Lil Durk and NBA YoungBoy a.k.a YoungBoy Never Broke Again have apparently ended their years-long rivalry. Words on the Internet are the two rappers have called a truce after years of trashing each other online and offline.
DJ Akademiks shared the news during his livestream on Wednesday, May 3. “That beef is squashed. You ain’t hear?” the “Off the Record” podcast host told his viewers. “I’m serious. Durk and YoungBoy don’t have beef no more.”
While neither rapper has spoken up on where things stand between them, Durkio appeared to confirm the reports. He liked a tweet from a YoungBoy fan account sharing the news which was accompanied with a caption that read, “DJ Akademiks said NBA YoungBoy and Lil Durk has Officially Squashed their Beef!!”
Meanwhile, the YB Instagram “fan account,” which is long suspected to actually be run by the Baton Rogue native on account of its over 1 million followers, also shared the news for the world to see.
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Durk and YoungBoy’s feud dated a few years back and was escalated following the death of King Von, who was allegedly shot and killed by a friend of YoungBoy’s artist Quando Rondo. Tensions rose last February when Durkio released a diss track titled “AHHH HA” aimed at the “Outside Today” emcee. The 23-year-old then hit back on his own song “I Hate YoungBoy”, which finds him taking shots at Durk and his then-fiancee India Royale.
However, in a recent interview with Billboard, YoungBoy claimed that he’s turned a new leaf since he was introduced to Mormonism while on house arrest in Utah. He confessed to having regrets for having negative impact on people with his music that glorifies violence.
“I was flooded with millions of dollars since the time I was 16, all the way to this point in my life,” he explained. “I woke up one morning and was like, damn, they got me. Look at the s**t I done spoke about. Look at the s**t I put in these people ears. Man, I feel very wrong about a lot of things.”
The “Outside Today” rhymer continued in the interview, “How many lives I actually am responsible for when it comes to my music? How many kids and people have got in a car or put this s**t in their ears and actually went and hurt someone? And now, I’m sitting back like, damn, I can’t do it all in one day. But I promise to clean whatever I can clean. But it’s gon’ take time.”
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