Durk wanted to make a record with Cole that would ‘stick’
Lil Durk recruited J. Cole on one of the best songs of 2023, “All My Life.” During a recent interview with Nadeska, Smurk disclosed that it took him two years to emerge with the right song to feature Cole on. He explained that the moment he came up with “All My Life,” it him that it was the right record.
“He went super cr*zy,” the rapper said. “And it’s so cr*zy because we’d been talking for, like, two years. He’d always be like, ‘Send me a record.’ And I’m like, ‘I gotta find the right record.’ Man, I’m glad it wasn’t three years. In my eyes, he a legend so if you have a chance to do a song with a legend, you either send them something just to send it, just to say you got one, or you gon’ make it stick. But that’s why I never just sent him a record. ‘Cause I’m like, ‘I want something that’s gon’ stick.’ Yeah, as soon as I did the record, he’s the first person that popped into my head. I’m like, ‘I got it.’ Yeah, that’s why I believe in timing. Timing is everything.”