Lil Durk Reviews 23 Chicago Rap Songs

[mortuus est]

The Chicago Drill scene is responsible for some of the most explosive music in rap today. On one hand, it's produced stars like Chief Keef, and street anthems like Keef's "I Don't Like" as well as lesser known hits like Katie Got Bandz' "I Need A Hitta."

On the other, the scene is marred by the inner-city violence that is currently plaguing Chicago. Recently, the violence on the streets spilled into the music, blurring the distinction between art and life, leaving us all to make sense of it.

Despite the rise of a new, street-oriented scene, Chicago has always produced rap stars, and has a very rich hip-hop history. Although it's home to some of the toughest 'hoods in America, the most famous rappers from Chi-Town (Common, Lupe Fiasco, and of course, Kanye West) aren't known for street anthems.

That's why we figured it would be interesting to see what an up-and-coming rapper like Lil Durk has to say about songs from rappers that repped the Chicago in the past along with the ones repping it today. Read on to find out why Lil Durk rocks with Lupe Fiasco, doesn't rock with Common, and whose video had him fighting with his mother for the remote.

Lil Durk Reviews 23 Chicago Rap Songs | Complex

R. Kelly f/ Jay-Z, Boo & Gotti "Fiesta (Remix)" (2001)
Lil Durk: "I was young as hell [when this came out]. I was eight or nine, but I was into Kells. This is different too. Jay-Z that’s my homie. I’m gonna do a song with him there. I respect a guy from Chicago. I like people who come back to our city. They can’t even sing what they sing, they don’t come out there. You come there, you show other people’s city respect than ours, than the city you from. We don’t stop that the kid’s money. I mean, the kids with bags, you know what I am saying? Everything count. And they don’t do nothing."

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

Common “The Corner” (2005)
Lil Durk: "The video fit but you ain’t on the corner. My music, I make real rap. I ain’t saying I’m not on the South Beach corner in Florida. Just be yourself. A lot of people saying they like him, I don’t really like Common. I don’t connect with him. He’s versatile, I just can’t see myself riding around listening to Common."

 

[dre]

Is versatile supposed to be a bad thing..

 

[spliz]

is Common supposed to really be on the corner at damn near 40 years old with millions of dollars?...Common prolly know about Chicago more than him and seen more fukked up shyt as well...can we get these ignorant ass kids the fukk outta here?..please?..

 

[SEC Hater]

We do like Lupe. I can relate to him, not like Common.

Whats his problem with Common?

 

[mortuus est]

All them gbe guys talk funny in their interviews tbh

 

[King Sun]

crack babies

 

[mortuus est]

Is versatile supposed to be a bad thing..

Lil Durk: "We was in the city. I feel like we have a lot of shyt to say. Chief, he’s versatile."

 

[dre]

NVM I read it in the wrong context anyway.

That's still retarded logic.

 

[HendriX]

He's a YOUNG singer/rapper who happens to be from a certified hood..so of course he cant relate to the superior lyricism that common be kicking in his songs..he said that Lupe shiit just to compensate for the common comments

 

[Fredrick Thuglas]

crack babies

Kanye West f/ Syleena Johnson “All Falls Down” (2004)

Lil Durk: "I was in middle school then. I rock with this though. That’s when I started really rocking him when he made this. I remember when he first shot the video, I knew he was different. Doing the video scene through the window fields. This video made me want to fukk [Stacey Dash]. [Laughs.]"

This video made every man that hit puberty want to fukk Stacey Dash... at her nipples being hard as shyt from the beginning of the video.