Billboard recently caught up with Keef in southern California for an interesting new interview, which impacted today. In the interview, Keef talks about his upcoming LP, his use of promethazine, how it affected his music and what it’s like to be in rehab in thailand. Peep an excerpt below:
“It’s like being locked up,” Chief Keef, 18, tells Billboard, in his first interview since he entered rehab. “And when I’m locked up, I don’t want anybody to come see me. I won’t let my family come here. I haven’t seen my 2-year-old daughter.”
Billboard also spoke with Interscope A&R Larry Jackson, who talked about Keef’s Finally Rich LP and the label fully supporting his new album. Read another excerpt below.
“He sold 300,000 with no promotion,” Jackson says, citing the label’s worldwide sales figures for “Finally Rich.” “People can say it was a stupid deal, but the project is in the black. Our marketing spend on it was literally crumbs.’ Jackson points to the video for “Love Sosa,” which has more than 36 million views on YouTube. “We spent $1,500 on that. I know videos that they’ve blown $500,000 on that don’t have that many views.”
Read the full article, by Sowmya Krishnamurthy, here.