Amid a simmering feud with rapper NBA Youngboy, Lil Durk has delayed the release of his latest album Almost Healed. But he did release the video for "All My Pain," his hit collaboration with J. Cole.
"I decided I had to finish, but the media called me a menace," Durk, born Durk Derrick Banks, rhymes. "I done sat with the mayor and politicians/ I'm tryna change the image. You can't blame my past no more/ I come from the trenches. Some said I'd never be a superstar/ but I know I'm different."
The 30-year-old Chicago native announced the delay of his album on Instagram. It was initially expected to come out Friday. It is now coming out on May 26.
NBA Youngboy seemed to take the delay as a capitulation in a feud between the two that has played out on social media. Born Kentrell Gaulden, Jr., the Louisiana-born-rapper released his own 33-track project Richest Opp, last month. He also took shots at Lil Yachty, Cole and Drake.
But Banks has said that he's trying to be more positive on the eve of his eighth solo studio album. He says therapy has helped."I got a therapist so I cope different," he told XXL Magazine in March. "You know, it don't just gotta be I'm finna go take all these drugs, or I'm finna go get my feelings like this. I got my family, I got my girl, I got a therapist, I got my kids and I got the studio."
Banks wants his fans to know he's evolving and the album shows it.
