Lil Durk: The Chicago rap heavyweight talks new J. Cole song, studio album and Future's inspiration

Chicago rapper Lil Durk has plenty to talk about these days. With his new ‘All My Life’ single streaming everywhere plus a new studio album in the form of Almost Healed, Durkio taps in with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe and the conversation is non-stop.

Lil Durk chops it up with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe

From talking about new tunes to dishing on how much of a positive impact rap heavyweight Future has on his life, it’s all types of standout quotes. Peep highlights from Durk’s deep discussion with Lowe.

Lil Durk Tells Apple Music About New Song "All My Life" (feat. J. Cole)...

I just be moody. Whatever mood I'm in, I just go to the studio and just make the music, you know what I'm saying? I just feel like a positive vibe went up with Dr. Luke, you know what I'm saying? That's the first song he played and I just felt it and I'm like, "Man, I want J. Cole On this." And I made it happen. I've been talking to him, checking up on him, just seeing how you doing. You wait for the right moment for him to ask to be on the song. The song be big. I just wanted to be like, "I want J. Cole on the song." So when we do the song, the first person popped in my head, I'm like, "I got to get J. Cole on this.”

Lil Durk Tells Apple Music J. Cole Is One of His Cornerstone Artists…

Yeah, he one of them. Definitely. He one of them. He like one that I looked up to that give out a positive message to. Him, of course, like HOV. Swizz. Yeah, Swizz got me and Hov connected, so that's how we started talking, you know what I'm saying? It's just about relationships, about energy, and about keeping the vibes together, you know what I'm saying?

Lil Durk Tells Apple Music About His New Album ‘Almost Healed’…

I just want you all to be prepared for it. It's a lot of energy on it. It's a new experience for me. It's the same Durk, but it's just growth. I'm just excited for you all to hear it, man.

Lil Durk Tells Apple Music About Titling His New Album ‘Almost Healed’…

At first it was 2.0. At first it was The Voice 2.0 and I just figured that going through a lot of stuff and people thinking they know me, thinking I'm going through a lot of that that I wasn't going through and I was just having a basic conversation with Peter and we were just talking. I'm like, "Man, I'm almost healed for me just to come back outside." And he's like, "Man, that name's so powerful." And I'm like, "Man, that's the name right there, Almost Healed."You could be almost healed from any situation which from a broken heart, a broken arm, a broken leg, anything. You know what I'm saying? So that name alone, it just ring bells, you know what I'm saying? It's self-explanatory. You ain't got to keep explaining to people what it means. It's just like, everything you've been through is you can see it, you can feel it, you can hear it. But when the album come out, it's like you can hear it, you can feel it, you can see it, you can hear different emotions in it. Everything.

Lil Durk Tells Apple Music Drake is Like a Brother and Mentor To Him...

Drake is like a brother to me. He like a mentor to me. He'll tell me the truth like, "Nah, that verse suck, bro." It's just something. It's just some people that you need like that in your life just to make you go hard and that's when I was going on my run when it was just like go, go, go, go. 

Lil Durk Tells Apple Music About the Shape of His Conversations with Jay-Z…

Where he be at, where he from, where he at. So basically, it's like checking in on him. He checking in on me. You just keeping it natural, it ain't always about music. It always just about checking on somebody because you never know what somebody going through.

Lil Durk Tells Apple Music How Future Inspires Him...

Future another person who inspires me and have me super on point, super ready, super to play with the sounds, play with your voice, go in the studio every day… but honestly it's hooks, but it's like if you really listen to Future, it's like hooks and verses. Yeah, he paints pictures.

Lil Durk Tells Apple Music How He’s Handled Success…

I'm really just try to keep it the same. Keep my same vision, keep the same way I move because it really keep me on point. The way I move, the way I act, what I associate with, the way I eat, the way everything is intact or what I do. And I feel like if I do anything inside, outside of what I do, I'll move differently and something will happen. You see what I'm saying?