Only the Family

3.3.21

Jump Released 3.3.21

Sometimes we just cannot wait until Friday for new music. It’s been a long week already, so thankfully, Lil Durk and the OTF crew decided to drop off a new single for us today. The song includes King Von and two other members of OTF, in addition to Durk. While the beat and melody is more calming and peaceful than any type of trap, you know the lyrics will still take you there. It is a song you can cruise and jam to as we are gearing up for summer, nonetheless.

You have probably seen Lil Durk rep his OTF chain, hats, hashtag it on Instagram and Twitter, and so on. If you were not sure exactly what this was, OTF is Lil Durk’s rap collective which stands for “Only the Family.” The guys are all artists from Chicago, and were once actually connected with French Montana’s Coke Boys crew. They have since become independent from the larger Coke Boys group, and are now signed to Interscope, while referring to themselves as the OTF Collective. There are about ten members of the group, including the late King Von.

Lil Durk has been emotional about loosing Von since his passing. He actually seemed to have found on while being on Instagram Live. Followers were filling the comments telling him the news, and the Live abruptly ended. Durk has made it his mission to keep Von’s name alive, and is doing his best to do so, including dropping a new track with two verses from Von on it. The other artists include Booka600 and Memo600 who share the first verse with Von.

The beat to the song begins with some guitar that kind of sounds like the start to an MGK song. Then, it picks up with some symbols, keys, additional sounds that make it right up Lil Durk’s alley. A beautiful beat with aggressive bars, right?

Lil Durk and Tekashi 6ix9ine have been trading bars for bars in their songs, going back and forth at one another. 6ix9ine has said some incredibly disrespectful things about King Von, that I can not imagine anyone with a beating heart ever to say. This could be Durk’s response to 6ix9ine, hearing King Von himself talking about rats and threatening the opps, which could very well be a reference towards the rainbow haired rapper. What is most crazy, and when he says “When you see a *** killed your brother, you don’t ask, just blow.” While 6ix9ine was not the man to take Von’s life, there are real wounds here, and these words do not come across lightly, even if the delivery may sound like it.

Overall, I really enjoy the song and how it sounds. I would be interested in hearing from Durk and the other OTF members of how they came about this song, and why the timing was the way it was, etc. It is always interesting to hear. I do just hope that the violence in hip-hop slows down. Lil Durk is at the top of his game right now, and seems to be feeding into the trouble a bit too much for my liking when it comes to keeping him safe.

6ix9ine is still coming for Meek Mill after their run it, and for Lil Durk after disagreeing with what he said in the Pooh Shiesty single, Back In Blood. We will have to see what he has to say after hearing from Durk and Von, whom he had a lot to speak on previously.