After Hulu released their own 6ix9ine documentary in 2020, it’s now SHOWTIME’s turn. The premium cable network’s Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine docuseries is set to arrive on February 21. The three-part series received another trailer on Wednesday (January 27) premiered by Complex.
Based on the 2019 Rolling Stone feature, the thrilling docuseries will detail Daniel Hernandez’s rise from an unknown Brooklyn prankster to one of the most polarizing rappers in the world. The series enlists the same producers who worked on Hulu’s Wu-Tang: An American Saga. SHOWTIME even locked down a post-prison interview with the rainbow-haired rhymer.
“We live in an attention economy. A digital culture that can empower people with no talent or morals to become famous,” director Karam Gill said in a statement. “This series is bigger than 6ix9ine. It’s a cautionary tale about manufactured celebrity and how when our society allows Supervillains to rise, the collateral damage can be massive. In the era of Trump and the January 6 insurrection, understanding and analyzing these stories is extremely important.”
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Controversy has plagued the 24-year-old seemingly at every step of his career and viewers couldn’t look away from his antics, fans and haters alike. The high-wire act caught up to 6ix9ine when he was arrested in 2018 by federal agents on racketeering charges for his involvement in the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.
He originally faced a minimum of 47 years if convicted but opted to take a plea deal and cooperated with the government, which allowed him to be released in April 2020 due to coronavirus concerns with his asthma. 6ix9ine served the rest of his sentence on house arrest until regaining his freedom in August 2020.
Upon his release, he notched his first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with the Nicki Minaj-assisted “TROLLZ.” His comeback album, Tattletales, released in September 2020, but only manage to debut at No. 4 on the Billboard 200. He’s remained relatively quiet in 2021 outside of a skirmish involving a heckler at a paintball center in Miami.
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Look for the first episode of Supervillain to arrive on SHOWTIME on February 21 at 9 p.m. EST. The rest of the series will air on subsequent Sundays but all three episodes will be made available on the SHOWTIME app come February 21.
Watch the trailer below.
https://youtu.be/rKeH1THBBEU
Ain’t nobody even checking for him on TV or music. He’s pretty much been exiled.
You literally just checked for him
Not really when a low-tier site post nothing articles about him. It’s pretty much like watching trash get blown in the wind, you just can’t help but see it and just keep moving because you see it everyday.
I thought this was Young M.A
The power of media and marketing hype can create anything it wants regardless of talent, integrity, truth, right or wrong.
What makes it worse is the suckers that fall for it and buy in.
Dude is living in his own fantasy world
not really he got a 10m$ deal and 2 top 5 singles in 6 months all after being a snitch.
And he still a rat…
I liked his music. But gen z produces too many rappers to keep up with. Everyone wanna talk about how 69 fell off ? I dont see any of the rappers popular around his 15 min of fame doing anything big. Lil Pump ? Lil Xan ? Slump God ? I think Lil Yatchty got some deals but not for his music. In 2 years yall gonna be saying the same shit about Lil Baby, NLE choppa and Youngboy NBA. Too many rappers. It wasnt like this before social media.
Co-sign all of this
That’s right! Tell it like it is King! They can’t take that crown away from you. Records have been broken and the odds have been defied. You officially part of the hip-hop vanguard.
Yaul some low moral having ass dudes supporting this shit…all ya fathers should’ve nutted on ur mother’s ass cheek…smh…
Sorry you miss the point. He put himself in that situation . He wanted to live that life but hes a faker. But when it got too real for him he couldn’t handle what he wanted.
Fuck 69..can’t rap shiit
I’m not liking this rapper he is a fucking snitch.
They is really trying to force the guy on the world. He is a known rat and I believe they is trying to promote that its safe to snitch on your friends. Smh
What friends? Them dudes were plotting to kill him and stealing money from him and fckd his baby moms, that’s not his friends.
Yeah but he is a dumbass as well
Well said
Sorry Corey that was 4 whoever this is …….msg sent to corey was ment for u..
You don’t get it. Then why did he choose to hang with those kind of people if he’s not about that
You know he did it to himself right? What do you expect choosing those people to call friends
Stop…..You would rat too if you had millions of dollars waiting for you to live out the rest of yo life. You wouldn’t do 47 yrs prison for dudes who weren’t loyal to you and were robbing you blind.
Thats your reason to snitch. U a nothing and whatabee like him smdh
Stright up n alot of these kids think this shit ok i yu not a celeb all these kids will get merkd cuz they dont have security or that much money
I thought 69 woulda been killed by now but maybe they still plotting
If he was going to snitch and put everyone in prison then why did he want that life?
My pride wouldn’t allow me snitch knowing I wanted that. Why? He knows he put him self in that situation and then he blames the people he put in prison for his actions
You do realize that 50 Cent is making a killing off of all this because he made the documentary happen in the first place. Look it up.