Before landing on the charts and doing interviews, Lil Durk was already moving through the streets of Chicago like a legend in the making. His name carried weight in the city long before the mainstream ever tuned in. He had the melodies, the pain, the truth and the hunger. His mixtapes gave a front-row seat to survival. Chicago had him on repeat, and so did St. Louis, Detroit and Indianapolis. The Midwest knew who he was before the blogs caught up.
