For months we’ve been hearing about how rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine has become a federal witness and will have to testify against his own friends/fellow gang members in court so that he can walk away a free man into witness protection (good luck with those face tats).
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Well the time has finally come and sure enough Tekashi (real name Daniel Hernandez) is in court singing his heart out and pointing out his buddies to the judge and jury.
A bunch of people are covering the activity in court as it happens, so we’ll just run through what’s out there since proceedings kicked off this week.
First, Tekashi takes to the stand:
“Your honor, the government calls Daniel Hernandez.” He’s in prison blues. Deputy Smallman just swore him in. It’s on.
— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) September 17, 2019
Q: Mr Hernandez, where were you born?
Bushwick, Brooklyn.
Q: how far did you go in school?
Like tenth grade.
When did you start living in federal custody? When did you start cooperating?
“The next day. The day after we were taken down.”— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) September 17, 2019
Q: were you a member of a gang?
Yes. The Nine Trey Bloods.
Q: what sort of things did 9 Trey do?
Robberies, assaults, drugs…
Q: do you recognize anyone in court?
A: Anthony Ellison has a gray suit on. Mack has a brown suit on.— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) September 17, 2019
They then start to break down the making of Tekashi’s smash song ‘GUMMO’ and even played it loudly in court. I really wish someone was in the court recording all this because it would make must-watch content one day.
It was called Gummo. G-U-M-M-O
I had signed a 20% management deal… Seiko Billy…
(starts rapping: in the hood… first use of N-word).
Billy is Nine Trey, so I asked him to provide members for the video. “I met him at the studio in Williamsburg.”— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) September 17, 2019
Government played a song, LOUD. Now they are parsing the video, #6ix9ine pointing out all the guns in it, linking one to Shotti.
“Is that a real gun?”
“Yes.”— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) September 17, 2019
“What is a drum?”
“You add it to a gun. It carries an extra clip.”
AUSA quoting lyrics using “N-word,” as in “Uber N-word.”
Now #6ix9ine is saying “N-word.”
“Mister Hernandez, what is Gummo about?”
“It’s a diss song, toward like somebody I don’t get along with.— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) September 17, 2019
Can you imagine this ridiculous-looking rapper on the witness stand snitching on all his former gang friends to their face while a bunch of old white lawyers are stood there breaking down the lyrics to his unbelievably violent song lyric for lyric. Again I really hope someone is filming the whole thing and we get to see it one day.
He then snitches on fellow rapper Trippie Redd:
Trippie Redd was part of Five Nine Brims, Hernandez testifies.
“Did there come a time that Gummo was released on the Internet?”
Yes, it went viral. “Meaning, people shared it.”
“I just put it up on YouTube and said, whatever happens, happens.”— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) September 17, 2019
Hearsay: Shotti said, that little rainbow head knows that he doing.
“How did Kooda come about?”
“I knew I had a formula, to repeat it, the gang, what is the word for it, image, I would say, promote it, you know what I’m trying to say? That’s what people like.”— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) September 17, 2019
He then goes into the whole initiation/leadership structure of the gang he was involved with – wild stuff:
6ix9ine: to be initiated you had to do work. Like, cutting someone’s face.
Mr Hernandez, but you were not initiated, right.
Right. I just had to keep making hits and giving financial support to the gang. Equipping with guns. Like, so they could buy guns— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) September 17, 2019
So what did you get from Nine Trey?
“I would say my career. Credibility. Protection. All of the above.”
Trey Way was something what we could market.
Q: Could you demonstrate the handshake?
A: I need two people, but…— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) September 17, 2019
Now #6ix9ine is shaking hands with himself, standing up so the jury can see.
AUSA: “Who taught you that?”
“I’m doing it with Shotti a lot.”
“The nine with your index finger and your thumb.” Nuke taught me.
Photo. “I think I was just getting the hang of it.”— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) September 17, 2019
A: “Does 9 Trey have a leadership structure?”
Yes. There was a street line up and a prison line up.
A: How did the prison line up work?
“My understanding is that with the prison line up there was a higher up to get anything sanctioned on the street.”
Objection!— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) September 17, 2019
Overruled. Now 6ix9ine says he spoke to Frank White and Magoo. “They could say who had ranking and who didn’t.”
Q: Turning to the street line up, were there ranks?
A: There was a godfather… twins… Five star general…— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) September 17, 2019
#6ix9ine: “Shotti told me if you take care of the people behind the wall, they’ll take care of you.”
Judge Engelmayer says lunch will be ordered in for jurors tomorrow, to save time.
“Counsel I’ll see you tomorrow.” It’s done for the day. Last story on this coming— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) September 17, 2019
Tekashi also explained how he arranged for fellow rapper Chief Keef to be shot to death and promised a $20,000 (£16,000) payment to the gunman. However, the fee was later reduced to $10,000 (£8,000) after Tekashi discovered that the hitman had only fired one shot and missed his target. Amateur!
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So that’s what it takes to get yourself in heaps of trouble and still walk away a free man – snitch on absolutely everyone and everything and then be given your new life in witness protection. Witness protection with a massive 69 tattooed on your forehead? Let’s see how that goes.
If you want to follow the rest of the action from Tekashi 6ix9ine’s court case, follow @innercitypress.
For full background info on how Tekashi wound up in this mess in the first place, click HERE.
