I didn’t really want to be a rapper or whatever,” he told No Jumper. “I started rapping for fun to be honest with you.

In 2014, 6ix9ine begins rapping on a whim. Following his father’s death, he worked several jobs and began selling marijuana to help support his mother and brother. “I stopped going to school to help my mom pay the rent,” he said. According to his No Jumper interview, 6ix9ine was expelled from school in the eighth grade and did not further his education. His father was murdered in 2009 when Hernandez was 13 years old. Pre-2017 Rise to FameĦix9ine, born Daniel Hernandez in 1996, grew up in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York, and was raised by a Mexican mother and Puerto Rican father. To try to make sense of it all, we’ve compiled a timeline of his fast rise and even faster fall. On December 18, Tekashi met his fate in Manhattan Federal Court when he was sentenced to two years in prison after a whirlwind of chaos. Last year, 6ix9ine narrowly avoided jail time and having to register as a sex offender for pleading guilty to the use of a child in a sexual performance in 2015 instead, he was sentenced to four years probation.īut that was only the tip of his controversies: He went on to dace life in prison on federal racketeering charges related to gang activity and a potential future in witness protection due to his cooperation with the federal government. (He confessed to the abuse in a since-surfaced secret recording.) Similarly, Tekashi 6ix9ine, whose rainbow hair suits his troll persona, has had his fame come with an asterisk. XXXTentacion was murdered last June while awaiting trial on charges that he brutally assaulted and threatened to kill his pregnant girlfriend in 2016, allegations which only heightened his notoriety online during his brief career. SoundCloud rap has exploded over the last two years with rappers whose criminal pasts have led to uncertain futures.

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