Strictly 4 My Fans

G Herbo’s tough, tenacious street-rap style is laid out in brutal detail on his potent fourth mixtape, *Strictly 4 My Fans*. On “Run It Up,” he rides some tenement-sized riffs, booming bass, and heavy percussion, offering a rattling, pavement-crumbling encapsulation of Chicago drill music. The rapper switches things up on the Auto-Tuned “Control,” its ugly-beautiful synthetic vocals and horror-movie piano keys helping Herb recall a doomed romance with bitter vehemence.

G Herbo remains rap’s youngest old man, a wizened 21-year-old who sounds, for the third year running, like he’s on the cusp of something truly great.