Lil Durk Quotes

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Lil Durk

Profession : Rapper

Birth : October 19, 1992

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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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I'm happy with the person I become.

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

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

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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.

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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 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.

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

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

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I want to do, like, 50 records.

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

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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.

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

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'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.

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