| The Rap Up For the Week of December 4th | December 4, 2015 |
Featuring Lil Herb, 21 Savage, Kodak Black, Migos, Lord Byron, Montana of 300 and Kid Cudi.
| Lil Herb AKA G Herbo Elevates on “Ballin Like I’m Kobe” | October 1, 2015 |
The young Chicagoan with the middle-aged mind reflects on the loss of yet another friend on his latest mixtape.
| Rap Up for the Week of June 12th | June 12, 2015 |
Ghostface, Chef, Cam & China, Sauce Walka, DOOM, Vito, Herb, Bronson, Del Fresco
| Earl Sweatshirt & Lil Herb: “Knuckleheads” | December 4, 2014 |
People change, but seasons don’t. There are only so many phases and in the rap world circa 2014, there is enough diversity where one of the ideas floating around will always be in. This isn’t 90s revival, but the same ideas are applied. Thudding minimal drums, minor chord piano lines roughly 5 degrees sunnier than […]
New dad Abe Beame gushes about his second favorite son Lil Herb
| P.O.W Fall Mixtape: Windy City Rap Blended By Max Bell | November 14, 2014 |
For his Fall Mixtape, Max Bell blends his favorite Chicago rap songs from Da Brat to Chief Keef.
| Crucial Conflict: Common “Nobody’s Smiling” | August 12, 2014 |
Thomas Johnson is hyper as a heart attack Chicago’s been in a predicament over the last few years. While the quality of its music is steadily on the rise, the quality of life of many of those making the music has been on a steep decline. Drill scene artists like Chief Keef reflect the warzone […]
| MobbDeen: Lil Herb & Lil Bibby in Fazoland | March 4, 2014 |
Deen drinks with Scarface every weekend. Messrs Herb & Bibby first came to my attention circa 2012 when I came across their remake of Project Pat’s classic, “My Hood.” A remake isn’t necessarily the most efficient way to gain attention in 2014 and the same was true back in 2012 when we all thought the […]
| 150 Degrees of Lil Herb | November 14, 2013 |
Lil Herb and Lil Bibby have been bubbling for a while now in the Chiraq guns flashing, rap-as-inferno lane, but I have never written about them due to negative association stemming from my aversion to all Bibby’s dating back to Mike (and maybe Henry). I’ve been watching a lot of NWA and Eazy E lately […]
