Lately it seems like G Herbo can’t even play a show in Chicago, but the city’s favorite street rapper has found another way to give back: he’s joined a project to turn part of a shuttered south-side school into a media lab and music incubator.
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The best overlooked Chicago hip-hop of 2017
Do you think you’ve listened to every important Chicago hip-hop release this year? Tony Cartel, Lulu Be, Backwood Jones, Legit, and Malci bet you haven’t.
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G Herbo, one of Chicago’s brightest hip-hop stars, becomes royalty with Humble Beast
On Halloween, Auburn-Gresham one-stop shop and hip-hop hot spot Exclusive773 handed out bootleg rap CDs by Chicago rapper G. Herbo to trick-or-treaters. That evening owner Steve Wazwaz tweeted a video of fans gleefully clamoring for them. Their enthusiasm went through the roof after one of Wazwaz’s employees casually activated his phone’s video-chat program and turned […]
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Strawberry Jacuzzi’s Shannon Candy on bratty punks who love drag and snacks
Current musical obsessions of Strawberry Jacuzzi’s Shannon Candy, Rahim Salaam of the What About Chicago?! podcast, and Reader staff writer Leor Galil