Rapper Lil Durk lost numerous friends and loved ones to violence. To cope, he turned to therapy

Days before releasing his eighth solo studio album, “Almost Healed,” Lil Durk is cooled out at FaZe Clan’s Fairfax warehouse, a gaming-and-office playground where Twitch livestream rooms sit feet away from desk workspaces. “‘Y’all need to call it something else, ‘The Voice’ doesn’t really do nothing,’” Durk’s manager, Peter Jideonwo, recalls Rocky telling them. Against his mother and grandmother’s wishes, Durk strayed from school into the streets — “I was trying to be somebody I wasn’t at the time,” he says. We were looking like ‘It’s up, we rich, we made it.’” Durk’s Def Jam debut album, “Remember My Name,” released in 2015 and peaked at No.