LAST MINUTE: Tekashi Six Nine will be released on August 2
Update 18/12/2019: Tekashi 6ix9ine has been sentenced to 24 months in prison. Video with all the information:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQOwe8HSk_U
- LAST TIME 6IX9INE CSENTENCED TO 24 MONTHS IN PRISON – 100% CONFIRMED
Six Nine has been in prison for more than a year. The question is: how much more will 6IX9INE spend in jail after the publication of his sentence? There are no records in the history of hip hop or the music industry as a whole to explain what has been cooking these days in the Federal Court of Manhattan because of the rapper Six Nine.
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What appears to be a macro trial against eleven New York gang members hides some more obtuse undertones that could affect the panorama of the gangsta rap as a whole: the famous 6ix9ine (rap star thanks to Instagram, arriving to place his disk dummy boy in second place of the billboard chart last year) tops a story of rises and falls, murders and kidnappings, rap's first swords, likes, the FBI and the most dangerous gangsters in New York. The latest news on Six Nine and his sentence will give much to talk about in the coming months.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz3-dRwETj4
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We still do not know the judge's verdict, but we do know of the premiere in 2020 of up to three documentary series on Takeshi 6ix 9ine featuring Snapchat, 50 Cent, Showtime and Rolling Stone (the latter, titled SuperVillain). Six nine is a machine for manufacturing news that not even a trial with sentences of more than forty years in prison can stop.
laugh at kanye west problems when you compare them with those of the little boy with multicolored hair: For 6ix9ine, prison is guaranteed, and the only question that remains to be clarified is the time he will spend in prison. Readers are in time to join the show, the judge has announced that he will make the verdict of the sentence public on December 18. What were you doing and where were you on the day of the news of Six Nine's conviction?
6ix9ine: the sentence of the street
It was 2009 when Daniel Hernández, then thirteen years old, his father was shot to death in broad daylight outside his apartment in Brooklyn. Although the bullet had a recipient, it ended up truncating the future of two people. Son of a Mexican and a Puerto Rican, Daniel Six Nine dropped out of school, he started working in a twenty-four hour shop (from which he was fired when they caught him selling marijuana) and tried out the world of rap with songs that only contributed to fattening the list of material underground forgettable of music portal SoundCloud.
Just as Eminem did with the creation of his malevolent alter ego Slim Shady, in 2014 Hernández gave birth to Tekashi 6ix9ine: more than two hundred tattoos (including a huge 69 that takes up half the forehead), colored teeth and rainbow hair in complete dissonance with the theme of death and destruction that permeates each of his raps. The returns in terms of virality were almost instantaneous.
In the midst of the effervescence of the YouTube phenomenon, 6ix9ine uploaded three video clips that gained some traction, but it was the fourth (for the song 'Gummo', with 356 million clicks) that put him on the radar in October 2017, earning him a cache of At least $100.000 per gig and collaborations with Nicki Minaj, Kanye West and 50 Cent. In his last interview prior to entering the dungeon, 6ix9ine declared that he was only afraid of "God and the FBI" in life. Two days later, one of these two proved its existence. Daniel Hernández, who had not even released an album (he already published it behind bars), faces a request for 47 years in prison, extendable to life imprisonment. His musical career has lasted exactly thirteen months. But what thirteen months.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk4iXrnfc3Q&t=1s
When Eminem rose to fame, the Detroit rapper wasted little time in understanding one of the indisputable maxims of hip hop in the United States: if you want to last, the rackets and visits to the court are incompatible with a musical career, well out of there , he only awaits jail or death. Snoop Dogg (former accused of murder) knows it, Jay Z (former crack dealer) knows it, and 2Pac, Notorious BIG, XXX Temptation and Nipsey Hussle They had to learn it the hard way. In the case of 6ix9ine, he not only ignored the red lights (he was already dragging a case of sexual assault on a thirteen-year-old girl when he was eighteen) but hypervitaminized his criminal career while doing so with the musical in a poisoned circle and downhill for which the blowout was only a matter of time.
The main reason why the video of Gummo became an automatic mass success was thanks to the presence of an uncountable crowd of gang members from the Nine Trey Bloods from New Yorks. Daniel himself ("a genius of self-promotion," according to Fox News Hip Hop reporter Lisa Evers) bought the dozens of red bandanas (distinctive of the bloods as opposed to the blue of the crips) that the gang members wore in the filming. That day he met Shotti, leader of the criminal organization. After hiring him as manager and shooting a second video clip with the bloods (kooda), 6ix9ine was accepted into the organization under a tacit agreement:
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As a member of the Nine Trey, what responsibilities, if any, did you have?
A. Just keep releasing hits and being the financial support for the band.
Q. What do you mean by being the financial support of the band?
A. Making money off songs and helping Nine Trey members, either for personal reasons or to supply them with weapons.
Q. And what, if anything, did you get in return from Nine Trey?
R. I would say my career.
Q. What do you mean?
A. Credibility.
Q. What credibility?
R. The credibility of the street. The videos, the music, the protection.
The excerpt belongs to the sworn statement that 6ix9ine has made before the Federal Court in Manhattan as a witness for the Government, and not as a defendant, in the macro operation against the criminal gang. Accepted his guilt, 6ix9ine only has to know what his prison sentence will be.
No news from 'Snitchnine'
In one of his last appearances, 6ix9ine recorded a video clip with 50 Cent, Casanova and Uncle Murda in which the young rapper appeared riding a police car. At the time, no one could even come close to imagining how prophetic the picture was:
After being arrested at the end of 2018 in an FBI operation, the rapper pleaded guilty to all nine crimes of which he was accused (among others, membership in a criminal organization, extortion, possession of firearms, armed robbery and conspiring to murder the cousin of a rival rapper).
In its latest news, Six Nine has shown a total willingness to collaborate in the cause in the hope that the prosecution's jail request will be reduced to a possible parole under the umbrella of the protected witness program (it is “unlikely that the Government will pay for the removal of the tattoos”, as a former FBI agent told the New York Times). Shotti, who even orchestrated the murder of Tekashi 69 with fellow rapper Jim Jones (there is a recording of the meeting), was arrested shortly after and sentenced to fifteen years in prison after refusing to collaborate with justice. He did not say a moo: he is not a snitch.
The same crowd of likes and comments that elevated 6ix9ine to the category of a global phenomenon is the one that For months he has been making memes and jokes criticizing his unexpected facet of snitch (snitch), a status that has traditionally enjoyed very bad publicity in the world of rap. And the key word here is “traditionally”: it would not be strange if this label, once a tomb of the credibility of any rapper or gang member from three to a quarter, in 6ix9ine were dismissed with the same lightness with which all those millions of young people had to good in applauding the adventures on Youtube of a criminal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qy8KaihU4I
career cut short?
Vito Corleone, Tony Montana, 2Pac, Notorious BIG, Dexter, Walter White, Bukowski, Houllebecq: few more profitable businesses in the history of the entertainment industry than the exploitation of a certain type of evil that seems to fascinate everyone so much . In the music industry the matter takes on more delicate dimensions: How much of Lesane Parish was there in 2Pac? How much of Christopher Wallace in Notorious BIG? The case of Daniel Hernández reeks of the next Netflix series.
Daniel Hernández's life will never be the same. Yes, in the most optimistic of scenarios, he sees freedom in a couple of years. (some experts suggest that 6ix9ine could be released from jail in 2020)Returning to New York would be the equivalent of a death sentence.
The list of questions surrounding 6ix9ine is endless: Why was a video of the accused leaked while he was giving a statement in court (something strictly prohibited in the state of New York and for which there is hardly any precedent); How is it possible that the conversation between the kidnappers of 6ix9ine (yes, that happened, they locked him in a car and only released him in exchange for his very expensive collection of jewelry and chains) have a sound quality worthy of television film? What kind of witness protection program is going to be able to camouflage the appearance of a person whose image, alone, has been the backbone around which he built his artistic career? For once, not everything goes in exchange for like.
One more question. Perhaps the most disturbing: has 6ix9ine really signed a record deal with 10K Projects worth ten million dollars from jail?
