#LilDurkLyrics

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I wasn't really into music. I was in the streets. I was too worried about the streets how I was going to eat and how I was going to make the streets happen.

- Lil Durk

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I let my team pick what order the records go. I don't pick my own records. I'm a fan of my music regardless so you have to think outside of the box.

- Lil Durk

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Certain parts are bad in every city, but Chicago is beautiful.

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When I began to rap, I wasn't taking it really seriously. As I start seeing good things, it's getting serious.

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A lot of projects I do are all 'real' music.

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I have been living down in Atlanta, but everyone back home has been in my thoughts, especially those doing something for the community and all the neighborhood heroes. I thought about all the first responders putting their lives on the line to help out and it inspired me, so I took a jet back to Chicago to show my thanks.

- Lil Durk

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I wanna get the streets riled back up. I wanna get super tours and bookings.

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What really broke it down as I had my son while I was locked up, so that really affected me. I can't really have this, knowing my father was locked up when I was small. So that really out of everything - through the fame, the money, everything - that really put the toll on me: 'Oh yeah, I gotta change.'

- Lil Durk

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Atlanta is definitely where it's at. I still go back to Chicago a lot though, I have family there.

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My father was incarcerated for 25 years, and 26 years, so I had a rough past, but me moving to Atlanta, I just thought that changed my whole identity - my thinking.

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When I do shows, I take pictures and make the fans feel like family. All of that really matters. That's the cheat code if you ain't got a hit.

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I've been with Def Jam Records for five years and they gave me my first recording contract so for that I'm forever grateful.

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I'm big on the studio. I like to stay in it 24/7.

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No shade to the other artists in Chicago... but if you have confidence in yourself and you know you're Number One, say it.

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I want to do, like, 50 records.

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See what I do is I book a studio that's closed down and I go by myself. No one's in there, literally just me and the engineer.

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