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Lil Baby Bodied Lil Durk On ‘Voice Of The Heroes’ – Opinion

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June 24, 2021

Did Lil Baby Carried Lil Durk On ‘Voice Of The Heroes’?

Couple of weeks back, Lil Baby and Lil Durk released their first official collaborative album. The Voice of the Heroes has long been teased as the latest in a series of high-powered joint albums in the rap world.

Durkio is a legend in his own right after successfully progressing from his Chicago drilling days to superstardom. He’s also featured on Drake’s hit song ‘Laugh Now, Cry Later’ and scored huge placements on the Billboard 100.

Lil Baby on the other hand has been enjoying a great run for couple of years now and Hip Hop heads are even convinced we’re now in Lil Baby era. Aside from making changes in his community, he continues to excel in the music industry. With the huge success of his ‘My Turn’ album that dropped in 2020, that album broke many records.

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Baby was also recently named ASCAP songwriter of 2021. Now, both rappers joining forces on an album is a gift to Hip Hop fans and they sure didn’t disappoint. Baby’s rapid tommy gun melodic flow matches with Durk’s versatile emotive crooning.

They weave in and out of each other’s verses seamlessly, like Floyd Mayweather dodging right hooks and Muhammed Ali against the ropes, as reviewed by HipHopDX.

As a vocalist, Durk is more broadly emotive and consistently animated than Baby. Durk of course deserves credit for being one of the effect’s most nimble users, deploying it to keep the listener at arm’s length or to lure them in, underscoring melodies or cutting atonally against them. Baby, by contrast, raps in a rolling, post-Thug legato—a flatter affect punctuated by brief moments of musicality.

Durk’s verse on “How It Feels” is a masterclass in this, at times exultant (“I know how it feel to pour a four right by Obama house”), poignant (“I know how it feel to wake up cut up from them bed springs”), or downright chilling (“I know how it feel to have the killers tell you everything”).

Lil Baby as well did justice to the song, rapping: “I can’t give my energy to anybody
I’m a billionaire in the making, I promise I’ma get one. Lil’ bitch tried to chase me, I had to stiff-arm her. Only had a couple dollars, I was still gettin’ fresh. I ain’t tryna say I’m cocky, but I feel I’m the best. Every time, I want the maximum, ain’t takin’ nothin’ less.”

He continued, “I’ve been back-to-back jets, but I still fly Delta. Thick lil’ shit, but she can fit in my schedule. Yeah, always on the go, but I make time for that ass.”

The duo takes their rightful victory lap on “2040,” boasting about their star power and proving their longevity as the 808s bounce in unison. The brags range from having earrings that cost more than your house to the simple pleasure of doing donuts in the hood of your city: a now tangible dream that wouldn’t have been considered possible during Baby and Durk’s prison days.

Their natural chemistry continues on “Still Hood,” where Durk plants a visual of sharing rooms with junkies, washing with a bucket and keeping his worn-down air mattress intact with duct tape. Baby, in contrast, doesn’t get into his past circumstances, coming from the perspective of a paranoid street veteran fending off temptations and people trying to pull him back under the mud.

On ‘Voice Of The Heroes’, both Baby and Durk went crazy with fire bars, leaving no stones unturned.

Review and comparison are part of the elements of Hip Hop. Even if rappers don’t want to be pitied against one another, fans, Hip Hop critics and the media won’t stop doing their job.

While both rappers went hard on the project, after weeks of reviewing, we at Dreddsworld are convinced Lil Baby bodied his friend Lil Durk on ‘Voice Of The Heroes’. See some reactions on Twitter below:

Lil Baby and Lil Durk studio After Recording voice of the heroes 🔥Hits pic.twitter.com/HJTjAeHAfC

— Bobby Jay (@BobbyJay307) June 17, 2021

Lil baby carried Durk. Don’t @ me

— Soul Snatcher 👿 (@_THEREALJCHILL) June 4, 2021

lil baby carried durk that whole album let’s be real

— ‘ (@lewpacked) June 4, 2021

I’m gone say this too Lil Baby carried VOH 🤷🏽‍♀️ I like Durk so I was really looking forward to it but he could’ve kept his verses 😂😂 y’all know how I am bout Lil Baby anyway sir been doing too good to have released that weak ass shit with dude

— LavishLo (@AlonnaNicoleee) June 16, 2021