On Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, kids in gang-ridden Chicago are feuding-and sometimes bragging about grimes-for all the world to see. How social media is fueling lethal behavior

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Just about any teenager in Chicago today can tell you the story of Chief Keef and Lil Jo Jo, two rappers from the South Side neighborhood of Englewood whose songs serve as anthems for their rival gangs. Keef, an 18-year-old whose real name is Keith Cozart, is the most successful of the city's emerging "drill" sound rappers (named after a slang term for shooting someone). Last year, while under house arrest for aiming a gun at a police officer, Cozart uploaded some videos to YouTube that eventually landed him an estimated $6 million deal with Interscope Records. The title of one of his early hits, "3hunna," is a nickname for the Black Disciples gang, and in the song he maligns the Tooka gang, a crew affiliated with the enemy Gangster Disciples. "Fucka Tooka gang, bitch, I'm 3hunna," he chants.