This week, Lil Durk stopped by the DXHQ to promote his new album Lil Durk 2X that dropped today.
Featuring the hit single “My Beyonce” with Dej Loaf, he explained why the album is a different beast than last year’s Remember My Name, which HipHopDX gave 3/5. “The last album, I followed everybody else, did what they wanted to do and put it together how they did it,” said Lil Durk. “But this album, I did me. I had fun with it. It’s way different, you going to tell the difference if you hear it.”
Lil Durk’s sophomore album also features high-profile guest appearances from Ty Dolla $ign, Young Thug and Future. With this release, Durk has a new air of celebrity around him, making him one of the last active Chicago rappers to emerge from the city’s Drill scene boom of years prior, but he still doesn’t feel that he’s crossed into the mainstream just yet.
“I wouldn’t say crossed over, just staying above water,” the Def Jam rapper explained. “I’m still holding on cause I see the bigger picture. I like jewelry, cars, fashion — I want it forever. Then I got kids too, it’s a lot you got to do to stay above and stay active, keep your name in people mouth. And people don’t really understand that. You got people going from $30,000 a show to $2,000 a show; it’s backtracking, I ain’t trying to backtrack.”
When the rumor mill isn’t wondering about his relationship status with Dej Loaf, Durk is creating news with his overwhelming support of Black Lives Matter, even going so far as to get a large tattoo supporting the civil rights organization. His reason? The deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.
“Everything’s been crazy, it’s been getting to me,” said Lil Durk. “But the last two was a slap in the face, like damn! Y’all let this shit happen like this, and nothing happens to the police officers. That’s what made me mad, and I knew it was going to start something. It was like a slap back in their face, that’s why I got the tattoo for it, man. We definitely stand for something.”
The Chicago emcee joins a growing list of rappers, athletes and celebrities who have become vocal regarding the outbreak in police brutality cases going viral. Lil Durk even took the time to address Black Lives Matter opponents who use his hometown as a scapegoat for the “black on black crime.”
“Killing happens everywhere; it happens,” explained Durk. “It’s not supposed to happen by the people who’s supposed to protect us. We call you, you come shoot. It be different, violence don’t go away anywhere.”
Watch today’s trending story featuring Lil Durk below:
This kid is a human Etch-a-Sketch anyway. Cool story, bro.
So Black Lives Matter yet he’s still dissing Jojo. Lmfao this shit kills me. You have artist like him that try to support movements that they end up contradicting all the time. This is just as dumb as having famous ppl that dropped out of school trying to tell kids to stay in school.
What a piece of garbage
This is what you expect when you let idiot rappers articulate their thoughts and give ignorant unbiased opinions on intellectual subject matters involving politics and religion. I bet he got the tattoo because he’s a clueless follower.
And he’s got a white wife and half white kids…
Your point being what? If your girl is white and your kids are biracial then you’re never allowed to speak on a social issue again? See, THAT is the kind of ignorance that is dangerous, because it’s hatred masquerading as righteousness.
“You gon tell the difference when you hear it” yeah right, the first one was Garbage, this one is More Garbage. Big difference over there.
the fuck is a lil durk? and why does anyone care?
He was part of a gang and gang war that plagued one of Chicago’s worst neighborhoods a few years ago, but now that he’s matured all that doesn’t matter right? People died – not just one or two. All the gangs in that area have numerous bodies. What about the parents and families of some of his rivals that his gang killed? Why was he saying free Rondo when Rondo killed a cab driver? It’s good to see a person make it out of the ghetto and try to make a difference, but he should start with the area he helped lay waste to.
To Sensaye Stormcloak
You shouldn’t be mixing races anyway. That doesn’t help one fuckkkkking thing. Stick to your own race and quit being sell outs. It’s pathetic as fuckkkkkk