Lil Durk has opened up about being a proponent of therapy, naming it as a process that helps him deal with things in a healthier way than previously.
Speaking to XXL in interview shared on Thursday (April 20), the “Laugh Now, Cry Later” rapper said that he’s taken stock of his life in recent months, and he realized that therapy played a crucial role in helping him conduct business in a more effective way.
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“Being more open. Being more open to letting [my new manager] Pete [Jideonwo] in,” he said. “Moving certain people out the way. That’s the best feeling. Therapy, the kids, the new team, all that. But the best feeling is really just starting over.”
When pressed further about the benefits of therapy, Lil Durk continued: “I got a therapist so I cope different. … I don’t show emotion. So, some people will be like, ‘Man, you can’t hold it in.’ And I just can’t talk to nobody usually.
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“You gotta be careful how you tell people, what you tell people, because they can use it against you. They can find out your weaknesses. So now, when I talk to the therapist, then it start getting more emotional. But like somebody on the street, you’ll never even see me shed a tear.”
Lil Durk isn’t just changing his own life, however. On April 14, he provided two students from Chicago with $50,000 scholarships to attend Howard University with the development of his Durk Banks Endowment Fund. He did this in collaboration with Amazon Music.
The two students were selected from 20 participating in Lil Durk’s Neighborhood Heroes HBCU College & Career Readiness Cohort Program. He’s not stopping there, though. The Chicago native will also donate $250,000 to Howard’s GRACE Grant – a program created to help students needing tuition assistance.
Sharing the news on his Instagram, Durk wrote: “I’m the voice this the part they don’t show, I appreciate all the kids who are struggling to finish school and needed this blessing.”
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Durk launched his Neighborhood Heroes non-profit organization in 2020 and has steadily been giving back to his community in the years that followed.
Last year, it partnered with the non-profit Chicago Votes to supply the Illinois Department of Correction inmates and correctional facility workers 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 virus.
