Lil Durk

Chicago rapper Lil Durk started catching up in the early 2010s when he was still a teenager, adding pop touches to a raw lyrical style and helping to set the tone for the melodic sound that Chicago rap will have been known for a decade. He released numerous albums in the higher regions of Billboard 200, with Love Songs 4 Streets 2 (2019) and Just Cause Y'all Waited 2 (2020) both hitting the Top Five. His musical style is classified as Hip hop, trap, drill, R&B.

In 2011, Durk took music seriously. After plans to sign with Chief Keef and French Montana's labels fell through, he considered rapping as a full-time career after the releases of his two singles, 'Sneak Dissin'' and 'I' ma Hitta', each of which received generally positive feedback. Throughout 2017, Durk released several mixtapes: Love Songs for the Streets in February, Supa Vultures, a collaborative mixtape with Lil Reese, in August, Signed to the Streets 2.5 in October and Bloodas, a collaborative mixtape with Tee Grizzley, in December. In 2018, Durk announced his twelfth mixtape, Just Cause Ya'll Waited and also that he signed with Alamo Records & Interscope Records.