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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
- american dream · 2024
- VULTURES (feat. Bump J & Lil Durk) - Single · 2023
- SoulFly (Deluxe Version) · 2021
- Expensive Pain · 2021
- Just Cause Y'all Waited 2 (Deluxe) · 2020
- The Voice of the Heroes · 2021
- Life Of Sossa · 2020
- Still Over It · 2021
Essential Albums
- When Lil Durk dropped the first iteration of 7220 in March 2022, the album played as a victory lap of sorts. Over the course of some 10 years, Durk had gone from a promising young talent within Chicago’s drill music scene to one of contemporary hip-hop’s most beloved MCs, someone who’d miraculously grown his fanbase with every mixtape, album and even guest verse. 7220 was the most anticipated release of his career, and he rewarded fans new and old with some of his most personal raps to date. “7220, that’s where I went through it,” Durk says on the album’s “Headtaps”. “Like my first life experience, know what I mean?” 7220 is named for the address of his beloved grandmother’s home. Within it, Durk talks about the time he wished he could watch cartoons with his children when he was locked up and how news of a cousin’s passing once sent him into a state of disbelief. He mentions the real-life home invasion he suffered on “Shootout @ My Crib” and lives out a revenge fantasy for friend and collaborator King Von on “AHHH HA”. With the deluxe version, though, Durk’s moved away from the highly specific stories of the original and into another zone with which he’s intimately familiar: lifestyle music. 7220 (Deluxe) boasts 13 new tracks, and within them are even more insights into how Durk is living. And just like the rest of us, his life is full of contradictions. He’ll confess that being rich and famous isn’t all it’s cracked up to be on “So What”, but he’s hyper-aware of the differences between himself and his haters on “Huuuh”. He hangs around bad hombres on “Burglars & Murderers”, but he’s broken up about the holes street violence has left in his life on “Hearing Sirens”. He’s brutally honest about what lovers can and cannot expect from him on “IYKYK”, but his heart bleeds for young women in the struggle on “Selling Lashes”. It wouldn’t have taken this latest edition of 7220 for most fans to know that Lil Durk contains multitudes, but with it he’s done something not even diehards could have foreseen. He’s revealed even more about the most famous person to have called Chicago’s 7220 S. Halsted home.
- 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.
- Apple Music's exclusive live series continues with Chicago rapper Lil Durk performing in Los Angeles.
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