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G Herbo Hands NoLimit Drench $100,110 Birthday Gift After Prison Release

G Herbo gifted childhood friend NoLimit Drench $100,110 for his birthday after his release from prison, and the Chicago rapper's gesture is going viral.

By Ronald Jeferson

G Herbo just turned a birthday into a bank statement. The Chicago rapper gave his childhood friend and collaborator NoLimit Drench $100,110 as a birthday gift, days after Drench walked out of prison, and the oddly specific figure has been eating up timelines since the receipt surfaced.

The proof came in the form of a banking app screenshot showing a balance of exactly $100,110.00, tagged with Drench’s handle and posted by the mixtape platform MyMixtapez. DailyLoud’s repost pushed it in front of millions more. Drench, also known as NoLimit Wet, is part of the same Chicago circle G Herbo grew up in, and the two share a catalog, including the track “No Limit” credited to both names, a partnership that echoes other prison homecomings the genre has celebrated this year.

The internet fixed on the $110. “He ain’t slick, he had $110 this morning,” one X user wrote, riffing that the round figure had been sitting in the account before the wire landed. Another asked whether the extra cash was for bank charges, because ten grand would have trended on its own. The spare hundred and ten made it comedy. Nobody questioned the math, though.

The gift lands as Drench restarts his life after incarceration, and G Herbo has a track record of putting money where his city is. Earlier this year he publicly challenged DJ Akademiks and DJ Vlad to each donate $100,000 to Chicago youth programs, a call he framed around the two media figures profiting from coverage of the city’s violence. That challenge, documented by Complex, never got a public answer from either name.

Chicago has been responding to the gesture the way it does best, with equal parts love and jokes, and the love is winning. Streamers of NLMB loyalty filled comment sections with welcome home messages for Drench, plenty of them pointing out that coming home to six figures beats any welcome back party a venue could throw. For a city that has watched too many homecomings end in tragedy, the sight of cash moving toward a friend fresh out reads as the version people root for.

No word yet from Drench himself beyond the post, and G Herbo’s camp has not commented. The screenshot talks. In a genre where loyalty is the most quoted word in the vocabulary, a bank transfer of one hundred thousand one hundred ten dollars is the least arguable sentence anyone has written all week.

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Ronald Jeferson
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