Kooda B has revealed that he was taken aback when his former friend and associate 6ix9ine took the stand against him in the 2020 Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods racketeering case.
In a recent sit-down interview with Vlad TV, Kooda (real name Kintea McKenzie) started by discussing the moment when the Brooklyn artist started testifying against everybody that was involved in the case itself.
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“I’m like, ‘Damn, I thought those was brothers,’ ” Kooda B said. “He was yelling gang gang and all that shit. Those was supposed to be your brothers. Some people not street dudes, some people is. If you not a street dude, you’ve got to stay in that lane. He jumped in that lane, you’re supposed to go all the way with it. You gotta go all the way with it if you gon’ jump in that lane.”
He continued: “You run around blood flag, run around tellin’ people to suck ya dick. It’s like, you gotta go all the way now. He should have went all the way.”
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Kooda B then recalled when 6ix9ine testified against him which lead to him being in prison for two and a half years.
“I ain’t gon’ front, when they told me, and everything, I’m like, me, I ain’t do shit to you,” he said. “I’m solid. No cap. Anytime you call me, look out, anything. You come to my hood, you good. And so I was surprised. That shit definitely shocked me. That shit hurt my mom’s. I had him around her. That shit hurt my family.”
At his sentencing on December 1, 2020, Kooda B was sentenced to 54 months behind bars with three years of supervised release. He had previously been granted temporary release on $300,000 bond earlier that year over concerns about COVID-19 exposure due to his asthmatic condition.
In 2019, Kooda B pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly weapon in aid of racketeering for his role in the 2018 shooting of Chief Keef outside the W Hotel in Times Square. 6ix9ine allegedly gave up Kooda B as the triggerman in the incident after he admitted to offering him $20,000 for the hit and ended up paying Kooda B $10,000. Fortunately for Chief Keef, the incident left him unharmed.
“I’m willing to take full responsibility for my actions,” Kooda B wrote in a letter to the courts at the time. “That was an extremely foolish choice I made. I allowed myself to look up to and listen to someone with more success and fame. That was not the right thing to do. I regret it and it won’t happen again. I thought he was a good friend. I was excited that he named a song after me.”
Judge Paul Engelmayer voiced his displeasure with Kooda’s romanticizing of gang violence in his music, which the government referenced mentioned on tracks such as “Walking Through the Ville,” “Blicky’s Funeral,” “6IX9INE” and “Quagmire.”
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Kooda faced a maximum sentence of life in prison when he was originally arrested in February 2019.
