Prosecutors Fight To Keep Lil Durk’s Music As Murder-For-Hire Trial Evidence

According to an unique AllHipHop report, the federal government in contrast the Chicago artist’s Only The Family (OTF) collective to Liberia’s Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU) within the late Nineties and early 2000s. Nicknamed the “Demon Forces,” its commander was Chuckie Taylor, the son of the nation’s former president Charles Taylor Sr. A federal courtroom in Florida sentenced Taylor Jr. to 97 years in United States federal jail after convicting him of violent torture and abuses in Liberia from 1999 to 2003.

But how is that this related to Lil Durk’s case? Federal prosecutors introduced up Chuckie Taylor’s case as a result of when U.S. brokers arrested him in Miami over a pretend passport, they discovered notes of rap lyrics referencing ATU. These reportedly embody “Take this free of charge / Six ft is the place you gonna be / ATU n***as on the scene / Body bag is all you see” and “More sweat in my coaching means much less blood in my life / So with the photographs from weapons, preserve it lifeless and exact / Bull-doze ambushes within the midst of a struggle / Try to chop my provide / You’ll be dropping your life.”

The decide in Taylor’s case dominated that the lyrics have been very related to his trial. Prosecutors referenced the lyrics in courtroom, and a conviction adopted.

With this precedent in thoughts, prosecutors’ allegations towards Lil Durk, of their view, make sure lyrics and movies of his extremely essential to the case. They imagine related “music admissions” to Chuckie Taylor’s case, whom additionally confronted accusations of directing and orchestrating violence, are current in Durk’s materials.

Some strains that prosecutors highlighted reportedly embody the next: “Popping visitors, we in Cali’ trip via Beverly Hills with choppers, bounty hunter / For the n***as who can carry, I’ll purchase them 50K in weapons,” “Don’t reply to s**t with Von / I’m like, ‘F**ok it, you trippin’, go get your gun’ / They droppin’ areas, I’m getting’ it finished / F**ok tweetin’, we slidin’, the feds are comin’,” and a line about being “the kind to hop on a flight with a warrant,” allegedly mirroring the story of his October 2024 arrest.

Lil Durk’s murder-for-hire trial begins on April 21, 2026. Prosecutors accused him of inserting successful on Quando Rondo and organizing an assault that sought to eradicate Rondo and took the lifetime of Lul Pab in Los Angeles in 2022. Rondo survived the assault. Durk denies the fees towards him and hopes the decide will rule in his favor relating to his lyrics, which his attorneys defended as creative expression rooted in typical and unspecific style subject material.