Lil Durk says jurors need two scholars to separate drill rap performance, Chicago gang culture and real-world claims. Lil Durk faces a courtroom battle over who gets to explain drill rap when his murder-for-hire trial reaches jurors. Banks’ rap lyrics are central to the government’s case against him,” the defense wrote. “The distinction the government seeks to draw between ‘drill rap’ and Dr. Nielson’s expertise is entirely fictional,” Durk’s attorneys argued. “Drill rap is a marketing term, a descriptor to help listeners distinguish between types of music by common characteristics, not some impregnable wall between types of music.”