Prosecutors interpreted West’s lyrics
in another video to be an admission that he ordered the 2017 murder of rival Robert Johnson, who was shot multiple times in the 4000 block of Benner Street in Wissinoming. A member of West’s circle, Dontez “Taz” Stewart, pleaded guilty to the murder and later testified against him and his codefendants.
“I’ll have da whole city scared,” West’s song says. “Stand near home / I call Taz and tell him / Brig dat n — ’s head to me.”
Investigators discovered the lyrics for that track, written four days after Johnson’s death, in a note in West’s phone.