Lil Durk doesn't have one route to get to his goal: a successful hit song over a top-notch beat. And because of this, tons of producers have tried to create similar instrumentals that replicate ...

“But then with Durk, if the beat is hard, he’s gonna rap on it. Baby can record a couple of days, go catch a vibe, and come up with new ideas and then go record again a week later.

Durk came up in the first wave of Chicago drill, but he’s always drawn on the Future melodic-moan model, and he sounds most comfortable on trap beats. Baby, meanwhile, is a pure creature of the ...

Soon enough, when rappers began to search for things like “Chief Keef, Young Thug, or Lil Durk type beats” Cash’s name would be the first result to appear.

On Friday (May 8), it was hip-hop’s turn to take over, with new music from the likes of Nav, Lil Durk, Lil Tjay and more. Check out our picks for the latest edition of First Beat below.