6ix9ine

6ix9ine

6ix9ine (pronounced “six-icks-nine-ine”), aka Tekashi/Tekashi69 (Daniel Hernandez • May 8, 1996) is an Americunt rapper born in Bushwick, Brooklyn to a Mexicunt mother and a Puerto Rican father. He rose to fame in late 2017 with the release of his debut single "Gummo".

Hernandez was expelled from school in 8th grade and did not return. In 2009, his father was murdered, which led to working various menial jobs and selling marijuana, so far so spic. He began putting out his shitty rap songs in 2014. Over the next three years he released multiple tracks drawing attention due to his aggressive rapping style and the use of anime as music video visuals. 6ixty9ine rose to internetz prominence on social media due to a July 2017 Instagram post that went viral on both Reddit and Twitter, where Hernandez's eccentric appearance (rainbow-dyed hair, a rainbow grill, and multiple versions of the number 69 tattooed on his body) turned him into a meme.

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In 2015, 6exy9ine pled guilty to one felony count of use of a child in a sexual performance and was charged with three counts of the offense after a February 2015 incident where he had sexual contact with a 13-year-old girl and later distributed videos of the incident online. Three videos are described in the criminal complaint against Hernandez. In the first video:

	“	“the child engages in oral sexual intercourse with the separately charged defendant Taquan Anderson, while the defendant, Daniel Hernandez, stands behind the child making a thrusting motion with his pelvis and smacking her on her buttocks. The child is nude in the video.”	„
	—Awwwright

The other videos show the child sitting on the lap of Hernandez while her breasts are groped by Anderson, and later sitting naked across the laps of Anderson and Hernandez. In a November 2017 interview, Hernandez claimed to have "no sexual contact" with the girl and denied knowing she was a minor. Hernandez also claimed to be seventeen at the time of the incident, although the birth date listed in the complaint against him and in his statement to the police shows he was eighteen at the time.

	“	I don’t know her exact age, I think she was 14 or some shit like that.	„
	—6ex9ine

6ix9ine copped a plea deal and agreed to obtain his GED, refrain from posting sexually explicit or violent images of women or children to social media, and not commit another crime for two years, among other injunctions. If met, the plea deal would give him three years probation and he would not have to register as a sex offender; if not, he could face up to three years in prison. In a January 2018 court hearing, it was revealed that Hernandez had unsurprisingly failed his GED test, but had his sentencing adjourned until April 10, 2018. The court date was later postponed, reportedly because the court did not have a copy of Hernandez's GED. Prior to his sexual misconduct charges, Hernandez served jail time as a minor for assault and the sale of heroin.

On July 12, 2018, Hernandez was arrested in Jew York for an outstanding warrant related to an incident where he reportedly choked a sixteen year old in Houston's Galeria Mall in January 2018.

See also

• SoundCloud
• Trap
• XXXTentacion

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