Felipe Delerme

Jay-Z is not what you would call a “weed rapper.” Sure, he’s peppered his verses with marijuana references since at least 1996’s “Feeling It” (“I free my mind sometimes I hear myself moaning / Take one more toke and I leave that weed alone, man”), but among his peers—of which there are few, consummately speaking—he might be the very last MC you’d envision blowing it down in the middle of a studio session.

In 2012, Felipe Delerme interviewed Chief Keef for the cover of The FADER's 81st issue. By the time of his arrest in December of last year, Chief Keef was already a household name in Chicago. Charged with unlawful use of aweapon, he'd been accused of aiming a gun at a police officer who'd fired shots back during the altercation, spurring rumors that Keef had been killed. After serving about a month in jail, Keef was released into his grandmother's custody just before New Year's Eve.

To date, Vampire Weekend has sold over a million records, played every music festival worth being jealous of your friends for attending, been the musical guest for Saturday Night Live with each of their studio releases and had a Billboard #1 and Grammy-nominated album, and yet an early December Twitter search reveals them to be just as much a rickety comedic device as an identity marker for young adults across the web. “There are more important things in life than school.