![]() This past summer, he could be seen jet-skiing at Nike Headquarters alongside Drake in the video for the Canadian rapper’s single “Laugh Now, Cry Later.” “Even though I got a case, I’ma do what it take,” Durk sings in his patented auto-tune. With his keen sense of melody and unfiltered dramatizations of life on the street, Durk has never shied away from a past that included selling drugs and gang-related dust-ups, even as his profile continues to rise. But while most of the figures from that era have since dropped off, the 28-year-old performer persevered, enduring label drama, shifting tastes, and run-ins with the law to become one of the most prolific storytellers in all of rap. Growing up as Durk Banks amidst one of the highest crime rates in the country, Lil Durk first emerged during the city’s drill music boom of the early 2010s. ![]() Across five albums and 12 mixtapes, the rapper has used his upbringing in the city’s Englewood neighborhood as both motivation and muse. ![]() ![]() It’s been years since Lil Durk left the South Side of Chicago, but the South Side of Chicago has never left Lil Durk. ![]()
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