LAST MINUTE: Tekashi Six Nine will be released on August 2
That interest in 6ix9ine has not died is clearly evident in the interest that the young man continues to arouse even while he is in prison. Tekashi 69 made a lot of friends on and off Instagram during his year of stardom. Gummo/Dummy Boy. Collaborating on songs with Nicki Minaj and Kanye West certainly gave her a career boost. But no one helped Six Nine more than 50 Cent. The rapper from Queens even said that 6ix 9ine was his son and even named him king of New York. Now with Six Nine prisoner (will be released in summer 2020) and 50 Cent disappeared from the rap scene (and more focused on business like his series power), What is the relationship of friendship between these two heavyweights of the hip hop circus?
50 Cent is the father and teacher of student and son 6ix9ine
50 is 44 years old and Tekashi is 23. Many of 6ix9ine's fans won't know it (most weren't even born at the time), but 50 was originally the troll Tekashi who is today Six Nine. And without Instagram. Musical style aside (50 Cent's rap was of much higher quality than Six Nine's), Curtis Jackson was always characterized by his playful side in the recording studio. And also outside.
Eminem recalled a nice anecdote a few days ago on the occasion of the installation in the 50 Cent Star Hollywood Walk of Fame. Before signing with Marshall Mathers and Dr.Dre for Interscope, Fitty was stealing from him the bases to other rappers to rap on them in an infinity of songs with which he earned his fame prior to his first studio album, Get rich or die trying.
How to rob: the most troll song in rap history
The most representative song of this crazy time of the beginnings of 50 Cent is titled how to steal, and it mentions a total of 49 rappers with names and surnames. All threatened by troll (and hungry) 50 Cent. In this essential song that starts off remembering 2PAc and the Notorious BIG, 50 Cent threatens to kidnap Lil Kim (he tells Puff Dady to go to the cashier for the ransom money) and to rob, among others, Will Smith, Wu Tang Clan, DMX, Cannibus, Onyx, Whitney Houston, Timbaland, Mase, and even Mike Tyson. 50 even threatens the song's producers, Track Masters.
Important nuance: already in your own how to steal it is specified that "this is not serious, being hungry in rap awakens delusions". Here is the main difference between 50 Cent and Six Nine: Tekashi never bothered to clarify that his was a joke.
It's possible that even he didn't know if what he was playing was serious or not. In his early days, 50 was a pimp who literally threatened to mug rival rappers if he ran into them on the street. No wonder 50 named Six Nine his son and the new "King of New York." What we find out later, once Tekashi was arrested and thrown in jail, is that it was all a marketing gimmick. Pure advertising.
In October of 2018, 50 bought 2.000 tickets to a Ja Rule concert whose seats would be empty. Much less impact had a trolled of Tekashi Six Nine did a few months earlier, in June 2018: visit the Chicago neighborhood of several of your enemies and rivals Internet at ten at night and upload a story of Instagram saying with a cocky attitude: "What's up? Where are the people?". What SixNine didn't tell us was that she didn't actually visit them at ten, but at three in the morning (as security cameras in that neighborhood revealed the next day). But she didn't care: trolled It was already circulating unstoppably on the Internet.
Why did 50 and Tekashi 6ix9ine become friends?
50 Cent and 6ix9ine hit it off very early on. As soon as Tekashi's music career soared commercially thanks to the music video for gummo, Six Nine surrounded himself with many people (representatives, security members, etc.) who, in turn, were friends of 50. The click was immediate, and it was there, at the end of 2017, when Curtis Jackson named him his son. Among the many gifts 50 has given Six Nine is a diamond and gold plated asthma inhaler. You can see it in the first video that accompanies this article.
Both were born in New York (69 in Brooklyn and 50 in Queens) and both have been at the top of rap mainstream. 50 Cent savored the honeys of maximum stardom almost two decades ago. The author of Candy Shop invaded the entire world several years after Eminem did (it was he who signed him to Shady Records) especially thanks to his first two albums (Get rich or die trying y The Mssacre) and his film (also titled get rich or die trying).
When the figure of 6ix9ine arises, 50 Cent is such a veteran rapper that it could be said that he is practically retired. Curtis Jackson's focus is now on more business-oriented matters. It is difficult to say which of the two came out better from this unusual relationship of friendship. Sponsoring Six Nine comes in handy at 50 for his image. For its part, for Tekashi, having the backing of 50 Cent means everything; above all, it translates into respect for their rivals in the rap, trap and hip hop scene. "If 50 Cent is rooting for this guy, there may be some value behind the multicolored hair and tattoos," more than one would think.
When the FBI took Six Nine into custody in November 2918, everything changed forever.
The first interview of 50 after the snitch 69
50 Cent broke his silence on the arrest of 6IX9INE (and subsequent judicial collaboration) in February 2019 on DJ Drama's radio show in Atlanta. They were long-awaited statements, because in a way 50 Cent's new son had betrayed the unwritten rule of gangsta rap, a genre where there is no room for “snitches” (as those who help the authorities and the Justice in trials and criminal investigations are branded). Six Nine was heavily criticized by many rappers, including Snoop Dogg.
"Six Nine is not from the street," said 50 Cent in his radio intervention. "I liked it the same way I liked Soulja Boy: he did it all by himself when he was 16 years old: he recorded the songs, the album, he went with his colleagues and recorded the video» [says Fitty about Soulja Boy, famous since 2007 and who recently even launched a video console). “I felt that it was special. With Six Nine, the image of him seemed more powerful to me than the music of him ».
Six Nine's formula for success, according to 50 Cent
As happened to Eminem at the end of the last century, being white and blonde helped a lot in Six Nine's sudden fame. That is what 50 Cent thinks, who assures that 6ix9ine's appearance was decisive in his success and in the fact that many white middle-class people were interested in Daniel Hernández's circus. Although he is not black (but of Mexican and Puerto Rican origin) the community has granted him, like Quentin Tarantino, nigga pass: You can say the word that starts with the letter n as many times as you want. Like Logic. Of course, if there's another way to get attention in the rap world instantly, we can't think of it.
In the interview, 50 Cent likened the world of hip hop to a safari where "you can see the animals but you can't touch them." That's why people are so interested in hip hop: a lot of people are interested in life dodgy from the street but not living it. In essence, 50 Cent is telling us that Six Nine didn't know what he was getting himself into. Tekashi played with fire until he burned. She suddenly found herself with her head in the lion's jaws. It is a very interesting comparison.
The legal problems of Six Nine: even Curtis Jackson knows the limits
50 Cent continues to develop the safari metaphor by saying that "laws are designed not to be circumvented." Also interesting is the allusion to his first bar in the song he recorded with Six Nine and Uncle Murda (Get the strap): I am not gang-gang, I do not gang-bang (essentially, I don't belong to a gang). In essence, 50 Cent pretended to be a bad boy but, deep down, he knew the legal limits of rap. 69 No.
With this bar, 50 Cent wanted to make it clear (to the public and to the police) that he was not as crazy as the kid with multicolored hair who participates in that same song and who shouts "Long live Treyway" and orders his enemies to kill him. eat the dick with your mother's lips. His father's son had gotten out of hand. Six Nine was accused and a star witness in a trial for belonging to a criminal organization (RICO case). These court cases are painstakingly staged over the years so that, once the arrests are made, it is virtually impossible to be found innocent. In this regard, 50 Cent assured something curious: "I prefer to be accused of murder than to be involved in a RICO accusation."
“Six Nine will be able to continue making music and people will continue to listen to it. But he will not have the initial core of fans that supported him."
50 Cent
Does 50 Cent regret his relationship with Six Nine?
Since the arrest of Six Nine, 50 Cent has put a lot of land in between. His main fear is that the police will link him to the crimes Six Nine was charged with.
50 Cent in a tweet about Tekashi: "My son has been arrested. I told her to call his mother. That he does not put the FBI on my phone »
In a later interview for fused, He assured that he did not regret having given 6ix9ine the title of King of New York. Asked (for the umpteenth time) what happened to 69, the author of in da club He summed it up beautifully:
«Six Nine got together with dangerous people and did not know how to separate. Six Nine didn't know that if you gave these people the money, they would do it [referring to paying gang members to kill someone else]."
50 over Six Nine
In this interview the one from Queen threw a revealing fact that gives many clues to how much the one that would come over 69 was smelled: «Tekashi 6IX9INE never had my phone number».
That sentence pretty much sums it all up.