Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine received another three-month prison sentence Friday for violating the terms of his supervised release in a New York gang case by assaulting a man and possessing drugs.
Daniel Hernandez, the 29-year-old Brooklyn artist known as Tekashi 6ix9ine, admitted to the violations during a hearing in federal court in Manhattan. Judge Paul Engelmayer voiced frustration over Hernandez’s repeated legal troubles. The rapper previously served a 45-day sentene late last year for breaking supervised release rules.
“From time to time your actions suggest that you believe that ordinary rules don’t apply to you,” the judge told him, saying another prison term was necessary to send a message.
Hernandez, who rose to fame with his 2017 hit “Gummo,” delivered a lengthy statement in court, describing several incidents where he and his family were harassed and threatened because he cooperated with authorities in the gang case.
“Unknown individuals left a coffin in front of my house with an animal in it to send me a message,” he said. “Three masked gunmen held my mom at gunpoint.”
Hernandez pleaded guilty in 2018 to his role in the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods, a violent New York-based gang. His cooperation in the racketeering case earned him a lenient two-year prison sentence in 2019, followed by five years of supervised release.
He was even released several months early from federal prison in 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Friday’s sentence stemmed from small amounts of cocaine and ecstasy found in his Miami home during a police raid in March, as well as from him punching a man who taunted him at a Florida mall in August over his cooperation with gang investigators. His attorney asked the judge to consider six months of home confinement for the violations.
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