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6ix9ine Biography

Birthday: May 8 , 1996 ( Taurus )

Born In: Bushwick, New York, United States

6ix9ine (Pronounced as ‘Six Nine’), also known by the names ‘Tekashi69’ or ‘Tekashi,’ is an American rapper, whose real name is Daniel Harnandez. He is best known for his charted single ‘Gummo,’ which was certified as a platinum record. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and faced financial hardships during his childhood. He was expelled from the school and did some street-jobs to earn his living. He began his musical journey by uploading his tracks on internet platforms such as ‘SoundCloud’ and ‘YouTube,’ and soon gained popularity and a number of followers. Harnandez is known for his creative and extraordinary music videos. His singles ‘Gummo,’ ‘Kooda,’ and ‘Keke’ made to the ‘Billboard Top 100’ charts. His debut mixtape ‘Day69’ featured some well-known names such as ‘Young Thug,’ ‘Offset,’ ‘Fetty Wap’ among others. He has a number of tattoos all over his body and sports long, colorful hair. Since young age, he has been involved in various criminal cases, and also, he was embroiled in controversies with other fellow-artists. Hernandez has a young daughter.

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Also Known As: Daniel Hernandez, Tekashi69

Age: 28 Years , 28 Year Old Males

Born Country: United States

Rappers Hip Hop Singers

Ancestry: Puerto Rican American, Mexican American

U.S. State: New Yorkers

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Rapper also known as Tekashi69 whose 2017 songs "Exodia," "Go Crazy," "Oweee" and "Zeta Zero 0.5" helped establish him as a rap artist. His song "Gummo" would go Platinum in 2017. He collaborated with  Nicki Minaj  on the hit song "FEFE" in 2018.

Before Fame

He found his first fanbase in Slovakia and many of his first songs were released under the Slovakian label FCK THEM. 

Famous Dex  was featured on his single "Zeta Zero 0.5." He took the pseudonym Tekashi from a tattoo artist he used to frequent in his neighborhood growing up. After his release from prison in May 2020, he broke the YouTube record for the biggest 24-hour debut in rap. 

Family Life

His real name is Daniel Hernandez. He is from Brooklyn, New York. He has an older brother named Oscar Osiris. His stepfather was murdered when he was 13 years old. He had a daughter named  Saraiyah Hernandez  with  Sara Molina . His second daughter, Briella Iris Hernandez, was born in November 2018. In 2018, he began dating  OhSoYouJade , who has been featured in a number of his music videos; the couple split in 2021.

Associated With

In summer 2018, he collaborated with  Anuel AA  on the song "BEBE." The music video for the song has earned more than 1 billion views on YouTube. 

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6ix9ine Height, Weight, Age, Body Statistics

6ix9ine is a rapper from America who started his rap career in 2012. Apart from his songs like “Gummo”, “Kooda”, and “Gotti”, he is also known for his dyed hair in rainbow hues,  rainbow teeth and the digits “69” tattooed on his entire body over 200 times. This made him an internet meme as well. He had to sell marijuana while growing up to keep him financially afloat after he lost his dad.

Daniel Hernandez

6IX9INE, Teka$hi69, Tekashi69, Rainbow Rapper, Teka$hi 6ix9ine, Tekashi

Bushwick, Brooklyn, United States

Nationality

Daniel left school in the 8th grade when he was expelled.

Singer, Rapper

• Siblings – He has an older brother.

Hip Hop, Punk, Rock and Roll, Heavy metal, Dark Metal

Instruments

Scumgang, Universal Music Group, Caroline Distribution, FCK THEM, Elliot Grainge Entertainment

5 ft 7 in or 170 cm

68 kg or 150 pounds

Girlfriend / Spouse

Daniel has dated –

• Leezah (2017-2018) – Daniel Hernandez started dating the beautiful bottle service girl who has worked at the NY’s Starlet’s Gentleman’s club in late 2017. Leezah belongs to the Dominican Republic. The couple also went on a vacation to Leezah’s hometown in the Dominican Republic. Daniel has loved Leezah and his daughter to the core and said he did not want money but only his family to be happy. However, they later separated.
• Jade (2018-2022) – In November 2018, Daniel and Instagram star Jade aka OhSoYouJade started dating each other. She had also appeared in 6ix9ine’s song GOOBA as a backing dancer. She later got his face tattooed on her chest. In August 2020, the couple announced that they were expecting their first child together. They welcomed a child after some time. In 2022, Jade was arrested after she got into an altercation with 6ix9ine and was also legally barred from contacting him. It was later revealed that they had broken up.
• Yailin La Más Viral (2023-Present) – In 2023, it was reported that he was dating rapper Yailin La Más Viral.

Note – He has a daughter and the child’s mother’s identity has been kept under wraps.

Race / Ethnicity

He is of Mexican descent on his mother’s side and Puerto Rican descent on his father’s side.

Dark Brown (Natural)

He prefers dyeing those in rainbow shades.

Sexual Orientation

Distinctive features.

• Having inscribed the tattoo term ’69’ over 200 times on his body.
• His highly eccentric personality.

Brand Endorsements

He has endorsed the following brands –

• Tunes Audio Headphones – The artist signed a $4.9 million contract with Tunes headphones in 2018. A part of the profits that the company earns would go towards helping the underprivileged kids. He got his own personal line of headphones in red color.
• He sells his own merch @ 6ix9ineshop.com, the collection of which includes hoodies, t-shirts, and autographed Vinyl and digital albums.

Roman Catholicism

Best Known For

His song called Gummo which was released in October 2017, and made him an overnight star. The album reached the “Top 20 of Genius’ Top Songs” Chart.

First Album

Day69 which was released on February 23, 2018. The album peaked at #4 on Billboard 200 charts and at #5 on Canadian Albums Chart.

Personal Trainer

Daniel Hernandez has been vocal about his interest in the fitness gram pacer test which is a sort of aerobics that gets tougher with every level.

Daniel Hernandez Favorite Things

• Director – Trife Drew
• Bands –  Onyx and M.O.P.

Source – Instagram.com, The Ringer

Daniel Hernandez Facts

• He has been involved in the controversy and has exchanged a series of insults with Trippie Redd who has called Daniel Hernandez a weirdo, gay, and a rapist. His other controversies involve shootings in Minnesota and fighting in LA.
• His father was killed when he was young because of which he had to start selling weed to make ends meet for himself and his mother.
• His appearance with rainbow dyed hair, a rainbow grill, teeth all in different colors, several “69” body tattoos has gone viral on Reddit, Instagram, and Twitter. The crowd also began creating memes of his look and he became an internet staple.
• In 2017, before the “Gummo” song was released, Daniel was accused of the charge of use of a child artist in a sexual performance which he later accepted and pled guilty. The artist was asked to present a general education development certificate. The interesting part is that while the artist was busy getting the certificate, the management team released his long-awaited song, Gotti . Pi’erre Bourne, the music producer has thereby decided to not work with the artist. That is not it, the artist also has served jail time for selling heroin and assaulting a winery owner.
• He belongs to a place where there are two gangs called ‘Bloods’ and ‘Crips’. Both the gangs are territorial in nature and the artist takes an interesting stand where he says both groups are his homies.
• In September 2022, 6ix9ine was sued by the fashion brand Fashion Nova for $350,000.
• In March 2023, 6ix9ine was hospitalized after he was allegedly attacked inside a gym in South Florida. It was reported that he was inside the sauna when a group of men attacked him. He had suffered injuries to his jaw, ribs, and back along with bruises and gashes on his face. Later that month, 3 men named Octavious Medina, Rafael Medina Jr, and Anthony Maldonado were arrested in connection with the violent attack.
• In October 2023, 6ix9ine was arrested in the Dominican Republic after he was accused of assaulting two producers who were working with his girlfriend Yailin La Más Viral.

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His daughter’s mom is Martha Gold.

Hi Emily Thanks for reporting the missing info. Can you please send the source of your news where it is cleared mentioned that Martha Gold is the mother of his daughter?

Excuse me Emily and Staff. Did he date that mentally ill 13 year old Floridian ghetto wannabe from Dr. Phil? You already know that she’s a rapper now. And her (real) name is under the Related section of his Other Wiki article whenever you Google him.

Who? Tell me is it danielle bregoli or cohn?

They are both from Florida. It’s Danielle Bregoli. According to his latest mugshot he is 169 cm and 68 kg 150 pounds.

Wrong. Her name is Sara.

What is his dads name.

Emily how do you know that. 6ix9ine weighs 66 kg and stands at 169 cm tops.

According to his latest mugshot he’s 5’7 and weighs 150 pounds

He also has an older brother

Hello Michael

Please send us the sources for both the information – height, weight, and siblings.

Hello Michael Can you please send us the link to that mugshot?

Some websites are saying 5’6″

How is he tall at all? There’s a video where you can clearly see his guards that are 5’9-6’0 are WAY taller than his little ass!!

5’7 is pretty short for an adult male

No it’s not. Not really. In fact the adult white American male is about 5’7-5’8

He’s not white though

He’s not black either.

I thought he was dating Jade a.k.a. Sara Her instagram is ohsoyoujade

Alright but he is big black. Could be multiracial. I could have seen a more recent picture of this dude. Height warring on this topic. He could be between 5’5″ to 5’8″

Some people are saying Free 6ix9ine. I just listened to the beginning of Gummo and he sounds like a drunk person. He shouldn’t be alive anymore. Guards if you can please kill 6ix9ine. Because he is a terrible person.

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Here's everything you need to know about notorious 'GOOBA' rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine.

1. How tall is Tekashi 6ix9ine?

Tekashi 6ix9ine is 5ft 5, or 165cm tall. Picture: Getty

2. How can I watch the 6ix9ine documentary?

A three-part documentary about the life of Tekashi 6ix9ine, titled 'Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine,' dropped in February 2021. The documentary premiered on Showtime, but you can also watch it on FuboTV, Sling and Hulu + Live TV. Picture: Instagram

3. In March 2021, Tekashi 6ix9ine challenged his rival Meek Mill to a fight.

Weeks after the pair were involved in an alteration outside a nightclub, 6ix9ine challenged Meek Mill to a one-on-one fight. "THE “STREETS” VS THE REAL LIFE. I DONT DO NOTHING FOR FREE & I GOT MORE MONEY THEN THIS BOZO AND HE BEEN RAPPING FOR 10 YEARS," he wrote on Instagram. Picture: Instagram/Getty

4. Tekashi 6ix9ine's entire body is now covered in tattoos.

In February 2021, Tekashi 6ix9ine returned to social media to debut his new inkings. The rapper is now covered head-to-toe in tattoos, including rainbow-coloured designs and, of course, '69' emblazoned absolutely everywhere. Picture: Instagram

5. 6ix9ine dropped the video for 'GOOBA' in May 2020.

On May 8 2020, 6ix9ine dropped 'GOOBA', his first song and music video since being released from prison the month before. It broke the record for the biggest 24 hour debut for a hip-hop video in YouTube history, beating Eminem's 'Killshot' which held the title from 2018. The video features 6ix9ine and a bevy of dancers, including his girlfriend Jade and her sister. Picture: Youtube

6. What did Tekashi 6ix9ine look like before fame?

Tekashi 6ix9ine is currently known for his signature face tattoos and his multicoloured hair. However Daniel Hernandez was once a fresh-faced young man with a standard haircut and minimal tattoos! But the controversial rapper later opted to make himself stand out through his visual appearance and viral antics. Picture: Twitter

7. What happened to Tekashi 6ix9ine at Hot 97's Summer Jam in 2018?

Tekashi 6ix9ine was denied entrance to Hot 97’s 2018 Summer Jam in New York, despite covering his face tattoos with makeup to make himself less recognisable. The rapper slammed the radio station during a video chat with DJ Akademics, before Hot 97 presenter Ebro revealed that he was denied entry because he doesn't "know when to shut up". Picture: DJ Akademics

8. How did Tekashi 6ix9ine's feud with Chief Keef start?

Tekashi 6ix9ine's heated feud with Chief Keef appeared to begin after 6ix9ine dissed him on Instagram. The controversial rapper then claimed that Keef and his associates were “p*ssy” if they didn’t kill him within 48 hours in NYC. Keef responded by travelling to New York the next day. However after 6ix9ine revealed he was actually in LA, shots were fired at Chief Keef outside the W hotel. Nobody was injured. 6ix9ine then attempted to distance himself from the shooting. Picture: Instagram

9. Does Tekashi 6ix9ine have a daughter?

Tekashi 6ix9ine has two daughters - his eldest, Saraiyah, he shares with ex-girlfriend Sara Molina, and his youngest, Briella Iris, he shares with a woman named Layla. Picture: Instagram

10. What does 6ix9ine mean?

In a touching Instagram post, Tekashi explained the meaning of his name to fans: "I never lost sense of where I came from. That’s what makes me 69. The true meaning of 69 is just because you’re right doesn’t mean I’m wrong YOU JUST HAVENT SEEN LIFE FROM MY PERSPECTIVE. Turn the 6 upside down it’s 9 but remains the same in a different perspective. Open your mind and heart." Picture: Instagram

11. How did Tekashi 6ix9ine's feud with The Game start?

Tekashi 6ix9ine's heated feud with The Game appeared to begin after the Compton rapper expressed his dislike for 6ix9ine on stage in Slovenia. He yelled out "f*ck 69" on stage and got his fans to shout "fake ass blood". 6ix9ine then responded with a disrespectful Instagram message towards The Game, before the pair's feud began to escalate. Picture: Instagram

12. Tekashi 6ix9ine's 'GUMMO' video has over 367 million views on YouTube.

The official video for Tekashi 6ix9ine's breakout hit 'Gummo' currently has over 367 million views on YouTube. The eye-catching video sees the rapper in a neighbourhood surrounded by gang members. Picture: Instagram

13. How old is Tekashi 6ix9ine?

Tekashi 6ix9ine was born on May 8 1996, making him currently 25-years-old. Picture: Instagram

14. 6ix9ine has a series of extremely disturbing criminal charges against his name.

6ix9ine has pled guilty to three felony counts of Use of a Child in a Sexual Performance. He was reportedly 18 years old on the date of the crime, while the victim was a minor of an unconfirmed age. Picture: Instagram

15. What is Tekashi 6ix9ine's net worth?

6ix9ine's net worth is currently unknown. However, as of 2020, his net worth his rumoured to be around $4 million. Picture: Instagram

16. Does Tekashi 6ix9ine have a song with Nicki Minaj?

6ix9ine collaborated with fellow New York native Nicki Minaj on their song 'FEFE' which dropped in July 2018. The song featured on 6ix9ine's debut album 'Dummy Boy' and also on Minaj's 2018 album 'Queen'. Minaj faced major criticism for working with 6ix9ine in light of his previous conviction for child sex offences. Picture: Getty

17. Where is Tekashi 6ix9ine from?

6ix9ine is of Mexican descent and was born in Brooklyn, New York. Picture: Instagram

18. Tekashi 6ix9ine is involved in a huge feud with Trippie Redd.

Despite working together in the past, 6ix9ine is currently feuding with rapper Trippie Redd. In November 2017, Trippie Redd took to Instagram live to accuse Teka$hi of having him beaten up while he was in New York and went on to call Tekashi a "weirdo", a "rapist", and "gay". The pair have since traded a series of insults on social media. Picture: Instagram

19. What is Tekashi 6ix9ine's real name?

His real name is actually Daniel Hernandez. However the rapper goes by the stage names 6IX9INE, Teka$hi69, Tekashi69 and Teka$hi 6ix9ine. Picture: Instagram

20. 6ix9ine is covered in tattoos!

Despite his young age, the rapper has already covered most of his body is tattoos. The number 69 is prevalent, which is the name of his gang.

21. What is Tekashi 6ix9ine's Instagram?

6ix9ine returned to Instagram in April 2020 after his early release from prison. Under the handle @6ix9ine, he boasts over 19 million followers and in May 2020, he broke the record for most people viewing his Instagram Live after hitting 2 million viewers. Picture: Instagram

22. Tekashi 6ix9ine addressed his sexual misconduct charges from 2014 in an interview with DJ Akademiks.

The New York rapper attempted use the platform to clear his name, claiming that the situation was not rape or sexual misconduct since he was himself an underage child too and that the story happened in 2014. Picture: Akademiks

23. Is Tekashi 6ix9ine signed to Birdman's 'RichGang'?

The rapper claimed to have been signed to Birdman's 'RichGang' in February 2018. "Just Signed to Birdman RICHGANG, 15 Million February 23rd!" he wrote alongside a photo of him next to Birdman and Young Thug. However, nothing has been confirmed from Birdman so far! Picture: Instagram

24. Does Tekashi 6ix9ine have a song with Tory Lanez and Scott Storch?

Tekashi 6ix9ine previewed his new song with Tory Lanez and Scott Storch during a video on Instagram. The song, taken from his new album 'Dummy Boy', features steel pans throughout similar to Kodak Black's 'ZEZE'. Picture: Instagram

25. Tekashi 6ix9ine dropped his debut mixtape 'Day69' in February 2018.

6ix9ine's debut offering features some huge names including Young Thug, Offset, Tory Lanez, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie and Fetty Wap, and includes the viral hit singles 'Gummo' and 'Keke'. Picture: Instagram

26. Why did Tekashi 6ix9ine get arrested?

6ix9ine was reportedly arrested while filming a music video for his song 'Billy'. The controversial rapper was pictured being dragged away by police officers while on set. There is currently no news on what 6ix9ine was actually arrested for. Was it a publicity stunt? Picture: Instagram

27. What does Tekashi 6ix9ine look like without tattoos?

Before his fame, Tekashi was fresh-faced and didn't have a single face tattoo! His hair was also a natural colour, as opposed to the rainbow hairstyle he sports today. Sooner or later, however, the rapper went under the needle for face tatts including a bold '69' inked on his forehead, as well as the character 'Jigsaw' from the Saw movies on his cheek. Picture: YouTube

28. Why does Tekashi 6ix9ine have beef with YG?

Tekashi 6ix9ine and YG's feud started over an interview on The Breakfast Club. 6ix9ine fuelled the beef by claiming that YG was just the "Toot It & Boot It" rapper, while YG responded with a furious Instagram video threatening him.

29. When did Tekashi 6ix9ine release his debut album 'Dummy Boy'?

6ix9ine's debut album 'Dummy Boy' was released on November 27, 2018, and features appearances from Nicki Minaj, Kanye West, Lil Baby, Gunna, Tory Lanez among others. The album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 and has achieved platinum status.

30. What is the relationship between 50 Cent and Tekashi 6ix9ine?

50 Cent has hailed Tekashi 6ix9ine as his "son" on multiple occasions, and often roasts his fellow New Yorker for his antics and frequent altercations with the law. At one point, he handed over his 'King Of New York' crown to 6ix9ine. Credit: Instagram

31. Does 6ix9ine have a girlfriend?

Tekashi 6ix9ine is currently dating model and bartender Jade, whose Instagram is @_ohsoyoujade. Before his arrest, 6ix9ine splashed out $35k on a watch for her birthday gift in November 2018, and while he was behind bars she had his face tattooed on her chest.

32. What is the name of Tekashi 6ix9ine's baby mama?

Tekashi 6ix9ine has a baby daughter with a woman called Sarah. They are not currently in a relationship, however they co-parent their child together called Saraiyah. 6ix9ine has posed with her as a family on social media and has made reference to them living together in the past. 6ix9ine's baby mama's Instagram name is @iamsaramolina.

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Here's everything you need to know about Tekashi 6ix9ine, the controversial 22-year-old rapper who could go to prison for life

• Daniel Hernandez — also known as 6ix9ine and Tekashi69 — is a top-charting rapper.
• He has more than 15 million Instagram followers and has collaborated on songs with Nicki Minaj and Kanye West .
• In January, he confessed to racketeering, illegal firearms possession, and aiding in attemped murder as part of a violent crime ring, the Trey Nine gangsters.
• He's cooperating with federal authorities in their investigation into the gang.
• In a seperate 2015 case, Hernandez pleaded guilty to criminal sex acts with a 13-year-old.
• The mountain of legal challenges could finally spell the end for the notorious rapper.

You've probably heard a lot about 6ix9ine recently — for good reasons and bad.

6ix9ine — also known as Tekashi69 — is a 22-year-old rapper and Instagram star with more than 15 million followers whose real name is Daniel Hernandez. He's developed a unique persona as a hardcore rapper with an aggressively tattooed face and rainbow-dyed hair. After spending several years on the indie-SoundCloud-rapper circuit, Hernandez recently achieved mainstream credibility with "FEFE," a hit single he made with Nicki Minaj earlier this year.

But his star is dying just as quickly as it was born. As he's become famous, people have paid renewed attention to his 2015 conviction for using "a child in a sexual performance." And since his arrest in November, more details have come to light about his connections to organized crime. In January, he pleaded guilty to charges involving racketeering, illegal firearms posession, and aiding in attemped murder as part of the violent Trey Nine gang. He's cooperating with federal authorities for their investigation into other members of the organization.

How did a 22-year-old go from being an upcoming rapper and influencer to criminal? First, you need to understand how Daniel Hernandez became 6ix9ine.

Daniel Hernandez dropped out of school at the age of 13.

Hernandez's life fell sideways in his teenage years. When he was 13, his father was murdered a block from his family home, according to The New York Times .

The experience had a huge impact on Hernandez, and he soon dropped out of school and started working odd jobs to help his mother.

"My pops died in eighth grade, and I just started bugging in school," he told the podcast "No Jumper" in an extensive 2017 interview . "I was 13. I was waiting for my pops to come back home, and he never came."

Hernandez ultimately turned to selling drugs. At around that time, he developed his 6ix9ine persona, drawing inspiration from anime, hip-hop, and metal. He eventually got the number 69 tattooed on his body more than 200 times, according to The Times.

In February 2015, Hernandez performed sexual acts with a 13-year-old, whom he said he believed was 19.

As Hernandez rose through the ranks of internet fame and notoriety, he attended a party on February 22, 2015, where he performed several sexual acts with a 13-year-old girl. Hernandez was 19 at the time.

The lurid acts are described in detail in a criminal complaint obtained in 2017 by Jezebel . Hernandez was arrested in March 2015 over the incident and pleaded guilty in October of that year.

In his plea agreement, Hernandez's sentence was adjourned until October 2017 ( it has since been delayed several more times ). The terms of his release required that he not post explicit images of women to social media, that he write a letter explaining himself to the complaining witness and her family, that he not commit a crime for two years, and that he obtain a GED.

Hernandez later told police he thought the girl was 19. He's also contradicted his plea statement in several interviews , saying he didn't engage with the girl sexually and thought she was older.

Hernandez focused on building his online following — but made a deal with a fugitive.

After his 2015 criminal case, Hernandez seemed to focus on growing his Instagram following by promoting his brash persona and making music on SoundCloud . He also struck a deal with Kifano "Shotti" Jordan to be his manager. With Jordan, Hernandez made more mainstream street rap, started feuding with SoundCloud rappers, and began charging up to $100,000 for a performance, according to The Times .

But Jordan also has a criminal record. At the time, he was a fugitive from New Jersey authorities , having been charged with narcotics trafficking.

He became famous with "Gummo" in 2017.

Hernandez's first proper single was " Gummo ." Released in November 2017, it hit the Billboard charts and was remixed by Offset and Lil Wayne. The music video showed 6ix9ine at his most colorful, sporting his signature dirty, candy-colored hair and red bandana and carrying bags of what appears to be marijuana.

It was around this time that Hernandez began giving more interviews about his career , and when the 2015 charges against him gained renewed attention.

July was another big month for him — he released a song with Nicki Minaj and was reportedly kidnapped.

In 2018, Hernandez seemed to get in trouble with the law again several times. In May, he was reportedly arrested on charges of driving without a proper license and assaulting a police officer. Soon afterwards, he reportedly choked a 16-year-old in Texas and was arrested in New York .

But all of that was overshadowed on July 22. He released "FEFE," his biggest song yet , a collaboration with Nicki Minaj and Murda Beatz.

That same night, after a day of shooting the song's music video, Hernandez was reportedly kidnapped. He said two men forced him into a car at a New York City intersection and stole his jewelry, according to a police report viewed by the Associated Press . According to TMZ , the kidnappers also forced him to call his girlfriend for more money at home, and he ultimately escaped by opening the back door of the car.

A member of the Nine Trey Gangsters — also known as Treyway, a part of the Bloods street gang — was charged with the crime in November. Federal authorities believe Hernandez is also a member of the gang .

Hernandez was finally sentenced for the child-sex case.

After a number of procedural delays and appeals, Hernandez was sentenced in October to four years of probation and 1,000 hours of community service for the 2015 child-sex case.

The judge didn't sentence Hernandez to any prison time, as prosecutors requested. He drew a distinction between his personal persona and his public one and said that though prosecutors said he was a member of a gang, they didn't actually charge him with any gang-related activities.

That all changed a month later.

In November, federal authorities charged Hernandez with being part of a criminal enterprise.

On November 19, federal authorities announced a series of indictments against Hernandez, Jordan, and others they said are members of the Nine Trey Gangsters.

The federal lawsuit — titled United States of America v Jamel Jones, aka "Mel Murder," Kifano Jordan, aka "Shotti," Jensel Butler, aka "Ish," Daniel Hernandez, aka "Tekashi 6ix 9ine," Fugan Lovick, aka "Fu Banga," and Faheem Walter, aka "Crippy" — accuses the crew of running a drug-dealing ring and enforcing their activities through violence. The charges include racketeering and illegal firearms possession. Federal authorities also said the group conspired to commit murder.

If convicted, Hernandez and everyone else charged could face life in prison .

Hernandez initially pleaded not guilty to the charges . A judge denied him bail, citing an FBI raid in September that found a AR-15 and a stolen ID from a man robbed in Times Square.

He also risks being resentenced for his 2015 child-sex conviction, after prosecutors argued his gang activity violated his probation.

After a delay, "Dummy Boy" was released.

Despite the criminal charges against him, Hernandez's newest album, "Dummy Boy," was released on November 27. It was panned by critics but debuted at No. 2 on the US Billboard 200 chart .

In January, Hernandez pleaded guilty to the charges and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.

On January 23, Hernandez entered a guilty plea to the charges related to his involvement with Trey Nine , according to court records reviewed by INSIDER. He also agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors in their investigation.

"I paid a person to shoot at a rival member of Nine Trey to scare him. The shooting took place in Manhattan. I did this to maintain or increase my own standing in Nine Trey," Hernandez told the judge,   according to a court transcript .

The plea was initially under seal, as prosecutors were given permission to arrest three other people involved in the case. The Department of Justice announced the arrests on February 1, and Hernandez's plea became public.

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Tekashi 69: The Rise and Fall of a Hip-Hop Supervillain

By Stephen Witt

Stephen Witt

O ne day in the summer of 2017, Daniel Hernandez, better known as the rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine , appeared outside a Brooklyn row house to shoot the video that would make him a star, and eventually ruin his life. Against the menacing strains of his viral hit “Gummo,” he and a crowd of men in red bandannas danced, waved guns and made cryptic symbols with their hands. Hernandez, clad in a green tracksuit, thrashed his rainbow hair and bared his multicolored teeth. At one point, he removed his own bandanna to show off a recent tattoo that would become his most identifying feature: the numerals “6” and “9” that covered half his forehead.

The tattoo was part of a personal rebrand that shocked Hernandez’s friends when he debuted it on Instagram. “I didn’t even know he had done that shit!” says Andrew “TrifeDrew” Green, who directed the “Gummo” video. “At that moment, I knew there was no turning back.” Just a few months before, 6ix9ine had still been Danny the deli clerk, with mostly unmarked skin, black hair and preposterous dreams of stardom. Then the dye job; then the tattoos; then the full Tekashi.

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In his brief career, Tekashi 6ix9ine captured America’s attention with an escalating series of provocations and controversies. He became hip-hop ’s troll prince, a master at sparking outrage and bottling it into a feverish popularity. It’s a playbook that’s been used before — 50 Cent, for example, dissed his way to rap’s throne in the early 2000s — but the speed at which 6ix9ine found himself with an audience of millions could only have happened in the smartphone era. You didn’t have to like him; you just had to have an opinion. “He is the Donald Trump of the music industry,” Elliot Grainge, the CEO of Tekashi’s label, 10K Projects, told me last summer. “We look at the data — 80 percent of the comments are hate. But if we showed you the analytics on who writes the hate comments, they’re the ones who go to the shows and buy the T-shirts!”

The “Gummo” video launched Hernandez on three parallel trajectories — one that made him famous; one that made him notorious; and one that may end his career. “Gummo,” powered by the bizarre, unforgettable 6ix9ine image, was a viral sensation that went platinum in just a few months. That surge in popularity would lead to the uncovering of Hernandez’s pre-fame life, including a guilty plea for child-sex charges, a case that would define Hernandez in the public eye. But it was his introduction to Kifano Jordan, a.k.a. “Shotti,”   that would be the most consequential part of that summer day in Brooklyn. Shotti was allegedly a member of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods, a subset of the violent prison gang founded at New York’s Rikers Island jail in 1993. He produced the crowd of menacing young men in the video, and in time would become Tekashi’s unofficial manager. Later, authorities allege, he would threaten Tekashi’s life.

People who knew Hernandez well agree that, before he met Shotti, he hadn’t been involved in gang life at all. But just more than 12 months after that video shoot in Brooklyn, Hernandez would be in a jail cell facing 32 years to life on charges that included armed robbery and attempted murder.

His friends all called him Danny . To them, he wasn’t Tekashi or 6ix9ine, even after he put 14 songs on the Billboard chart and started hanging out with Kanye West. He was Danny Hernandez, from Locust Avenue, in Bushwick, who worked the counter at the Stay Fresh Grill and Deli, who picked fights on Instagram, and who lived in a crowded two-bedroom apartment in a derelict tenement. “His mom’s house . . . that was, like, him, his mom, his brother [his brother’s] girlfriend, his girlfriend and his kid,” says Andrew, who visited him often.

Danny liked to needle people endlessly. Many of his closest friends had once been enemies; many of his enemies were once his closest friends. Almost always, a first interaction with him was negative. He’d find someone on social media, leave nasty comments, and dare them to fight him. Then, when they ran into him in person, he’d disarm them with kindness. He wasn’t threatening at all in real life — around five feet six and 130 pounds, with a boyish demeanor and an impudent smile. Danny would quash the internet beef, explain that it was all a misunderstanding, and maybe even apologize. Then: lifelong friends.

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Danny’s biological father had abandoned the family when Danny was an infant. His mother, who was born in Mexico, told him that his adoptive Puerto Rican father was actually his biological dad, according to a radio interview Danny gave on The Angie Martinez Show . Danny eventually learned the truth about his stepfather, but it didn’t affect their relationship and Danny continued to describe himself as “half Puerto Rican, half Mexican.” They were close, and Danny referred to him, even afterward, as his “real” father.

In early 2010, when Danny was 13, his adoptive father was shot and killed outside their apartment, on a busy street, in the middle of the day. He’d taken a trip to the grocery store and invited Danny along, but Danny decided to stay home. The crime was never solved.

Not long after, Danny began acting out, and was expelled from the eighth grade. His family struggled financially. Along with his older brother, he worked odd jobs in Bushwick, but was repeatedly sacked. He never attended high school, not even for a day.

Last August, while reporting a story about Grainge, Danny’s label boss, I had a five-minute conversation with Danny via FaceTime. At that time, his career looked bright, and he told me with confidence that he would soon be the number-one rapper in the world. But when I asked him about his difficult teenage years, he told me something odd: “For two months, I didn’t say nothing to no one,” he said. “Not a word.”

In 2015, Danny’s girlfriend got pregnant. Having lost two fathers himself, Danny was determined to support his child. But living in an apartment with five other people, with no education and a minimum-wage job, he had few economic prospects. He needed to make a lot of money, quickly. He decided to become a rapper.

Danny had not previously shown much interest in rap music, and he was not a natural talent, but he had the attitude nailed. He’d seen the response to his social media provocations, and he sensed that this could be leveraged to build a larger audience. If he was not the most technically gifted of performers, when it came to trolling, he was Mozart.

But Danny was also a Christian, a true believer, as his mother had raised him, and during the darkest parts of his life, he would turn to religion for help. Having decided that music was the way forward, he appealed for divine assistance. As his career was just starting, he told me, he would walk the grimy streets of Bushwick and Bedford-Stuyvesant, muttering to himself in supplication — “Please, God, change my life. Please, God, make me famous.”

Much of what I know about Danny comes from Andrew “TrifeDrew” Green, one of Danny’s closest friends and most important collaborators. Andrew, a former skateboarder, is lanky, athletic and handsome, with a gentle sense of irony and a nonchalant demeanor. He and Danny met on Instagram in the early 2010s. Danny had trolled Andrew, leaving nasty comments on a mutual friend’s feed. The two got into it, trading barbs online, which escalated quickly into threats. “I actually pulled up on him, to see if he wanted to thump,” Andrew tells me. “He didn’t show.”

Two weeks later, they reconnected and Danny made peace. Andrew realized that the taunting was a kind of immature courtship, and that Danny admired Andrew’s videos and wanted to work with him. “It was just to get my attention,” Andrew says. “He was actually just a little smartass. Just funny, goofy, joking and laughing.”

Danny explained his vision to Andrew. His rap handle was Tekashi69. The “Tekashi” part was inspired by Japanese anime, of which Danny was a big fan. Six-nine was more mysterious — it was the sex number, obviously, but in its interlocking yin-yang digits, Danny had found something deeper that he never fully explained. He was obsessed with the number and, even before the tattoos, was wearing outlandish sports jerseys with the numerals emblazoned on the back, and the words ASSHOLE and STD’S in the fields for the player’s name.

One of Danny’s first songs as Tekashi69, titled “ 69 ,” released in 2014. Musically, it was half-decent — an aggro-trap hybrid as effective as it was anonymous. The video featured graphic clips of pornographic hentai, a suite of Lamborghinis, and Danny appearing to get a blow job while Nirvana’s “Come As You Are” played in the background. Danny can be seen receiving one of his first tattoos: a bone font on his inner forearm that read SCUM.

S.C.U.M. was an acronym — Society Can’t Understand Me — the tag line of S.C.U.M. Gang, a New York rap collective that Danny associated with. (Standout S.C.U.M. Gang rapper Zillakami shot videos of friends appearing to smoke angel dust.) Andrew, who was angling to be Danny’s videographer, wasn’t overly excited by the “69” video, which was shocking but visually incoherent. He was more impressed that Danny, who’d never had more than a few dollars to his name, managed to finagle the Lamborghinis.

The “69” video didn’t bring the kind of major label attention Danny was hoping for, but it didn’t stifle his commitment, either. After it was shot, he got a series of more provocative tattoos: dozens of small “69”s, spaced at regular intervals, like leopard spots, up the lengths of both his arms.

“Wizard” Lee Weinberg is an affable dude from Long Island who runs a ramshackle independent recording studio in Lower Manhattan. For basement rates, he’ll record, mix and master your album, and for a long time, he was S.C.U.M. Gang’s go-to engineer. He was also one of Danny’s “Day Ones,” meaning he knew Danny before the Tekashi identity took over. From the start, Wizard was responsible for smoothing out the rougher edges in Danny’s sound. Andrew, too, became a crucial contributor — a talented rapper with his own career who was now co-writing Danny’s songs.

By the start of 2015, Danny, then 18, was evolving into a competent, commercially viable recording artist. But then he did something horrible. In February, he traveled with a rapper named Taquan Anderson to a trap house in Harlem to shoot footage for a new video. Instead, the two ended up making a series of sex tapes, one showing a nude young girl lying across their laps; another showing her fellating Taquan while Danny stood behind her, making thrusting motions and smacking her on the buttocks. The video was posted to Instagram, and Danny was tagged in it. He then reposted it to his own account.

Soon, Danny found himself talking to Detective Maureen Sheehan of the NYPD Special Victims Squad. Danny admitted it was him in the video and that he’d posted it to social media. She informed him that the girl was 13 years old; her mother had seen the video and reported it to the police. Danny was arrested, and by his account, his bail was set at $100,000 — a sum he could never hope to afford — and he spent the next few months in Rikers Island jail.

The prosecutor was threatening years in prison, but Danny’s lawyer from the Legal Aid Society negotiated a deal. It wasn’t bad, as deals go: In exchange for pleading guilty to a felony count of “use of a child in a sexual performance,” Danny was conditionally released on one year’s probation, and temporarily spared the sex-offender registry. He was given a series of requirements to meet: obtain his GED, avoid getting arrested, write the girl and her family a letter of apology, complete 300 hours of community service, and attend outpatient mental-health treatment. If he did all of this, he would avoid jail time and stay off the registry permanently.

In the years following the incident, Danny made a variety of lame excuses. He claimed that he was only 17 at the time of the incident (he wasn’t). He claimed that he was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time (untrue). He said that he’d just met the girl and the other man in the video (irrelevant), and he claimed the girl had told him she was 19 (please). In his more self-pitying moments, he would present himself as the victim in the situation, making comparisons to Meek Mill, the rapper who had spent 10 years on probation — and served multiple jail sentences — stemming from one drug charge.

It’s difficult to imagine what restitution would have looked like in this case, but it’s fair to say Danny never paid it. Instead, he buried the incident and focused on his career. But he’d left a loose end. Rumors began to swirl that Zillakami, his friend from S.C.U.M. Gang, had paid a portion of his bail — up to the full $100,000, though Andrew says it was more like two or three grand. A rift opened between the two. According to Wizard, Zillakami accused Danny of stealing the money, and Danny began taunting Zillakami in Instagram Stories and interviews. “If that’s true and you bailed me out,” he said in an interview, “you’s a bitch, because who bails out a rapist?” One day, representatives from S.C.U.M. Gang approached Wizard and delivered an ultimatum: Choose between working with us or working with Danny.

Wizard chose Danny. He had heard rumors about the sex tapes, but he didn’t feel that Danny was actually a pedophile. Also, the sessions he’d hosted with Danny and Andrew had a sensational musical energy he hadn’t experienced before. “I went with my gut,” Wizard tells me. “I see a lot of talented musicians, but his gift for marketing, the Tekashi69 identity . . . I’d never seen anything like it. I thought Danny was going to be a star.” His decision — to ignore Danny’s misdeeds in favor of his obvious charisma — was one many in the music industry would repeat in the following years.

Danny took a lot of crazy risks , and he pushed those around him to do the same. Sometimes, he and Andrew would come up with enough money for one-way tickets to California, where they were featured on underground tracks. “We’d be hustling, scraping up money to shoot a video in L.A. or some shit,” Andrew says. “We would only have money for one-way flights, and maybe enough to buy two bags of ramen noodles when we got there.” Earning $500 or so a feature, they always managed to make it home.

By 2017, Danny was attracting interest from established labels, as SoundCloud rap emerged from underground. Several breakout stars signed major deals around that time, including XXXTentacion, Lil Pump and Trippie Redd. Danny knew many of these artists, and producers began to use his aggressive energy to throw some flair on otherwise dull tracks.

Among the first to see Danny’s potential was Elliot Grainge, then 23, the CEO of 10K Projects, the independent label that had signed Trippie Redd. Grainge — tall, polite, English — hailed from a royal family of music management. His father, Lucian Grainge, the CEO of Universal Music Group, was the industry’s most powerful man. His uncle Nigel Grainge had signed Sinéad O’Connor to her first record deal; his cousin Nick Shymansky discovered Amy Winehouse. Elliot, looking to make his own name in the ancient family trade, was targeting generation SoundCloud. When I asked Elliot his thoughts about the genre, his eyes and nostrils flared: “This is punk rock.”

Early in 2017, Trippie invited Danny to California to feature in a song called “ Poles1469 .” The song eventually went gold, and a bidding war erupted to sign 6ix9ine, one in which Grainge couldn’t financially compete. What he could offer instead was total creative control. After several rounds of negotiations, Danny signed with 10K, forgoing larger advances from Warner Bros. and Sony.

Danny got to work immediately, returning to Wizard’s grimy studio with Andrew and several hundred beats from various producers. One of these was the work of Pi’erre Bourne, most famous for producing Playboi Carti’s “Magnolia.” Bourne’s new beat was originally meant for Trippie; Danny would claim Trippie had given it to him as a gift, though Trippie would later claim it was stolen. Whatever the case, it was a scorcher that set a whining, high-pitched minor-key melody over insistent, driving hand claps.

Danny turned it into “Gummo,” his breakout hit. The lyrics, co-written with Andrew, were a generic endorsement of the thrills of armed robbery, but Danny’s angry vocals, barked at maximum volume into Wizard’s distortion filters, then layered over Bourne’s superbly chilling beat, gave the song a unique flavor of menace. Andrew says that the team hadn’t intended to record such a threatening anthem, but the song’s tone had emerged organically from the studio process. “We worked on ‘Gummo’ for almost four months,” he says. “We tried a bunch of different flows, a bunch of cadences. The label didn’t believe in it, but we just knew when we heard it.”

Grainge, in L.A., tried to shelve “Gummo,” arguing that the gangbanger image wasn’t right for Tekashi, who, in his mind, had the potential to be something more like the court jester of pop. But Danny, extending the creative-control clause in his contract, overruled him — this was his image, he insisted, and this was his sound. Grainge was forced to acquiesce. Now all that remained was to shoot the video.

Around the time “Gummo” was released , Trippie Redd and 6ix9ine turned on each other. I heard competing explanations for the rift — that Trippie envied Danny’s success; that Danny had stolen the beat for “Gummo”; that there was a dispute about a girl. Whatever the reason, Trippie soon found Danny’s weak spot and exposed him. Zillakami, possibly still angry about the bail money, posted about the underage-sex-tape indictment, to which Trippie reportedly alerted his millions of followers in a now-deleted video.

The 6ix9ine identity, previously just provocative, was now radioactive. “Gummo” was released the same month the #MeToo movement emerged, and after decades of looking the other way, nobody, anywhere, was now willing to normalize a convicted underage sex abuser. He struggled to get radio airplay and TV appearances. Even in the historically more permissive world of music management, nobody wanted to work with Danny. For the remainder of Danny’s brief career, his sole lifeline to the legitimate recording industry was Grainge. “I didn’t know about the charges, but I don’t regret signing him,” Grainge tells me. To Grainge, 6ix9ine had promise. “The definition of a star is when someone walks in the room and they kind of brighten up the room. It’s an energy they give off, that I’m very sensitive towards. He had that.”

And yet the doxxing of Danny’s child-sex case wasn’t the worst thing to result from the “Gummo” video shoot. The worst thing, according to multiple sources, was the older man he met on the set that day. Kifano Jordan, 36, was better known as “Shotti.” He had a friendly disposition — “a real stand-up guy,” says a friend of Danny’s, without irony — but he was also allegedly a made member of the Nine Trey Bloods with a record of arrests for drug charges.

At the time “Gummo” was released, Danny had a manager, whom he’d hired through an associate of XXXTentacion. But in early 2018, Danny fired him, leaving himself in a vulnerable position: Although he was a highly successful recording artist, the blacklist prevented him from obtaining competent professional representation. In February 2018, Danny instead made Shotti his unofficial manager.

Danny’s associates question exactly how much managing Shotti actually did. “He wasn’t no manager,” Andrew tells me, then blows a raspberry. Grainge agrees: “That’s not his manager. That’s his f riend.” Shotti could not be reached for this story, but several people tell me he thinks of himself as a contemporary Suge Knight. Soon, Danny adopted a strident gangbanger image. He began yelling “Treyway” in Instagram posts — a nickname for Shotti’s business platform, but also likely a reference to the Nine Trey nation. His music began to promote gang politics enthusiastically, especially “Blood Walk,” a remix of Rich the Kid’s “Plug Walk” that borrowed from Snoop Dogg: “I keep a red flag, hanging out my backside/Only on the right side/Yeah, that’s the Blood side.”

For his friends, it was an inexplicable turn. The gangster image in his previous videos was a front, as fake as pro wrestling. In reality, he was a struggling teenage dad who had earned his money slicing ham at the Stay Fresh Grill. The distinction, though — that Danny’s association with the Nine Trey Bloods was all an act to sell records — would quickly become murkier, and eventually beside the point at all.

After “Gummo,” Danny put 13 more songs on the charts. His songs have been streamed more than 2.6 billion times, according to the music analytics company BuzzAngle. He’s garnered more than 15 million followers on Instagram, and was at one point in the service’s top 100 users.  The popular consensus was summarized in a Youtube comment: “This shit does bang but it’s lowering my IQ.”  As his career progressed, his visual iconography became cartoon shorthand for an emerging demographic. On 4chan, a crudely drawn image quartered millennials into distinct generations: “Boomers” (post-30), “Bloomers” (late 20s), “Doomers” (early 20s) and teenage “Zoomers,” also known as Generation Z. The last had rainbow hair and a forehead tattoo of a “69.” Online, 6ix9ine was the face of a generation.

In interviews, Danny suggested that he didn’t have to try very hard to make a hit and downplayed his technical rapping ability. “I didn’t put no effort into that shit,” he told radio host Angie Martinez following the release of “Fefe,” his collaboration with Nicki Minaj that hit Number Three. Grainge was eager to corroborate the story. “He’s been to the recording studio maybe 15 times, never for more than an hour or so,” Grainge says. “And he’s got 15 hits!”

But Wizard tells me the rapper was actually a studio perfectionist who agonized over every bar. Andrew says something similar: Together, he and Danny would lay down a series of lyrical ideas, then spend hours obsessively line-editing them. Thematically, the material never strayed far from the gangster archetype, but they weren’t looking for range; they were looking for hooks. “He focuses on every bar, and he can see if something’s fire or trash,” Wizard says. “If it’s trash, he’ll focus on it. His real talent . . . basically, it’s evaluating whether things are trash or fire.”

Danny’s songs were simple, but they were catchy, and short, too, ending just before the listener might get bored. In the months following “Gummo,” Danny showed surprising versatility, switching from belligerent screaming to a hoarse, emotional whisper to AutoTuned Spanish-language pop. The disconnect between his voicing, the lyrics and the production created a sense of internal conflict, and at his best, Danny pulled off one of the hardest tricks in songcraft: He made the listener feel multiple emotions at once.

Throughout 2017, as his musicianship was improving, Danny doubled down on his already daring social media strategy. This meant tattoos, lots of them: spiderwebs on his jaw, enormous “69”s on his neck, chest and stomach, and in a Gothic touch, the torture-porn icon Jigsaw, from the Saw franchise, on his right cheek. (Naturally, the face on his face had its own “69” tattoo.) It also meant beef, tons and tons of beef, with anyone and everyone he could find, including 50 Cent, Chief Keef, YG, Ludacris, Casanova and the Game.

Violence began to plague 6ix9ine’s public appearances, especially after he linked up with Shotti and his entourage. There was video of gunfire outside a nightclub in Minnesota, following a chaotic appearance where someone threw an ice bucket at the rapper. There was a video of a brawl in the outdoor loading zone at LAX, where a fistfight appearing to involve 6ix9ine spilled out onto a busy street. And there was reportedly gunfire at a video shoot in Beverly Hills for a song featuring 6ix9ine, Minaj and Kanye West. Minaj’s dressing room was reportedly hit by a bullet from an unknown assailant before she arrived. It was unclear whether Danny was directly involved in these incidents, but his constant incitements on Instagram created a perpetually volatile situation. Andrew began to worry about his friend. “Almost every time I was around him, I was like, ‘You don’t gotta do this gang-sta shit, bro,’ ” he says. “He has rainbow hair, for God’s sake! He could’ve just been a star.”

Danny often posted obnoxious Instagram content where he displayed his expensive jewelry, including a diamond-encrusted necklace of the Jigsaw marionette, which, he claimed, had cost him $300,000. “Someone please come snatch my chain so my project could sell more,” he wrote in one caption. In July 2018, he was kidnapped at gunpoint, beaten and robbed. In his recounting to Angie Martinez, he suggested the incident had been an inside job: His car had been rammed from behind, an assailant drew a gun, then forced him into another vehicle. He was then driven to his apartment — his captors already knew where it was — where he was forced to wait in the back seat while the thieves raided his home for jewels, terrorizing his girlfriend and child. Danny says he managed to escape by jumping out of the moving car.

Grainge attempted to persuade Danny to move to Los Angeles, suggesting he rent a house in a place like Calabasas, where he could be neighbors with Kim Kardashian and Drake. “I don’t think he can be safe in New York City,” Grainge told me in August. “Not in Bushwick.” Danny, loyal to his “Day Ones,” turned him down.

In the spring and summer of 2018, Danny was arrested three times, first for driving with a suspended license, then for assaulting a police officer, then in connection with an assault at a mall in Houston, where he’d allegedly choked a 16-year-old who’d taken his picture. The arrests violated the terms of the plea deal in his sex-tape case; he had also repeatedly failed his GED exam. In October, Danny made a request for clemency at his sentencing hearing. In the courtroom was Grainge; so, too, were members of Shotti’s entourage, dressed in subtle shades of red.

The prosecutor asked for at least a year in prison.

The judge spared him incarceration, instead issuing four years probation on the condition he not get arrested again or associate with known gang members. To celebrate, Grainge took Danny out to dinner at Philippe, a narrow, swanky Chinese restaurant in midtown Manhattan, whose private dining rooms often host New York’s athletic and musical celebrities. Shotti and his crew attempted to attend, but were denied entrance by Grainge’s security. According to his lawyer, Danny bailed on the scene.

An argument broke out between Shotti, with his squad of thugs, and 6ix9ine’s princeling label boss, with his security detail of retired cops. A member of Shotti’s crew bashed someone in the head with a chair. A security guard working for Grainge pulled out a gun and shot one of his assailants in the stomach. It was a custody battle for rap’s problem child.

In November , three weeks after the fracas at Philippe, Danny announced on Instagram that he was firing his entire management team, meaning Shotti and his entourage, although he never mentioned them by name. In a radio interview, he attributed the firings to financial mismanagement. His lawyer explained it to me this way: “He made the decision [to get out] after the judge granted him a second chance. The Phillipe incident . . . he was given back the best days of his life, and he took that second chance.” By that point, the feds had already taken an interest in Danny; a search of his residence in September had retrieved an illegal firearm and a backpack that had been reported stolen by the victim of an armed robbery.

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The escalating situation put Danny at risk; one does not simply exit gang life with an Instagram post. Danny’s collaborators got nervous. Wizard, assembling the final cut of 6ix9ine’s debut album, began locking himself in the studio. Andrew, Danny’s oldest and closest collaborator, distanced himself from the scene and focused on launching his own career.

Two days after the announcement, Danny was approached by the FBI, who told him that his life was in danger. It turned out that Shotti was the target of an open federal investigation and that, for the past few weeks, law enforcement had wiretapped the phones of his crew. They’d been hearing chatter from gang members suggesting that a hit had been authorized on Danny’s life — that he was in line to be “super–violated.” According to a leaked transcript of the wiretap, Mel Murda, one of Shotti’s associates, was overheard suggesting that Shotti “don’t got nothing to lose no more.” The FBI offered Danny its protection. He declined.

An indictment soon followed: a task force consisting of the ATF, Homeland Security and the NYPD had been building a RICO case against Shotti and his crew for months. (RICO refers to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a federal law used to prosecute acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization.) Shotti and four members of his crew were arrested — as was Daniel Hernandez. The arrests, according to a statement from U.S. Attorney Michael Longyear, were prompted by a fear that Shotti and his crew would attempt to attack Danny in a public place, and the authorities would be unable to contain the situation.

Famous rappers have been charged with serious felonies in the past, but the indictment brought against Danny and his crew has no precedent in the history of hip-hop. It alleged an extraordinary range of gang activity, including drug dealing, firearms charges, armed robbery and two attempted murders. There was the April incident at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center where, according to the indictment, Danny and his crew were involved in a dust-up with rival rapper Casanova. A member of Shotti’s crew fired a shot — no one was hit — and was later arrested. There was the July shooting in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where, the indictment alleged, Danny and his crew planned a hit on a disrespectful street rival. (The shooter missed, hitting a bystander.) There was the armed robbery in April near Times Square; the U.S. Attorney’s office claimed that a group of Nine Treys were the perpetrators and Danny was outside, filming it all.

At his arraignment on November 19th, Danny appeared disheveled before the judge. His hearing was directly after Shotti and the other alleged Nine Treys’, even though they were being tried together. Danny was denied bail, despite offering to surrender his passport and to pay more than $1 million in bail. The judge frequently asked the prosecutors how they knew Danny had been present at shootings, like the one at the Barclays Center. The answer was often simple: Danny had posted about it on Instagram.

Danny was brought to a federal jail in Brooklyn, according to his lawyer. There, his life was openly threatened by gang members. The guards at the prison immediately transferred him to a private facility in Queens. On November 26th, he was denied bail; he remains imprisoned today. The mandatory-minimum sentencing for the racketeering charges he faces is 32 years.

In mid-December, I meet with Danny’s criminal–defense attorney, Lance Lazzaro, who emphasizes to me that, despite the prison rumors, Danny was not cooperating with authorities, and under no circumstances would he do so. Lazzaro also tells me Danny was not, and had never been, a member of the Nine Trey Bloods, that the charges against him were based on “hearsay,” and that he was willing to fight the racketeering charge all the way to trial. “Danny liked to present the image of being a gangster to sell his music,” he says. “But my client is not a gangster.”

But when I ask Lazzaro if Danny might be willing to plead guilty to a lesser charge — say, armed robbery — he said it would depend on the charge and the terms. Shortly after our meeting, TMZ obtained surveillance footage of an April robbery that appears to show Shotti exiting an SUV, and a short Hispanic man with rainbow hair emerging shortly afterward. This robbery, authorities claim, was also captured on a separate video shot on Danny’s phone, then sent to one of his friends, who posted it to social media.

To some observers, Danny’s arrest wasn’t a surprise. “All the politics, all the beef, it was like… You can’t just be speeding down the highway without expecting to crash,” Andrew says.

But why would he feel the need to behave this way, I ask Andrew. Why on Earth would a platinum-selling recording artist stick up some kid on the street for a backpack?

“The internet,” Andrew says.

On November 27th , nine days after his arrest, 6ix9ine’s first official album, Dummy Boy , was released online. It debuted at Number Two but was a commercial disappointment to anyone invested in Tekashi. The critics were not kind.

With the exception of a couple of unreleased tracks on Wizard’s desktop, this likely brings to an end the brief, bizarre and shocking career of Tekashi 6ix9ine. He faces six separate charges, and federal prison terms don’t offer the possibility of parole. Even if he were to cooperate, it’s not like he could enter witness protection — not with that face. Anything less than a decade inside seems improbable. Hernandez still plans on releasing music from jail, according to a recent report from TMZ. His lawyer was unavailable to comment on whether that’s true, or the potential method for recording new music.

All of this — his supercharged rise from his corroded Brooklyn neighborhood, his extended tangle with the legal system and his eventual arrest by federal agents — took just more than a year, an internet-fueled ride that went off the rails almost as quickly as it began.

6ix9ine’s fall coincides with the crashing of the entire SoundCloud rap wave: XXXTentacion has been murdered; Lil Peep is dead of a drug overdose; Lil Xan recently went to rehab. Danny was the movement’s defining face. His behavior was unforgivable, but his instincts as an influencer were immaculate, and that only made his critics hate him more, extending the cycle of popularity for as long as it could be sustained.

Instagram was Danny’s MTV, and trap music was his grunge, but the ironic, media-savvy distance previous generations had maintained between themselves and their entertainment had for him collapsed. He was a confused child of the internet who’d pierced the realm of stardom, but failed to understand where the theatrics were supposed to end.

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In his first interview since being released from prison, the polarizing rapper, who testified against his former gang, addresses his “snitching,” his horrible reputation and his record of abuse.

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The rapper and internet troll 6ix9ine , one of the most polarizing figures in popular culture today, is by turns grating, defiant, relentless, hostile and savvy, a self-proclaimed car crash, a rat and an admitted domestic abuser. At 24, he is also inarguably compelling to many, having landed two Top 5 hits — including “Trollz” with Nicki Minaj, his first No. 1 — and racked up more than one billion new YouTube views in less than four months, since his early release from federal prison this spring.

6ix9ine, born Daniel Hernandez and also known as Tekashi69, was not supposed to come back like this. In February of last year, he pleaded guilty to firearms and racketeering charges stemming from his role in the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods, a violent, drug-trafficking Brooklyn gang, and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, delivering what the judge in the case called “game-changing” testimony against his former associates.

The legal maneuvering probably saved him decades behind bars — he was sentenced to two years, including the 13 months he’d already served — but it also put his life and rap career in jeopardy, undermining the exaggerated gangster persona he had so carefully cultivated and leaving him labeled a poser and a snitch. (Days before his arrest, 6ix9ine had split publicly from the gang, claiming that its members had orchestrated his kidnapping, stolen money from him and more.)

6ix9ine, a rainbow-haired, suggestively tattooed attention addict, was already controversial — an endless source of Instagram beefs that often devolved into real-world violence, and a convicted sex criminal, having pleaded guilty as a teenager to the use of a child in a sexual performance. Then he repeatedly doubled down on his villain status. His new album is called “TattleTales,” out Friday via the independent distributor Create Music Group, though 6ix9ine remains connected to his first label, 10K Projects . But the rapper has also re-entered the world at a moment of life-or-death upheaval for many — from the coronavirus to the Black Lives Matter protests — leading some to wonder how long it will be before his antics fully curdle, if they haven’t already.

On a recent Sunday, animated by a large light-and-sweet McDonald’s coffee, 6ix9ine sat down for his first post-prison interview at a Manhattan hotel to answer for everything. Alternating between remorse and what-about-isms, he could be forthcoming and straightforward, but also slippery, refusing any suggestion that he might tone down the chaos .

“How would you feel if I go out there on the ledge and jump off that building and kill myself?” 6ix9ine asked. “That’s what society wants me to do.” Instead, he planned to “just keep dominating,” he said.

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Tekashi 6ix9ine Documentary ‘69: The Saga of Danny Hernandez’ Arrives on Hulu

Hulu’s original documentary about what the announcement describes as “the rise and fall” of controversial rapper Tekashi69 is streaming now exclusively on Hulu.

Titled “69: The Saga of Danny Hernandez,” after the Brooklyn-born rapper’s real name, the doc is tagged “part investigative documentary, part real-life gangster movie” and details how the rapper “repeatedly broke the internet with his sensationalist music videos and social media beefs before infamously testifying against Brooklyn gang the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods in a landmark trial.” Director Vikram Gandhi spoke with neighborhood locals who knew him “before the hard-core persona and the face tattoos” and examines “the harsh extremes of addiction to fame in the digital era.”

Judging by the description, the bulk of the work on the documentary would seem to have been done before 6ix9ine’s release from prison due to coronavirus concerns earlier this year. Following his release to house arrest in April, the rapper began releasing songs at a steady clip, although public interest in them waned with each release and his “TattleTales” album performed well below projections when it dropped in September, debuting at just No. 4 on the Rolling Stone albums chart. In a manner oddly predictive of Donald Trump’s recent protestations that the presidential election was rigged, 6ix9ine claimed without convincing evidence that he had been cheated out of chart positions.

The documentary’s announcement’s use of the rapper’s name as “69” — rather than his preferred 6ix9ine — also casts some question on its authority.

“All of my films explore identity, specifically the inner life of charismatic figures,” Gandhi said in a statement. “I’m fascinated by the difference between the perceived person on the surface and the real person underneath…. What made him so fascinating were the contradictions built into his very existence: A Mexican kid with facial tattoos and rainbow hair shouting the n-word, flaunting gang affiliation, starting beef, and posting his own violent acts online. … As I moved further into the story, I met a motley crew of personalities who were integral to Tekashi69’s development as an artist and celebrity. Danny Hernandez wanted to be famous so badly that he was devoured by his digital avatar, Tekashi69.”

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A Guide to the Tekashi 6ix9ine Documentary Universe

The latest documentary on Tekashi 6ix9ine, Showtime’s Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine , follows a Hulu movie ( 69: The Saga of Danny Hernandez ) and a Complex podcast ( Infamous: The Tekashi 6ix9ine Story ) about the controversial rapper turned snitch. The basic facts are well-known: 6ix9ine, born Daniel Hernandez, rose to fame in New York in 2015 and took off nationally thanks to SoundCloud hits like 2017’s “GUMMO” and 2018’s “Keke,” both of which have since been certified platinum. The appeal of Tekashi is only partially due to his music: The other half of the formula is his look, carefully cultivated and accented by “69” tattoos all over his body and face, in addition to long, rainbow colored dreadlocks that can be spotted from a mile away.

His gang affiliations with the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods (also known as the Trey Way Gang) gave him street credibility, but those relationships deteriorated due to a number of legal issues. First came Hernandez’s October 2015 guilty plea to a felony count of use of a child in a sexual performance for a music video. Then came beefs he provoked with rappers like Casanova and Chief Keef, which resulted in gunfire, and were also used as evidence in a racketeering case against the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods. On February 1st, 2019, Hernandez pled guilty to nine charges. He faced a possible mandatory sentence of 47 years in prison, but less than a month later, a plea deal document revealed that the rapper could avoid jail time in exchange for his willingness to testify against fellow gang members in other investigations. He was eventually given a sentence of two years after testifying against the Nine Trey Gang, though he was released to home confinement in April of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Inevitably, the story of Tekashi 6ix9ine is told differently in each documentary, and each has interviews, footage or analysis that doesn’t appear in the others. What unique elements should you look out for when watching or listening to each of them, and which one is best overall? Read through GQ’s guide to the Tekashi 6ix9ine documentary universe to find out.

Hernandez believes his 69 tattoos represent the two sides of his personality. There’s a clip in the Showtime film from one of Hernandez’s IG Live videos in which he spells out how his first name, Daniel, has six letters, and his last, Hernandez, has nine. Get it? Spooky stuff. For Hernandez, 6 and 9 seem to represent flip sides of the same coin ― Danny Hernandez, the soft-spoken, kind boy, and 6ix9ine, the dude who did all types of gang related activity to up his street cred. Perhaps that’s how he justifies his horrific behavior. The Showtime series suggests that Hernandez’s downfall was due in part to losing the separation between his public persona and private life―his falling out with the Trey Way crew stemmed from his inability to separate his antics as 6ix9ine from the quiet, move-in-silence ethos of the gang.

His life philosophy―“the world is a game”―is caught on tape. One unique aspect of the Showtime documentary is the house arrest audio the filmmakers were able to capture, in addition to some brand new photos. A particularly revealing scene revolves around Tekashi’s comment that “the world is a game,” and throughout the film it’s clear that 6ix9ine became an expert at playing it. For example, Hernandez used the Trey Way Bloods to boost his street image, pushing members like Shotti and Seqo Billy to defend him from increasingly dangerous situations. Tekashi is like some dude weaving in and out of traffic, narrowly avoiding wreck after wreck, while innocent drivers who live by a different code total their cars and are then faced with a lifetime of emotional and monetary stress.

The ultimate troll. The Complex podcast tracks how Hernandez exploited our cultural obsession with trolls to relentlessly hammer his 6ix9ine persona into the mainstream. Throughout the series, host Angie Martinez spells out the various ways in which 6ix9ine would keep himself in the spotlight at all costs. Episode four, in particular, dives into his never-ending stream of beefs with other rappers. Throughout his time in the spotlight, 6ix9ine had issues with Ludacris, Chief Keef, Bhad Bhabie, YG, Vic Mensa, and more. Tekashi blurred the line between publicity stunt and actual beef, which made his security team struggle with protection.

Gang members testify against Tekashi on camera. While fairly even-handed for a film about one of the most reviled characters in modern pop culture, the Showtime documentary is filled with peers who have been wronged by Tekashi and are now finally given a chance to speak out against him. Disenchanted Nine Trey Gangsta Blood members who avoided prison because they caught onto 6ix9ine’s bullshit step in front of the camera to help flesh out the man behind the rainbow dreads. Seqo Billy is one of the stars of the Showtime documentary, explaining how 6ix9ine exploited the inner machinations of gang life for his own gain. In the Hulu documentary, Billy is framed more as Tekashi’s biggest supporter than the first to catch onto his bullshit―the music “was trash,” he says, but he was immediately drawn to Tekashi’s videos.

Did Tekashi’s bodyguard betray him? As Seqo Billy removed himself from the Tekashi 6ix9ine situation, another Nine Trey member, Shotti, became his manager, bodyguard, and assistant. He did everything for Tekashi, and he was the rapper’s last link to the gang. Each series dives into Shotti’s association with 6ix9ine, but the Complex podcast dedicates an entire episode to Shotti’s role and the abduction of Tekashi that took place on July 22nd, 2018. Tekashi was kidnapped and robbed by two Nine Trey members, “Harv” and “Nuke,” and while Shotti wasn’t implicated, the podcast asserts that Tekashi was suspicious of Shotti’s dealings. Specifically, the episode dives into Tekashi’s claim that Shotti was stealing money from him.

6ix9ine doesn’t have talent, and he knows it. In a quick clip from the first Showtime episode,Tekashi marvels that “UPS drivers have more talent than me!” When Nine Trey member Billy Ado is asked to name one thing Tekashi has done for the culture, Ado draws a blank. It doesn’t matter to Tekashi, though: He’s an entertainer, and, in his own words, a visionary. The Complex podcast also explores this phenomenon, often noting how Tekashi’s songs aren’t noteworthy in themselves; it's only when he injects his persona (through music videos, livestreams on Instagram, etc.) that his music grows fangs.

6ix9ine had to go to Williamsburg to get his signature rainbow hair. There aren’t many funny moments in this story, but in the Showtime series the mother of Tekashi’s child, Sara Molina, reveals that no one in their BedStuy neighborhood knew how to color Tekashi’s hair in his now-famous rainbow style, so the two walked to Williamsburg until they stumbled upon a woman willing to do it. The stylist, who appears in the documentary, refers to herself as “Tekashi’s Jewish mother.”

The murder of his stepfather was a turning point. All three documentaries point to the murder of Hernandez’s stepfather as a transformative event in his life. The Showtime series casts the tragedy as the moment Hernandez starts becoming 6ix9ine―it’s his supervillain origin story, the catalyst for his realization that the world is a cruel place and it’s every man for himself. The Hulu documentary treats the moment with a bit more empathy, using it as a springboard to examine how trauma can consume someone’s entire identity and shift who they are. The Complex podcast takes an analytical perspective, pitting 6ix9ine’s rough childhood against his trial and the moment his biological father shows up and disrupts the proceedings. His father’s arrival shocked Hernandez, and the podcast highlights how his lack of a paternal figure may have led to his “superstardom at all costs'' identity.

Tekashi abused the mother of his child, and her recounting of the incident is powerful. In one of the Hulu film’s most powerful moments, Sara Molina bravely explains how a night in Dubai turned violent and left her bleeding from her head. The story isn’t new, but seeing Molina on camera, pleading with the audience to view Hernandez as a terror , supplemented by videos taken the night of the event, paints a forceful picture of his violence and horrifying behavior. It’s a powerful moment that adds urgency to the film’s thesis, which is argued more explicitly here than in the other two docs: Tekashi is a villain.

The verdict: Which documentary should you choose? The Complex podcast does an excellent job of laying the groundwork for how 6ix9ine rose to fame, and how his gang ties eventually led to him becoming the most notorious snitch in hip-hop history. The Hulu movie is a more straightforward documentary, putting forth a set of facts and letting the viewer form an opinion. The Showtime original is heavily stylized and skews towards a particular angle: Tekashi’s soullessness will allow him to do anything for fame. If viewers are looking for the most immersive watch, the Showtime documentary is the best place to start. Sure, it’s a bit biased against Tekashi 6ix9ine, but then again, wouldn’t you be too?

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• Nickname: jenny69
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• Date of Birth: 11 March 1994
• Birth Sign: Pisces
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The Complete History of Tekashi 6ix9ine’s Controversial Career

SoundCloud rap has exploded over the last two years with rappers whose criminal pasts have led to uncertain futures. XXXTentacion was murdered last June while awaiting trial on charges that he brutally assaulted and threatened to kill his pregnant girlfriend in 2016, allegations which only heightened his notoriety online during his brief career. (He confessed to the abuse in a since-surfaced secret recording .) Similarly, Tekashi 6ix9ine, whose rainbow hair suits his troll persona, has had his fame come with an asterisk. Last year, 6ix9ine narrowly avoided jail time and having to register as a sex offender for pleading guilty to the use of a child in a sexual performance in 2015; instead, he was sentenced to four years probation.

But that was only the tip of his controversies: He went on to dace life in prison on federal racketeering charges related to gang activity and a potential future in witness protection due to his cooperation with the federal government. On December 18, Tekashi met his fate in Manhattan Federal Court when he was sentenced to two years in prison after a whirlwind of chaos. To try to make sense of it all, we’ve compiled a timeline of his fast rise and even faster fall.

Pre-2017 Rise to Fame

6ix9ine, born Daniel Hernandez in 1996, grew up in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York, and was raised by a Mexican mother and Puerto Rican father. His father was murdered in 2009 when Hernandez was 13 years old. According to his No Jumper interview , 6ix9ine was expelled from school in the eighth grade and did not further his education. “I stopped going to school to help my mom pay the rent,” he said. Following his father’s death, he worked several jobs and began selling marijuana to help support his mother and brother.

In 2014, 6ix9ine begins rapping on a whim. “I started rapping for fun to be honest with you. I didn’t really want to be a rapper or whatever,” he told No Jumper. “I just started making music because everybody was like, ‘Yo you look mad cool.’” He develops an online presence built off his eccentric fashion choices — including wearing oversize shirts emboldened with the words “ Pussy Nigga, ” — his rainbow-colored hair and grill, many face tattoos including a giant “69” over his right eyebrow (he estimates he has over 200 tattoos of the number) and a portrait of Jigsaw, and starting beef with other SoundCloud rappers including Trippie Redd by trolling them on social media. Photos of him also start to become a viral meme. During that time, he begins releasing scream-rap music under the Slovakia-based label FCK THEM, including “Scumlife”, “Yokai,” and “Hellsing Station,” and featuring anime in his music videos. He establishes the 6ix9ine persona, describing it as a “lifestyle.”

“I stand up for the kids who can’t stand up for themselves, ” he’ll later tell Mass Appeal . “Kids that get bullied and deal with a whole bunch of cyberbullying and school bullying — kids in group homes, detention centers, where they don’t have parents there looking out for them. They feel alone, like outcasts, or some type of joke to society. I’m the hope for those kids.” His song, “Scumlife,” he explained, stands for Society Can’t Understand Me. (It is also a reference to the Flatbush gang; 6ix9ine has also said he’s been affiliated with the Bloods set known as 9 Trey Bloods — his other nickname, TreyWay, is both a reference to that set as well as his manager of the same name.) He has refused to wear name-brand clothing like Supreme so as to appear relatable to kids who can’t afford those designers the way he couldn’t growing up. “I start my own trends. I’m making it cool to be a bum, to be poor,” he says. “Tekashi is his own character … I build my own world and I want my world to look like it’s on fucking fire.”

2015 Sexual-Misconduct Case

February 21 : Amid his rising notoriety, 6ix9ine is accused of having sexual contact with a minor. On February 21, he attends a gathering at a Harlem apartment where videos are filmed of a naked girl later revealed to have been 13 years old at the time. According to the details of a criminal complaint filed a week and a half after the incident, and later obtained and publicized by Jezebel in December 2017, 6ix9ine, who was 18 at the time, is seen in one of the videos “making a thrusting motion with his pelvis” and “smacking her on her buttocks” while she “engages in oral sexual intercourse” with another man, who was also later arrested. In a separate video, the girl is seen sitting naked on the laps of 6ix9ine and another man; in a third video; a man is seen pouring liquid on the girl’s breasts while she sits on 6ix9ine’s lap. The videos are uploaded to Instagram and 6ix9ine reuploads them to his own account, later telling police he did so “for my image.” 6ix9ine claims to have believed the girl was of legal age at the time. “When she came in she asked me how old I was and I told her I was 18 and I assumed she was older. The way she was asking made me think she was older,” he told police.

March 5 : 6ix9ine is arrested and charged with the use of a child in a sexual performance.

October 22: 6ix9ine pleads guilty to one felony count of use of a child in a sexual performance. According to Jezebel, the terms of his plea deal state that in the time until his sentencing (originally meant for October 2017, but since continuously postponed until October 2018), he is to complete one year of probation, 300 hours of community service, two years of mental health treatment, not to share “sexually explicit or violent images featuring women/children” to social media, and write an apology letter to the victim and her family — all of which appear to have since been completed. He is also required to obtain his GED and stay out of criminal trouble for two years. District attorneys are now arguing he has violated the latter two requirements.

July: A photo of 6ix9ine on Instagram, displaying his tattoos and colorful hair, goes viral on Reddit, drawing attention to his music.

October: 6ix9ine releases “Gummo,” his official debut single, which rises to No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100.

November: 6ix9ine does a widely circulated interview with DJ Akademiks in which he gives his version of the events of the 2015 case, speaking publicly about it for the first time. “I don’t know her exact age, I think she was 14 or some shit like that,” he says. He claims to have been “17 years young” at the time of the incident, despite correctly stating to police that he was 18, and denies having any sexual contact with the victim. “’I’m not touching the girl, I’m not having sexual intercourse with the girl, I’m not doing nothing, she just nude in some type of way,” he says. “I didn’t rape nobody, bro, the girl wasn’t even raped … I didn’t have no sexual contact with the girl … but I was in the video.”

January 6 : 6ix9ine is involved in an alleged altercation with a 16-year-old boy at the Galleria Mall in Houston, Texas. According to the police report obtained by Pitchfork , the boy tries to take a video of 6ix9ine, prompting the rapper to grab him by the neck “causing small scratch marks and pain.” 6ix9ine and his bodyguards allegedly further threaten the boy to erase the video, which he does “to not get hurt again.” In July, 6ix9ine is arrested in New York at JFK airport on an outstanding warrant for the incident and is charged with misdemeanor assault. In October, the alleged victim, Santiago Albarran, appears in court to reportedly ask that 6ix9ine not be prosecuted, even posing for a photo with the rapper. The case is ongoing.

February 23: He releases his debut mixtape, Day 69 .

April 19: A woman tells Babe that 6ix9ine knowingly engaged in a sexual relationship with her when she was underage. Martha Gold, now 18, claims that they met in March 2017 when she was 17 and he was 20 and that she repeatedly informed him of her age. She says they had sexual contact in Los Angeles, where the legal age of consent is 18. She does not appear to be pressing charges. “I’m not tryna put him in jail or anything, but he has to learn to stay in his lane,” she says.

April 25 : 6ix9ine’s manager, Tr3yway, is reportedly investigated in connection with two shootings, one at Barclays Center on the day of the Adrien Broner fight, and the other hours prior on the streets of Brooklyn. His crew is also reportedly investigated for a shooting on a music video set in Brooklyn days prior. The incidents all reportedly involve rapper Casanova, with whom 6ix9ine had beef at the time. TMZ reports that 6ix9ine has been banned from performing at Barclays due to the alleged incident.

May 20: 6ix9ine allegedly illegally parks in front of a fire hydrant in Brooklyn while also allegedly driving with a suspended license. He is reportedly charged with two misdemeanors: operating a vehicle without a license and facilitating aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.

May 21, the very next day: The morning after his arrest for the parking incident, 6ix9ine reportedly gets into an altercation with a police officer at the 77th Precinct in Brooklyn. After being instructed to take off his unlocked handcuffs, 6ix9ine allegedly “grabs and squeezes” the officer’s hand against the cuffs and refuses to take off the cuffs or let go of the officer, allegedly causing the officer “swelling and redness to [his] fingers and, to suffer substantial pain, to fear further physical injury.” He is slapped with four more misdemeanor charges due to the incident: third-degree assault, third-degree attempted assault, third-degree menacing, and second-degree obstructing governmental administration. Both cases are still ongoing.

June 18: 6ix9ine is reportedly investigated for a shooting in New York involving rapper Chief Keef. He denies any involvement, though the two have beefed online and he insinuated his involvement on Instagram .

July 22: He releases “Fefe” with Nicki Minaj, his biggest and most commercial song to date. It rises to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. Minaj later defends working with 6ix9ine despite his misconduct, saying “The thing with me, when I know somebody there’s nothing you can tell me about them. That’s just how it is.”

Also on July 22: 6ix9ine is involved in an attack the same day his Nicki collaboration is released. He is reportedly kidnapped, pistol-whipped, and robbed in Brooklyn. “As crazy as it sounds.. yesterday morning I had a feeling that it was my day to die,” he later writes on Instagram. He also claims it was not a publicity stunt to promote the single.

August 8: 6ix9ine starts beef with rapper YG over a line on YG’s song “Su Whoop” in which he calls out fake Bloods, alluding to 6ix9ine. 6ix9ine taunts YG on Instagram , saying his single “Fefe” with Nicki is outselling YG’s single with Nicki, “Big Bank.” He added, “You a whole bum out here. Stop going on radio stations tryin’ to promote your album mentioning my name. You a big-ass dummy.”

August 10: The Manhattan District Attorney’s office requests that a judge revoke 6ix9ine’s plea deal in the 2015 sexual misconduct case , arguing that he violated the terms of the deal by getting into further legal trouble and did not complete his GED in time. They ask that he be required to register as a sexual offender and that the rapper be sentenced to one to three years of jail time. 6ix9ine’s lawyers are arguing that any arrests that occurred after the original planned October 20, 2017, sentencing date should not count against his plea deal because it would’ve expired by then. Pitchfork reports that postponements to that hearing were due to 6ix9ine’s lawyers requesting more time for him to complete his GED, which they say he did in April 2018.

August 21 : Nicki Minaj claims that MTV would not allow 6ix9ine to perform with her at the VMAs. “Tekashi, I wanted to perform with me at the VMAs. And somewhere along the line he didn’t get approved to perform by the powers that be,” she says. “I don’t want anyone to think for a second that I would not have asked him to come on my stage to perform his amazing hit ‘Fefe.’”

September 1: 6ix9ine performs at Jay-Z’s Made in America Festival on the main stage to massive applause despite showing up two hours late. It’s his first major U.S. festival performance, which he points out during his set saying no other festival had invited him. Minaj brings him out to perform with her during her headlining set at the festival.

September 9: Kanye West hits the studio with 6ix9ine , fueling speculation that he’ll appear on Kanye’s album Yandhi.

September 14: YG releases the video for his song “ Bulletproof ,” which features a 6ix9ine look-alike in jail. He flashes the word “pedophile” on the screen, alluding to the misconduct case.

October 22: Pitchfork reports that 6ix9ine is due in court for three separate incidents in the same week — the 2015 sexual misconduct case, the Houston fan incident, and the altercation with the police officer in Brooklyn. He is expected to appear at a sentencing hearing in the misconduct case on October 26 where he could face jail time; he does not attend the October 25 pretrial hearing for the Houston case but is scheduled to be deposed on December 20; his October 23 for the cop case is adjourned and he is scheduled to be back in court on November 14. In the misconduct case, the D.A. further argues for jail time citing 6ix9ine’s multiple arrests that violate the terms of his plea deal, his gang affiliations, using his social media presence to perpetuate violence by starting feuds with other artists, as well as the criminal investigations involving the Chief Keef shooting and the shooting involving his manager. The DA writes: “[6ix9ine] has failed to mature into the law-abiding adult anticipated by the plea agreement which he signed on October 20, 2015.”

October 26: 6ix9ine avoids jail time for the 2015 sexual misconduct case involving a minor , sentenced instead to four years probation. He’ll get credit for one year served. At his sentencing, 6ix9ine tells the judge, “Your honor, sometimes I feel like I’m behind a closed door trying to convince the world I’m a good man. I’m not Tekashi 6ix9ine. I’m not committing murders, I’m not out there robbing people, and I’m not out there raping people.”

October 26, later that day: According to TMZ , gunfire breaks out at a post-sentencing dinner in mid-town Manhattan following an argument between 6ix9ine’s entourage and a record executive’s bodyguard. “A third party” allegedly fires four shots during the dispute, hitting one of Hernandez’s bodyguards in the stomach. He is subsequently taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries..

October 28: 6ix9ine makes a surprise appearance at Power 105.1’s Powerhouse NYC concert at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ. He performs a full set and alludes to how his legal troubles have affected his career, telling the crowd, “I never get invited to shit like this.”

October 29: The Associated Press reports that two men in 6ix9ine’s entourage are arrested for “gang assault” in connection with the afterparty shooting following his sentencing. One of the men, Faheem Walter, was the bodyguard shot in the incident; the other is named as Zachary Bunce. According to the report, the two men had attempted to enter the restaurant Philippe Chow on the Upper West Side and, when turned away, they returned and hit an armed security guard with a chair. That guard then shot Walter. 6ix9ine was reportedly not present at the time of the incident.

November 4: Tekashi is reportedly involved in a verbal altercation with YG affiliate, rapper Slim 400, at ComplexCon in Los Angeles. According to reports and Slim himself , Slim and his crew barred Tekashi and his crew from entering the venue.

November 5: Responding to the incident at ComplexCon in an interview with paparazzi , Tekashi mocks Slim for being lesser known and taunts YG for his affiliation with Slim. “If YG was really your friend, you wouldn’t be in the hood right now. But YG can’t even get himself out the hood,” he says.

November 7: One of Tekashi’s managers, Shotti (né Kifano Jordan) reportedly surrenders to police in connection with the shooting at Tekashi’s post-sentencing after-party where one of Tekashi’s bodyguards was shot. Shotti is charged with gang assault and criminal possession of a weapon.

Tekashi is snapped out in Los Angeles with an entourage now including at least five bodyguards. That’s him overshadowed in the middle.

Tekashi announces he’s dropping his debut album, titled Dummy Boy , on Black Friday, November 23. Its cover features a cartoon version of Tekashi peeing out a rainbow onto a checkered floor. “Watch me outsell everybody suck my dick,” he writes.

November 9: TMZ reports that an alleged shooting occurred on the Beverly Hills mansion set of a Tekashi music video featuring Nicki Minaj and Kanye West for a new song off 6ix9ine’s forthcoming album. It is described as a drive-by shooting where eight shots were fired, but no one was hit. One bullet reportedly struck a bedroom window. According to TMZ, both Tekashi and Kanye were on the set, but Nicki had not yet arrived; Kanye “immediately left” while production was halted and the crew was “shaken up.”

November 14: TMZ reports that a man was arrested for allegedly robbing and kidnapping Tekashi 6ix9ine back in July. Anthony Jamel Ellison, a former member of Tekashi’s management team, was detained on November 6 on a federal warrant. He has been indicted on one count of carrying a firearm to commit a crime, one count of conspiracy to obstruct commerce by robbery, and one count of obstructing commerce by robbery. Ellison pleaded not guilty on all charges and awaits trial in Manhattan federal prison. Tekashi claimed at the time of the incident that it was an “inside job”; it appears he may have been right.

Tekashi also accepted a plea deal in the case involving his assault on a police officer in Brooklyn during an arrest back in May. Pitchfork reports that he pleaded guilty to “disorderly conduct” and received a sentence of conditional discharge that requires him to stay out of trouble and not discuss the case on social media. He reportedly faces 15 days in jail if he breaks those terms. According to the Blast , the violation will not appear on his criminal record.

November 15: Tekashi fires his entire team, including his manager Shotti, booking agent, and publicist. He also cancels his American tour.

November 16: Tekashi appears on “The Breakfast Club” to explain why he fired his team saying he “can’t trust nobody” and that the shooting on the set of music video with Nicki Minaj and Kanye West was the final straw, insinuating he suspected it might’ve been an inside job. He also says he only fears two things: “God and the FBI.”

November 18: Tekashi shares the track list for this debut album, confirming his song featuring Kanye West and Nicki Minaj, “MAMA.” (Kanye is also featured on another song, “FEEFA.”)

November 19 : Tekashi is arrested on federal charges of racketeering and firearms related to organized gang activity as part of the local set Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods, including armed robbery, conspiracy to commit murder, and drug trafficking. He’s taken into custody along with his ex-manager Shotti, bodyguard Faheem “Crippy” Walter, and three other associates. The arrest is reportedly part of a joint investigation between the NYPD, Homeland Security, and the Justice Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. He is charged with six counts of an eight-count indictment, two of which carry a maximum sentence of life in prison. 6ix9ine is held without bail and reportedly put in general population. It is revealed during his arraignment that his associates might have been planning a hit on 6ix9ine. They were secretly recorded saying they wanted to “super violate” 6ix9ine and that “certain high ranking members of the Bloods had authorized violence.”

November 21: Two days after Tekashi’s arrest , Minaj posts to her Instagram saying his album Dummy Boy would be delayed due to “reasons beyond music.”

His lawyer argues that Tekashi was never a gang member but just behaved like one as part of his rap image. “An entertainer who portrays a ‘gangster image’ to promote his music does not make him a member of an enterprise,” the statement reads.

November 22: Tekashi is reportedly transferred to a federal facility that is said to hold witnesses who are cooperating with law enforcement. His lawyer claims the transfer was for “security reasons,” after gang members threatened Tekashi at the original facility he was sent to.

November 24: His new album Dummy Boy leaks days after its release is indefinitely delayed.

November 26: Tekashi pleads not guilty to six counts of racketeering in federal court.

November 27: 6ix9ine’s debut album Dummy Boy is officially released while he’s in prison. He reportedly signs a new distribution deal with his publishing company Create Music Group to put out the album, exiting his previous contract with Capitol Music Group and Caroline after a “disagreement” stemming from the album’s leak.

The federal government announces it had an informant embedded in 6ix9ine’s crew who recorded secret conversations with the rapper as well as his associates.

November 28: TMZ reports the findings of the wiretaps from the informant working with the Feds. Both Tekashi’s former manager, Shotti, and associate, Mel Murda, were recorded making violents threats against 6ix9ine’s life and discrediting him as a gang member.

November 29: Complex host DJ Akademiks, who was the first to report 6ix9ine’s racketeering arrest, denies being the informant working with the Feds in a statement to TMZ . “[I have] zero connection to this criminal case against Daniel Hernandez & other co-defendants. I view them as good people to me,” he says. “All these charges are a shock to me and do not involve me. I have never been questioned or much less cooperated in this. I am just a news reporter.”

November 30: Rick Ross taunts 6ix9ine over his legal troubles on new song “ What’s Free ” with Meek Mill and Jay-Z, using a homophobic slur to mock the rapper. “Screaming gang gang now you wanna rap, racketeering charges caught him on a tap/Looking for a bond lawyers wanna tax, purple hair got them f****ts on your back,” he raps.

December 5: A Manhattan judge revokes 6ix9ine’s four-year probation in his 2015 child-sexual-misconduct case, giving him credit for time served. He will also no longer have to complete 1,000 hours of community service. The decision was reportedly due to his multiple pending federal racketeering and firearms charges. While awaiting trial in federal prison, it was deemed that the court can’t enforce the terms of his probation or community service. The sexual-misconduct case is declared closed.

February 1: Tekashi 6ix9ine pleads guilty to nine counts of federal racketeering, following his November arrest. It’s revealed that 6ix9ine is discussing a plea deal with prosecutors involving the disclosure of information regarding “multiple violent people associated with the same criminal enterprise.” He faces 47 years to life in prison, though he likely won’t be sentenced until 2020.

March 28: The rapper’s former manager Kifano “Shotti” Jordan also pleads guilty to racketeering charges. During the proceedings, Jordan admitted to “using and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence” and “discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence,” related to two assaults in April 2019.

June 4: Rapper Kooda B admits to the court that Tekashi 6ix9ine paid him in exchange for getting someone to shoot Chief Keef, almost exactly a year after Keef was shot at in front of a Times Square hotel. Tekashi pleads guilty, saying that he did so “in furtherance of the Nine Trey.” Kooda B faces up to 20 years in federal prison.

September 10: A report that lists the crimes Tekashi 6ix9ine has admitted to and won’t be charged for under his plea agreement includes committing domestic violence from 2011 up until he was arrested in November.

September 17: 6ix9ine testifies in court against Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods members Anthony “Harv” Ellison and Aljermiah “Nuke” Mack, whom he allegedly associated with. He also pointed out any alleged gang members who appear in his music videos, adding that it was his idea to include them. Tekashi’s witness statements are part of a plea deal with the Feds that may end with him in witness protection. 6ix9ine claimed that his role in the gang was to make music, make money, and in return they would offer protection.

September 23: It’s revealed that Tekashi 6ix9ine’s driver, Jorge Rivera, who was driving the car when 6ix9ine was allegedly kidnapped, had been working as a confidential informant following an ICE arrest.

September 26: According to TMZ, sources say that Tekashi 6ix9ine has no plans to enter the witness protection program following his prison time. Instead, he’ll be paying for private security for both himself and his family.

October 10: Tekashi 6ix9ine reportedly signs an over $10 million record deal with his former label, 10K Projects. The agreement includes two albums, one in Spanish and one in English. Plans for civilian life are underway.

December 4: Prosecutors officially argue for a reduced sentence , calling his testimony “both incredibly significant and extremely useful” for their racketeering case against the Nine Trey gang. In their letter, prosecutors say they intend on requesting a lower-than-minimum sentence, provided that he “continues to comply with the terms of his cooperation agreement.” A minimum sentence for Tekashi 6ix9ine is 47 years in prison.

December 11: “I find it difficult to find the right words to express what my life has been like for the last year,” the rapper said in a letter to the court , asking for leniency. “It honestly feels like my world is crashing down.”

December 13: 6ix9ine’s mother, bodyguard, and girlfriend send their own letters to the court , vouching for him and explaining why he needs a reduced sentence.

December 17: The two individuals Tekashi 6ix9ine and his associates mistakenly robbed at Rap-A-Lot Records in April 2018, instead of its CEO James Prince, send victim’s statements to the federal judge in charge of 6ix9ine’s fate. One victim described the impact the attack has on his life and asks, “Why should this person, who nearly ended my life, be free when I am not free?”

December 18: Tekashi is sentenced to two years in prison , with credit for time served; he’s expected to be released in 11 months and will remain on supervised release for five years. Tekashi addressed the judge at his sentencing, “I’m not a victim, I put myself in this position.”

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