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posted by takyon on Tuesday July 28 2015, @09:16AM   Printer-friendly
from the can't-touch-this dept.

At a hip-hop festival called Craze Fest in Hammond, Indiana, just outside of Chicago, rapper Chief Keef appeared on stage as a hologram. But his Saturday night performance only lasted one song before the police shut it down.

Chief Keef, born Keith Cozart, originally planned to hold a benefit concert for his friend and a toddler who were both killed during a shooting this month. The concert was to be held at a theater in Chicago, but Mayor Rahm Emmanuel's office reportedly pressured the theater to cancel the event, according to the Chicago Tribune. The New York Times says the mayor's office called Chief Keef "an unacceptable role model" whose music "promotes violence."

Instead, Chief Keef told his fans that he would perform at an undisclosed location and enlisted Hologram USA to help him appear virtually rather than physically, citing outstanding warrants for his arrest in Illinois. Fans weren't told Chief Keef would be performing in Hammond at Wolf Lake Pavilion as part of Craze Fest until 9pm that night.

According to the Chicago Tribune, Chief Keef performed his hit "I Don't Like" [remix and NSFW] from a sound studio in Beverly Hills, California. "[He] was talking about putting a stop to violence when the power was cut off. Police rushed toward the stage, turning the music off about 10:25pm. Shining flashlights, they ordered concertgoers to leave. Fans who gathered Saturday left the grounds in an orderly fashion, though disappointed."

Wanted in Illinois, appeared as a hologram in Indiana, still shut down by police. Good thing for him he was in California.

Additional material from the BBC.


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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday July 28 2015, @03:30PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Tuesday July 28 2015, @03:30PM (#214886) Journal

    But the second half is an interesting admission. Of course, one of the things conventionally distinguishing mayors from, say, kings, was that you could circumvent a mayor by going "next door" -- each mayor's power was constrained to the city he was mayor of. Mayor McDermott seems to be openly admitting that it's not so in Chicagoland -- the will of Mayor Emanuel is law in any city.

    Yes, but why? If US Steel asked for it to be shut down, that's one thing, but Chicago? What does Chicago do for Hammond, IN, that would cause its mayor to honor a request to shutdown a concert? Was Rahm threatening to shutdown the Calumet Skyway, a-la Gov. Chris Christie with the George Washington Bridge, which matters because Hammond's residents mostly commute to Chicago that way? Hammond is an industrial hellhole, and most people in such a place in the Rust Belt commute to the remnant jobs in the factories in those places and the rest collect welfare. Mostly, they don't commute to white-collar jobs in the Loop [wikipedia.org].

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @05:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @05:46PM (#214956)

    > Yes, but why?

    Occam's razor says because McDermott is just an uptight asshole trying to justify himself and pandering to similar uptight assholes in the electorate.

    But if there is some kind of quid pro quo it's probably political, the democratic party isn't constrained by state lines. Dude's probably expecting some campaign support when he runs for governor of Indiana.