Chief Keef benefit concert rescheduled for Saturday

As previously reported, the lightning rod of a rapper had originally planned to hold a memorial concert for the family of Dillan Harris, a one-year-old who was killed by a hit-and-run driver on the South Side of Chicago.

Will the much talked about Chief Keef concert go on after all? A spokesman for the holographic events company said the location is being kept secret because of past efforts by city officials to stop the event, which is supposed to benefit the families of Dillan Harris and Marvin Carr.

According to the Chicago Tribune, the original event was set to be held at the city’s Redmoon Theater. According to the mayor’s office, Keef is an unacceptable role model. “So if it can’t happen right now and the city is that adamant about shutting it down, all I’m gonna say is at some point one day it will happen”. (The drivers had apparently just shot and killed Capo, a Keef associate, in a drive-by shooting.) Because of outstanding warrants, Keef can’t come back home to Chicago, so he was going to perform live via hologram from Los Angeles at Chicago’s Redmoon Theater.

“Banned by the mayor of Chicago”, the voice booms. However, as Chief Keef’s manager, Idris Dykes a.k.a “Peedapan”, now tells Billboard, that show too remains a major question mark.

On Wednesday morning, Keef posted a video message to his Instagram account that says, “Banned by the Chicago mayor, Chief Keef, from a secret Chicago location, live via hologram, collecting for charity”.

Chief Keef claimed he will be beamed to audiences at a secret “Stop the Violence” gig.

The rapper couldn’t appear in person because of a pair of arrest warrants issued last year – one for nonpayment of child support and a second for not showing up to a pretrial hearing after being charged with driving under the influence of drugs. Pfleger, an outspoken activist to end the violence on Chicago streets, lashed out at Chief Keef, telling him to “man up” and apologize for the violence he glorifies in his lyrics.