• October 19, 1992
• Drill rapper Lil Durk got a big break in 2020 when he featured on Drake's "Laugh Now Cry Later." The next year, he was everywhere, placing an amazing 41 songs in the Hot 100, which tied Taylor Swift for the most entries on that chart in 2021. Many of these songs were collaborations with Lil Baby.
• He's based in Chicago, where he started a label called Only The Family in 2010. Two years later he signed with Def Jam, but not much came of it. In 2018 he left the label and rebooted Only The Family, which he used to release his material.
• There is a Big Durk: his father (real name, Dontay Banks). Big Durk was in jail when Lil Durk was growing up, but stayed a part of his life and kept in touch through phone calls.
• When his fellow Chicago MC Kanye West bowed out of a headlining spot at the 2022 Rolling Loud festival in Miami, Durk brought him on stage during his set to perform.
• Durk stirred up a lot of trouble with his 2012 track "L's Anthem," a celebration of his gang where he takes (metaphorical) shots at rival gang members and rappers. Unfortunately, the violence turned real, and members of both sides were killed. Durk later ended up in beefs with rappers 6ix9ine and Young Boy Never Broke again, but by 2022 he was looking to end the feuds and move in a more positive direction. "I'm not chasing death no more," he told Rolling Stone. "I want our kids to grow up safe and sound."
• Lil Durk was arrested in October 2024 in connection to the August 2022 shooting of rapper Quando Rondo and the death of Rondo's cousin, Saviay'a "Lul Pab" Robinson. Prosecutors alleged Durk hired five associates from his Only the Family (OTF) collective to carry out the attack in retaliation for the 2020 killing of King Von, a close associate of Durk.

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