He has just been released from prison and remains under threat from his former gang mates, but rather than keeping a low profile, the New York rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine released a new video on Friday and smashed the record of views for a live on Instagram , with a live that reached 2 million Internet users.
The rapper from Brooklyn with long rainbow braids experienced a meteoric rise in late 2017, powered by his title Gummo and a video that went viral. Visibly seeking to play on the imagery of gangs, which marked the Californian rap of the 80s and 90s, Daniel Hernandez, his real name, paraded in the clip with members of the Nine gang Trey Gangsta Bloods.
But he did more than show off with the gan, becoming a member and using it to threaten or even attack rivals. At the same time, several gang leaders robbed her of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Feeling manipulated by the gang, then charged by the justice in November 2018 with other members, the young man then decided to collaborate with the federal prosecutor of Manhattan against his former accomplices.
Released because of the Covid
Sentenced in mid-December to two years in prison, he obtained in early April to be able to carry out the balance of his sentence at home, because of the coronavirus pandemic, which particularly affected certain American prisons.
Free, Daniel Hernandez remains under the threat of members of his former gang, because he now has the image of a spy, or even other gangs, ulcerated by his collaboration with the authorities. That did not stop him from making a resounding return to the music scene and social networks on Friday.
He has, in fact, posted the video for a new song, Gooba , in which he wiggles with several dancers in suggestive poses, little concerned with social distancing. A few hours later, he organized a live broadcast on the Instagram social network, in which he settled his accounts with members of his former gang. He thus reproached them for having threatened him, as well as his mother, kidnapped, beaten, thus justifying his collaboration with the authorities.
"I snitched, I sneaked," he admitted during this long monologue. "But who was I supposed to be loyal to? (...) I did not do anything wrong." "I am a living legend," he said. "I am the greatest artist in the world."
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