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Signed to the Streets

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Signed to the Streets
Mixtape by
ReleasedOctober 10, 2013
Recorded2013
Genre
Length51:19
LabelOnly the Family
Producer
Lil Durk chronology
Life Ain't No Joke
(2012)
Signed to the Streets
(2013)
Signed to the Streets 2
(2014)
Singles from Signed to the Streets
  1. "Dis Ain't What U Want"
    Released: May 5, 2013

Signed to the Streets is a mixtape by American drill rapper 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.

Recording and reception

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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 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

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No.TitleProducer(s)Length
1."Traumatized"Chase Davis3:14
2."Competition" (featuring Lil Reese)Paris Beuller3:18
3."Can't Go Like That"Dree The Drummer3:26
4."Don't Understand Me"Paris Beuller3:24
5."Bang Bros"Young Chop3:04
6."100 Rounds"TGM3:09
7."Hittaz"Paris Beuller3:21
8."Who Is This"Zaytoven2:47
9."Dis Ain't What U Want"Paris Beuller3:21
10."Street Life" (featuring Lil Reese)Bbanks4:27
11."Oh My God"
  • Paris Beuller
  • Sunny Norway
3:15
12."Introduce Me"Nito Beats3:11
13."One Night"Young Chop3:24
14."52 Bars, Pt. 2"Young Chop3:10
15."Times"Fade4:32
Total length:51:19

References

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  1. ^ Krishnamurthy, Sowmya (June 3, 2013). "Lil Durk on 'Signed to the Streets' and Being Famous in Prison". MTV. Archived from the original on February 19, 2024. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
  2. ^ "10 Best Mixtapes of 2013". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on October 15, 2023. Retrieved June 9, 2015.
  3. ^ Breihan, Tom (October 16, 2013). "Mixtape Of The Week: Lil Durk - 'Signed to the Streets'". Stereogum. SpinMedia. Archived from the original on February 19, 2024. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
  4. ^ Pagnani, Renato (December 24, 2013). "Overlooked Mixtapes 2013". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on January 23, 2024. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
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