Music

Katy Perry and Chief Keef are beefing on the internet

by Tyler Munro

Because he’s 17-years-old, Chief Keef took a pretty harmless observation by Katy Perry and turned it into something horrifying.

After hearing Chief Keef’s song “I Hate Being Sober” on the radio, Perry tweeted her frustrations.

Harmless enough. But Chief Keef, being the upstanding, class-act he is, retaliated the only way a pubescent, entitled kid can.

He’s single, ladies!

Ever the adult, Katy Perry took to Twitter again to apologize after learning that the song wasn’t just Keef.

But you know what? Fuck that. Katy Perry has nothing to apologize for. She’s right to be concerned about a song written by an under-aged kid that glamourizes alcoholism and drug abuse. Like J-Kwon before him, the song is glorifying something he’s yet to experience as a proper, self-aware adult. While there’s a weird assumption of some camaraderie between musicians, Perry likely doesn’t consider herself one of Chief Keef’s peers, and even if she did, it doesn’t disqualify her from having a problem with the track’s message.

That she apologized is likely because she’d rather not engage further in a conflict with the kind of person who pulls a gun on a cop and proudly says things like “I’d smack the shit out of her” on Twitter. She apologized because he threatened her, and that’s disgusting. Not on her, but him.

Chief Keef for what it’s worth did retweet Perry’s apologies, though we can’t be sure whether he’ll follow-up on promises to release a Katy Perry diss track.