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ALBUMOld Days - SingleLil Durk
Albums by Lil Durk
ALBUMNightmares In the TrenchesLil Durk & Only The Family
ALBUMAlmost HealedLil Durk
ALBUMLil Durk Presents: Loyal Bros 2Only The Family & Lil Durk
ALBUM7220 (Deluxe)Lil Durk
ALBUMThe Voice of the HeroesLil Baby & Lil Durk
ALBUMThe Voice (Deluxe)Lil Durk
ALBUMJust Cause Y'all Waited 2 (Deluxe)Lil Durk
ALBUMFamily Over EverythingLil Durk & Only The Family
ALBUMLove Songs 4 the Streets 2Lil Durk
ALBUMSigned to the Streets 3Lil Durk
Lil Durk's Popular Music Videos
All Love
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AHHH HA
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Viral Moment
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Backdoor
Lil Durk
What Happened To Virgil
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The Voice
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Doin Too Much
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Golden Child
Lil Durk
Street Prayer
Lil Durk
Barbarian
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Artist Playlists
Lil Durk Essentials
A mix of diverse sounds from a Chicago drill-scene staple.
Lil Durk: Chill
Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
Lil Durk: Sing
Grab the mic and sing along with some of their biggest hits.
Lil Durk: Apple Music Live
Apple Music's exclusive live series continues with Chicago rapper Lil Durk performing in Los Angeles.
Rap Life Live at Clark Atlanta University
Performances from Lil Durk, Saweetie, and Moneybagg Yo shot at the renowned HBCU.
Artist Biography
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 channeled 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 sugarcoat 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.
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
Genre
Hip-Hop/Rap