Signed to the Streets
Signed to the Streets is a mixtape by American hip hop recording artist Lil Durk, hosted by DJ Drama. It was released on October 10, 2013. The mixtape features production by Chase Davis, Dree The Drummer, Fade, Nito Beats, Paris Beuller, Sunny Norway, TGM, Young Chop and Zaytoven. The mixtape features a sole guest appearance from Lil Reese who appears twice on the mixtape.
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| Released | October 10, 2013 | |||
| Recorded | 2013 | |||
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| Length | 51:19 | |||
| Label | Only the Family | |||
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Recording and reception
Lil Durk summarized the mixtape in an interview with MTV: "It's a lot more interesting. There's a lot more storytelling. It's different from my last mixtape but it’s still real rapping. I just stepped it up a notch. I got DJ Drama and he made it bigger."[1]
Rolling Stone ranked Signed to the Streets eighth on its list of the top 10 mixtapes of 2013.[2] Stereogum's Tom Breihan wrote that the mixtape "has the tough-minded energy that made so much of that drill stuff exciting in the first place, and it also has other things working for it: Hooks, songcraft, emotional force, a sound of its own."[3] Renato Pagnani of Pitchfork Media called it Lil Durk's "best mixtape yet. He continues to straddle the blurry line between singing and rapping, and his songwriting has grown tighter and more evocative with time. Before, his use of Auto-Tune felt a bit gratuitous, but now it's woven into his style more organically."[4]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Producer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Traumatized" | Chase Davis | 3:14 |
| 2. | "Competition" (featuring Lil Reese) | Paris Beuller | 3:18 |
| 3. | "Can't Go Like That" | Dree The Drummer | 3:26 |
| 4. | "Don't Understand Me" | Paris Beuller | 3:24 |
| 5. | "Bang Bros" | Young Chop | 3:04 |
| 6. | "100 Rounds" | TGM | 3:09 |
| 7. | "Hittaz" | Paris Beuller | 3:21 |
| 8. | "Who Is This" | Zaytoven | 2:47 |
| 9. | "Dis Ain't What U Want" | Paris Beuller | 3:21 |
| 10. | "Street Life" (featuring Lil Reese) | Bbanks | 4:27 |
| 11. | "Oh My God" |
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| 12. | "Introduce Me" | Nito Beats | 3:11 |
| 13. | "One Night" | Young Chop | 3:24 |
| 14. | "52 Bars, Pt. 2" | Young Chop | 3:10 |
| 15. | "Times" | Fade | 4:32 |
| Total length: | 51:19 | ||
References
- Krishnamurthy, Sowmya (June 3, 2013). "Lil Durk on 'Signed to the Streets' and Being Famous in Prison". MTV. Retrieved June 9, 2015.
- "10 Best Mixtapes of 2013". Rolling Stone. Retrieved June 9, 2015.
- Breihan, Tom (October 16, 2013). "Mixtape Of The Week: Lil Durk - 'Signed to the Streets'". Stereogum. Retrieved June 9, 2015.
- Pagnani, Renato (December 24, 2013). "Overlooked Mixtapes 2013". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved June 9, 2015.