Chief Keef was only 16 years old when his star began to glo on the underground scene with the release of his DJ Hustlenomics-hosted “Bang” mixtape In October 2011. But it was a run-in with the police in South Side of Chicago less than two months later that would turn Sosa into an urban legend.

In an interview with Vice, Uncle Ro says he was with Chief Keef just a few hours before his near-fatal encounter with undercover detectives.

Ro said he was listening to some music with Sosa at one of his renovator friends’ real estate properties when he noticed the 16-year-old playing with a gun.

Sosa “sat there just playing around with it,” Ro recalled.

Ro says he turned to So and said, “Man, you do need to be careful with that.”

Chief Keef replied, “I ain’t worried about no one round here. I’ll put one in their head, and have one left in the chamber.”

Ro clarified his advice to Sosa, saying, “Yeah, I’m not talking about you with the neighbors, I’m talking about the police.”

Keef tucked gun inside his jacket, and soon left.

A few hours later, Ro got a call saying Sosa had died.

“I get a call from someone saying, “Man, your artist that talks about killing people already got killed. They shot him.”

According to Ro, what had happened was Keef’s cousin Fredo Santana had unknowingly got into it with undercover detectives outside of Sosa’s granny’s house.

Chief Keef, Ro said, ran inside, grabbed his gun and came out shooting. Ro said it turned out the guys Keef shot at were undercover detectives who were there because of another incident between Sosa and Fredo.

Ro said police opened shot over 40 bullets at Sosa but didn’t hit him once.

“Neighbors automatically assumed he was dead,” Ro said. “Then [Sosa] got arrested and went to jail, so everyone took his disappearance as confirmation he was dead.”
Luckily, Sosa emerged from his situation unscathed. The death rumor would inspire the title of Sosa’s 2012 mixtape “Back From The Dead.”

The CPD’s account of the incident is much different.

DNAInfo reports CPD says police saw Sosa walking out of his grandmother’s apartment building holding a coat over his hands that were in front of his waistband after responding to a call of shots fired.

When a police officer attempted to stop and question Sosa, the Glo Gang boss dropped his coat, flashed a blue-steel handgun and sprinted through the vacant lot next door.

When police chased Sosa, the 16-year-old rapper turned and pointed his gun at officers twice.

Police shot at Keef but missed. They eventually were able to arrest Sosa in an alley.

Chief Keef was charged with four felonies — three counts of aggravated assault with a firearm on a police officer and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. He also was hit with a misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest.

Chief Keef was held in the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center until a judge sentenced him to home confinement at his grandmother’s house.

It was on house arrest that Sosa would turn lemons into lemonade by filming what would be one of his most viral songs to date “I Don’t Like.” The rest is history.

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