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Lil Durk secured a small but significant victory in the middle of the most high-stakes legal battle of his career. A $12.5 million lawsuit accusing the rapper of fraud over a failed music investment deal has officially been dismissed.
According to newly filed documents in U.S. District Court, all claims brought by Exceed Talent Capital against Durk, his label Only The Family (OTF), and OTF Label Inc. have been dismissed with prejudice — meaning the case can’t be reopened and neither side can pursue legal fees or further appeals. Durk also waived his right to appeal, signaling a full stop to the dispute on his end.
The lawsuit, filed in 2023, accused the Chicago rapper and his then-manager Andrew Bonsu of misleading Exceed into believing it was purchasing perpetual rights to Lil Durk’s song “Bedtime” in exchange for a $600,000 investment. Exceed said it paid $450,000 before discovering that he was already under an exclusive recording deal with Sony Music’s Alamo Records — a fact that made the entire agreement legally impossible.
Alamo stepped in with a cease-and-desist letter, asserting that Durkio never had the authority to transfer rights to the track. When Exceed demanded its money back and received no response, the lawsuit followed.
While Lil Durk and OTF are now officially in the clear, the same can’t be said for Bonsu or TTPMG, LLC, who allegedly handled the negotiations. The court made it clear that the dismissal does not protect those remaining defendants from future litigation. Exceed had accused the team of “manifest fraud,” financial harm and reputational damage, claiming it was forced to refund investors and amend SEC filings because of the fallout.
The company was seeking more than $12 million in damages — a number that now exits the courtroom, at least where Durk is concerned.
But this legal win arrives as the “All My Life” crooner remains entangled in a far more serious crisis: a federal murder-for-hire case in which prosecutors accuse him of orchestrating a deadly revenge hit connected to the 2020 killing of King Von.
Lil Durk has been in federal custody since October 2024, when he was arrested in South Florida. Prosecutors allege he used his OTF label as the financial engine behind the plot targeting Quando Rondo, ultimately resulting in the killing of Rondo’s cousin, Saviay’a “Lul Pab” Robinson, in West Hollywood.
Federal filings claim Durk helped fund the operation with label money, covering flights, rental cars, and even dangling music deals as incentives for the alleged shooters. He’s currently facing charges including conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire and using a machine gun in a crime of violence resulting in death — charges that could put him away for life.
So while the dismissal of a multi-million-dollar suit would normally be a headline-making triumph, this moment of relief is overshadowed by the much darker cloud hanging over Durk’s future — one no court filing has cleared yet.
