Lil Herb caught up with Complex to talk about how he linked with Nicki Minaj and how their new song ‘Chi-Raq‘ came about. Check out an excerpt of the interview below.
How did she first reach out to you?
She reached out to me on my own. SB [Safaree], he called. Her assistant. It just went from there. We didn’t know how serious it was at first until—they tried to fly us out the same day they spoke with us.
There were people who thought it was a bad idea for Nicki—since she’s not from Chicago—to call a song Chiraq. What do you think about that?
I don’t even really pay attention to it. I don’t think it was a bad idea or a bad anything. I mean, she reached out to me, to put me on the song. She’s rapping about shit that’s going on in Chicago. That’s what I rap about. That’s what I’m known for. That’s what she reached out to me for. So why would we rap about flowers and heart shapes?