13 keys to understand the trial of 6ix9ine
Before the judge sentenced Daniel Hernández to 18 months in prison on Wednesday, December 24, it was enough to take a look at popular searches related to Tekashi 6ix9ine on Google to realize that the rapper is not just anyone: Why is 6ix9ine in jail? Who did 6Ix9ine kill? Is 6ix9ine dead? How many years in prison will Six Nine get? When do you release 6ix9ine?Etc., etc.
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To better understand how we got here, we have prepared this guide with the keys to understanding what Six Nine has done and why he is in prison serving a 24-month sentence (which could have been 37 years or even life in prison). So let's review, the 13 fundamental keys to understand all this mess in which 6ix9ine has been involved since he was arrested by the FBI in November 2018.
When does Six Nine get out of prison?
One certainty and a thousand ways to express it: on December 18, Six Nine was sentenced to 24 months in prison and five months of supervised release. If we subtract the 13 that he already had, everything indicates that he could leave as soon as the end of 2020. All those media and fans who took it for granted that Tekashi 6ix9ine would be a free man on Wednesday the 18th made a serious mistake. The media that claimed that Six Nine had 24 hours left in jail committed intolerable irresponsibility. It's an insult to your readers. And better not to mention YouTube videos with thumbnails photoshopped of a Six Nine running through the corridors of the prison with a guard behind him chasing him.
Normal that the confusion around 6ix9ine was maximum.
Who is 6ix9ine?
6ix9ine was born in New York 23 years ago, on May 8, 1996. His mother is Mexican and his father (killed when 6ix9ine was thirteen) was from Puerto Rico. 6ix9ine's first language is English (with a strong Brooklyn accent) and his level of Spanish is very low. Until 2017, Daniel Hernández was a completely normal boy who had dropped out of school and was working in a deli from the neighborhood to help his family. In her free time, she used to share her first dalliances in rap / trap with songs that she uploaded to the platform SoundCloud (well-known pool of young rappers like Juice Wrld, Lil Peep, XXXTentacion, Trippie Red, and many others).
How famous is 6ix9ine?
Six Nine signed their first record deal with 10k Projects in April 2017. He has released the mixtape Day69 and the album (already in jail) dummy boy (fool boy). Six Nine has collaborated with the likes of rappers 50 Cent, Kanye West or Nicki Minaj. At the height of her career before going to prison, Six Nine's booking price was $100.000 per event. No video of 6ix9ine after her first bombing (gummo) under one hundred million views on Youtube.
Regardless of the quality of his music, 6ix9ine is an (unwitting?) genius at using social media as an advertising vehicle. The rapper has used YouTube and, above all, Instagram, incessantly, making public his discussions with other rappers, as well as his love affairs, successes and disagreements with his former allies, the Nine Trey (whom he accuses of wanting to assassinate him, of having kidnapped him and of having stolen money and jewels.) A whole soap opera broadcast live on the phones of his 14 million followers on Instagram.
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What is 6ix9ine famous for?
The life of Daniel Hernández turns upside down in October 2017 after the publication of the video clip of gummo. The song, included in his first EP, reached number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Although she had already participated that year in poles1469 along with his then still friend Trippie Red, is with Gummo when 69-mania begins. The instant success of Gummo It is explained with the combination of three elements:
- The aesthetics by 6ix9ine is groundbreaking and impossible to ignore. multicolored long hair, barbecue of rainbows in the teeth and a face full of tattoos. Starting with the name and ending with the aesthetics at times gangsta and at times childish in his works, every visual component related to 6ix9ine has been, from the first minute of his arrival, a magnet for the teenage public.
- Aggressiveness – In essence, Gummo It alone sums up the imagery of all 6ix9ine's songs: stories of shootings, death threats, "I'm the best", "I have more money than you", "that girl is a bad bitch", etc. The message was not new, but the aggressiveness of the lyrics and, above all, 6ix9ine's crude tone of voice (in contrast to his fantasy aesthetic) they made the video of Gummo something unprecedented. And the third and most important element is yet to be mentioned: the gang. gangsta from the neighborhood.
- Nine Trey Bloods – Although 6ix9ine had already released a couple of videos before, this is the first one in which he is surrounded (literally) by members of the very dangerous Bloods gang of the Nine Trey from Brooklyn. As we would later discover in the trial from the mouth of Hernández himself, during the recording of this video clip in September 2017 an agreement was born between the rapper and Shotti, leader of the Nine Trey: Tekashi would be accepted as a member of the gang in exchange for he advertised them and helped them financially from time to time. This was what Hernández declared during the trial:
As a member of the Nine Trey, what responsibilities, if any, did you have?
A. Just keep releasing hits and being the financial support for the band.
Q. What do you mean by being the financial support of the band?
A. Making money off songs and helping Nine Trey members, either for personal reasons or to supply them with weapons.
Q. And what, if anything, did you get in return from Nine Trey?
R. I would say my career.
Q. What do you mean?
A. Credibility.
Q. What credibility?
R. The credibility of the street. The videos, the music, the protection.
With Gummo Tekashi pulled the detonator of a bomb that blew up in his face thirteen months later (October 2017-November 2018). And when she did, it cost her thirteen months in prison (November 2018-December 2019).
When did they stop Six Nine?
Tekashi was arrested along with five other gang members on November 19, 2018, accused of, among other crimes, belonging to a criminal gang. In total there were twelve detainees within a macro operation organized by the FBI within the framework of an investigation that has lasted five years and in which the New York Police Department and the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Weapons and Explosives have participated.
Tekashi's entry into prison was immediate. Some media speculated on the possibility that this arrest had been good news for the rapper, since his life was in serious danger after the enmity he had just made with the Nine Trey (days before being arrested, Tekashi accused them of stealing money from him and fired his entire hiring team and bodyguards). The authorities went so far as to transfer him, four days after his arrest and alleging "security reasons", from the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center to another prison unit where his life was not in danger.
Although at first Hernández was not cooperative with the justice system, he changed his mind in February 2019, when he reached an agreement in which he would receive a reduced sentence in exchange for his testimony at the oral opening of the NIne Trey trial, scheduled for September. This has cost him a severe humiliation public in the networks where he has been branded as snitch (snitch). Rappers like Snoop Dogg and Meek Mill have added to Tekashi's public humiliation.
How many former Six Nine teammates have you convicted already?
Along with Daniel Hernandez, The list of detainees for the Nine Trey case is made up of eleven more names: Kifano "Shotti" Jordan, Fugan "Fu Banga" Lovick, Jensel "Ish" Butler, Faheem "Crippy" Walter, Roland "Ro Murda" Martin, Aaron "Bat" Young, Anthony "Harv" Ellison, Denard "Drama" Butler, Kintea "Kooda B" McKenzie, Aljermiah "Nuke" Mack
Irv Shotti, former manager of Six Nine and in theory leader of the Nine Trey, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Aaron Bat has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
What did Tekashi Six Nine do to be imprisoned? What crimes was he accused of?
6ix9nine stayed very close to Nine Trey both in and out of their videos. What began as an interested friendship ended with accusations of treason and even an express kidnapping of the rapper that resulted in a visit by several gang members to his home to steal several pieces of extremely high-value jewelry. 6ix9ine's arrest in November 2018 coincides in time with his break with the Nine Trey (something that has fed the unlikely theory that 69 is, from the beginning, a police infiltrator).
Three months after being arrested, 6ix9ine pleaded guilty to all nine crimes he was charged with, among which are belonging to a criminal organization, drug trafficking, extortion, possession of firearms, armed robbery and murder conspiracy (specifically, he offered to pay $3.000 to whoever killed rapper Chief Kief's cousin. On 13 December, the Government decided to eliminate one of the nine crimes: possession of a firearm.
How many years in jail could Six Nine have gotten?
After the crime of possession of a firearm was dismissed, the minimum sentence that Tekashi faced was reduced from 47 to 37 years, and could reach life imprisonment.
After collaborating with the Justice, the Government sent Judge Engelmayer a letter suggesting that Tekashi should receive a sentence less than the 37 years stipulated by law. In practice this translates into the judge was free to decide how long 69 would spend in jail: from life imprisonment to immediate release last Wednesday, December 18.
El Probation Department (Department in charge of probation) also sent a letter to the judge considering that Tekashi has already served enough sentence with the 13 months of provisional prison.
What was the first scandal/crime starring Tekashi 6ix9ine?
The main reason why 6ix9ine has spent thirteen months in prison until his sentence is that he was already a repeat criminal. Daniel Hernández was arrested in 2015 accused of having sex with a 13-year-old girl (when he was 19 at the time).
6ix9ine pleaded guilty and the Justice sentenced him to a four-year prison sentence that he finally did not serve as it was his first crime. When he was arrested for nine more felonies in November 2018, Tekashi's parole was never on the table. The rapper's lawyer came to offer the delivery of his passport and a million dollar bail, but Justice was implacable.
why do they call you snitch (snitch) to Tekashi 6ix9ine?
Advised by his lawyer and aware that he was facing a minimum sentence of 37 years in prison (extendable to life imprisonment), Six Nine decided to collaborate with the Justice in February 2019, three months after his arrest. On September 17, 2019, and For a week, Daniel Hernández offers an exhaustive and detailed testimony about the operation of the Nine Trey Bloods gang. At various points in his statement, 69 goes so far as to provide additional details that had not even been requested by the prosecution.
The Internet was not long in renaming the rapper with the nickname of snitch-nine. Although in the world of rap those who collaborate with the authorities have always enjoyed a bad reputation, everything indicates that, if they are released, Six Nine may manage to change this precedent. Just look at the enormous popularity that Six Nine continues to gain despite everything that has happened: their plays on Spotify in 2019 have surpassed the billion barrier, there are three documentaries about his life in production and the record companies continue betting on him.
A few weeks after his testimony in Federal Court in Manhattan we learned that The rapper had just renewed his contract with the record company 10K projects for the release of two albums, one in English and one in Spanish.
Was it known before the trial that 6ix9ine was going to be free?
No no and no. Prior to the release of Judge Englemayer's 24-month prison sentence on Wednesday, December 18, the internet was all but confusion and bewilderment. These are the main reasons:
- On December 5, the State Attorney General's Office sends a letter to the judge requesting that Tekashi be given a reduction in his sentence in gratitude for his collaboration in prosecuting the rest of the members of the Nine Trey Blood. A Forbes columnist went so far as to claim that it was "likely" that Six Nine would be released after the reading of his sentence on Wednesday.
- Following his arrest in November 2018, it was speculated that Tekashi could receive 37 years to life in prison. The well-known music informer Charlemagne the God (collaborator in The breakfast club) He was so sure that Tekashi wasn't going to get away with it this time that he offered to perform fellatio on him in case the judge let him go free.
- Many tweeters, Facebook groups and Instagram accounts (such as that of the popular DJ Akademiks informant) assume that Six Nine will be free on Wednesday.
What was 6ix9ine's first and last appearance?
Interestingly, the first time in his life that Six Nine offered a concert was in Prague, in the spring of 2017. The first label that opted for Six Nine was the Slovakian F*UCK THEM. It's a fact that rappers off the shelf soundcloud (Lil Peep, Trippie Red, Lil Peep, etc) are especially famous in Russia and Eastern Europe.
Invited by Yaksha, head of the record company F*CK THEM (the one that published his first videos, including gummo), Tekashi performed for the first time in Prague, in front of an audience that was already chanting his name. She offered another tour of Europe in 2018.
The last time we saw Six Nine as a free man was on November 16, 2018 in the famous interview of The breakfast club (the most famous hip hop radio program in the United States). In this interview, which took place just three days before Six Nine was arrested by the FBI, the rapper uttered one of his most memorable phrases: "I only fear two things in this life: God and the FBI."
What future awaits 6ix9ine?
This is undoubtedly the second million dollar question (the first being, of course, the one referring to his sentence). The future of Six Nine is a huge question mark. There has been speculation that it would be mandatory for him to become part of a witness protection program, although everything indicates that the last thing the rapper thinks about is abandoning his musical career. It is a fact that he already has a new musical contract on the table for the publication of the two aforementioned albums. Contrary to expectations, Tekashi's fame has increased during the time he has been incarcerated.