Hailing from the South Side of Saint Louis, Lil Derik is a twenty-year old independent hip hop artist. Lil Derik spent his adolescence studying everyone from Rakim, Snoop Dogg, and 2Pac to T.I., OutKast, and Lil Wayne. He started rapping as a freshman in high school and in 2015 formed the music collective “More Than Music” with his friends Tazz B, Alley 2 Timexxz, and Sedii Kokane. Since graduating from high school in 2016, Lil Derik has dropped several projects on SoundCloud, including his first mixtape, Rather Be Rich Than Famous in anticipation of his first official EP – Huey vs Riley: The Mixtape – which debuted in April of 2018. With a style influenced by the likes of J Cole, A$AP Rocky, Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and Kanye West, Lil Derik considers himself a student of the game. Additionally, he is currently pursuing a journalism degree from the University of Missouri. Lil Derik plans to drop two more projects in 2018…

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