Lil Durk

I met Jay Z. I don't really care about all that though.

— Lil Durk

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.

— Lil Durk

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

— Lil Durk

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

— Lil Durk

I listen to different artists. I open my mind to different artists.

— Lil Durk

It's either you finna create your own wave, you finna sound like me or you finna sound like G Herbo, you finna sound like Chance The Rapper, you finna sound like Juice Wrld. You ain't gonna get too far 'cause you sound like somebody. So, create your own lane and do your own style.

— Lil Durk

I rock with Chance, I rock with Kanye, I rock with Common.

— Lil Durk

Growing up in Chicago is hard. I'd say 80 percent of the people ain't really got no daddies. Their household wasn't right. All they know is the streets and getting some money to support each other and support their family.

— Lil Durk

When you in the studio you don't need everybody calling your phone telling you about what's going on outside the studio. I don't need those distractions.

— Lil Durk

With 'LilDurk2x,' it's a good vibe to it, good energy.

— Lil Durk

Something happened in the studio that was between me and Tyga that ain't supposed to escalate, but it did. Something happened with a song we did, and he ain't like it.

— Lil Durk

I can buy anything I want now. It hasn't changed me personally. It just changed what I can do for myself and my family.

— Lil Durk

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.

— Lil Durk

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.

— Lil Durk

There's definitely a lot of responsibility to keep the good energy going.

— Lil Durk

I can buy anything I want now. It hasn't changed me personally. It just changed what I can do for myself and my family.

— Lil Durk

I'm really living my dream so if I were to change anything up, I probably wouldn't be where I am.

— Lil Durk

You got to have a strong mind if you fall back. When you fall back, they going to count you out. So you got to have a strong mind and know your worth. When you come back, you've got to be different and even more better.

— Lil Durk

There's definitely a lot of responsibility to keep the good energy going.

— Lil Durk

I'm just trying to show people that I ain't gotta ride off no movement. I can ride off myself.

— Lil Durk

Always read your contract. Know what you're getting yourself into. Know your worth.

— Lil Durk

I'm really living my dream so if I were to change anything up, I probably wouldn't be where I am.

— Lil Durk

I don't want my kids to be on the streets period. I want my kids to be nerds. I want them to be book smart or playing sports - I don't want them to know nothing about the streets.

— Lil Durk

I just want to be there for my kids.

— Lil Durk

I would say I grew without a doubt. My whole energy in life - as an artist and as a person - has definitely got me smarter and wiser.

— Lil Durk

I was 17 and out of school, living with my mom, starving, not eating, getting locked up, no focus, no guidance. When you ain't got no guidance, you can't do too much. But then I had my first son and started working. I got the right people around me.

— Lil Durk

I had a bad background just growing up as a child.

— Lil Durk

I'm my own boss, you know?

— Lil Durk

I was 17 when I first started rapping and 18 before I started taking it seriously - when I really knew I could rap and have fans and be a trendsetter.

— Lil Durk

Once upon a time, I was really lost. I was 18 going on 19, and I was shy. All I want to do is get money, and the way I was thinking I was going to do that was a negative route.

— Lil Durk

'L's,' it represents life. That's what I represent it as, life. When you throw the L's up for life, you can't go wrong. Like, no gang-banging, nothing like that.

— Lil Durk

I don't throw shade at anybody like, 'You sound like me.'

— Lil Durk

I'll never stick to one sound, I switch it up.

— Lil Durk

Atlanta is just different. It's the music city.

— Lil Durk

We came from nothing really. One house. Ten people. Even days the lights was off. The worst days was not eating. Surviving off rice and toast.

— Lil Durk

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

— Lil Durk

I ain't expect it. I just expected to be Chicago famous - 'hood famous. I ain't expect to be outside-of-Chicago famous.

— Lil Durk

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

— Lil Durk

I never thought I would see the outside of Chicago.

— Lil Durk

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

— Lil Durk

In Chicago, a lot of people don't really got nothing to live for. Everybody can't ball. Everybody can't rap. Nobody is really doing those activities. There's nothing to do but the streets.

— Lil Durk

'Trap House' is one of my favorite songs off '300 Days 300 Nights' mixtape, I sent it to Thug, he loved it and knocked it out on the spot in Atlanta.

— Lil Durk

If you got a vibe with a producer I think you should go full-fledged instead of being satisfied with two songs.

— Lil Durk

Bone Thugs is one of my favorite rap groups of all time. I listened to them all the time when I was a kid.

— Lil Durk

I use the studio as my drug. That's where I relieve everything at - the studio.

— Lil Durk

Everybody always going to sound like somebody. You got to separate yourself.

— Lil Durk

I don't wish jail on nobody, not even my worst enemies.

— Lil Durk

I just wanted to speak to the streets and give them motivation on making it out. Whatever situation they're in, know that they can make do and have a better life.

— Lil Durk

My message is just showing people how I came from nothing.

— Lil Durk

Put your own twist to it. That's how you say relevant. Or things get old and boring.

— Lil Durk

It feels good to be in a place now where I can give back to my community.

— Lil Durk

I grew up without a father, so I have to be on point for my kids.

— Lil Durk

I don't want to try to piggyback off of anybody else.

— Lil Durk

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

Death can happen anywhere, but kids in Chicago, like 4 years old, can get shot. You don't really hear that in too many places.

— Lil Durk

I'm happy with the person I become.

— Lil Durk

I feel like with '2.5,' I created another style that nobody else is coming with.

— Lil Durk

I made 'LS4TS2' for women, my Day 1's, the trenches, and all those that doubted me.

— Lil Durk

You got to want to evolve. It's something you can practice on but it just came to me. I wasn't really sitting there like, 'What can I do to get better?' It just came to me, talking to my people and my crew. They just tell me what my strongest and weakest points are at.

— Lil Durk

I stay in the studio. I'm a studio junkie.

— Lil Durk

I like aiming for the producers who are hungry. I don't chase the wave.

— Lil Durk

I gotta stay in that light where people will see me and hear me. And not be scared of me, you know?

— Lil Durk

I want my kids to be able to live comfortable and go to school and to be into sports.

— Lil Durk

I want to relate. I don't want to just rap and go to the next album.

— Lil Durk

I can buy anything I want now. It hasn't changed me personally. It just changed what I can do for myself and my family.

— Lil Durk

I want to do, like, 50 records.

— Lil Durk

I worked with Ty Dolla Sign, YG, Nipsey Hussle, Metro Boomin - I build relationships, and I try to stay afloat with everyone who is hot or cool, period.

— Lil Durk

I'm always going to be able to touch fans and get new fans because everybody goes through something everyday. I just keep touching different subjects by talking to the streets and reaching out to my fans by telling them a story instead of just giving them music to listen.

— Lil Durk

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

— Lil Durk

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

— Lil Durk

I have three kids, and that's a big part of staying focused.

— Lil Durk

I just moved to Atlanta so the change of scenery and environment put me in a different mood and a different vibe, both good.

— Lil Durk

You've got Lil Uzi Vert - you do a song with him, you ain't doing nothing but gaining new fans. You gotta keep up with the time and the pace.

— Lil Durk

I think every artist should go for a Grammy.

— Lil Durk

My thing is to get new fans. So I love when people say, 'Oh, I've heard of him before.' Or 'I've never heard of Durk.' Or 'I'm a fan of Durk today.' This is what I like to see, because it lets me know when I come out with something that it's going to work.

— Lil Durk

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

— Lil Durk

What really broke it down was 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

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

— Lil Durk

Once upon a time, I was really lost. I was 18 going on 19, and I was shy. All I want to do is get money, and the way I was thinking I was going to do that was a negative route.

— Lil Durk

Rapping is my dream, but my kids make me happy.

— Lil Durk

I don't think anybody feels safe in Chicago. Bullets ain't got no name on them.

— Lil Durk

Moving to Atlanta is one of the best things I did.

— Lil Durk

I 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

I let my partners and my DJ listen to my songs and if they say, 'Oh yeah I felt that one' or 'I am feeling that' then I write it down and we just continue building the album from there.

— Lil Durk

I grew as an artist and a person. I'm just ready to work, get this money, get this new fan base and tour all over the world.

— Lil Durk

I just want to paint that picture of Chicago that everybody's missing, and I just want to rap about it.

— Lil Durk