G Herbo: City of Sorrow (Documentary) | Mass Appeal

in Chicago, Kansas, you left the pounds off your shoes, projects new mixed-income developments that mean rich and poor live side by side, coming from where I come, you gotta hope, oh boy, I want to stay in Chicago, they were 800 murders, you have a women's fight or something you can't judge people for what they face, you got a woman over it and I hate it, like he was successful, we just designed it for him with you, that's all the logic, everything seems like a trichotomy here. she will see everything harden, the east side is technically the south side also it's kind of a new invention to say that the east side Herbes generation is the first generation to be like this, yes this is the east side, look at that g herbal, right.

The first time I was really with her, I was going to this church that used to be here called the Israel of God and I thought, man, I'll just stop by it on the way through Kingston and lo and behold. Look, he was out there 78 from Kingston. There have been so many murders and

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acres around here lately. It's really not a sure thing. I'm not going to stay here like this because it seems quiet. but then it's like the wrong people see the wrong people and the next thing you know all hell can break loose quickly which is g

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man never leave my brothers we're from the east it's a nice tree say knife, no, it's where we grew up.

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put in the work and did it every day, but I feel like now that blood, the things that we've been through just made us different, you told us different things, like we were young, but we learned early. witnessing murders you know, I'm saying witness, if people died in front of us, our friends, the people we care about, just take everything you've been through, all the pain you applied to your accident, it could be rushed and it doesn't matter, would you? You know? I'm saying that you only apply the percentage of what you have learned and what you haven't and you will become an earth man.

I'm 22 years old. I've been thinking like this book, yeah, okay, decrease no. Time to see you later, who was carrying the racing maimoni, what door was he doing five years ago, probably six, he had said he had just flown back from our lair, a little to come to me, chief keef's movement was showing up and he was going crazy and I asked my cousin who was listening to all that and I said, man, it's got to be someone who's really young, who's good enough to count this storage as someone who could really make it in the moment when I met Mickey.

I started rapping. when I was 15 I just rapped on the phone, with a flip phone or 60 seconds of voice memos from there, I sent it to all my friends and they liked that it was hard and I kept doing like any other man, the best rapper in town . This little boy of 15 or 16 years old is called little heroine, he has a little hair as if he could hear your name. Everyone in the

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, not a single dwarf, really understood it. He let me watch something, so he put up this YouTube. It's simply called a little grass freestyle. you have a solid in this light DJ ale is in the car and is connected to the auxiliary court playing and beating the cars babies just looking at the grass he is rapping in front of the car from the suit what a wild life is Lutz and the wild life to shoot sending well, life, I thought I'd be a millionaire, I was carrying asses with guns that, still on my path to this day, I thought that's what my life would consist of, even though it was like I was living in the twilight. from some herve he was the type of cat in which you could always tell that he had a good heart he has a very good heart you are a good guy, you know it, but when you appear in your environment you are going to participate in what you see every day my name I'm Ralph Bennett.

I have been in Hyde Park for 12 years. 10 of those years I was the dean here. This is my second year in the classroom. Of course, Herbert was a student here when I was. So I can relate to kids like no one else. otherwise I left 63rd Street West Englewood, if you go there right now it looks like a war zone. I am one of them. I tell people that all the time. I am one of them. I think he chose the right path and I. I used to tell the rest of the staff Hello, everyone knows this kid, everyone knows what kind of talent this kid has.

He was showing people gaining weight when I saw that video. Then I knew that this child here has a future. this is where I start that gang wait what we're killing yay catch a body and away from the station I wasn't going to take out college student loans or read a book for eight hours while I was fighting, my mom was still fighting, you know I was going to be successful at being a rapper with hoes on being on the street working hustling whatever I was going to do to take care of my family he was in night school kind of struggling with the school thing he just got shot he was getting a little agitated too many people trying to kill them for him to just go to school, literally, it was just God, it was a blessing.

I still didn't care about rap like it was coming, but I didn't even know what it was coming for. we saw the look in his eyes I saw his cadence I saw what he would like it could be especially I would be there like Saul nas in the pot right that's what I felt yeah so I can't I can't hurt to catch him I got home the music saved me life you made my life different you made my family laugh different just tell my story who I am why I come from there why I want to be I have to make a wish to the man that is to be hurtful what is the time point around us outside a young man black grew up in the house popsie's boss never knew with a mom that's on drugs we turned 17 she became super Wow she's still a minor he just told her that the Rugers now have a shootout the streets have a ruthless Malcolm now the city of Chicago is experiencing killings at a record level, twice the number of Americans lost on the battlefields of Afghanistan over the past six months.

Now everyone looks at Chicago and thinks what the hell is going on. We have a problem of agreement and so do the children. raised with no sense of values ​​when it comes to life who can shoot indiscriminate gang violence against gang these streets belong to our children they belong to our families they don't belong to you the people of Chicago fight for the kind of right to be Here in your main street is like a convergence like who can go to that McDonald's, we can't go to that McDonald's, all of you will be able to go to that McDonald's, like who can go to that subway, what gas station.

It's ours which is yours or we're going to try to kill each other every time we're at this damn gas station look at it like this someone kills one of your friends it goes up like on the scoreboard almost like in your mind and in the neighborhood and in the atmosphere and on social media it goes up like they killed him, oh, they killed him, you know, it's like the first video I recorded and we listened to was all mine. I hired a Ruffini artist and told him. Hey bro, just go to her and make this like a mural for her dead bums, you know what I'm saying and come back to me, it's like man, well he just gave me 19 names.

I don't even know a locker that fits my mom. Damn, he's 17, he's got 19 friends, they've been killed by the ice, like yeah fart Faison I can't believe they're gone but I gotta stay strong so I wrote this song and I call them nice without an attitude of net field that puts everything in perspective. of what they're going through and the PTSD that must come with that and also why it's so important and kind of getting this story out here and offering some opportunity for these kids to have something to get off the streets for, it's like you.

I can't leave the streets because you're going to die or go to jail. Everyone knows they know it, but they like to get off the streets to do what Lee, the streets to work, go to work at McDonald's, so the people who were trying. kill me last week he could see me at McDonald's like what you want me to do like what opportunity to do I really have is and it's crazy to really think about it you know Herb is very smart and he was charming so he would get he's in trouble but he smiles and says something nice or says something that will always make you say just stay away from me because I'm a counselor.

I try to get to know the students and it's not always easy right now, there are only two counselors here. and there are 850 students, yes, he dropped out. Do we encourage our students to drop out? No, not at all, no, he took his chance and is making it happen. It's never too late to return. match those credits and we can get you a high school diploma. He will be able to walk across the stage in 2018, something he never had the chance to do when I left school. I didn't think he was going to drop out of school to be a famous rapper.

He hoped to be something. He would be on the streets working on rushing whatever he was going to do to take care of my family, obviously Harris, what's up, man, Nino? I'm saying that of course I got in trouble because I did what I did, but I always made them want to, you know, be around people who are grateful, thank you lord, oh yeah man, maybe I can come back to me high school and getting love. of all the kids and actually seeing my old staff, Dean, like Jay, will be happy for me. I know that big brother, everything he used to do is what he always let the kids be enough to influence all the kids and have a connection, you know, give.

They the best tools they need to be successful, damn that's hard, God why do they make rock work? Oh yes, I remember this auditorium here. I'm not going to cut anything. I said no, client, no. I'm going to set a positive. example look at this auditorium we used to be here when you're late for school you cut me schools like us so you know I spent countless mornings in this auditorium I had no one and I admired and I could listen to him tell me do this do that don't do this you know I've never had that how that miss Jackson is going to show me that GPA so I'm going to holla after that girl I always just want to reflect on my life a situation that I've been through that they may have been in what's going to help them, they may be on the path to making the decision that I made and that I had to learn from, but I come out and I just want to tell you. "Everyone knows what I'll do.

I like myself. The many nice things I can do. That's not having faith in yourself. Stay focused and try. Keep working hard. You don't have anything you like. Eat anything. It will be difficult. There will be ups and downs, you will lose, you will fail, but just give us a like if I can do it, any of you will do it like I'm in the same hallway saying classes, all of you stand in front of Everyone you know, what I'm saying is saying, I'm successful and I faced everything Charles faced you all can do everything I did and more like never leaving our brothers growing up It wasn't a joke, so we'll all do it. not sell detergent or soap I realized my surroundings and I had to grow up I thought she would act if I can talk but she really wasn't smoking incest Oh, push, get angry and shine in a bitch slap battle. with my hand it rises in saliva