Lil Durk and Quando Rondo appeared to have traded subliminal shots on social media with a possible album showdown on the horizon.
Durkio has been teasing his new album The Voice 2.0 for some time now, while Rondo is also readying a new project called 1633.
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The latter shared the cover art for his upcoming effort on Instagram earlier this week, teasing a March release date while revealing it’s dedicated to his late friend Lul Pab, who was shot and killed last summer.
“1 more month I put my heart in this album , seen a lot of blood sweat and tears I lost my right hand man in front of my eyes I love you thug I’m going number 1 for you big brah,” the Never Broke Again wrote.
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Shortly after, Lil Durk issued a strongly-worded message to the competition on his Instagram Stories, writing: “I can drop this single and fuck up the streets on god your release date ain’t safe son.”
Rondo seemingly took Smurk’s words personally and replied with an Instagram Story of his own that read: “Drop that shit we all on a time schedule!”
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Lil Durk previously hyped The Voice 2.0 last weekend, letting fans know that he’s on another level creatively with this new LP.
“This album ain’t regular,” he wrote to Instagram with a photo of him performing on stage.
The beef runs deep between Durk’s OTF family and Quando Rondo’s Never Broke Again collective. In November 2020, a member of Rondo’s crew, Lul Tim, allegedly shot and killed King Von outside an Atlanta hookah lounge.
However, an album showdown between Durk and Rondo wouldn’t be a particularly fair fight, commercially speaking, as the former has topped the Billboard 200 twice thanks to 7220 and his The Voice of the Heroes collab with Lil Baby, while the latter’s highest-charting effort was 2020’s QPac, which peaked at No. 22.
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“I got a real #1 album I came a long way and really ain’t suppose to be here,” Durk wrote on Instagram last year while celebrating 7220 debuting at No. 1. “I been here 10years and still feel like a new artist thank my team and thank my label and the fans …. Ps a real #1 not a fake one.”
The Chicago rap star also returned in December to deliver his Loyal Bros 2 compilation, which featured the likes of Future, Kodak Black and Trippie Redd in addition to his Only The Family collective.
