Lil Durk is reportedly helping fellow inmates embrace Islam.
While locked up in a Los Angeles detention center awaiting trial, his father, Dontay Banks, recently told the Breakfast Club that Durk has been using his jail time to positively influence others while staying connected to his faith.
“As a human, you sitting in there looking at four walls … it’s gonna have this effect on you but you know you always bounce back, you always look at the greater picture,” said Banks around the 21-minute mark in the video linked above.
“What Allah is doing for us right now, building us to be a better man, is greater than what they trying to do to us and trying to tear us down,” he continued. “[Durk] was telling me that when he came in there was like four Muslims on the block. He said now it’s 17 Muslims on the block, so he in there converting.”
Durk confirmed in a 2018 chat with DJ Vlad that he converted to Islam later in his life.
The rapper faces charges in a murder-for-hire case involving an alleged plot against Quando Rondo in August of 2022 that instead resulted in the death of Rondo’s cousin, Saviay’a Robinson (a.k.a. Lil Pab).
Durk pleaded not guilty and his lawyers are trying to get the case thrown out, arguing that the grand jury was misled into indicting the rapper with false information taken from YouTube “fan pages.”
His trial was pushed back earlier this year and will now start on October 14.
