In 2012, a 16-year-old Chief Keef was on house arrest at his grandmother’s home in Chicago after gun charges, stuck inside while his buzz was starting to build. That’s where footage surfaced of him recording and performing “I Don’t Like,” the song that would change everything for him and for drill music as a whole.
What makes the video so crazy is how normal it looks. No studio, no budget, just Keef sitting there, rapping with his friends around him. That raw, DIY energy became the blueprint. Around that same time, “I Don’t Like” started blowing up locally, then online, and eventually nationwide, even leading to a remix with Kanye West that pushed him into the mainstream.
Looking back, that moment represents a shift in how rap was made and discovered. A teenager on house arrest, recording in his grandma’s house, ended up creating one of the most influential songs of the 2010s and helping launch Chicago drill into a global movement.
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