Signed to the Streets

Signed to the Streets
Signed to the Streets
Mixtape by Lil Durk
Released	October 10, 2013
Recorded	2013
Genre	Hip hop; drill;
Length	51:19
Label	Only the Family
Producer	DJ Drama (exec.); Chase Davis; Dree The Drummer; Fade; Nito Beats; Paris Beuller; Sunny Norway; TGM; Young Chop; Zaytoven;
Lil Durk chronology
Singles from Signed to the little boys
	"Dis Ain't What U Want"; Released: May 5, 2013;

Signed to the Streets is a mixtape by American drill rapper Lil Durk, hosted by DJ Drama. It was released on October 10, 2013. The mixtape features production by Chase Davis, Dree The Drummer, Fade, Nito Beats, Paris Beuller, Sunny Norway, TGM, Young Chop and Zaytoven. The mixtape features a sole guest appearance from Lil Reese who appears twice on the mixtape.

Recording and reception

Lil Durk summarized the mixtape in an interview with MTV: "It's a lot more interesting. There's a lot more storytelling. It's different from my last mixtape but it’s still real rapping. I just stepped it up a notch. I got DJ Drama and he made it bigger."^[1]

Rolling Stone ranked Signed to the Streets eighth on its list of the top 10 mixtapes of 2013.^[2] Stereogum's Tom Breihan wrote that the mixtape "has the tough-minded energy that made so much of that drill stuff exciting in the first place, and it also has other things working for it: Hooks, songcraft, emotional force, a sound of its own."^[3] Renato Pagnani of Pitchfork called it Lil Durk's "best mixtape yet. He continues to straddle the blurry line between singing and rapping, and his songwriting has grown tighter and more evocative with time. Before, his use of Auto-Tune felt a bit gratuitous, but now it's woven into his style more organically."^[4]

Track listing

No.	Title	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Traumatized"	Chase Davis	3:14
2.	"Competition" (featuring Lil Reese)	Paris Beuller	3:18
3.	"Can't Go Like That"	Dree The Drummer	3:26
4.	"Don't Understand Me"	Paris Beuller	3:24
5.	"Bang Bros"	Young Chop	3:04
6.	"100 Rounds"	TGM	3:09
7.	"Hittaz"	Paris Beuller	3:21
8.	"Who Is This"	Zaytoven	2:47
9.	"Dis Ain't What U Want"	Paris Beuller	3:21
10.	"Street Life" (featuring Lil Reese)	Bbanks	4:27
11.	"Oh My God"	Paris Beuller Sunny Norway	3:15
12.	"Introduce Me"	Nito Beats	3:11
13.	"One Night"	Young Chop	3:24
14.	"52 Bars, Pt. 2"	Young Chop	3:10
15.	"Times"	Fade	4:32
Total length:			51:19

References

^ Krishnamurthy, Sowmya (June 3, 2013). "Lil Durk on 'Signed to the Streets' and Being Famous in Prison". MTV. Archived from the original on February 19, 2024. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
^ "10 Best Mixtapes of 2013". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on October 15, 2023. Retrieved June 9, 2015.
^ Breihan, Tom (October 16, 2013). "Mixtape Of The Week: Lil Durk - 'Signed to the Streets'". Stereogum. SpinMedia. Archived from the original on February 19, 2024. Retrieved February 19, 2024.
^ Pagnani, Renato (December 24, 2013). "Overlooked Mixtapes 2013". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on January 23, 2024. Retrieved February 19, 2024.