When Lil Durk initially reached out to Morgan Wallen about possibly collaborating, the rapper was unaware of the video of Wallen using the racial slur. While exchanging DMs, Wallen came clean about the incident. This prompted Lil Durk to suggest the two musicians speak in person about the situation. “He was nowhere near racist … I took my own risk, to show the world that he isn’t that,” Lil Durk told the Los Angeles Times in May 2023. After meeting and later working together on “Broadway Girls,” the duo started to hang out as friends and bonded. “We live in two totally different worlds,” Durk told the Times. “He’ll tell me, ‘Let’s go hunting, let’s go fishing.’ He’s opened my mind to a different view of life,” the rapper added while mentioning that he tried to teach Wallen about fashion.
Initially, Durk was motivated to collab with Wallen after he saw that his country artist’s album had beat his own on the Billboard charts. Wallen was reticent — because of his own controversy — but Durk was insistent that they at least meet. “And he really just broke [the video] down to me like, drunk mistake, everybody makes mistakes,” the “Petty Too” rapper said while appearing on the “Full Send Podcast” in 2022. “If I feel he was a racist, I would have never did it anyway,” Durk added.
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After “Broadway Girls,” the pair continued to work and spend time together.
