30/10/2025
Old News but worth reading.
Why Drake is been trial .
Drake is fighting an order to appear for deposition tied to ###Tentacion murder trial
Drake and his attorneys are opposing a court order for him to appear for a deposition as a part of the ongoing jury trial for the murder of Florida rapper ###Tentacion.
###Tentacion, born Jahseh Onfroy, was shot and killed in 2018 during an armed robbery outside of Riva Motorsports in Pompano Beach, Fla., just north of Miami. The controversial yet rising star in hip-hop, whose SoundCloud presence catapulted him to success, was 20.
Mauricio Padilla, a defense attorney for Dedrick Williams, one of the men accused in the killing, has been trying since December to get Drake to appear at a deposition prior to the trial, which started last week. He is claiming the Toronto rapper avoided his scheduled deposition.
The court agreed and is now ordering Drake to appear for the deposition later this month. However, the “Nice for What” performer and his attorneys are fighting the order, saying it places an “unreasonable and oppressive” burden on Drake.
As three men are standing trial in Florida’s Broward County for the 2018 killing, court filings obtained by The Times show how and why the A-list rapper was pulled into the murder case in the first place.
How is Drake related to the case?
Months before ###Tentacion’s death, a post mentioning Drake appeared on the Florida rapper’s Instagram. “If anyone tries to kill me it was [Drake]. I’m snitching RN,” the post said. However, the post was quickly deleted, and ###Tentacion said he had been hacked.
###Tentacion had been engaged in a largely one-sided beef with Drake in 2017, accusing the “Hotline Bling” performer of stealing his rapping style. Drake denied the allegation.
During the trial’s opening statements, Padilla, the defense attorney, invoked the online beef and the Instagram post, criticizing law enforcement for not including Drake in their investigation.
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