Chicago drill pioneer Chief Keef’s “Love Sosa” has joined Spotify’s illustrious Billions Club, marking the song earning one billion streams on the platform. The track, which was included on Keef’s 2012 LP Finally Rich, marks his first entry to reach the plateau.
The song, which has since been certified five times platinum, features production from Young Chop and is widely considered to be one of the seminal moments in Chicago’s wildly influential drill scene. The album it’s featured on, Finally Rich, remains a grail of the era.
Upon its release, Finally Rich was a monumental smash and introduced Keef to a wide array of new fans. Critic Meaghan Garvey explained the sensation in a feature on the album, writing, “To an outside audience, Finally Rich as a work was inextricably linked to the general perception of Keef’s Chicago – grim, violent, nihilist music, with martial Young Chop drums befitting the city that had come to be known as ‘Chiraq.’ It was an understandable lens through which to view it all, but in retrospect, it distracted from elements that made Chief Keef’s Finally Rich one of the most impressive major-label rap debuts of the 2010s.”
Keef has long known how influential Finally Rich has been on the popular rap landscape since it arrived almost 15 years ago. In a rare interview, he spoke in 2017 with XXL about inspiring a new generation of rappers: “I actually became humble to that s**t. To see that I can do that… I’m really out here having an influence on the vibes of the new, upcoming rappers. It’s cool though. I just wanna keep doing that, keep influencing,” he explained.
“I came in 2012 with Finally Rich. They love that s**t, boy. That s**t stuck like glue. Then that whole situation, they look at me as a person and where I came from and see it’s real as f**k, and I’m so young. So this is like… if he can do it, they can do it. So I just want to keep doing that. For anybody else that come, that’s cool with me.”
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