Share Pin 0 SharesLil Durk’s lawyers are fighting to keep two experts on rap and Chicago gang culture in the courtroom as his murder-for-hire trial approaches. Nielson, co-author of Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics, and Guilt in America, is expected to discuss how rap lyrics can involve hyperbole, image-making and manufactured “fake beefs.” “Drill rap is a marketing term,” they wrote, arguing that separating it entirely from other forms of rap is “entirely fictional.” Durk has pleaded not guilty to charges connected to a 2022 Los Angeles ambush that killed Saviay’a “Lul Pab” Robinson. A judge is expected to hear arguments over the experts on August 13.