According to Margaret “Granny” Carter, Keef’s rap persona is far from his actual self.
“Let’s be real, I’m always saying, ‘Cut that down, turn that off, that’s too loud’ when he’s doing all that music,” Carter said. “And girls is his thing. Girls, girls, girls. I get sick of all them girls.” All Chief Keef’s bad-boy bluster — and the police investigation into his gang ties regarding Coleman’s murder — “ain’t nothing but bull stuff,” Carter said. “How can he be doing all that gang stuff when he’s always home and when he’s not at home he’s out of town with me or his uncle. . . . And where’s this gang at? In my kitchen? In my basement? Where they at? In my refrigerator where he go all the time?” Carter said, referring her grandson’s regular routine around the house. “Look, I’m granny. That’s what they call me and I didn’t grow up with none of that mess. That don’t go in my god—- house.” (Sun-Times)
She also said Keef has used his overnight fame to help persuade his cousins to disassociate themselves from potential violence.
In fact, Carter said Chief Keef used his new rap star status to steer his older cousins away from a thug’s life. “He says, ‘You don’t have to do what you doing,’ ” Carter said. “And they say, ‘My little cousin pulled me out of the street.’ ” What rap fans hear in Chief Keef’s songs is what he sees around him — not what he does, she said. And Granny says she’s always been tough on her grandson, who she said got kicked out of school for saying “something stupid.” “I be on his a– all the time. I’m on his a– now,” she said. “I tell him, ‘Things will not go right if you don’t do it right.'” (Sun-Times)
