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CHIEF KEEF

Bio

Keith Cozart was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in the Englewood neighborhood on the city's South Side. He attended Dulles Elementary School and the Banner School, a therapeutic day school. Cozart dropped out of high school at age 15. He began rapping at a very young age, regularly listed as 5, using his mother's karaoke machine and blank tapes to record his music. While under house arrest for a previous weapons charge, Cozart posted several videos to his YouTube account. The attention he received increased during the short time between the release of several mixtapes and music videos, including "Bang", "3Hunna" and "I Don't Like". After two locally successful mixtapes, "I Don't Like" became a local hit in Chicago.

In the summer of 2012, Keef was in the middle of a bidding war with many labels to sign him including Young Jeezy's CTE World. He would end up signing with Interscope Records due to them giving him his own label to run in Glory Boyz Entertainment. The deal is worth six million dollars over a three album deal. Chief Keef's debut studio album Finally Rich, was released on December 18, 2012.

Following his signing to Interscope Records they rewarded Keef with his own record label which he named Glory Boyz Entertainment, which would be a subsidiary under Interscope. He signed his various friends to the record label such as Lil Reese, Fredo Santana and Young Chop. The label had already been active since 2011, however only released mixtapes and was not a full on record company.

However, on January 3, 2014, Chief Keef said that Glory Boyz Entertainment was "no more," and was starting a new record label named Glo Gang.

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