Lil Durk Converts 13 Prison Inmates to Islam While Awaiting Murder-for-Hire Trial
Lil Durk is reportedly finding strength through faith as he awaits trial in a high-profile murder-for-hire case.
According to his father, Dontay Bank, better known as Big Durk, the Chicago-based rapper has been using his time behind bars to embrace a spiritual leadership role, helping fellow inmates convert to Islam, the religion both he and his father practice.
"As a human, you sitting in there looking at four walls. You’ve been told to stand up for count. You’ve been told these things, something that you aint normally used to. It's gonna have this effect on you but you know you always bounce back, you always look at the greater picture,” Banks said during an appearance on “The Breakfast Club” morning show.
“As a Muslim, we look and say to ourselves, ‘What Allah is doing for us right now, building us to be a better man, is greater than what they trying to do to us and trying to tear us down,’” he continued.
“[Durk] was telling me that when he came in there was like four Muslims on the block. He said now it's 17 Muslims on the block, so he in there converting.”
The revelation points to a major shift in how Durk, born Durk Derrick Banks, is navigating one of the most difficult chapters of his life.
The “All My Life” hitmaker is currently facing federal charges tied to an alleged murder-for-hire plot, accused of orchestrating a hit on rival rapper Quando Rondo following the 2020 killing of Durk’s close friend and collaborator, King Von. The indictment claims the plan led to the 2022 shooting death of Rondo’s cousin, Saviay’a Robinson, aka Lil Pab.
Durk has since pleaded not guilty, with his legal team pushing to have the case thrown out altogether. According to his attorneys, the grand jury was misled into handing down the indictment based on false information pulled from YouTube “fan pages.”
Initially set for earlier this year, the trial has since been postponed and is now scheduled to begin on October 14.
