Lil Durk considers himself among the Chicago elite.
During an interview with Rolling Stone, Chi-Town lyricist Lil Durk was asked if he places himself among the elite from his city. The rapper quickly responded with a “yeah,” before adding that he considers himself number one.
Durk revealed that he meant no disrespect to the other Chicago artists with his declaration, but explained that if you’re confident in yourself as an artist, you shouldn’t be afraid to let it be known.
“Yeah, number one,” Lil Durk said when asked if he’s among the Chicago elite. “Nah, but definitely number one. No shade to the other artists in Chicago. Salute [to] all the Chicago artists that’s turnt up, doing they thing right now. But if you got confidence in yourself and you know you number one, say it.”
Lil Durk later shared the details of how the likes of Young Thug and Jeezy encouraged him to release Lil Durk 2X as an EP, as opposed to a mixtape.
“Lil Durk 2X was supposed to be a mixtape,” he said. “But I turned it into an album because when I introduced the music to Jeezy. When I showed Thug or Gotti the project and had ’em listening to it they were like ‘Man, why you giving this away for free?’ And I started thinking about it. Like ‘Damn, this shit is hard.’ So, we just started politicking with the team. And they was like ‘We should make it an EP.’ And that’s what we did…I wanted to do something different and just get good vibes. Just like a burst of good music.”
Video of Lil Durk declaring himself number one in Chicago, can be found below.
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that says everything you need to know about the state of hiphop and music…
So bad right now. We got Drake harmonizing about fake ex-girlfriends again. We got Lil Uzi Vert and Young Thug’s ambiguous lean and skinny jeans shit all over the radio. Purple braids and shit! Smmfh. Every fuckin’ record is heavily relying on auto-tune. I blame Kanye and T-Pain for that shit. Hip Hip is no longer. It’s Auto-Trap now
lil durk has the head of a fat man even though he’s not fat. it’s fucking bizarre.
Nah. Delusion is very dangerous. Drugs are bad.
He doesn’t even rap anymore! All he does is sing Autotune.
When all else fails! I guess that he has to stir up a buzz/controversy somehow.
PS – This comment was sponsored by Auto-Tune! “Auto-Tune: When you clearly can’t sing for shit but aspire to be a ringtone rapper!”
LIL’ WHO?? THAT WHOLE CHICAGO RAP SCENE IS CORNY AND WACK AS FUCK. BUNCH OF WANNABE G’Z RUNNING AROUND IN WOMEN’S SKINNY JEANS WAVING GATS SHOOTING AT RANDOM PEOPLE IN THE HOOD AND SNITCHING ON THEMSELVES. WHERE THAT FUCKIN’ G-CODE AT!? THE RAP GAME IS NOTHING BUT A FUCKING GONG SHOW NOWADAYS.
Preach. These kids are terrible
Just cause he had the luck to made it dont mean he the number 1 Chicago sames goes to Dex ,Fredo and Keef i can take that from Bibby ,lil jay,Herb,Lud Foe ,600breezy ,Vic Mensa and Montana of 300 who at least know how to rap 4 example regardless the shit they say or lots of unknown rappers in Chicago that unfortunately dont have clout but not the dumbasses that i mention.
when he evolves as an artist & stops using autotune then he’ll expand his fanbase.
I think he is ok but definitely not the best. If ya niggas listen to Montana he spit the truth about the real problems. FGE shit.
This shows you how wack Chicago really is. Stupid mfs and their chiraq bs. They really proud of that, all that killing. Wankstas. That nigga look like a wet hamster. And he’s dating a dyke