Right, so I'm still outside the courthouse from the Lil' Dirk hearing, and there was another kind of not-so-great piece of news for Dirk. I mean, really, this was actually very bad news. It was ruled that this evidence that was on his phone, remember we heard about he had had a phone that was taken from him after he was the victim of a home invasion in 2021. You know, he had fired shots into the air, and allegedly, you know, the cops basically said that they had probable cause to seize his phone to investigate because things weren't really adding up. Even though he was the victim of an alleged home invasion, they said that he'd been reckless and fired the shots into the air. Now, they held on to that phone from 2021. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, because it happened in Atlanta, they had kind of, you know, tried to crack the phone. They had got like a very basic, you know, cracking of the phone where it was in a, they described it as like a first unlock mode. So if you turn your phone on, off, and you turn it back on, you know, you're in a first unlock. It hasn't been unlocked yet, right? So if your phone is in that state, what it basically means is that they can't get everything. They can't get all the messages. They can get all your images. They can get the thumbnails. They can get screenshots, but they can't get the actual messages. So Dirk and his team were basically trying to argue that because the phone had been held on to for five years, the FBI filed a federal search warrant for the phone all the way in June 2026 that they shouldn't be allowed to use that evidence, and it was gathered improperly. This was an L for Dirk. The judge basically said, look, it seems like the cops acted in good faith. They had good reason to look at the phone, to seize the phone, to go through the phone back then because of the reckless shots that were fired into the air. It's not the FBI's fault. It's nothing to do with the FBI that the phone was held on to for so long. The FBI asked for that information in good faith, and the judge even said that if they continue trying to get hold of all of the other contents of the phone that weren't available yet, if they get them between now and the trial, which is in like a couple of weeks, he said, well, if the feds managed to get all of the information off those phones, then we're going to have to revisit it then and decide whether I'm going to be allowing them to look at all that stuff, and it sounds like that is going to be able to be used against him. The contents of the phone was pretty damning. It was photographs, screenshots. Apparently, there was a screenshot of a conversation where they were trying to get Lil Tim's address, and the government basically said, yeah, we have the metadata to show that that screenshot was two days after Lil Tim was released on house arrest, so they were tracking his movements. It sounded like the stalking was taking place. They said that the screenshot of Rondo's concert posters that were found in the phone, that was within a few days of him being shot at outside of his concert, so the government basically said, look, we've got that information fair and square. The judge wasn't really trying to hear the other arguments. I mean, he was trying to hear them, and he said, I'm not going for it. It is going to be allowed, and he said that it sounds like the authorities acted in good faith, and if they get more information, they're going to be able to use that too, so that was pretty bad news for Dirk, to be honest with you. I'm going to do a big update with everything else on my channel, Trap More Ross on YouTube, so stay tuned for my full update, and there's a few W's that I'm going to let you guys know that Dirk had in court today as well soon.
