Katy Perry issues Twitter apology after somehow offending rapper Chief Keef

 

 Who is Chief Keef?”, you’re asking. You’ve read the headline and you are asking that question. Well: good question. Allow us to answer it. Chief Keef is a 17-year-old rapper who is famous for  some songs, and who is just terribly mad at Katy Perry right now. Oh dear, Katy Perry. Oh dear.

 

It all started on Tuesday, when Katy tweeted: “Just heard a new song on the radio called "I hate being sober" I now have serious doubt for the world.” What we think she meant was ‘it is bad that kids want to be drunk all the time’, but it came out more like ‘this terrible song is terrible. It is so, so terrible. Gosh, have you heard this? It is the worst.’ This made Chief Keef, the song’s originator, ‘unhappy’.

Keef responded by saying – and we’re still trying to figure out what exactly this means and why he would want it doing – saying “Dat b*tch Katy Perry Can Suck Skin Off Of my D*ck”, then “Ill Smack The Sh*t out her” followed by an emoji that the heatworld website can’t replicate, but means ‘hand’. In other words, he issued a very peculiarly worded TWITTER THREAT.

This forced Katy to generally backpeddle and apologise and pretend she liked Keef’s music, saying over the course of three tweets: “Mr. Keef! I'm sorry if I offended you. I heard a lot of people guesting on the song & didn't even know it was you in particular. Actually... I'm a fan of your "Don't Like" video tbh. I was really just having a general opinion on our generations desire to be constantly intoxicated. Believe me, I'm a lover not a hater. x". This seems to have placated Keef, for now.

Keef was born in 1995 (1995! 1995.) and already has a rather lengthy Wikipedia section headed ‘Controversy’, so we’re guessing we’ll hear more of This Sort Of Thing from him over the coming years until he either melts into obscurity or is killed. Anyway, we look forward to his inevitable guest appearance on a Katy Perry track some time this summer.