Name: G Herbo On Growing Up In Terror Town And Chicago Drill
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'G Herbo On Growing Up In Terror Town And Chicago Drill' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-07-27. Transcript available.

I've always liked rap, but there have been a couple times where I'm like, this
is a new
thing.
And when I saw Don't Like, I was like, there's no girls in this video.
Yeah, yeah.
I was like, there's no sluts.
I was like, it's all guys.
There's no sluts.
I'm like, where are the sluts?
I'm like, it's supposed to be that they're rich and they get pussy.
Nah.
We didn't have no fixes.
There's no girls and they're not wearing shirts and they're boys.
Yeah.
They're just boys.
Niggas was getting pussy though.
We just wasn't broadcasting it.
I ain't gonna lie.
You know what?
And from the outside looking in, I think if I had to think from the outside
looking in,
because I can't say that because I was a part of it, I think just the world and
all is seeing
a hundred niggas doing drugs, having guns and shit in the video.
It was like-
And be kids.
Like, what the fuck are they doing?
Yeah.
To be kids.
Like 15, 16 years old.
And they're like, what the fuck is this?
People just couldn't believe it.
It was like the- have you seen City of God?
That movie?
Yeah.
I love that movie.
It's like the little kids at the end of the movie that kill the main characters.
Yeah.
We was playing City of God.
It felt like that.
And I was like, where's the furniture in the apartment?
It looks completely empty.
I was like, what's going- where are they?
But, um-
Bro, that's some Chicago shit, bro.
I can't believe this shit.
You're really bringing back a lot of memories by saying it.
Who was like- who were the adults?
Like, who were the- who was like getting you licensing deals and stuff?
There was no- like, I mean, don't get me wrong.
It was the adults around, but I'm saying that like the influence behind what we
was doing
it just wasn't there.
We was just like young, like the City of God.
Just like young, bad ass, rebel kids just doing shit.
But the few adults that we did have around played a significant role where it's
like, if we didn't
have those guys, shit probably would not have like worked or been what it was.
Right.
You know, like I had guys like Mickey around, like soul head guys like pan
around and shit
like that to just like, alright, let me try to, you know, organize this shit a
little bit
and like navigate when, you know what I'm saying, they could actually make
something of it.
Because I already think we knew what we was doing or we really gave a fuck for
real, for real.
We was just like dropping music.
Hey, whatever money we make is cool.
We gonna put this shit back in the hood and just thug it out for the rest of
our life.
I think that's what all our mindsets was at the time.
Did you have like a notion of like who- what the audience was, right?
Because it was all- there was like Twitter, you'd like tweet, I'm gonna- I hate
this guy.
Yeah.
And then you do a YouTube video where you- you do a song about hating someone.
Yeah.
And then there's- it's getting millions of views and then- but it affects your
real life.
Yeah.
Right?
People are getting killed.
Absolutely.
You know, but like there's an audience for it.
Like, did you have a notion of like that people were consuming it outside of
Chicago?
No.
And that you were performing it?
That's the thing.
You didn't?
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
we the guys over here in this neighborhood,
we weren't thinking about like New York and LA
and what they culture was
and the other fucking 45 states in the country.
Like we were not thinking about that.
We weren't thinking 'cause the internet
was just coming out at that time.
And it's like, we weren't thinking that people
gonna watch this shit in Asia
and watch this shit in London.
And we were not thinking about none of that.
We just like, all right, man,
we finna put this shit out on YouTube.
'Cause in a way we kind of wanted the niggas
we was dissing to see that shit.
You know what I'm saying?
We wanted to make this, put it out on YouTube
for them to see it.
You feel me?
So it's like, me personally,
I wasn't thinking about like nobody else
in the world watching this shit.
I had no knowledge of that.
Like we just wanted, I wanted hood fame, I swear.
Like that's what I wanted.
Like I wanted to be hood famous.
Like I bet this Herb, he from this area.
This, you know what I'm saying?
Like he got this area on lock type shit.
And niggas wanted bitches too, though.
Like we was just doing it.
- And girls liked it if you had a big song.
- Yeah, or girls liked it if you was just
in the streets for real.
- Or if you got shot.
Girls liked it?
- Or if you was shooting.
- Girls like that?
- One of the two.
- I did that wrong.
I should have been shooting.
- Yeah, I think they respect the shooter.
- What happens if you're born like on the east side
where you're from and you're a nerd?
You're just a fucking nerd.
Like what do you do?
What if you suck at basketball?
You can't rap.
- That's a great question.
- What if you're bad at school?
You're not even, can't even get into Harvard.
You're like a nerd and dumb.
- You're ugly, small dick.
What do you do?
- Damn, that's a good question.
What do you do?
- What are you, like, what are you supposed to do?
- Kill yourself.
- Ah, fuck, I was just about to say that.
That sucks.
- But you can't, though, you can't say that
'cause the world is sensitive about that kind of stuff.
- You can say it, we can say it.
- On YouTube.
- He can say it, he can say it.
We're here with him, we hanging with him right now.
- Yeah, I'm crazy.
- But no, don't kill yourself 'cause you got a small peepee.
Don't do that.
- No, I don't have, I'm not talking about me.
- It's 2025, they got surgeries and all type of shit.
You can save your money up.
You feel what I'm saying?
- Yeah.
- Do something like that.
- At least I have my hair, you know, I'm chilling.
- Yeah, for sure.
Can I say something though, bro?
- You remind me of the actor.
Have anybody ever told you you look like this guy?
I don't know his name. - Jeff Goldblum?
- He played in The Fly?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- You look just like him, bro.
- You know exactly, Jadakus said that to me too.
- He did?
- Yeah.
- That's crazy, bro.
- He literally said the same thing.
- You really remind him.
- He said the guy, he literally said the same movie.
- The Fly.
- The Fly.
- That's crazy.
- Wow, wow, wow.
This is the best name I've liked.
Wow, cheers.
Anyway, okay, in GDBD,
now I'm doing it.
- Okay, yeah, yeah.
- Was there a white guy?
Was there one white guy?
- A white guy?
- Did you have like a Chinese guy?
- Oh, fuck, there had to be some white GDs and BDs.
- Really?
- There had to be.
- How do you get in?
- For sure.
When you're white, you gotta do some crazy shit.
- Yeah, that's like the Chappelle joke.
- Yeah, when you're white,
you gotta do the most gangsta shit ever.
- You have to be a psycho.
- Yeah, you gotta go outside and do some stupid shit.
- You gotta be like Charles Manson or something.
- Yeah, yeah, you gotta be like that for sure.
But I'm sure it was some white GDs and BDs and shit.
- Were people's parents informing their decisions in that way?
Like, I know that--
- A lot of it was influenced by people's parents.
- Dirk's dad was involved?
- Exactly, a lot of people's parents
was already in the streets.
Like, these gangs didn't come out.
Like, we didn't make this shit up.
This shit was going on for 40 years before us.
- And did it stem from the Black Panthers?
Like, being broken up?
- A lot of it, like, yeah.
So, like, a lot of those gangs stem
from the Black Panthers being broken up
and then people had to form, like, you know,
gangs in their neighborhood to protection.
Like, gangs really started, like,
on some positive shit.
Like, to protect the neighborhood,
to, you know what I'm saying?
Like, make sure the kids get safe going to school.
Like, they had, like, free breakfast,
free food programs and stuff like that.
- Community organization.
- Yeah, it was a real community organization
to keep people safe.
So, like, the police couldn't come in
and just whoop other people's ass
or other, like, people from other neighborhoods,
like, with racism and shit.
Like, that's how it started.
But I think when, you know, poverty, shit like that,
when people started to realize, like, drug,
'cause, and I'm being completely honest,
like, this is a serious subject,
because, like, we come from poverty-strucken neighborhoods,
so a lot of people didn't, we didn't have no resources
to, like, take care of ourselves and make money.
So when drugs got involved and people started selling drugs,
that's when, like, the war happened,
'cause territory, you need certain territory to sell drugs,
certain shit like that.
Like, it was just really just a source of, like,
a source of income for a lot of people.
But, you know, the black, we didn't know
what those drugs was gonna do to us.
Like, people started doing heroin
and thinking it was just a party drug
and shit like that until you strung out and you fucked up.
When crack hit the streets, it was just like a party drug,
an experiment and shit like that.
And then it just changed everything.
Jack, be quick!
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're like, they had crack, and then they had...
No bullshit.
That's how it happened, bro, like, for real, bro.
Like, no funny shit.
Like, we really need a movie that talk about
that type of shit in Chicago.
Like, what the gang culture was, how did it start,
and what drugs, like, did to the community,
'cause people was only just trying to take care of themselves
'cause there wasn't no job.
Spike made that movie about Fred Hampton, right?
Mm-hmm, the Black Panther movie.
It was a great movie, too.
You were so young, too.
I was in the soundtrack.
You were in the soundtrack?
I was in the soundtrack for that movie, yeah.
Oh, congratulations.
Yeah, thanks, bro.
Do you meet Spike?
I've never met Spike Lee.
He lives in my neighborhood.
He do?
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, you rich as fuck.
No, no, no, he lives in the same neighborhood that...
Well, it's like, yeah, it's a nice...
Bro, you rich, bro, just say it.
I'm not rich.
It's okay to say you're rich as fuck.
I'm not rich.
Come on, bro.
How...
I don't believe it.
No, I'm not, you're rich.
You have, like, Jewish-style responsible businesses.
That's the other interesting thing about you guys, right?
And I think, is it maybe 'cause you guys grew up so
fast, right?
Mm-hmm.
Like, you smoked weed at six?
Yeah.
How you doing?
I researched.
Yeah, I did.
You smoked weed at six?
Yeah, hell yeah.
13, dude.
13, your first time?
Yeah, dude, fucking...
The Jews, we loved...
What age do you have your bar mitzvah?
13.
Oh, okay.
You a man, then, technically.
That was our thing.
Like, the Jewish lads, we loved piff.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
And then I bonded with the Mexicans in high school 'cause they also loved...
They like mota.
Yeah, mota, mota, mota.
Yeah.
And they loved...
They also loved the Smiths and Morrissey.
Do you know...
What's that?
And they're like...
Mm-hmm.
And they have this...
The lead singer's gay.
Or I think, yeah, he's gay.
Right?
It's this guy Morrissey.
And they're like...
But the Mexicans are, like, particularly into Morrissey.
Right.
But they're also homophobic.
And I remember I told one of them, I was like, it's weird that you...
I mean, I love the Smiths, too.
Right.
They're like, Adam, you're like an emo, right?
Yeah.
And I was like, kinda.
Not really.
No, not emo.
But they're like, you like the Smiths?
Los Smiths?
And I was like, yeah.
And I was like, you fuck with Morrissey?
And I was like, that's...
It's weird, 'cause he's, like, gay.
Like, you guys like him.
But he's like, how the...
That's all fucked up shit to say about Morrissey.
They have no...
They had no concept of the fact that...
That it was a gay guy.
But the lyrics have, like, passion.
The lyrics...
Bro, what the fuck, bro?
You got me...