Lil Durk‘s father is understandably frustrated by his son’s recent arrest and suspects there may be deeper motives at play involving the government.
Dontay “Big Durk” Banks spoke out this week in what appears to be a press conference of sorts this week, breaking his silence on his son’s murder-for-hire charges.
After thanking the fans for their support, Banks said: “I’ll leave all legal issues to the lawyers [but] as far as the family, as far as me as a father, the only thing I can say is that it’s mighty strange that once he start doing good out there, once he stayed away from all the gang banging and dissing the dead and doing things out there in the street – when he turned his life around, when he on his deen now practicing religion, doing things for the community, bringing about peace in Chicago and throughout various cities, all of a sudden now he’s being indicted.
“Just right off the Muslim conference that we had in Chicago calling for peace – now three to four days later, he’s being indicted after that. When he put up [on the screen] at his concert all of the people that got killed in Chicago showing that this is not what it’s about and then he gets indicted. So look at the bigger picture here. Look at what the government’s trying to do. Their whole thing is if you’re doing wrong, you’re doing bad, then that’s good for them because that fills up the prison. But when you start doing right and tell people to stop doing wrong, then all of a sudden you an enemy to them and they have to lock you up.”
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Lil Durk is facing serious murder-for-hire charges involving the killing of Quando Rondo‘s cousin Saviay’a Robinson, but one bit of the prosecution’s case just met a serious challenge from engineer and producer jusvibes.
The engineer, real name Justin Gibson, has been working with Durk since 2021 and describes himself as the Chicago artist’s “main sound engineer” — a claim that photo evidence bears out.
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Gibson submitted an affidavit and supporting screenshots to the court on December 15 that appeared to poke holes in the government’s theory that Durk “sought to commercialize” Robinson’s death by rapping about it.
Prosecutors said that lyrics on Durk’s track with Babyface Ray “Wonderful Wayne and Jackie Boy” referenced audio from a news clip “taken shortly after [Robinson’s] murder where [Quando Rondo] screamed ‘no, no!’ after seeing [Robinson’s] dead body.” They pointed specifically to the lyrics: “Look on the news and see your son/ You screamin’, ‘No, no’.”
However, Gibson says in his affidavit, viewed by HipHopDX, that he watched Durk write his verse in the studio, and recorded the rapper’s verse, during a session on January 25, 2022 — almost seven months before Robinson was killed.
Gibson attached screenshots showing that he had saved a rough draft of the track (originally titled “2 Toxic”) on the date he described.
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Durk is being connected to more crimes than just Robinson’s killing, however: he has recently been linked to the killing of an alleged Chicago gang leader.
Newly unsealed court documents claim the rapper (real name Durk Banks) funded the January 2022 shooting death of Stephon Mack, the alleged leader of the Smashville faction of the Gangster Disciples.
The killing is believed to have been payback for the murder of Durk’s brother Dontay “DThang” Banks, who was shot to death outside a nightclub in Harvey, Illinois in 2021.
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Durk has not been charged in connection with Mack’s murder, although police sources told the Chicago Tribune that an investigation is still ongoing.
