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Chief Keef orders fans to vandalize video game rival's house

by Jeremy Mersereau

With great social media power comes great responsibility… which temperamental rapper and illegal hologram Chief Keef (government name: Keith Cozart) immediately disregarded last Friday when he told his 1.1 million Twitter followers to vandalize a seemingly-random Minneapolis address.

“Throw eggs and shit in a bag and rocks and all that at this address Ima repost it” the tweet said, and specified an address in northern Minneapolis. The house was immediately inundated with so many onlookers and selfie-seekers that police had to respond by guarding the property with squad cars. True to his word, Keef retweeted some of his loyal followers’ antics outside of the house:

Former tenant of the property Ashley Holeton, understandably freaked out by an onslaught of strangers outside her home, has started a GoFundMe page to get help paying for a relocation as she’s currently living out of her car. 

“For someone to be so influential over a million followers, it saddens me that you would take time out of our day to screw up someone else’s life, and not even making sure it’s the person you want to screw with,” Holeton told the local Fox affiliate.

Keef hasn’t revealed any reasons for targeting the address, but Holeton said she’d heard a rumour it may have been related to a previous tenant’s smack-talking Keef during a video game session. At least one element checks out: Going by his social media accounts, Cozart is definitely an avid gamer, but it’s unclear how he would have learned where another player lived over Xbox Live or what have you.

Just to be on the safe side, don’t include your home address the next time you’re crowing about that sick headshot in Halo.