Lil Durk - Apple Music Live: apple.co/_LilDurkAML

Apple Music Live with chart-topping Chicago rapper Lil Durk airs tonight (7/29), and let me tell you it was well worth every drop of that $6.67/gallon gas that I burned up the road to get to this one-of-a-kind exclusive live event.

Publish Date *We were behind the scenes as Lil Durk and his homies showed up and showed out for this big-time performance that will go down as one of Durk’s all-time performances just from a straight production standpoint alone. nbsp;

Factor in the timing of the show in Durk’s career and you know this is a big moment - he’s absolutely killing it right now. Lil Durk’s release, ‘7220’ became the second biggest Rap album of 2022 by first-week streams on Apple Music worldwide upon its release this March. With a line around the block, there’s no question Durk’s appeal to the masses is at an all-time high.

“I’m excited, I ain’t gonna lie… that stage setup’s so crazy,” Durk told Apple Music’s Ebro Darden in an interview before the show. "I feel that anything you put your name on you should put your all into. Every time I touch the mic it’s like… go hard. It’s gonna be like an out-of-body experience."

Nearly everyone in the studio knew Durkio's lyrics and it makes sense because 117 of Lil Durk's songs and collaborations have reached the Global Daily Top 100 on Apple Music, four of which reached Number One.

Also, it's worth discussing that Apple has something special with this exclusive live performance series. We don't have a live show that has the value of an “Unplugged” for this era, and this wave just might be the wave we need to give the biggest stars in music a global platform to connect with audiences around the world in the right way.

Does anyone want to talk about the Mt Rushmore’s of drill music? You be the judge yourself tonight! nbsp;