Lil Durk is releasing a new album from prison.
On Monday (March 17), the rapper’s team shared a trailer and artwork for the album, called ‘Deep Thoughts’, on his social media accounts. It’s scheduled for release on March 28.
Accompanied by the caption “The streets still need me,” the trailer shows Durk’s producers in the studio working on music while talking to the rapper – who is currently incarcerated – on the phone.
He can be heard saying he likes “the energy” of particular songs and thanks his team for “bigger and better changes” to the record. The clip also teases the track list, which includes songs called ‘Connect the Dots’, ‘Notebook’, ‘Untouchable’ and ‘They Wanna Be You’, which features Future.
An album cover was also shared, which depicts Durk sitting in a jail cell facing a wall covered in graffiti. Check it out below.
In November, Durk pleaded not guilty to charges claiming he directed a murder-for-hire plot that led to the fatal shooting of Georgia rapper Quando Rondo’s cousin at a Los Angeles gas station two years ago.
He was remanded to a federal detention centre in downtown Los Angeles and awaits an October trial. The ‘Pelle Coat’ rapper was first arrested in Florida in October and was held in a Broward County, Florida jail, as initially reported by USA Today.
The arrest came hours after five other people were indicted in Los Angeles with federal murder-for-hire charges for the alleged targeting of rapper Quando Rondo (Tyquian Bowman), which authorities believe may have been in retaliation for the killing of Chicago rapper King Von in 2020.
The five individuals – Kavon London ‘Vonnie’ Grant, DeAndre Dontrell ‘DeDe’ Wilson, Keith ‘Flacka’ Jones, David Brian ‘Browneyez’ Lindsey and Asa ‘Boogie’ Houston – are all allegedly associated with Lil Durk’s Only The Family (OTF) rap collective, which was founded in Chicago in 2010.
According to his indictment, Durk “was the leader” of OTF, which produced and sold music but also allegedly “engaged in violence, including murder and assault,” largely at Durk’s “direction”, the indictment states (per Rolling Stone).
If convicted, Banks could face life in federal prison.
