Grammy-nominated rapper Lil Durk is coming to Syracuse for a concert that will be a homecoming for Toosii.
Lil Durk will perform at the Oncenter Convention Center in downtown Syracuse on Oct. 17 at 8 p.m. Toosii, who was born in Syracuse and lived in the city until he was 13, will open the show.
General admission tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster for $75, plus fees. VIP passes are $150.
Lil Durk, based out of Chicago, released seven albums since 2015, including the recent Lil Baby collaboration “The Voice of the Heroes,” which topped the Billboard 200 charts. His hits include “My Beyoncé,” “The Voice,” and “3 Headed Goat,” plus appearances on Drake’s “Laugh Now Cry Later,” Pooh Shiesty’s “Back in Blood,” and Coi Leray’s “No More Parties” remix.
Rapper Lil Durk performs onstage during Hot 107.9 Birthday Bash 25 at Center Parc Credit Union Stadium at Georgia State University on July 17, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images)
Toosii, whose real name is Nau’Jour Grainger, is ready to blow up after last year’s platinum-selling single “Love Cycle” (with Summer Walker) and his debut album “Poetic Pain,” featuring the Lil Durk collab “Nightmares.” He was named to this year’s XXL Freshman Class, performed at Lollapalooza, dropped a new mixtape, “Thank You For Believing” (featuring DaBaby) and is averaging 2 million monthly listeners on Spotify.
Toosii started rapping when he was young, influenced by his father and brother, and then got serious with music when he moved to North Carolina. Now 21, he told XXL Mag that he used music as a way of dealing with the stresses and struggles of his youth.
“I come from a bad place,” he told 24/7 Hip-Hop last year, referring to Syracuse. “I come from, like, 13 (years old) at a football game shootout. You know, guns to the faces. My sister done been in a car when a baby got killed. S---, my best friends killed my granddad.”
“I had to grow up fast. I was 13, moved to North Carolina, had to raise three kids while my sister was locked up. I was never able to party and stuff like that,” he continued. “That’s why I don’t drink and smoke now... because my granddad did drugs. Two things I promised: I would never drink or smoke, and I always, you know, have respect for women. Now I ain’t perfect, ‘cause I take care of my nieces and my mom — I ain’t perfect, but I got respect for women.”
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