All My Life by Lil Durk & J. Cole finally dropped
Surprisingly, the single was produced by legendary pop producer, Dr. Luke. In the song, Lil Durk reflects on his journey to fame and how he is determined to change the public’s perception of him. “It’s just a rap that’s just showing you what I been going through. What I been doing lately. Trying to change how I am,” Durk said in an interview with XXL. Furthermore, the rapper went on to talk about the struggle of finding the right person to feature. “Dr. Luke produced it. We were just trying to figure out like what’s the right person to put on it,” Durk said. “‘Cause it’s one of those songs where if it’s not the right person to do the second verse… I feel like Cole can bring the energy that I’m looking for to it.”
Almost Healed follows Lil Durk’s 2022 effort 7220, which dropped last March. The rapper sat down with Rolling Stone to discuss the deeply personal album, noting that he continues to battle the grief of losing so many loved ones. “Even if you do 99 percent of shit right, you still got 1 percent of the demons with you,” Durk said. “You get angry fast and one reply can fuck up a billion dollars.”
The single arrives along with a music video, which was directed by Steve Cannon. The song, which Lil Durk teased on Instagram earlier this week, features a children’s choir as the rapper reflects on how far he’s come: “All my life, they’re never gonna keep me down. All this time, they never thought I’d make it out.”
To say that “All My Life” is introspective or deep would be an understatement. In fact, it seems that Lil Durk is pivoting to take a route that prioritizes things like social change and community. On the track, Lil Durk talks about all manner of things from drugs to child support to children wanting to hurt themselves. The rapper goes on to speak about what he’s personally been doing to try and change the world for the better.
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Quotable Lyrics:
All my life, they’ve been trying to keep me down
All this time, never thought I would make it out
They couldn’t break me, they couldn’t break me
They couldn’t take me, They couldn’t take me
All my life they’ve been trying to keep me down
Durkio told me he been on some positive shit, yeah, yeah
Lately, I just wanna show up and body some shit, yeah, yeah
Always been a lil’ mathematician, lately it’s cash I’m gettin’
Got me losin’ count of these bags, I’ve been movin’ too fast
Hard times don’t last, ‘member when cops harrassed
Talkin’ out my ass, boy, you ain’t shit but a bitch with a badge
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