G Herbo & Southside - Swervo
Critic Score
Based on 3 reviews
User Score
Based on 78 ratings
2018 Ratings: #632
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CRITIC REVIEWS

80
The 405
Collaborating with Southside leads to a potential career-best for G Herbo.
73
Pitchfork

The Chicago rapper’s latest project as his alter-ego named Swervo is all velocity. He delivers some of his starkest verses like a steamroller, almost completely desensitized.

70
HipHopDX

As it stands, this album plays more like a carefully constructed mixtape and less like G Herbo’s official sophomore effort. As a body of work, it is nowhere near as essential as Herbo’s debut or his stellar mixtapes Welcome 2 Fazoland and Ballin Like Kobe.

Z.Younk
74

Grab some mf outta 808 Mafia and admire the results.

78

Herb's cocky album. Hearing him for the first time in that urban1on1 freestyle years ago to this is a big chance in a person. I barely recognize him musically. It isn't bad though really. I think Pac n Dre and Tweakin are hard skips, Honestly with Juice WRLD was an extremely disappointing collab. and the rest are re-playable. Who Run It is a great remix, too. Hard respect for this album after a few years.

swervo
85

Without a doubt one of the most underrated rapper & producer collabs of the last 10 years, maybe of all time. G Herbo has always been one of my favorite new gen rappers because he is in fact insanely versatile despite his voice making it not seem like that. The two songs "That's How I Grew Up" and "Letter" represent my point perfectly. Even though they are both rap songs, they are completely different in content. That's How I Grew Up is a song more related to the gang ... read more

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Track List

1Some Nights
3:18
2Swervo
3:12
3How I Grew Up
3:40
feat. 21 Savage
4FoReal
2:38
5Catch Up
3:10
6Tweakin (Head)
3:01
7Pac n Dre
3:14
8Bonjour
3:32
9Huh
3:21
10100 Sticks
3:46
11Honestly
3:34
12Letter
4:45
13Focused
2:43
14Who Run It (Remix)
2:48
Total Length: 46 minutes
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Added on: July 27, 2018