OTF Jam didn’t go to the FBI because he was scared. He went, by his own account, because he thought the whole thing was handled badly and someone who had nothing to do with anything ended up dead.
Testifying on day four of Lil Durk’s murder-for-hire trial on Thursday, August 27, the OTF affiliate told the court he reached out to investigators after the 2022 Los Angeles shooting that killed Saviay’a “Lul Pab” Robinson, the cousin of Quando Rondo.
“I had to get off my chest, I saw the opportunity,” Jam reportedly said. “I felt it was dumb in a sloppy matter. People who shouldn’t have been there… I thought it was sloppy.”
Jam made clear he had no personal issue with Lul Pab himself. “I didn’t know [Lul Pab]. In my eyes, he was innocent. I just said I don’t have beef with him.”
That framing, an innocent man caught in the crossfire of someone else’s dispute, is what Jam says pushed him toward cooperating with federal investigators.
The testimony gets more personal from there. Jam claimed that after the murder, he spoke with Durk, who he referred to as Smurk, and that Durk expressed satisfaction over Pab’s death.
That conversation, Jam said, is what cost Durk his respect. “I still got a lot of love for [Durk],” he reportedly told the court. “Blood was there for me… I feel bad, I know he probably hate me. I got love for him, I just don’t have respect for him.”
That distinction, love without respect, is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this testimony. Jam is not presenting himself as someone who turned on an enemy.
He’s presenting himself as someone who felt used and crossed a line he couldn’t ignore, which makes his account harder to simply dismiss as a personal vendetta.
Jam also didn’t pretend the decision to testify came without consequences. He was direct about what cooperating could mean for him given his background. “As a Black disciple, that’s breaking all laws,” he reportedly said. “You can snitch on a opp and get f***ed up.”
The fact that he said it out loud in open court, rather than trying to minimize it, is the kind of detail that tends to stick with a jury.
Durk has been behind bars since his arrest in October 2024, fighting the murder-for-hire charges while his legal team builds its defense.
The prosecution is leaning heavily on witnesses like Jam to establish that Durk ordered the hit on Quando Rondo, with Lul Pab dying as a result.
Jam’s testimony places Durk not just in the orbit of the shooting but as someone who was pleased with the outcome.
The reaction outside the courtroom has been sharp. Artists including Meek Mill have pushed back against Jam’s decision to testify, reflecting a wider tension in hip-hop circles about where loyalty ends and accountability begins. Jam seems to have already accepted that he’s burned bridges, and the trial is only getting started.
