Lil Durk & J. Cole’s “All My Life” debuts with over 2.5 million streams on Spotify in its first few hours on the platform.
It is the third biggest debut in 2023 for a hip hop song and Durk’s biggest EVER debut on a lead song.Song also debuts at #4 on the US Spotify chart (1.4m), with over 3.4m views on YouTube and at #1 on Apple Music.
It will challenge for a top ten spot on Billboard.
• Top 5 songs on Spotify Nigeria daily songs chart
1. Lil Durk (ft. J Cole) – All My Life
2. Rema – Charm
3. BNXN – Pray
4. Smada & Odumodublvck – Papilo (Smadumodu)
5. Davido – Feel— MUSICFRO (@MusiqFro) May 13, 2023
The chorus is reminiscent of the classic songs that utilized the singing of children like Jay-Z’s “Hard knock Life” with orphan Annie and Nas’ “I Think I Can.” We hear on the single the chorus of:
All my life (All my life)
They been tryin’ to keep me down (They been tryin’ to keep me down)
All this time (All this time)
Never thought I would make it out (Never thought I’d make it out)
They couldn’t break me, they couldn’t break mе (No, no)
They couldn’t take me, thеy couldn’t take me (No)
All my life (All my life)
They been tryin’ to keep me down (They been tryin’ to keep me down)
The music video has been added to WorldWide Video Zone rotation.
The fans of both artists on social media have taken well to the collaboration as you can see with the posts below. In an interview snippet, Lil Durk admits that he was outdone on his own track by J. Cole.
Lil durk was surprised by J.Cole’s verse on his song and admits that he was out done and that barely happens pic.twitter.com/7RM0B2Ey5N
— Ig:@browardjunkieeees (@browardjunkies) May 13, 2023
J. Cole is spittin’ on this new Lil Durk track pic.twitter.com/bmNFUm66Q7
— Jah Talks Music (@JahTalksMusic) May 12, 2023
It feels like every J. Cole feature we’ve recently been getting has been hinting at him retiring soon
This new song with Lil Durk is fire, but feels bittersweet… pic.twitter.com/7kFI8ME3aZ
— Jah Talks Music (@JahTalksMusic) May 12, 2023
