Lil Durk and J. Cole are each large rap stars, however they aren’t the obvious emcees to pair up on a observe. So it’s fascinating to listen to them aligned on “All My Life,” a single from Durk’s upcoming album Almost Healed. The tune is firmly entrenched in hip-hop’s inspirational ballad subgenre, constructed round a chorale of kids singing, “All my life, they’ve been trying to keep me down/ All this time, never thought I would make it out.” It virtually seems like an interpolation of the Okay-Ci & JoJo tune, however not fairly. Watch director Steve Cannon’s video for “All My Life” beneath.
Almost Healed is out 5/26.