Chief Keef says he will run for mayor of Chicago

Rapper tweets his dismay after holographic gig was shut down by police on Saturday, and calls on fans to protest to Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Chief Keef has responded to the shutting down of his gig-by-hologram on Saturday by declaring his intention to run for mayor of Chicago, and telling his fans to call the incumbent mayor – former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel – “and tell him to stay the fuck off the people’s music”.

The rapper had planned to play a concert-by-hologram in Chicago last week – he is reluctant to visit the city owing to outstanding warrants pertaining to child support – to benefit campaigns to “stop the violence” in the city, and raise funds for the families of his friend Capo, a Chicago rapper who was killed in a shooting earlier this month, and of 13-month-old Dillan Harris, who was killed by a car fleeing the scene of the shooting.

Mayor Emanuel’s office prevented Keef participating in any Chicago event, and so he appeared by hologram instead 25 miles away in Hammond, Indiana, at Craze Fest, where the show was shut down by police shortly after he appeared.

Hammond’s mayor, Thomas McDermott Jr, had told he had never heard of Chief Keef. “All I’d heard was he has a lot of songs about gangs and shooting people – a history that’s anti-cop, pro-gang and pro-drug use. He’s been basically outlawed in Chicago, and we’re not going to let you circumvent Mayor Emanuel by going next door.”

Chief Keef has evidently decided Emanuel, rather than McDermott, is his enemy in this matter. He tweeted the mayor’s publicly listed city number and asked his fans to call it.