They even started beating on Keef’s electronic visage with billy clubs.
But Murphy says the cops forcefully went about making sure the hologram was turned off.
He settled on nearby Hammond, Indiana, where two of his peers were putting on an event called the Craze Fest, which is a fitting name for what happened during Keef’s performance.īy now, you may have heard stories about Keef’s hologram performance-which consisted solely of him playing “I Don’t Like” and urging the crowd to “stop the violence, let our kids live”-getting shut down by overzealous Hammond cops. Murphy struck out on “two or three venues” in Chicago before he looked beyond the city for a place to hold the concert. “First they were real subtle, like, ‘Hey, man, what’s going on? We just want to make sure that everything is OK.’ I was like, ‘What do you mean? Everything’s fine.’ Next thing you know, a venue would call and be, like, ‘Yeah, we can’t do it.’” “There were a bunch of threats,” he reveals. Murphy tells Complex that city officials repeatedly called him about the show, and for weeks, Chicago cops followed a truck containing hologram equipment to such an extent that Murphy had to hide it with large drapes whenever it was parked. Keef’s co-manager Merk Murphy diligently worked to book the benefit concert, but the Emanuel administration, a local alderman, and even local pastors were on the prowl to deter venues from hosting it. Keef, still exiled from Illinois because of child support warrants, devised a plan to beam into the venue from LA via hologram. In 2015, Chief Keef planned to hold a benefit performance for 22-year-old Marvin Carr and 13-month-old Dillan Harris, who were killed by stray bullets during the fatal shooting of GBE rapper Capo. Former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel resented the Chicago drill scene so much, he didn’t even want a hologram of Chief Keef to perform in the city, arguing that it “posed a significant safety risk.”
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