Lil Durk is committed to ending gun violence in his hometown and has tasked “the streets” as well as his city’s politicians as with joining him in that mission.
The Chicago rapper made the statement during a clip of his upcoming appearance on the Big Facts Podcast which was published on Friday (May 31), after co-host Big Bank asked him what he would do if he could “clean the streets of Chicago up” and use his music to “kill all the beefs.”
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“That’s the number one goal, to stop it,” he said. “But, the number one priority for us in the streets and politician-wise, is to stop the violence and slow it down as much as possible. It starts with everybody just coming together.”
Durk acknowledged, however, that it’s not exactly a simple ask.
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“But, like I said, it’s hard because you probably got him other here thinking he that, but his young n****s don’t even respect him,” he added. “So, even if he be like, ‘Come on. Let’s come together.’ They’d look at him like, ‘Get the fuck on.'”
Check out the full clip below.
Earlier this year, Lil Durk shared plans to organize a concert in Chicago that he’s dubbing ‘Smurkchella’ in an effort to help combat the violence in his city.
Taking to his Instagram Story on Wednesday (April 10), he put a call out for artists who want to help him put together the event, which he plans on hosting at the Bears’ stadium.
“I’ma do a Smurkchella next year at the bears stadium in Chicago,” he wrote. “it’s gone be a stop the violence event and we gone split half the money with different non profits from big to small. I need help I need every artist who locked in with me to help save these kids.”
He then tagged the non-profit organization he created and added: “@neighborhoodheroesfoundation will help put it together let’s go this my way of giving back without saying it to look cool.”
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Lil Durk launched his Neighborhood Heroes non-profit organization in 2020 and has been steadily giving back to his community in the years that followed.
In 2022, they partnered with a non-profit named Chicago Votes to supply inmates and correctional facility workers at the Illinois Department of Correction with 29,000 bottles of hand sanitizer. The initiative was launched to combat the prison system’s lack of access to clean water amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
