Right in front of us is the 6th studio LP from Chicago, Illinois rapper, singer/songwriter & producer Chief Keef. Rising to stardom over a decade ago off his 6th mixtape Back from the Dead & the full-length debut Finally Rich, he would go on to become a progenitor for drill music popularizing it in the Windy City inspiring the likes of Lil Uzi Vert & 21 Savage or even Billie Eilish. Other standouts in Keef’s discography include Bang 2, Almighty So, Back from the Dead 2, GloToven, 4NEM, the Mike WiLL Made-It produced Dirty Nachos & Almighty So 2. It’s already been a couple years since the latter, returning to end the first quarter of 2026 with Skeletor.
The self-produced “Break Down” aptly sets the tone of what’s to come even if it’s said to be an outtake from the Almighty So 2 sessions whereas “The Real Chief Keef” boisterously calls for all these puny fuckboys to get their paper up. “24Hrs” works in some 808s & bells talking about being up every hour of the day just before “Video Shoot” featuring Ian proved to be an underwhelming trap single being fed up with hoes telling sob stories.
“Mark of Buddha” continues from there talking about bleaching his eyes after everything he’s seen over the course of his career leading into “Harry Potter” making vast improvements above the previous single blending hardcore hip hop, trap, the Flint sound, Chicago drill & cloud rap confessing he would’ve gone to the NFL had his music career failed. “Only for the Night” ends the 1st half going full pop rap additionally showing off his ear for sampling while “#2” hops over some synths keeping that green & blue shit on him.
G Herbo joins Keef on “Slide” to get on some Chicago drill gangsta rap shit together for 6 minutes while “Shrek & Donkey” produced by Murda Beatz energetically talks about how zooted he is. “PS5” featuring Rich the Kid finds both of them speaking of looking at Satan in his eyes while “Good” checks in on those near him making sure they’re fine. “Talking Ish” featuring Ballout was a decently cloudy trap single discussing of the gangsta lifestyle & “Doja” ends with him flying straight to the bag.
In no way would I consider Skeletor to be in the same field as Almighty So 2 & 4NEM or even Dirty Nachos, but I did enjoy a majority of what this album had to offer. His production puts a bigger emphasis on trap similarly to 4NEM, except it’s not as adventurous other than the secondary influences of Chicago drill & pop rap as opposed to the latter experimenting with subgenres like crunk. I also felt that only a couple guests stood out, which was justified by most of them getting outperformed.
Score: 3.5/5
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