Remember My Name (album)
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''Remember My Name'' is the debut
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by American rapper
Lil Durk Durk Derrick Banks (born October 19, 1992), known professionally as Lil Durk, is an American rapper. Regarded as a pioneering artist in the Chicago-based hip-hop subgenre drill music, he is often considered the subgenre's most commercially suc ...
. It was released on June 2, 2015, by Only the Family and
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. The album's production was handled by C-Sick, DJ L, FKi, London on da Track,
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,
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,
Young Chop Tyree Lamar Pittman (born November 14, 1993), better known by his stage name Young Chop, is an American record producer, rapper, and songwriter. He is best known for producing drill hip hop music, and for producing many of Chief Keef's early hit ...
and more, with fellow Def Jam label-mates
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and
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were the featured artists. The album garnered a positive reception but critics were mixed on the gangsta rap content and Auto-Tune delivery of them. ''Remember My Name'' debuted at number 14 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and only released one single: " Like Me". The deluxe edition adds appearances from Hypno Carlito and King Popo.


Critical reception

''Remember My Name'' received generally positive reviews from
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s but were divided on Durk's Auto-Tune flow and lyrical content. At
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, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an
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score of 61, based on 8 reviews. David Turner from ''
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'' praised Durk for maintaining a delivery of dark ghetto lyrics over a mainstream budget, concluding that "He's nowhere near forgetting how hard times were for him, and remain for so many in his hometown." Meaghan Garvey of ''
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'' praised the album for being able to "strike a graceful balance between gritty roots and big-budget sheen, recruiting underrated drill producers (DJ L, C-Sick) whose slick beats are highlights."
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's David Jeffries said that despite retreads of " Like Me" found throughout the album, he highlighted tracks like "Tryna' Tryna'" and "What Your Life Like" as lyrical standouts, saying that "Drenched in
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and more frustrated than a ringtone rapper should be, Lil Durk turns in a surprisingly down effort." Kellan Miller of ''
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'' was mixed about the album, praising Durk's lyricism on self-reflecting tracks like "Resume" and "Don't Judge Me" but felt his personal life forced him to fabricate certain stories with gangsta rap clichés, saying that, " e title's overt demand for permanent residency in the collective consumer's cerebral cortex ultimately amounts to ''Remember My Name''s slightly-above mediocre status." He also said that it will only appeal to loyal Durk fans. Jill Hopkins of '' Consequence'' felt the album suffered an identity crisis when it went from hard-hitting hip-hop to soft-willowing R&B due to the use of Auto-Tune, concluding that "A record this anticipated by a man so young, with so much riding on it should sound more important. Instead, ''Remember My Name'' sounds a lot like a lot of other things." Jake Jenkins of
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found the album a disappointing let-down, criticizing the middle part for being filler and Durk's limited musicianship revealing a flawed transition from mixtape to full-length project, saying, "That's not the kind of rapper Durk is, at the moment anyway, and all over ''Remember My Name'' you get the awkward feeling that Durk is completely out of his element."


Commercial performance

The album debuted at number 14 on the US ''Billboard'' 200, with 28,000 equivalent album units; it sold 24,000 copies in its first week, with the remainder of its unit count attributed to
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activity and track sales. It has sold 48,000 copies in the United States as of June 2016.


Track listing


Charts


Weekly charts


Year-end charts


References

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