Chicago
rapper Chief Keef was put in jail yesterday after a Cook County juvenile court
judge ruled that the 17-year-old rapper had violated his probation, the Chicago
Sun-Times reports.
Keef was
sentenced to 18 months of probation last January after he was convicted of
aggravated unlawful use of a weapon for pointing a gun at Chicago police
officers. Although terms of his probation included requiring him to stay away
from guns, Keef (real name: Keith Cozart) last summer did a video interview
with Pitchfork at a New York shooting range, where he also spent 20 minutes
firing a semiautomatic rifle. The video has since been taken down.
An attorney
for Keef, Dennis Berkson, told the court that the rapper didn't violate the
spirit of his probation in the Pitchfork interview. "Was it stupid? Yes.
Did it violate the court order? No," Berkson argued, blaming Keef's record
company, Interscope, for setting up the interview. The label released Chief
Keef's album Finally Rich last year.
Judge Carl
Anthony Walker disagreed with Berkson. "There is a clear record of a
disregard for the court's authority," Walker said. He scheduled a
sentencing hearing for Thursday.
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