Keef was the most hated artist in 2012, he was considered the embodiment of everything bad in society, which was weird because he was 16

That’s not true, yes old heads had a bone wit keef but he was hot wit the youth in a way thug never was. People were just not f***in wit thug like they were keef.

Keef was/is more influential but its kind of hard to compare em. They are both really influential and i think artists will have a bit of them in their dna going forward. Keef does seem to be the more enduring one tho. Thug still tha goat tho.

Nah you have to remember that Chief Keef came out in the backpack rippty rap era, he was the only nigga doing super street raps, there was Future but people saw him as a pop singer

He basically was considered the embodiment of violence and everything low down and dirty if you listened miggas was looking at you sideways like YoungBoy listener stereotype but 10x worse, since he was the only one, listening to Keef in public you’d be subject ridicule but hood niggas didn’t care

Even listening to Gucci was considered deplorable and low because he was too street, rap listeners were mad bougie back then

How It Go and Love No Thotties come to mind as specific influences on Uzi's sound

Keef had more impact but Thugger keep his work more relevant

The fact people even say thot on a worldwide basis.

thug. lil baby, gunna, massive artists directly influenced then a bunch of nba young boy, roddy, etc rappers at least partly influenced....

Sosa’s influence took longer to show up and ran deeper but Thug still to this day has artists trying to clone his exact sound. I’d say Sosa technically had a bigger impact but Thugs impact literally generated many careers around him from this trying to be his sons/clones

keef more influential. thug more innovative

Keef influence like 8 different types of music

wild how all of them started as Keef kids and now all sound like Thug kids