The major label industrial rap complex continues to mine Chicago, but you can't buy Lil Herb. There are no radio singles or secret signings or for-free albums on iTunes that costs hundreds of thousands. The vitriolic MC, who dropped two mixtapes last year, is back with another one, and it finally has a release date. If his Twitter account is to be believed, Lil Herb's long-awaited Ballin' Like I'm Kobe will be out some time early next week. (Six days is, in rapper times, an approximation at best.)

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