After a three-week trial that saw two eyewitnesses identify the alleged killers, jurors handed down a guilty verdict in the long-unsolved slaying.
Henley said draft lyrics were stolen by the author of a never-published band biography who then sold them to the defendants in the ongoing theft case.
Years after the rapper was shot and killed in his Queens studio, Karl Jordan and Ronald Washington will stand trial for "cold-blooded murder."
The rapper has pleaded not guilty to charges that he fired shots at Terell Ephron outside a Hollywood hotel in 2021.
A Michigan judge also narrowed the issues in the case, which will see the Queen of Soul's sons battle over her estate.
"I just don't feel good. I can't believe I have to come up here and do this," the rapper told the prosecution during an emotional second day of the blockbuster trial.
Megan Thee Stallion is expected to testify in court Tuesday (Dec. 13). Her former friend Kelsey Harris is also expected to testify.