Keef’s concert was planned to raise funds for the family of Dylan Harris – a 13-month-old who was tragically killed by a vehicle involved in a deadly shooting.
Advertisement
But the status of Saturday’s concert is up in the air after an earlier benefit planned for Chicago’s Redmoon Theater was scuttled under pressure from neighborhood groups and local officials, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. An Emanuel spokeswoman told The Chicago Tribune, “The mayor’s administration called Redmoon and informed them that the show by Mr. Cozart, whose music promotes violence, posed a significant public safety risk”.
A Redmoon representative said the theater would not hold the concert because it “did not understand the full nature of the event”. According to the mayor’s office, Keef is an unacceptable role model. “And there’s gonna be several of them”.
“The hologram show… if it doesn’t happen at one point it’s gonna happen [eventually]”, Dykes told Billboard. But apparently it’s not just Keef that’s banned from Chicago. “So if it can’t happen right now and the city is that adamant about shutting it down, all I’m gonna say is at some point one day it will happen”.
Chief Keef, whose real name is Keith Cozart, tried to stage his concert last week only to have the show abruptly cancelled after City Hall stepped in and warned the concert venue about the potential for violence.
Chief Keef will only be appearing as a hologram because has outstanding warrants in Chicago for unpaid child support and skipping a pretrial hearing, where he was charged with driving while high.
In a video posted on the 19-year-old rapper’s Instagram, a deep voice says: “Banned by the Mayor of Chicago”.
Chief Keef claimed he will be beamed to audiences at a secret “Stop the Violence” gig.
Keef will perform via hologram from California because there are warrants for him in Chicago.
Advertisement
Chief Keef is fighting fire with fire.
