Kanye West Wants to Buy Out Lil Durk’s Contract

Kanye West wants to free his friend and fellow rapper Lil Durk from his current record deal.

According to TMZ, the 46-year-old rapper is said to be in talks with Durk’s label Alamo Records to buy out his contract. 

According to sources close to Kanye, his desire to take on Durk’s contract stems from the record label’s refusal to allow the two to collaborate.

According to the sources, West and Durk (real name: Durk Derrick Banks) collaborated on a track for the LP that West has been working on in Saudi Arabia and Dubai in recent weeks, but Alamo Records CEO Todd Moscowitz refused to allow Durk’s verse to be released.

The two musical mates’ most recent collaboration almost didn’t happen after West published a streaming version of Vultures that didn’t include Durk’s verse, despite earlier airing an unfinished version of the tune that did.

Although Durk responded to being left off by saying he was ‘humble’ and seemingly unfazed, neither artist shared a reason for the verse being left off.