Lil Durk’s father says he went to prison for a long time after he was arrested and refused to snitch on Larry Hoover.
“‘You give us Larry Hoover, we’ll put you back on 26th [Street] and you’ll work for us’. I went in my pocket, pulled out the card to my lawyer, slid it on the table and said, ‘Call my lawyer.’ And, from then on, here I am, 26 years later, a free man,” Dontay Banks told The Chi podcast.
Banks was arrested in 1993 on drug related charges. The cops found $8 million in his possession, which was seized by authorities. In 1994, he was sentenced to life in prison and served 22 years. He was released in 2019.
“Without telling, without compromising, without being something I’m not. Rats, stool pigeons, people who tell things to get out…We don’t live this type of life. I’m a Muslim first and foremost. No doubt about it. But, even in Islam, we don’t believe in telling. We don’t believe in rats. We don’t believe in stool pigeons.”
