Lil Durk Unleashes New Single ‘IKEA Rug’ Off NBA’s Chris Brickley Forthcoming Project. We’re less than two weeks from Lil Durk unleashing another album. He recently announced that 7220 would be dropping on the same day as Kanye’s Donda 2, which is scheduled to drop on Feb. 22nd.
Although we didn’t get a new single on the project this week, NBA trainer Chris Brickley unveiled a new single by the Chicago rapper called “IKEA Rug.”
The single comes out of Brickley’s forthcoming album ‘Welcome To The Grind,’ who, according to him, is inspired by some of the artists and athletes who went through his gymnasium, including Durk.
“It was a dream of mine to pull this off, and I did….Started in the middle of the Covid Lockdown b4 a late night workout with @the_cole.anthony , I was looking for an album to play & it hit me….I’m gonna put together a project with artists who have came through my gym….It’s only right to start the project with @lildurk , every single time he’s came thru,” Brickley wrote on Instagram.
Make sure you be on the lookout for the Welcome To The Grind project with Chris Brickley and stream “IKEA Rug” on platforms.
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