Who is Chief Keef?
Chief Keef Net Worth is going to discuss today was born on August 15th, 1995. His real name is Kieth Farrelle Cozart. He is an American rapper and record producer from Illinois, Chicago.
In early 2010’s, his music and rapping became massively famous among the high school teenagers. His street single “I Don’t Like” was hit with a remix by Kanye West during 2012, when Chief Keef was serving a house arrest sentence for the possession of ammunition. This is beginning of Chief Keef Net Worth era. Kanye’s remix favored Keef’s music career and lifted it up to the top 10 Billboard list.
Later, Chief Keef signed a contract with the Interscope which was the result of the bidding war between two major labels. By December, 2012 his debut album Finally Rich was released featuring singles like, “I Don’t Like”, “Love Sosa”, representations Chicago rap.
Early Life and Career
At the small age of 5, the roller started making music through a tiny karaoke machine owned by his mother. With his rap catching interest by the high school teenagers, he became a star in the Chicago’s South Side community to which his YouTube mixtapes helped, namely “The Glory Road” and “Bang”.
When he unlawfully used a weapon in the public by the year 2011, he had to drop out of highschool to get arrested which was followed by a month of house arrest and a month of confinement but that didn’t stop him from producing music and he kept uploading his mixtapes and more videos on YouTube.
When he released “I Don’t Like”, he scored a very great reputation by the time he was released from his house arrest. March 2012, Chief Keef decided to release a music video for his popular single which had 30 million views by the end of the year, 2012. It is huge support to built Chief Keef Net Worth for fracture .
As his single caught fire among the rap genre fans, Kanye West gave it attention and remixed his single “I Don’t Like” which got his reputation another high causing Almight Sosa, Big Sean, Wiz Khalifa and more to take a listen. “Finally Rich” was his first album that featured Big Sean, Rick Ross and 50 Cent by December, 2012.
In the first week of the album release, more than 50,000 copies were sold. Chief Keef later produced two more albums called “Bang 3, Part 1” and “Bang 3, Part 2”.
Important Information
Real name: Kieth Farrelle Cozart
Nickname: Chief Keef
Other names: Chief Sosa, Almighty Sosa
Age: 22
Date of Birth: August 15th, 1995
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Current Residence: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality: American
Education: Dyett High School, Dulles Elementary School
Occupation: American rapper, record producer
Father: Alfonso Cozart
Mother: Lolita Carter
Children: Are Karter Cozart, Kayden Kash Cozart, Sno Cozart, Kimora Sosha Cozart
Height: 1.83 m
Weight: 76 Kg
Hair color: Black
Eye color: Black
Feet Size: 9
Build: Average
Race/Ethnicity: Black
Chief Keef Net Worth
His net worth is estimated at $2 million and his annual earnings are around $1 million which is not included any endorsement
Chief Keef Net Worth is $1 million. Through his shows, he earns a pretty good sum of money up to $85,000 to $90,000. By 2013, Chief Keef was claimed to be the lowest earning rappers of the Hollywood Music Industry. For about 4 years, mainly 2011 to 2014, Chief Keef has lost most of his money to lawsuits because of missing his shows and concerts and the heroine manufacture.
Interscope in 2014 with
who had he signed a deal of 6.5 million, he self-produced some more mixtapes collaborating with Gucci Mane and Back From The Dead 2.
Meanwhile his working years with the Interscope, he created his own music label and called it The Glory Boyz Entertainment.
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Then later in 2014, he again released another mixtape called Sorry 4 The Weight.
Later in 2015, when he announced another music album name, The Cozart, he was signed by the FilmOn Music by May. Eventually losing his career opportunities, Chief Keef finally gave up his retirement announcement via his official Twitter account. It was later found in the recent years, that Chief Keef quit from the FilmOn Music too.
Although his music career went down rapidly over the several years, he didn’t have much of a reputation with his personal life either. He first became a father at the age of 16 of a daughter named Kash Cozart who usually goes by the nickname of Kash Kash.
Chief Keef is single so far with no disclosed ex’s or wives but he’s also a father of four children.
By 2013, it was found that Chief Keef was a father of another 10 months old girl and later in September 2014, he declared the birth of his 3rd child, a son, whom he named Krüe Karter Cozart. The next year, another woman claimed Keef to be the father of her child.
Chief Keef released “Dedication”, his third album, in December 2017. His recent album was called so far the “most satisfying album to date” by The Guardian.