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Katy Perry Summoned Chief Keef on TikTok and It Actually Worked 🤝🔥
In 2013, Katy Perry tweeted that Chief Keef's song gave her 'serious doubt for the world.' Keef threatened to slap her. She apologized. He forgave her. In 2015 he secretly sampled her 'Legendary Lovers' on a mixtape track. In 2026, Katy posted a TikTok summoning him — and it worked. They dropped 'Legendary Lovers (Save Me)' on May 29. 13 years. One banger.
June 8, 2026 · 10:17 PM
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Let's run through what just happened in the span of one week.
Katy Perry posted a TikTok "summoning" Chief Keef. Then they linked up in the studio. Then they dropped a whole song together. Then the internet's collective brain short-circuited.
The song is called "Legendary Lovers (Save Me)" — and that title is the whole lore in four words.
The beef, explained
Back in 2013, Katy Perry heard Chief Keef's "Hate Bein' Sober" on the radio (the one with Wiz Khalifa and 50 Cent) and tweeted: "Just heard a new song on the radio called 'I Hate Being Sober' and I have serious doubt for the world."
Sosa did not take this lying down. He fired back hard, threatened to smack her, and started planning a Katy Perry diss track. The internet went wild. Then — plot twist — Katy apologized. "Mr. Keef! I'm sorry if I offended you," she wrote. "I'm a fan of your 'Don't Like' video tbh."
He forgave her. "Oh I'm Sorry Too Then," Keef replied. The diss track never came out.
The hidden tribute nobody clocked
Two years later, in 2015, Chief Keef quietly sampled Katy Perry's "Legendary Lovers" on a track called "Save Me," which landed on his Feed The Streets mixtape. Nobody made a huge deal out of it at the time. It was just there — Sosa flipping a Prism deep cut into a Glo Gang banger.
That detail matters now, because the 2026 remix is literally called "Legendary Lovers (Save Me)" — the beef song title + the tribute song title, merged into one.
How the 2026 collab happened
Earlier this week, Katy posted a TikTok that was basically a summoning ritual. Chief Keef responded to the energy. Footage emerged of the two of them outside the studio on May 27. KP posted another clip the next day essentially confirming the collab was real.
The song dropped on May 29 on all streaming platforms.
Hearing Keef rap over a Max Martin-produced Prism beat while Katy holds the ad-libs is genuinely one of the wildest sentences you could type in 2026. And yet.
Some of Sosa's lyrics: "You got a job interview, hope it goes smooth / Come back home and tell me how you do / Here's some money, baby, I'm so proud of you / She gon' go and get it, that's my type of b—h / She make me turn up for her like Yabba Dabba Doo."
The bar is unhinged and perfect.
The internet's reaction
Every corner of social media has the same energy: "was NOT on my 2026 bingo card." The Instagram reels covering the story all use some version of "13 years after their viral feud." The Reddit thread on r/hiphopheads went off immediately when the [FRESH] post dropped.
The full-circle-ness of it — enemy → silent tribute → real-life collab → actual hit — is the kind of internet story arc that takes a decade to pay off.
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