Lil Durk Argues He's in Jail Due to YouTube 'Fan Pages,' Should Be Freed

Lil Durk's attorneys are trying to get the Chicago star out of jail, or get his murder-for-hire charges dismissed altogether, by claiming that the federal case against him is mistakenly based on videos from YouTube "fan pages." Multiple motions filed on Friday (April 18) point out that prosecutors used a section of the Babyface Ray and Durkio track "Wonderful Wayne and Jackie Boy" as evidence the rapper "sought to commercialize" the murder of Saviay'a Robinson, cousin of Quando Rondo, with whom Durk had reportedly been feuding — but that Durk had nothing to do with the version of the song the feds referenced.

Durk had previously explained that the lyrics to "Wonderful Wayne and Jackie Boy" were written many months before Robinson was killed, so he could not have been discussing it in his verse. On Friday, he added an additional wrinkle to his argument.

The government said in a January hearing that a version of the song existed that contained TMZ footage related to Robinson's murder.

"The bottom line is there was a video that was filmed showing defendant’s rival screaming, 'No. No,' that was placed over these lyrics," prosecutors said.

Durk's team claimed on Friday that the version of the song with footage relating to Robinson's murder was not created or posted by the rapper.

"The internet users who posted the videos...are apparent 'fan pages' maintained by people with no affiliation to Mr. Banks or Only the Family, Inc," they wrote in a filing. "It is unfair, misleading, and just flat-out wrong for the government to suggest that Mr. Banks is responsible for these video/audio edits or that they evidence his purported commercialization of a murder that he supposedly ordered."

The videos at issue — visible here and here — were posted by YouTube accounts @otf_edit and @mymixtapez.

Durk's lawyers are asking for the rapper to either be released to home detention for a bond package totaling just over $2 million in cash and equity in real estate; or, alternately, for the indictment against him to be dismissed.

Durk is charged with placing a bounty on Quando Rondo, and recruiting people to "find, track, and kill" him. In an attempt to kill Rondo, prosecutors argue, Robinson, who was a passenger in his cousin's car, was killed.

Prosecutors claim that Rondo and Durk began feuding when "an associate" of Rondo's shot and killed King Von.