Chief Keef Postpones Hologram Concert, Organizer Blames "Meddling" Priest

Chief Keef Postpones Hologram Concert, Organizer Blames "Meddling" Priest

Last night, Chief Keef was scheduled to perform via hologram for a benefit concert memorializing a toddler who was killed by a car fleeing the scene of rapper Capo’s fatal shooting in Chicago. That concert has been postponed, the Chicago Tribune reports. According to event organizer Alki David, the postponement followed opposition to the event from Rev. Michael Pfleger, a pastor at Chicago’s St. Sabina Catholic Church.

“The meddling, attention seeking Father Pfleger, who bullied the owner of the downtown theater to back out of his contract, will not succeed,” David said in an email to the Tribune. “He is exploiting this tragedy and taking money away from the victims and solid charities who are doing good work in Chicago.”

Pfleger, who denied speaking to owners of the venue, Redmoon Theater, had opposed the concert on Facebook earlier in the week. He wrote: “Instead of having a concert … why doesn’t he man up and acknowledge it’s time to stop this violence and apologize for his part in it!!!!” A Redmoon representative told the Tribune that Pfleger didn’t make direct contact, but that they had not understood “the full nature of the event.”

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