Prosecutors are pushing back after Lil Durk’s legal team asked the court to block his music from being used as evidence in his murder-for-hire case.
In new court filings, prosecutors argued that Durk’s lyrics and videos should be presented to a jury because they show motive and intent.
They plan to introduce nine music videos and three audio recordings tied to the case, which centers on a long-running feud between Durk and Quando Rondo following the 2020 killing of King Von.
Among the lyrics cited are lines from Nardo Wick’s “Who Want Smoke?” where he raps, “They be on my page like ‘Slide for Von’, I know they trollin me . . . Got it back in blood, y’all just don’t know, that’s how it ‘posed to be.” Prosecutors claim those words show pressure to retaliate and prove “motive for seeking revenge.”
They also referenced an unreleased track called “Scoom His A–,” which includes the lyric “Bounty hunter,” arguing it closely mirrors the 2022 Los Angeles shooting that killed Quando Rondo’s cousin, Saviay’a Robinson.
Durk’s attorneys say using his music is unfair and misleading. In their motion, they wrote that the government has not shown “who authored the lyrics, when they were created, or how they connect to any specific fact in dispute.”
The prosecution countered that excluding the lyrics would “diminish the jury’s role to weigh defendants’ own words,” asking the court to allow the music as evidence.