Since september the The famous Brooklyn hip hop raper Tekashi 69 has been blowing up the internet. He testified against his former associates the nine trey gangster bloods and was headed into witness protection. More specifically he testified to his song lyrics in his hit songs “GUMMO”, “KOODA” and several others. Apparently there were threats to rival rappers in his music that were used against him in his trials.
The federal government has laid out a case against Anthony “Harv” Ellison who was accused of kidnapping SixNine in 2013. The court is aware that SixNine had put a $50,000 reward on Harv, for his death. The court found this prominent throughout lyrics in his music, as he rapped about threats involving Harv and vividly described wanting to kill him.
One of the major issues within Tekashi’s case was him involving others, using names during is testimonial in court. This caused an uproar across the country from fans to other hip hop artists. For example a well known rapper “YG” released an extremely popular song called “Stop Snitching”, in this song he called 69 out for the unjustified use of using others names in order to get witness protection and less time in prison. He was looking at decades in prison but will most likely get a reduced sentence for his cooperation. This act is extremely looked down on by the hip hop community and has lead to him being viewed as a “rat”. This has resulted in a major loss of his fans and supporters.
Tekashi 69 now recently signed a ten million dollar record deal with his former label 10k projects and is supposed to come out with two albums. Apparently there will be one in english and one in spanish. We’ll see how those turn out in the future but right now 69’s reputation is at stake.
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