Lil Durk - Almost Healed ALBUM REVIEW
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- Опубликовано: 23 сен 2024
- Listen: • Lil Durk - Stand By Me
When Almost Healed gets introspective, it's good, but it's a bummer that's not very often.
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FAV TRACKS: ALL MY LIFE, NEVER AGAIN, NEVER IMAGINED, BEFORE FAJR, WAR BOUT IT, YOU GOT EM, SAME SIDE
LEAST FAV TRACK: STAND BY ME
LIL DURK - ALMOST HEALED / 2023 / ALAMO / TRAP RAP
5/10
Y'all know this is just my opinion, right?
lil durk should've released this fully healed and he would've gotten a 10
Omg enough this comment is on every video
I'm a need everyone in the comments section to admit it on this one- we need to start a movement since we know Kanye allegedly helped produce his own version of the album for Durk...
RELEASE THE YE CUT....OF LIL DURK NEW ALBUM
@@Advented_ RELEASE THE YE CUT
LMAO
Lol
Fantano summed up exactly how I felt abt this record. Durk has the talent, content, and emotional vulnerability to make a classic. But doesn’t have the pen or artistic standard to execute.
It’s weird he’ll drop a crazy bar on one song and then on the next talk about how too much drink gets him backed up or how you can smell percs and lean when he farts
I don't think he doesn't have the creativity to it I think he is so caught up on wanting get back its keeping him stuck. He can't just make an album about forgiveness and healing because he isn't healed he is still about the fuckery of drill music but he is slowly changing by making songs that are introspective. I'm rooting for durk he is a true underdog making it out was crazy enough but for him to be gaining major sucess 10 years later and after being dropped and with so many tragedies is a insane. Who else has fallen so much and still been climbing they way to the top. I wish he leaves the gang shit behind but that's pretty much his family and how do you just forget all the people who have died over his success. Not on some illuminati shit but so many people including producers and mangers and artist and family have died and durk has survived I think he feels it necessary to keep the beefs still alive other wise he may have to accept they died for him to progress. Because where would the pain come from to put in his music. Idk shits crazy
@@sackchaser0178 let a man open up on a song😭😭
He also has to load up his albums with far too many tracks to boost the algorithm way too much filler could've easily stripped it down to 15 or 18
Durk could've been a great accountant who was that cool accountant who could throw down some bars at a party and likes going to church and pops into the choir at times and says some funny Jesus bars and then has 3 kids and names them all Dirk, Dirkavious and Dark.
Durk is 5 points away from being fully healed. Let’s pray for this guy 🙏
Poor Durk. So sad that he got a 5 that he beat himself up and is healing on the wall behind Anthony. Get better soon.
I'm a need everyone in the comments section to admit it on this one- we need to start a movement since we know Kanye allegedly helped produce his own version of the album for Durk...
RELEASE THE YE CUT....OF LIL DURK NEW ALBUM
It’s okay man he’s almost healed, he’ll be out soon ready to box Anthony
@@Advented_ I do think it would be better but it wouldn't fix the lyrical issues
The comments on this cringe AF 🙄
@@tera_2024 this isn't even close to being cringe
As a longtime Durk fan it’s great to see him getting so explosively popular to the point he’s even crossing over to this new crowd of Twitter music fans and Fantano that almost never really look at street trap music, I know most people from this side of the internet won’t like Durk’s music but it’s great to see nonetheless.
thank drake buddy
@@morale493 eh the laugh now cry later verse didn’t make Durk lol, of course it helped a lot Durk was steady breaking away from that “b level industry artist.” Label ever since just cause y’all waited 2, it was a combination of everything. Otherwise, every artist with a Drake feature would become like Durk.
@@edwardtorai3545 exactly Durk’s been big for a long time
@@edwardtorai3545 exactly Durk’s been big for a long time
I thought this album was alright but most of Durk’s music over the last couple of years have been just ok. I think he was much better in the first half of his career.
It really is a shame how so many hip hop artists are showing insane promise and on the back of that hype release pure mid albums.
Facts 😂
I wonder if artists in the rap game discourage experimenting and changing the formula, in the way fantano was hoping.
I think it’s cause they’re not really that talented.
And the “insane promise” you’re talking about is just rappers performing in a funny voice sometimes. I’ve noticed this trend where a rapper where just use a silly voice and say something ridiculous (future, thug, Kendrick) and people lose their minds over how ‘experimental’ they are.
@@quietman208 the silly voices isn’t what makes them popular
I feel conflicted by durks album too but it is called Almost healed. he still stuck in his ways which I mean is drill but the jcole feature made me have high hopes he would be the change needed unfortunately like he stated at this point we stuck. I would give it a 7. if it was more like the first few tracks it might of been a classic. I also think he should have had Alicia narrate on a few more tracks to have a cohesive project. But overall I'm still proud of durk I feel he is still slowly progressing which is amazing I remember him from the 2010 era and I would have never thought he would make it thus far so every song and day he is alive has got to be a blessing
i went from hating durks music to becoming a true fan after just cause y’all waited 2. shits crazy, bro just kept leveling up over time 💯
I actually didn't like the All My Life song. It felt too tryhard as a hit for me.
My personal favourite is War Bout It. That song went back to the old drill subject, but that's also what Durk does best.
0:21 - "being 10y.o or more, which is like 30 in Chicago years"😂😂😂
Bruuh i cant😂
J. Cole: "Durkio told me he been on some positive shit"
Lil Durk: "Well…"
His best tapes are Love Songs for the Streets 2 and Signed to the Streets 3. The way he fuses the chicago drill sound with modern pop rap on those tapes is insanely great.
Bet I’ll listen
Id say just cauz yall waited 2 his best project by far with signed to the streets
And Life Ain’t No Joke is awesome as well
I actually really like the voice of the hero's tape with lil baby
@@Cantpickgoodhandlename his best tape is just caused y’all waited 2… a good argument can be made between signed to the streets 3 or love songs for the streets 2 for the 2nd best tape and the voice can go after those two. I repeat just cause y’all waited 2 is his best work ever.
I like this album a lot added like 12 13 14 songs. So pretty good, but I do agree with you, I was disappointed to not hear more songs like All My Life on the album.
Same but he is still healing and lowkey a project with out a drill vibe of fuck the opps would have turned away some long time fans
@@insideroutside yeah I was thinking maybe he's trying to tell how he feels on both sides? Like how the sadder emotions in all my life. But then the angry diss emotions in like same side
@@Tyler-fg1pt i dont listen to durk but i have pelle coat on repeat right now. i was expecting this album to sound more like that and all my life but eesh it is what it is, he gotta cater to his og audience
You can't be that surprised though, he built his career off of drill music, so I doubt he'll ever fully get away from it as a central theme. Hopefully All My Life was a compromise with his label to test out a new lane and if all goes well we'll see entirely new concepts going forward that are more positive, but unless the numbers reflect that and prove he can cross over, then I don't see that happening personally
I think ppl expect evolution from drill rappers, when its really not in them. Pop Smoke had tremendous upside, but we never got to see how that wouldve been due to his untimely death. The majority of drill rap/rappers are entrenched in that 1 dimensional sound and subject matter, which leaves them pigeonholed. They dont really have peace within themselves, which puts a block on their creativity and songwriting ability. We should start looking for the next sound within hiphop and let Drill phase out. Imo.
drill is only good if its new york or london imo
also this is a side note but we need to let the Flint Michigan flow die to. i hate that flow from almost everyone besides a few
Durk has progressed as a drill artist you can hear it in his music like on pelle coat he just isn't ready to fully heal and go pop cause he still wants revenge which if we were in his shoes we might want to. he has had so many people close to him be murdered. Drill is a genre like no other. We literally seen how von and his brother dthang were killed within 6 months of each other's. Durks own cousin was killed in front of him right when he signed his deal. His manager and producer were killed and he has lost tons of other friends while he has been in the spotlight. Shits crazy. I'm rooting for durk but he is at a cross roads. Either fully heal or stay in the streets and go to hell
@@dakota.7617 was literally listening to rio da Yung OG and had to pause it after I read that last bit. what did flint catch a stray for? while a lot of the shit does sound same-y (mostly cos of the beats) the guys who are really good at it (Rio,RMC Mike, KrispyLife) keeping it alive with their flows.
Never understood the hype of Pop Smoke, dumb name for one lol, but more importantly, annoying flow, delivery, and played out "gangsta 4 LYFE yo" themes. Nothing he ever made stood out as innovative, or mic drop moments. Sad he died but doesn't change the mediocrity of the music
@@dakota.7617 Michigan been like a breath of fresh air to me, funny witty lyrics and uptempo beats, lot of other scenes rapping about death and destruction over slow funeral type beats
Dirk becoming a rapper after an NBA superstar?? Unheard of
I was honestly expecting you to find this album mid, so you saying that it was the next TPaB was certainly a surprise lmfao
Comments like these are getting corny now
not enough likes to be funny 👎
@@donvito1260 you’re corny
@@donvito1260 never will
this album really makes you feel almost healed
Just 50% percent healed
if the whole album sounded like all my life it would love been an instant classic for me. maybe not a 10 for anyone but definitely a 10 for durk.
Corniest song on the album next to that Morgan Wallen shit
@@haloskaterkid you the type to like lil durk over king von huh
How could you not talk about B12, one of the best produced songs on the album
It's a touchy subject for vegans
Well produced music doesn't mean the song is good
@@artistaccount B12 is a good song tho
@@infamous.29noo
@@therealhb1763 buggin out
5:58 though it likely wasn’t intentional, I think it’s kind of poetic how the LP as a whole is at odds with itself - just like Durk. No matter how much he comes to terms with the toxicity and trauma of the lifestyle he grew up in (first half of LP), it will always be a part of him and he will likely continue to partake in this lifestyle for as long as he is able (second half of LP)…the poor production quality is inexcusable a this point in his career tho haha
Exactly it seems slightly intentional. It is called almost healed meaning durk still be in the fuckery of drill and half way through there is a song called at this point we stuck. He at a crossroads with himself does he go for success and leave the revenge behind or does he get his get back and stick with the bros but never full furious and become mainstream pop. This album makes me feel confused and I think possible that's what durk is going through. He wants to be a married man and make love songs and praise Allah and ask for forgiveness but he also wanna to smash hoes and hang with killers and get revenge. Durk is complex as a person but he do need to build his vocabulary and literary devices and become slightly more lyrical if he really wants to go pop cause I would have loved to hear him try to match jcole on all my life.
I think it has to be intentional, just the mix of subject matter included.
5s harsh considerin the amount of songs u thought were ok. I'd easily say durk deserves a 7 for this
Same. I think the project being a mixed bag of drill and introspection and uplifting and sad love songs is why it's called almost healed
I feel the same exact way about this album. I felt underwhelmed at the end. I think Durk needs a writer or a team that can help him put his records together better. Most classic albums had writers on them. Whether we like it or not that’s definitely the case. And unfortunately when you listen to people like Kendrick Lamar it’s hard to over look when someone album is sloppily put together.
Never heard Urus pronounced that way 😂
Scrolled looking for this comment 😂
accent different
Anthony can you please return my wii controller
“30 in Chicago years” 😂😂😂
I think the mixed direction is intentional and speaks to the title of the album. He is starting to evolve but is still rooted in his past.
I disagree, I don’t think Durk puts that amount of thought into his stuff although he has the potential too
I think it's unintentional. I think since he is internally struggling with wanting major success and wanting revenge but trying to forgive and lowkey leave the street stuff his music is reflecting the crossroads he is at in his life. I think durk is introspective but he is vengeful
B12 is insane
Many things about this album were disappointing. The collab album with Lil Baby had more songs that seemed to match the initial concept or vibe of this album.
3:02 damn lol I actually really enjoy the Chief Wuk verse that’s one of my favorite songs on the album
He delivered, big W, let's hope that he'll be fully healed and he'll get the no auto album out 🔥
Ong
Anthony, you’re not from O-Block. I would know because I live on P-Block
You can’t just give him a 5/10 because he’s paralyzed from the waist down, Anthony
Your existence is light
I think he hit the mark on his topic. The songs that might throw you off are still his way of healing, he could be more introspective and he can be a lot. This is him realizing the reality of his situation ,
he will never fully be healed
I think he can go to another level he just has to commit or start using skits more
you get it he ALMOST healed it was ALMOST good
This was Almost funny
When the first 2 tracks played I said “AOTY potential”…
Then as it kept going I said “nevermind”
Yeah the first 3 tracks are good but then it's like durk is back tracking. But then you get a few bangers and another introspective song or 2. It's a confusing project but maybe that's the point considering its called almost healed and he is stuck between getting revenge and becoming a mainstream pop artist
Durk has major talent. His older music is better in my opinion. Glad to see him getting his flowers
I kinda like how he went from a song with cole to 21 to morgan (i know those arent all the features) because they are all so different. I hated Broadway Girls, but i cant lie, Stand by Me is so catchy (Mainly due to Morgan). I think durk is stuck between being a gang member who is pretty heavily tied to the streets and an A list rapper/celeb. The only song that I really disliked is Sad Songs...its just odd, but i do respect his attempt to get his girl back. I'd give it a 7. Its good, not great.
Thanks for giving this album a review, Anthony. Everybody on my timeline was talking about this project, and I myself like some lil durk every now and then, so I was excited for this project. Therefore, I listened to it, and after doing so, I can say this is an average album that is bloated with a 21-song track list, which is totally unnecessary because imo only 11 of these songs are actually good. With taking all this into consideration, my score for this album is a 4/10
Listen Anthony, I know the album wasn’t great, but no need to beat Durk up and stick a picture of it on the wall.
Dweeb could never
I get you didn’t like the album that much, but it was incredibly unnecessary to beat him up for it.
So this gets a 5 but every drake project is a 3 ? Yea you weird
If he gives the voice of the streets durk a bad review he thinks the chiraq Wolverine and grim reaper will come for him
I think Durk is torn right now, so is the album. It’s a reflection. That’s what I got
Or maybe, just maybe durk and morgan wallen are actually friends and he wanted to have him on another track. Should this maybe not be on the album? Sure, but just cause morgan wallen has a bad past with a couple terrible moments doesn't mean this is a last ditch to save his image.
Bro durk said shout to Morgan wallen when he went #1 over yb album they for sure cool
@@insideroutside I mean they went fishing together they cool it's more than just music
Very rude of you to yell “Slide 4 Von” for 6 minutes straight.
Honestly, all my life is one of the best songs I’ve ever heard. The lyrics, the beat is all perfection. Really hope him and cole get their first Grammy for that one, we don’t get songs like that often.
I was expecting you to say 2 or at best, 3 with how harsh you were on this record. I haven’t listened to it.
Fantano I don't usually like your reviews on rap albums but I agree with you on this one. Good review
Did anyone notice how he gave the exact same score to the YB album as well?
And Trippie Redd. And conway.
A 5 is ridiculously generous for this album
Anthony just cause he isnt fully healed doesnt mean you can give him a 5...
i liked it. Music can be anything dont put bars on artists. it just has to sound good, not everyone makes emotionally deep music
Durk does make emotionally deep music. He just isn’t that artist people think he is.
I feel like your often too hard on artists, especially the artists with bigger names. I was surprised that I pretty much agreed with you for the most part on this review. You weren't too hard on Durk. I would say 5/10 Is fair for this album. It has a few decent songs that have replay value, but alot of the album Is forgettable at best, and repeatative at worst. I feel like releasing All My Life early as the single may have hurt the album. Made expectations too high. If Durk could have been consistent with his delivery from that track, this album could've easily been an 8/10. But he lacked consistency. DruHill, At This Point Were Stuck and Belt2Ass are all decent though. Brought out a different side of Durk we don't see much. I think this is definitely a step in the right direction for him though, in my opinion. A little more effort into the next project, and it could be a real banger contending for album of the year.
Its called almost healed. Hes hasnt completely changed his ways but hes getting there.
It wouldnt be right if all songs sounded like 'all my life unless he'd had some intense epiphany
Juice wasn’t prying, she wanted to smash
B12 has one of the best beats of the year
This album was fine but I feel like it had the potential to be Durk's first GREAT album. I wish he had stuck to that opening concept of being in therapy for all the shit he's been through. Maybe more skits with Alicia Keys as his "therapist" to break up the songs and dive into his headspace. More focused, conceptual songs like Pelle Coat. I just feel like it started out so conceptually strong but then midway through the album it turned into sounding like any other Durk project. Which, again, is FINE but it could have been so much better.
Day 473 of commenting until Wisethony Guytano reviews an album by Woodward and Parker
Surprised he didn’t give it a 2
I think I would give it a light 5 as well tbh. Aside from All my life and maybe 1 to a few other tracks, I don’t think I’ll revisit too many of the tracks on the album tbh.
Is there a reason you haven’t reviewed King Von’s album?
no mention of B12 was crazy, but yeah this project felt very underwhelming
i was really really hoping durk would actually go in that almost healed positive direction on this album
Genesis Owusu ahh album cover
Album was so disappointing, needed that pain Durk
This sounded more like a mixtape more than an album. This album sucked.
This album could’ve been a classic
Maybe even a game changer
the juice feature was good
one of my favs for sure by him
I heard the radio song with Cole and I’m not feeling that track. It’s sounds cliche’ and all the children running around is so 90s nostalgia. I probably won’t listen to the album by choice, but I’m sure Sirus radio will wear it out. Which leads me to discontinue that app. I’m tired of this place all together.
Yb better
The pretty feet thing is kinda like an « attitude » joke type ish, it’s just saying he likes « high quality » women whom rocks bottegas that makes the feet pretty. Kinda like saying « I have rich feet fetish »
Youngboy & durk both got a 5, you playin it safe huh?
Ngl if the track were more like "all my life" which make sense for an album called almost healed instead of adding tracks where he literally puts quando screaming in the background it probably would've done better
Okay... okay... okay... did Juice REALLY have that much stuff in the back catalog??? Honestly starting to suspect they're just cranking out more with AI at this point
Shit they had a dude sing song tryna sound Michael Jackson’s album it wouldn’t surprise me
He made 2,000 unfinished songs. Barley any of its been released
stand by me is a great song
Not gonna review Idk’s new album? It’s great
I Agree With You 100% For The First Time .
We Needed More Introspective Cuts . Too Much Gun Talk
After you beat up Durk you gave his album a 5? Not nice Anthony
Anthony when are you going to review Graydon's family photo album at the grand canyon, its been years.
The Morgan wallen hate is crazy
Both of them sound great together
Somebody should just call themselves “Lil Lil” at this point. That would surely break this dumb trend, right?
White ass comment
@@MostlyHarmless. he speaks facts to me lil nigrah boy
Fantano proclaimed 2023 to be the year of mid. How many albums has he given a 5 so far lol
7220 will forever be his best project every song felt like a true master peace
Can we talk about how all these "ft juice wrld" songs are all juice wrlds songs?
Durk had one verse, juice literally sang for the rest of the song, how does that make it lil durks song?
Bc it doesn't matter whos rappin on the track the longest if Durk hit juice up and wanted to do a song juice would be the ft
@Ian But do you understand what Iean and how that doesn't make sense?
Durk put one verse in the song, if anything HE is the feature.
Love it I didn’t want to hear the same durk I’ve heard before and I didn’t 🔥👌🏼👌🏼
Dude how have you still not reviewed Graydon's family photo album!? It's been years.
I hate when rappers allude to an introspective album and then fail to deliver. Aside from All My Life, this album was lacklustre.
i cant believe you gave it a 5/10 because the song was called "before fajr" and not "before christmas". very islamophobic. unsubscribed.
Are you going to review the new Arlo Parks record? Some really great songs in there, feel like this is her best material yet
I call him Yeat cuz he stay with a mask
why is blud’s eye bleeding
blud tweakin folks
Because he’s almost healed
@@Satire_Filmz bleeding eye seems FAR from almost healed that is definitely not healthy !!!
was waiting for this review
Durk got a 5. YB got a 5. That’s a 10
Lol😂😂😂
Collab album otw
I think the mix of gangster rap and the anti violence songs just shows that he's almost healed and not fully healed so it makes sense.
this album was pretty good tbh
7220 was better
@@justmyopinion1098no it wasn't that album was 80% melodic stuff and 20% drill. This album is 50% melodic 50 drill which is a good balance
@@michael-pg8fi sounds like his albums are better with more melodic stuff
@@heelyBrah Durk is a rlly good melodic rapper but his drill music is up to par wit it too
The reason he doesn’t make an album without the gang talk is because he feels like he has to do that or he won’t succeed. He’s clearly insecure about his deeper cuts and worried they won’t reach the fans the same way. It’s sad tbh if these rappers actually cared they would be condemning that type of behavior, not selling it.
if durk was born anywhere besides Chicago he would be a nobody
man. i would have never thought you would have said the morgan wallen feature is essential to the “white takeover” of rap.
that's such a good song imo
Its amazing how many rappers are born with the name Lil. I'm gonna call my son that so he has better chances in music biz.
Bruh a bot hacked my Spotify and played this album so many times in one night that Durk became my 5th most streamed artist of all time even though I never listened to his music ever 😭😭😭
Coast - Thinking Out Loud 2
i knew this was getting a 5/10. of all the rappers durk is definitely one of them. most 5/10 rapper of all time.
yb also got a 5 blud
@@rumaanaziz9587 not even trynna do the meme but youngboy better
Dweeb
@@williamoconnell12 who?