“On My Soul” is a banger, it’s creeping beat letting Herb effortlessly go off throughout, exploding with internal rhymes the feds probably putting dead bodies on everybody, pausing in the middle and letting the drums stand alone to “smoke a blunt then I’m back at it” before launching into another 2 couplets of dizzying rhymes I’m working hard cuz my tape shoulda been dropped and bro’s *** going nuts for the crack addicts/meanwhile bitch I’m focused on my mathematics/all this money in the world, yeah I gotta have it. 4”, Herb packs dizzying arrays of syllables upon syllables in his hoarse voiced double time flow with manic intensity. From “Koolin” to “Designer” to the previously released “4 Minutes of Hell Pt. He’s a physical rapper, not in the way Young Thug dances around the beat, but in a way that sounds like he’s about to fight you every time he spits. What we get instead is Lil’ Herb the soldier, a street kid fiercely loyal to his gang and painfully aware of the multitude of negative externalities surrounding him. Which, although I was interested in that persona, is fine if it means he’s not pandering to anyone. Herb’s recent collaboration with Tink, "Talkin’ Bout" seemed to reinforce this theme, but Welcome To Fazoland doesn’t return to it. While Lil’ Bibby had a “moment” during the later half of 2013 with his tape Free Crack, his homie Lil’ Herb AKA G-Herbo consistently dropped scene-stealing guest verses and mixtape teasers, each one more aggressive and impressive than the last.įor a while it seemed Herb was to be the witty playboy to Bibby’s self-contained menace ( “I’m a young nigga with a COUGAR BITCH”). Review Summary: I wasn't in it for attention or a name/I ain't in it for the money or the fame/I ain't in it for myself, I ain't in it for my health bitch/I'm in it for my niggas we the gang
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