One of the Biggest Artists of the Year Is a Hip-Hop Fan

The world was shocked when Lil Durk and Morgan Wallen linked for “Broadway Girls” on Dec. 17, 2021. However, the observe debuted in the No. 1 slot on Billboard’s R&B/hip-hop chart. Wallen mentioned in an interview with Druski on the Clubhouse app on Dec. 30 of that yr that he’d like to work with extra rappers.

“I do love [Moneybagg Yo]. He’s definitely at the top of the list,” Wallen mentioned. “But like overall, ever… I’m trying to think of not just in the past little bit… Kendrick Lamar would be pretty cool.”

In January of 2022, Lil Durk introduced out Morgan Wallen throughout a set at the Martin Luther King Freedom Fest in Nashville, Tenn. The duo carried out their hit “Broadway Girls,” and Durkio shouted out the nation singer, calling him, “genuine at heart.”

“Can’t nobody cancel s**t. What I be saying? Know what I’m saying?” Durkio mentioned at one level.

A yr after Morgan Wallen was caught on digital camera utilizing a racial slur, Diddy mentioned sufficient was sufficient and sought to bestow forgiveness on the controversial nation star in May of 2022. Diddy was set to host the 2022 Billboard Music Awards and put Morgan Wallen on the invoice. He additionally placed on Travis Scott, who was nonetheless coping with the fallout from the 2021 Astroworld tragedy.

“Travis went through a tragedy; Morgan [used the N-word] while talking to his boy,” Diddy mentioned in an interview with Billboard. “People make mistakes. Now we’re moving on with love and respect for everybody that was hurt or affected. It’s time to forgive.”

He continued, “To have Morgan and Travis be able to come back and touch the stage again with the mindset of getting a second chance at life. Everybody in the room is getting a second chance at life, you know, because we’re back inside with no masks on. We need love and I’m excited about celebrating that.”

Upon the launch of One Thing at a Time in March of 2023, hip-hop followers shortly realized that one of Wallen’s 36 songs included a pattern from Young Thug and Rich Homie Quan’s “Lifestyle.” On the album’s thirty first observe “180 (Lifestyle),” Wallen flipped Thugga’s early hit, and bought permission to make use of the pattern from Thug’s camp. He even sat down for a assembly with 300 Entertainment’s Kevin Liles.

“I told him he had to send the demo to me, immediately,” Liles mentioned to The Tennessean. “[Thankfully], it was honorable, loving, respectful and truthful to being a rap record from a modern country perspective.”

He continued, “[Morgan] is a creative person who tells a true story and loves hip-hop music and culture. [‘180’] transcends genres.”

Young Thug can also be credited as a songwriter on the observe.

During the Chicago cease on Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time Tour in July of 2023, the nation crooner introduced out Lil Durk to carry out their joint observe “Stand by Me.” The smiling rapper hopped round on stage whereas the pair gave the first stay efficiency of their observe. Videos from the night present the nation crowd eagerly singing alongside.

In May of 2023, Lil Durk hopped on Instagram and shared a photograph of himself flexing a newly caught fish alongside Morgan Wallen. The pair, who have been decked out in camo, had determined to go fishing in the Tenessee lakes close to Wallen’s hometown.

“Family is family can’t nothing change that p.s I’m done wit fish [two tears of joy emojis],” Durk captioned the image.

Wallen additionally shared the identical photograph on his IG, writing: “Durk done pulled up and taught me how to fish.”

Lil Durk mentioned in June of 2023 he would possibly make a drastic transition into nation, and he desires his first nation album to be created with Morgan Wallen.

“Me and Morgan should do a album together [gold cup emoji] 1st to do it,” he wrote on Instagram Story at the time.

Durk added in the caption: “Everything we do we win might as well do a country album 1st to do it [mending heart emoji].”

A TikTookay video shared on Dec. 4, 2023 confirmed Morgan Wallen backstage presumably throughout his One Thing at a Time Tour. He was standing alongside an OTF affiliate, who unboxed a glistening OTF chain courtesy of Durk himself. Embroidered on the again are the names of “Stand by Me” and “Broadway Girls,” the two songs Durk and Wallen have recorded collectively.

“We appreciate you being more than a friend, a brother,” the affiliate informed Wallen.

During a three-show run at the Rupp Arena in Lexington, Ky. beginning on Dec. 3, 2023, The New York Times reported that Morgan Wallen’s DJ performed Eminem’s “Without You” to rile up the crowd shortly earlier than Wallen took the stage.

“Eminem’s ‘Without Me’: The crowd roared knowingly,” the Times wrote. “Putting Wallen’s sentiments in Eminem’s mouth saved him from having to say anything himself.”

Needless to say, the publication wasn’t precisely a fan of the present.

On Dec. 20, 2023, Morgan Wallen appeared in the music video for Drake’s Scary Hours 3 single “You Broke My Heart.” Starring alongside Drizzy himself, the nation singer even had a few strains to ship in the Theo Skudra-directed visible.

“I didn’t like her,” Wallen says whereas consuming dinner with the 6 God. “I think she might have been the wrong girl anyway.”

Drake provides: “Well, what now? I’m kinda glad she gone… Let’s see what else is out there. That’s what we need to do.”

However, the ex-lovers each stars have been referring to and different plans.