![]() Online, it was suggested he suffered from a learning disability, and message board rumors proliferated that he was autistic, as an explanation for his awkward on-camera behavior. In the years since, interviewers invariably describe Keef as petulant, incoherent, difficult, or drugged-out. When we left, I asked my brother, who’d tagged along to take photographs, what he thought of the rapper who was - though we didn’t know it - on his way to becoming Chicago’s biggest star since Kanye West. I don’t sit down and ‘think,’ I write about what’s going on right now, what we just did, what just happened. They-” he gestured at a fanbase, somewhere outside his grandmother’s apartment, “-don’t want to see me do that. “See, motherfuckers think I can’t do metaphors. He wore flannel pajama bottoms, a black t-shirt, and rosary beads, and we sat in the sunlight of his grandmother’s Chicago living room next to a portrait of Barack Obama while I asked him questions about his music. I first met Chief Keef one unseasonably warm day in late January roughly six years ago, while he was on house arrest. ![]()
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