Lil Durk on Apple Music (2024)

7220 (Deluxe)

When Lil Durk dropped the first iteration of 7220 in March 2022, the album played as a victory lap of sorts. Over the course of some 10 years, Durk had gone from a promising young talent within Chicago’s drill music scene to one of contemporary hip-hop’s most beloved MCs, someone who’d miraculously grown his fanbase with every mixtape, album, and even guest verse. 7220 was the most anticipated release of his career, and he rewarded fans new and old with some of his most personal raps to date.“7220, that’s where I went through it,” Durk says on the album’s “Headtaps.” “Like my first life experience, know what I mean?” 7220 is named for the address of his beloved grandmother’s home. Within it, Durk talks about the time he wished he could watch cartoons with his children when he was locked up and how news of a cousin’s passing once sent him into a state of disbelief. He mentions the real-life home invasion he suffered on “Shootout @ My Crib” and lives out a revenge fantasy for friend and collaborator King Von on “AHHH HA.” With the deluxe version, though, Durk’s moved away from the highly specific stories of the original and into another zone with which he’s intimately familiar: lifestyle music. 7220 (Deluxe) boasts 13 new tracks, and within them are even more insights into how Durk is living. And just like the rest of us, his life is full of contradictions. He’ll confess that being rich and famous isn’t all it’s cracked up to be on “So What,” but he’s hyper-aware of the differences between himself and his haters on “Huuuh.” He hangs around bad hombres on “Burglars & Murderers,” but he’s broken up about the holes street violence has left in his life on “Hearing Sirens.” He’s brutally honest about what lovers can and cannot expect from him on “IYKYK,” but his heart bleeds for young women in the struggle on “Selling Lashes.” It wouldn’t have taken this latest edition of 7220 for most fans to know that Lil Durk contains multitudes, but with it he’s done something not even diehards could have foreseen. He’s revealed even more about the most famous person to have called Chicago’s 7220 S. Halsted home.

The Voice of the Heroes

At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, the 2021 alliance of Lil Baby and Lil Durk is historic. There hasn’t been a real-time coupling of two of contemporary hip-hop’s most beloved and revered MCs like this since at least 2015’s What a Time to Be Alive. Their The Voice of the Heroes project—the title references their respective nicknames—is a testament not only to their relationship, but to the respect they have for their legacies. It’s hard to imagine either being more popular within the hip-hop space, and yet hip-hop—the kind heavily informed by street life, to be specific—is what we get across The Voice of the Heroes, wholly. The closest thing to a pop aspiration on the project is the Travis Scott feature, and even Cactus Jack taps into his gutter side while detailing the consequences of going against the gang (“Bro, do it silent without a potato,” he says on “Hats Off”). Elsewhere on the album are guest appearances from Meek Mill, Young Thug, and the face of pain rap himself, Rod Wave. Though it would appear Baby and Durk spared no expense with regard to production (London on da Track, Turbo, Wheezy, Murda Beatz, among others), the two never lose sight of the fact that the real draw is what happens when they get in the same room, which is the kind of rapping that has made each a king in his own right, compounded by the kind of chemistry that makes them sound like an actual group.

Nightmares In the Trenches

2023

Almost Healed

2023

Lil Durk Presents: Loyal Bros 2

2022

7220 (Deluxe)

2022

The Voice of the Heroes

2021

The Voice (Deluxe)

2020

Just Cause Y'all Waited 2 (Deluxe)

2020

Lil Durk Essentials

A mix of diverse sounds from a Chicago drill-scene staple.

Lil Durk: Chill

Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.

Lil Durk: Sing

Grab the mic and sing along with some of their biggest hits.

Lil Durk: Apple Music Live

Apple Music's exclusive live series continues with Chicago rapper Lil Durk performing in Los Angeles.

Rap Life Live at Clark Atlanta University

Performances from Lil Durk, Saweetie, and Moneybagg Yo shot at the renowned HBCU.

Old Days - Single

2024

Smurk Carter - Single

2023

Big FU - Single

2023

All My Life (Remixes) - Single

2023

Guitar In My Room - Single

2023

Hellcats SRTs 2 - Single

2023

F*ck U Thought - Single

2023

Apple Music Live: Lil Durk

2022

Nelly (feat. Lil Durk) - Single

Igwe Aka

¥$, Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign

Gang Bangin (feat. Lil Durk) - Single

Memo600

SAVAGE (feat. Lil Durk) - Single

Doni Bankz

Shoot Who (feat. Lil Durk) - Single

Memo 600

My Friends (feat. Lil Durk) - Single

Ty Dolla $ign & Mustard

Q-Pid (feat. Lil Durk) - Single

2Rare

Lil Durk

The artist talks to Nadeska about his album 'Almost Healed.'

Lil Durk

Lil Durk joins Nadeska to discuss his album 'Almost Healed.'

Lil Durk

Zane Lowe talks to the rapper about his song “All My Life”with J. Cole.

Nov. 28: Lil Durk

Lil Durk’s “What Happened to Virgil” still resonates.

Lil Durk

Ebro speaks to the rapper for Apple Music Live.

Top Streamed: Lil Durk

Brooke runs through the rapper's biggest songs.

Lil Durk

Ebro speaks to the artist for Apple Music Live.