Broadway Girls
by Lil Durk (featuring Morgan Wallen)

Album: 7220 (2021)
Charted: 14
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Songfacts®:

  • Here, Lil Durk teams up with country star Morgan Wallen for a twangy song about Nashville's Broadway strip and the girls that hang out there.
  • "Broadway Girls" takes place in a honky-tonk bar owned by country singer Jason Aldean on the strip. Wallen details meeting a girl there who puts her number into his phone. The singer's cousin, Andrew "Bean" Greene, confiscates her phone, leading the girl to complain that Wallen is too "drunk and crazy," and his dancing sucks. The exchange leaves Wallen feeling kinda crazy and kind of lost. He concludes he should have stayed at home because the girls who hang out on Broadway just cause trouble.
  • Lil Durk raps on his verse about being with Wallen in Aldean's bar. Despite being warned not to trust the Broadway girls by the locals, he hooks up with one of them.
  • Morgan Wallen and Lil Durk wrote the song with:

    Nashville songwriter Ernest K. Smith. A frequent Wallen collaborator, Smith co-wrote 11 tracks on his Dangerous album, including the title track, "More Than My Hometown" and "Wasted On You."

    Pop and soul singer-songwriter Rocky Block. This is his first credit on a major artist's song.

    Producer Charlie Handsome, who works with artists from an assortment of genres. They include Khalid ("Better" and the Texan singer's duet with Normani, "Love Lies"); Travis Scott ("5% Tint"); Trevor Daniel ("Falling"); Kane Brown ("Be Like That"); and Florida Georgia Line ("I Love My Country").

    Producer Joe Reeves (Dave's "Heart Attack," Juice WRLD's "Man Of The Year").

    Charlie Handsome and Joe Reeves also came up with the stripped-down trap beat.

Comments: 1

  • Gregsfc from TennesseeAll these writers, but it was first a song idea discussed between Wallen and Ernest during the Summer, according to Ernest, which is beginning to become a common theme for songs out of Nashville that end up being platinum or multiplatinum records whether or not they get released as radio singles. It is my understanding that Ernest was the brain child behind most of this song not counting the trap beat. And then just two weeks later, he drops a completely different song sonically in Flower Shops feat. Wallen; a last-century-type traditional country song, co-penned by label mates and frequent writing collaborators, Benny Burgess and Mark Holman. Flower Shops ended up debuting #1 on Spotify's debut chart for the U.S. and #4 on Spotify's global debut chart. Broadway Girls debuted at the top of Billboard's Hot Rap chart and also Hip Hop / R&B Hot chart and also top song sales chart. Not bad for two guys from Tennessee who played each other two years in a row in the state highschool baseball tournament but didn't even realize it until after they met in 2015 as new comers in the music industry.
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