The deal was worth $6,000,000 over a three album layout, with an additional $440,000 advance to establish GBE. In a separate deal he was promised his own label imprint, Glory Boyz Entertainment (GBE).
While 2012 proved to be a relatively quiet year in terms of his musical output, Chief Keef began the year by signing with Interscope Records.
In the summer of 2012, Chief Keef was the subject of a bidding war among record labels wishing to sign him, including Young Jeezy's CTE World. He was held in the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center until a judge sentenced him to home confinement at his grandmother's house. He was also given a misdemeanor charge for resisting arrest. Chief Keef was charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a firearm on a police officer and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. They caught him and recovered the loaded pistol. The policemen "discharged their weapons" but missed. Officers chased the then-16-year-old, who turned around several times and pointed the gun at them. He dropped the coat, flashed a handgun and ran away. A policeman stopped to question the rapper. In December 2011, he left his grandmother's home holding a coat over his hands in front of his waistband. As a juvenile offender, he was determined to be a "delinquent", rather than guilty of his charges, and served time under house arrest. On January 27, 2011, Chief Keef was apprehended on charges of heroin manufacture and distribution. As a result, Keef "suddenly shot up out of obscurity". It caught Kanye West's attention, and he remixed the song with rappers Pusha T, Jadakiss and Big Sean. A local party promoter called it "the perfect Chicago song because 'niggas just hate everything out here'".
Keef's song "I Don't Like" became a hit in Chicago. While under house arrest, he posted several videos to his YouTube account, forerunners to Chicago's hip hop subgenre, drill. In December, he was arrested for firing a gun from his car in Chicago's Washington Park neighborhood he was placed under house arrest at his grandmother's residence for 30 days, followed by another 30 days of home confinement. In 2011, Chief Keef first attracted local attention from Chicago's South Side community with his mixtapes, The Glory Road and Bang.
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