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Latest Release
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- 3 AUG 2024
- 1 Song
- Almost Healed · 2023
- Laugh Now Cry Later (feat. Lil Durk) - Single · 2020
- KHALED KHALED · 2021
- Just Cause Y'all Waited 2 · 2020
- The Voice of the Heroes · 2021
- VULTURES (feat. Bump J & Lil Durk) - Single · 2023
- The Voice of the Heroes · 2021
- Certified Lover Boy · 2021
- Fast & Furious 9: The Fast Saga (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) · 2021
- Signed to the Streets 3 · 2018
Essential Albums
- At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, the 2021 alliance of Lil Baby and Lil Durk is historic. There hasn’t been a real-time coupling of two of contemporary hip-hop’s most beloved and revered MCs like this since at least 2015’s What a Time to Be Alive. Their The Voice of the Heroes project—the title references their respective nicknames—is a testament not only to their relationship, but to the respect they have for their legacies. It’s hard to imagine either being more popular within the hip-hop space, and yet hip-hop—the kind heavily informed by street life, to be specific—is what we get across The Voice of the Heroes, wholly. The closest thing to a pop aspiration on the project is the Travis Scott feature, and even Cactus Jack taps into his gutter side while detailing the consequences of going against the gang (“Bro, do it silent without a potato,” he says on “Hats Off”). Elsewhere on the album are guest appearances from Meek Mill, Young Thug and the face of pain rap himself, Rod Wave. Though it would appear Baby and Durk spared no expense with regard to production (London on da Track, Turbo, Wheezy, Murda Beatz, among others), the two never lose sight of the fact that the real draw is what happens when they get in the same room, which is the kind of rapping that has made each a king in his own right, compounded by the kind of chemistry that makes them sound like an actual group.
Artist Playlists
- A mix of diverse sounds from a Chicago drill-scene staple.
- Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
- Grab the mic and sing along with some of their biggest hits.
Live Albums
- ¥$, Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign
- ¥$, Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign
- ¥$, Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign
- ¥$, Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign
- Lil Durk’s “What Happened to Virgil” still resonates.
- Brooke runs through the rapper's biggest songs.
About Lil Durk
Back in the early 2010s, Durk Banks was just another rapper making his way in Chicago drill, a bleak, diamond-hard variant on trap that channelled the city’s culture of violence into unlikely anthems. Drill—and the label frenzy that surrounded it—faded, but Durk evolved, becoming one of the rare rappers able to make the leap from regional fame to the mainstream without diluting his street appeal. Painful, raw, but eerily pretty, Durk’s music can turn death threats into nursery rhymes (“Die Slow”) and coax shades of suffering from Auto-Tune that make even the slickest productions breathe with vulnerability (“Turn Myself In”). He doesn’t sugar-coat it. But you get the sense he isn’t putting on too much of a show, either. Born in Chicago in 1992, Durk started rapping in his teens, building local popularity through mixtapes before landing on Def Jam in 2012. His debut album, Remember My Name, came out in 2015, followed by Lil Durk 2X. Though he forged his reputation on drill, Durk proved unexpectedly versatile, a rapper who could slip between dead-eyed rawness and Auto-Tuned melodicism, and handle a love song (“India”, “My Beyoncé”) without making it sound like it was a mandate from the label. He left Def Jam in 2018, asserting his independence on a spate of mixtapes before joining Geffen Records with 2020’s Just Cause Y’all Waited 2. In 2022, he performed an Apple Music Live session in Los Angeles.
- HOMETOWN
- Chicago, IL, United States
- BORN
- 19 October 1992
- GENRE
- Hip-Hop/Rap