Memo600 says federal agents offered him a deal on his state case if he would hand over information on Lil Durk.
The Chicago rapper described the approach as a fishing expedition aimed squarely at Durk, known to those around him as Smurk, rather than at the charges he was facing.
According to Memo600, the conversation happened around June, roughly two weeks after he left. Agents told him they could reduce his state sentence in exchange for cooperation on Durk.
When it was put to him that they had essentially offered to make his charges go away for that information, he did not hesitate. “That’s all they wanted. That’s all,” he said.
He believes his own case was simply too small to interest them. His charges stemmed from buying guns, and in his view the agents had bigger targets in mind. “Cuz my charges weren’t even important enough, bro,” he explained. “They want the big fish.”
The conversation took a strange turn when agents raised the robbery at Durk’s home. Memo600 said they accused him of being the man who went inside and exchanged gunfire with India.
He swore on his children that this was how the agents put it, adding that the mood in the room was surprisingly loose, with officers joking throughout. One agent, he recalled, told him, “We was hoping to catch you at a show so we could get famous.”
Rather than tense up, Memo600 said he laughed along. “I was in there cracking up laughing, bro,” he said. He told the agents he had been arrested that same night, and they responded that they already knew and had been coming to get him anyway.
That arrest, he explained, came during a traffic stop. Agents described the weapon involved in detail, and he repeated their account. “It was a gold Glock 22 with a switch and a 50-round drum on it,” he recalled. He said the agents told him the timing made it look like he was coming from the scene, but they could not pin him to it.
Memo600 denied any role in the robbery and admitted he does not know who carried it out. “No, I don’t actually know,” he said. Still, he is convinced it was someone from Durk’s own circle.
“Yeah, it had to be. Don’t nobody got Smurk’s address, bro,” he said. He added that very few people would dare to target the rapper at all. “Ain’t nobody dumb enough to play with Smurk like that.”
He also weighed in on Durk’s relationship with Jam, a figure whose closeness to the rapper came under scrutiny during the trial.
Asked whether Durk saw Jam as a true friend or an equal, Memo600 dismissed the idea. He called him a “Store runner,” and when pressed, answered, “1,000%.”
He framed that distance as a sign of Durk’s judgment rather than coldness. “He a business man. He smart,” he said. Memo600 noted that Jam had just come home after years away, and argued that Durk had good reason to be cautious about someone whose mindset he could no longer read. You could have changed,” he said, speaking as if from Durk’s perspective.
He pointed to talk that Jam had threatened to kill Durk as further justification for keeping him at arm’s length. “What if I would have let you get too close and you killed him?” he said.
Memo600 also reflected on his time around Voni, whom he met through Von while the two were living together. He described their interactions as lighthearted, saying, “we always cracked jokes every time we see each other,” though he admitted something about him never sat right with him.
