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The Voice (Lil Durk album)

2020 studio album by Lil Durk

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ104854131 ↗
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The Voice is the sixth studio album by American rapper Lil Durk. It was released on December 24, 2020, by Only the Family, Alamo Records and Geffen Records. The album contains guest appearances from late rapper King Von, whom the album is also dedicated, 6lack, Young Thug, YNW Melly, and Booka600. A deluxe edition was released on January 29, 2021, with twelve additional tracks. It features additional guest appearances from Lil Baby, Pooh Shiesty, and Sydny August.

The Voice is Lil Durk's final album for Geffen Records, as his home label, Alamo Records, was acquired by Sony Music in June 2021. Since July 2021, the album is no longer distributed by Geffen Records.

Background

The title of the album is actually Lil Durk's longtime nickname. He had been teasing it for a while, starting with by posting a picture of him on social media, promoting the title track, on August 28, 2020. He initially stated he would release new music on the same day as rapper 6ix9ine's second studio album, TattleTales, amid their feud.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The Voice (Lil Durk album)” as 2020 studio album by Lil Durk. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Voice, Durk and album can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2020 studio album by Lil Durk. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q104854131. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 2021.

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