Time to add #FreeChiefKeef to the lexicon of hip hop hashtags. The young Chicago rapper was jailed yesterday for violating his probation, and—bizarrely enough—the music taste-makers at Pitchfork might've helped put him behind bars.
With Pitchfork's year-end list arriving Friday, the taste-makers have all revealed their favorites. But when you nit-pick over these choices, you start to notice that they don't square with the original reviews.
Sure lots of people complain about Pitchfork's reviews, but Chicago rapper Chief Keef might have a real bone to pick with the sometimes snobby music site, now that an interview he did with them might land him in jail.
For its 15th anniversary, Pitchfork surveyed readers about their favorite albums to come out since 1996. The problem is, when music is broken down to statistics, things get pretty predictable.
Gawker gets a Facebook boost courtesy of Jay-Z, Pitchfork figured out you like Radiohead, and Subway got simple.
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