Now you are probably assuming that his next encounter with the law will have something
to do with the Chief going to court for his DUI and getting sentenced but no… that is
not the case.
Chief Keef apparently had enough of Chicago and decided to skip court and move to Los
Angeles… for good….
Like literally… for good.
The moment Chief Keef steps back into Chicago he will be arrested immediately due to his
warrants and due to the Mayor of Chicago's ban of Keith Cozart aka Chief Keef.
This sounds bad but it was honestly one of the best decisions Chief Keef has ever made.
Since his move to Los Angeles, Chief Keef stayed out of trouble for almost 3 years,
with zero run ins with the law.
But his hot streak came to a tragic end after he was arrested on January 26, 2017 after
the Los Angeles police raided his Tarzana mansion due to his alleged connection in the
violent armed home invasion of his former music producer.
Sources say that producer Ramsay Tha Great was robbed at gunpoint in his Devonshire home
and accused Chief Keef and friends of breaking into his home and holding them hostage with
an AK-47 on January 19th 2017.
Ramsay also stated that he was robbed of cash, a rolex, and other valuables during the incident.
Chief Keef and friends later bailed themselves out and the case was ultimately thrown out
on April 2018 due to Ramsay Tha Great getting sentenced to 10 years in prison for charges
of human traficing, pimpin, and weapons possession.
It was also noted that an alleged witness for the prosecution that agreed to testify
against Chief Keef mysteriously went missing before the upcoming trial…
Um Mr. Chief...do you have anything to do with that?
The Chief’s next arrest happened on April 8th, 2017 in Miami Beach, Florida.
Police claim that while Chief Keef was driving in a green lamborghini, his passenger got
out in the middle of traffic and started talking to the car behind theirs.
Cops saw the commotion and thought they saw an “exchange” being made between the two
suspects.
This led to the police pulling over Chief Keef and ultimately discovering marijuana
in one of the vehicles.
Keef was charged with a DUI and was booked into jail moments later.
During his sentencing, the cops revealed that they found 8 different drugs in the Chief’s
system at the time of his arrest, all which included Morphine, Codeine, Promethazine,
THC, Hydrocodone, Norcodeine, Dihydrocodeine, Hydromorphone.
Sosa eventually avoid jail in a guilty plea but was sentenced to six months probation
and 50 hours of community service.
The final charge was reckless driving.
And last but not least, we have the Chief’s final arrest in South Dakota.
In June of 2017, Chief Keef was arrested after airport security found marijuana edibles and
blunts in his bag.
During his hearing the following Friday, Chief Keef pled “No Contest” to possession of
a controlled substance, a class 5 felony that is punishable with up to five years in prison.
He later was released on bond but was required to come back to South Dakota for his trial.
His trial was almost two years later on April 26, 2019 and the outcome was all in his favor.
The judge gave the Chief a suspended imposition of a sentence which means no conviction will
be entered as long as he meets the conditions set by a judge.
Apparently a defendant can only receive a suspended imposition of sentence once in their
lifetime in the state of South Dakota.
When it was all said and done, Chief Keef was ordered to pay a $500 fine, $104 in court
costs, and $99 in testing fees.
All the other charges were dropped.
If your wondering what the Chief is up to nowadays, well it looks like he just sits
around in his mansion all day, making music, smoking weed, and playing video games.
Once in awhile he will travel to do some shows but other than that, he seems to live a pretty
chill life and is staying out of trouble.
His last arrest was in June of 2017 so almost 2 years without an arrest is pretty good!
Let's hope he can keep it up.
Well there you have it… all of Chief Keef’s criminal history jammed into one video.
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I’m out!