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Chicago rapper G Herbo, now older and wiser, is looking to do much more than make hit rap tunes

CHICAGO - It's been five years since an 18-year-old G Herbo snagged a coveted collaboration with Nicki Minaj on her song "Chiraq" and overnight became one of Chicago's most buzzed-about new MCs. "But honestly this is just the beginning of my journey," the 23-year-old rapper said when calling from his downtown home on a recent afternoon.

To hear him tell it, that teenage Herbo - the one known at the time as Lil Herb, and who made a near-instant splash on the

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