Durk's new album, 'Almost Healed,' features guests J. Cole and Morgan Wallen ('That's my dawg') and unusually frank talk of seeking professional help.
“[I’m speaking on] what I’ve been dealing with, reasons I’ve been off the internet, reasons I haven’t been myself lately,” he says quietly. “I’m trying to fix it with family, and with friends.”Earlier this year, Durk had planned to call the album “The Voice 2.0,” but after ASAP Rocky shot down the title with a blunt dismissal, the Chicago rapper made a last-minute pivot.
Online, Durk’s name has swirled in blog-fueled beef after rival YoungBoy Never Broke Again dissed just about all of Durk’s friends and collaborators on “F— the industry Pt. 2”; in person, Durk sullenly proclaims he hasn’t even bothered to play the song.“I don’t pay attention to any of that,” he says. “I used to say ‘Who’s the biggest, let me talk my s— back.’ But now, it’s ‘say whatever, do whatever.’ The money’s gonna talk, the consistency’s gonna talk.
“I went and talked to him, to see what was up with [the video],” he says. “When I hung out with him, it was totally the opposite. He was nowhere near racist. That’s my dawg. I took my own risk, to show the world that he isn’t that.”In the midst of his own healing journey, Durk has put a renewed emphasis on his community through, his nonprofit aimed at bettering the futures of Chicago’s youth.
Durk eventually dropped out of high school and had his first of seven children at age 17. Around the same time, he doubled down on his rap dreams, catching local fire with the antagonistic “Durk’s Auto-Tuned, half-rapped, half-sung delivery meshed seamlessly as hip-hop turned more melodic in the early 2010s; he rode that formula to success on 2013’s “,” his national breakthrough. The song was boosted further when Rick Ross, Meek Mill and French Montana hopped on the track for the remix.
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