With co-defendants Dede and David Lindsey convicted and awaiting sentencing in the Lil Durk RICO case, attention is now turning to who among those still facing charges might flip before a judge hands down a verdict on their fate.
Music analyst Trap Lore Ross has identified OTF Boogie as the most significant unknown in the entire proceeding.
Boogie, who had his trial severed from the others and has not yet gone to court, faces a difficult calculation. According to Trap Lore Ross, virtually every piece of evidence used to convict Dede and Lindsey applies equally to Boogie, with one distinction.
“Only difference is Boogie was a driver, not shooter,” he said. That distinction may not offer much protection. Dede, he noted, was not a shooter either, yet was still convicted on the stalking resulting in death charge.
The way Trap Lore Ross sees it, Boogie is now looking at a near-certain conviction if he goes to trial, which puts him in a position where cooperation becomes a logical, if uncomfortable, option.
“Maybe Boogie decides to take that deal,” he said, adding quickly, “I don’t know that. I’m not trying to put that on his name. I’m just saying that as far as like logically, I’m not a gangster, but logically if it was me in that situation, I’d be thinking, ‘Yo, I got one last chance to get out of this.'”
On the question of Dede cooperating, Trap Lore Ross was more dismissive. He described Dede as someone who sees himself as a committed soldier and would likely view cooperation as a disgrace.
“He probably feels like he kept it G,” he said. “He going to be a real soldier, real gangster, he going to have to sit down and take his L.”
David Lindsey presents a different picture entirely. Unlike Dede, Lindsey was never part of OTF and, by most accounts, had little to no personal connection to Lil Durk. Trap Lore Ross painted a portrait of a man who may still be processing how he ended up at the center of a federal murder-for-hire case.
“He thinking someone hit him up to go to LA to do a little something, he going to get paid, and then before you know it, he up on the stand with Dirk thinking he didn’t even know Dirk,” he said.
Trap Lore Ross also pointed to the broader federal strategy at play. He believes investigators are actively working every angle available to them, reaching out to anyone connected to Durk who might be persuaded to testify.
“They might be making David Lindsey a offer as we speak,” he said. “They might be making Boogie an offer. They might be making anybody that had anything to do with Durk over them years.”
He also referenced two men who pleaded guilty to a separate murder connected to the case, suggesting they too may have been approached with significant cooperation deals, though whether they accepted remains unknown.
The window for cooperation before sentencing is narrow, but it remains open. For David Lindsey especially, a man with no deep organizational loyalty and a potential life sentence ahead of him, the calculus is stark.
Whether Boogie or Lindsey ultimately decide to assist prosecutors could shape the trajectory of the broader RICO case against Lil Durk in ways that are still difficult to predict.
