The quiet calm that typically hangs over the ceremonial courtroom in Chicago’s federal courthouse has been displaced in recent days by the pummeling beats and hyper-violent lyrics that are signatures of the city’s drill rap sound.
Prosecutors have played a series of videos in an effort to prove that rapper FBG Duck was gunned down on the Gold Coast in August 2020 as part of a yearslong gang war that was stoked by a series of diss tracks.
