#ain't missing you

[metanara]

keef is one of the most innovative and creative rap artists out right now, don’t listen to the goofy’s

[groovesnjams]

“Ain’t Missing You” by Chief Keef ft. Jenn Em

MG:

In the tradition of Puff Daddy’s “I’ll Be Missing You” (a song that once brought me to tears while I was driving down a county road!) comes Chief Keef’s “Ain’t Missing You.” But Keef’s rendition, for so many reasons, is so much sadder. Biggie’s murder was a national headline, a tragedy that garnered round the clock TV coverage (at least, on MTV, my source for both news and new music). It’s possible you don’t know who Big Glo is, but he was likewise murdered and Chief Keef has channelled his tremendous loss into a memorial that interpolates John Waite’s “Missing You” ballad. In the same way that Big Glo’s death isn’t registering in the same way Biggie’s did, “Missing You” doesn’t have the same canonical pull as “Every Breath You Take.” But I like “Missing You” better (for being a straightforward song about love lost instead of a stalker’s labor cloaked in love’s language) and I like “Ain’t Missing You” better. Chief Keef sounds shattered, recounting memories that end in a spoken promise to Big Glo. It’s doubtful he’ll make a dime on this record and I can’t help but wonder if maybe he once cried to “I’ll Be Missing You” on a county road.

DV:

This is both harrowing and heartwrenching, and while the lyric does a lot to sell how much Big Glo meant and how much his death affects Chief Keef, the production for “Ain’t Missing You” pulls a whole lot of weight too. Where Puff pitched the sample up, Keef goes down - not enough that it’s obvious, just enough that the difference between what you know and what you’re hearing seems slightly unreal. Disorienting. Confusing. And that’s not the most subtle part: I had to get a second opinion to confirm that I wasn’t experiencing some new symptom of tinnitus instead of the high-pitched tone the fades in and out of the track. It adds nothing but unsettles everything, like the sonic representation of Keef’s loss of his cousin. It’s a bravura production supporting a bravura performance, one the turns utterly chilling when that tone emerges for a final time in the form of a heart monitor.

[hiphoplines]

I was sittin' at home, I was rollin' a blunt I was thinkin' 'bout you been dead gone Got a call from my boys like, "Your cousin is dead"

Chief Keef

[danslesrapides]

[gamblingwithhappiness-blog1]

Chief Keef has me reinvigorated

I had heard of Chief Keef’s various musical experiments and all the interesting stuff he’s putting out across various social media sites ever since he got dropped from his record label, but I’ve only been keeping up with that on a surface level. And if you’re only keeping up with an output that prolific on a surface level, you might as well not be keeping up at all.

But Sosa’s been a fascinating figure for a few years now, whether you actually like his music or not (I do), and I feel like he’s compounded that with this new song “Ain’t Missing You.” People have been referring to it as “pop country,” and that’s pretty accurate. It samples this British one-hit wonder from the ’80s (I’m actually curious how Keef came across this song in the first place and decided to use it), and Keef is basically singing with auto-tune throughout the whole song.

The track’s pretty mature, too, once you get past the initial novelty. It’s a eulogy for a friend, and it comes off to me kind of like Danny Brown’s “Grown Up” in that it’s a rapper not necessarily known for introspection taking a step back and coming up with some pretty stunning work -- it’s a moving song. I didn’t know where Keef was going to go from where he was about a year ago, when he was releasing so much and you couldn’t tell if it was calculated or self-destructive (or both). Obviously “Ain’t Missing You” isn’t a happy song, but it feels like the start of something new -- a new chance for Keef to do his unique thing and get recognized for it.

Song of the day: “Ain’t Missing You” by Chief Keef

[chromehearts-sexrecords]

lmao not what i was expecting today. 

[mysadthoughtsfloat]

There's a storm that's raging through my frozen heart tonight.

[roxyandthepink]

In your world I have no meaning, though I'm trying hard to understand