Chief Keef: The Chicago rap star heads to church to unload in the 'Runner' music video

It’s definitely feeling like Sosa season right about now. Turns out the rap heavyweight Chief Keef is embracing music-making all over again and coming through with hard-hitting visuals like the ‘Runner’ music video.

Sosa letting loose from a church setting? Say less. Embrace the flex.

"Runner," a soul-sampling album highlight. "Runner" expertly samples the dramatic vocals, sweeping strings, and cinematic horns from Nancy Wilson's 1974 single "Streetrunner," a song with lyrics that seem to comment on Sosa's early years in Chicago: "Growing up, you ran the streets/Learned young the cold street code/It was hard times, nickels and dimes/Then you hit that motherload." 

Sosa's version adds kinetic, footwork-influenced drums and percolating pianos, as the artist dialogues with the sampled vocals in witty and aggressive couplets and channels his state-of-mind from his days on the streets. In the video, the Almighty So takes us to church, as he rhymes from the confession booth (the priest is his longtime manager Peeda Pan!) and then takes a ride in his Rolls Royce.