The detail that keeps standing out from Lil Durk’s ongoing murder-for-hire trial is not the alleged plot itself, but how it allegedly started.
According to testimony from OTF Jam, a former Durk affiliate, the death of King Von in November 2020 put a “battery” in the rapper’s back, and the online trolling that followed made it worse.
OTF Jam, whose real name is Kacey Jerome Jones, took the stand as the first witness in the trial and was visibly shaken throughout. The judge had to ask him multiple times to raise his voice while he testified.
Jones described OTF not as a label family or a crew, but as a “gang enterprise,” which is exactly the kind of language prosecutors need to build their case.
He also placed himself inside the alleged conspiracy, identifying himself in surveillance footage shown to the court.
Jam’s backstory came out early in his testimony. He told the court he was “blessed in” to the Black Disciples street gang at nine years old, and explained his worldview around retaliation in blunt terms: “You don’t want to be looked at as no weak block. People gonna prey on that.”
His relationship with Durk goes back to when he was 15, and he spoke about it with what sounded like genuine loyalty, even now. He said Durk stayed in contact with him during a prison stint when others did not: “People forget about you, I ain’t gon’ lie, Durk didn’t do that.
That loyalty is part of what makes his testimony so damaging. Jam is not a distant figure painting a picture from the outside, he is someone who was allegedly in the room, on the plane, and in the studio when key conversations happened.
One of those conversations allegedly took place at an Atlanta studio, where Jam claims Durk made his intentions clear.
According to Jam’s account, Durk said that anyone who killed Quando Rondo or a man known as Lul Timm would be taken care of: “If motherf*ckers catch Quando Rondo or Lul Timm, they gon’ be straight. They ain’t gotta worry about nothing.”
The alleged plot eventually led to a trip to San Diego in 2022. Jam testified that he and other affiliates were flown to the West Coast without being told why, and only learned the purpose of the trip after landing, when Durk allegedly told them the mission was to kill Quando Rondo.
That operation is linked to the death of Rondo’s cousin, Lul Pab, who was killed in what prosecutors describe as a case of mistaken identity.
The emotional thread running through all of this, according to Jam, traces back to King Von. He said the grief after Von’s death was real, but so was the anger at people who mocked Durk publicly in the aftermath. “He didn’t like that people were trolling him. It was getting to him.”
Defense attorneys have not yet had their full opportunity to cross-examine Jam, and how they challenge his credibility will likely shape how much weight the jury gives to everything he described on the stand.
