Tekashi 6ix9ine sat down for his first post-prison interview with New York Times writer
“Tupac Shakur was convicted of rape,” he said, sitting inside a Manhattan hotel. “Is Tupac Shakur loved or hated? Loved! What’s the difference between me and Tupac Shakur? I never caught a rape charge — ever.
When asked if he felt his art was contributing to the world, 6ix9ine replied “of course,” then proceeded to play 2Pac’s “Troublesome ’96.”
“This is one of his biggest songs,” he said. “What’s the difference between that and “Billy”? “A born leader, never leave the crib without my heater!” You’re telling me he gave back through his art? You’re lying to me. I got to feed what, in 2020, is relevant. I got to feed the masses. There’s no difference between me and Tupac Shakur.”
6ix9ine went on to admit he’s addicted to the attention, admitting he grew up “being a nobody.” He also explained why he doesn’t make more thought-provoking content, given everything he’s been through.
“When somebody’s in the gym and they want to listen to 6ix9ine, why do they listen to 6ix9ine?” he said. “To turn up! When you’re with your girl and you wanna listen to R&B, do you put on Chief Keef? People hate me because I’m the most straightforward: I’ll knock you down. I’m a genius at what I do.
“When you want to listen to R&B, you go to Usher. When you want to listen to Hip Hop, you go to Nas. When you want to listen to rock, you go to AC/DC. When you listen to 6ix9ine, you don’t want to hear, ‘My mama was crying …’ I can go there, but my fans don’t want that. You don’t go to McDonald’s and get filet mignon.”
One obvious difference between 6ix9ine and ‘Pac is 6ix9ine is still alive, but concerns about his safety are omnipresent considering his “snitch” reputation. As he told the Times, he’s only worried about losing his life when he doesn’t have a security team, which is currently made up of between eight and 12 men.
But he does think about death, noting, “At this point, it’s a lifestyle. I worry about it, but I’m not scared of it. The streets is a myth. Right now, if I left this interview and took the train by myself to Bed-Stuy, I wouldn’t come back. If you took a trip to an island full of cannibals, are you coming back? But you don’t put yourself in stupid situations.”
Elsewhere in the interview, 6ix9ine also talked about his 2018 arrest on racketeering charges and his decision to testify at the October 2019 trial of alleged Nine Trey Gangsta Blood members Aljermiah “Nuke” Mack and Anthony “Harv” Ellison.
“We go to meet with the feds,” he recalled. “They say, listen, do you know anybody that’s looking to harm you? Because at this point I’m not cooperating. There’s been a split, and they know it because they hear all the wiretaps. So Friday morning, I do the interview at the Breakfast Club. I know the feds are monitoring me, making sure no one comes to hurt me, but I don’t know why at this point — I’m pretty scared. I’m tired.
Tekashi 6ix9ine’s Testimony Helps Convict Ex-Fellow Gang Members
“On Sunday, I went downstairs and I said, “I need to speak to your boss.” I’m ready to snitch now. The very next morning, they said, you know what, if something happens to this kid, somebody kills him, it’s on us. They took everybody down, knowing in the back of their head, this kid is about to let the whistle blow. The very next morning, I was in their office.”
The rest is history. 6ix9ine received 24 months in prison but was let out early due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now officially off house arrest, he’s been traveling across the country, antagonizing as many people as he can along the way while promoting his forthcoming album Tattle Tales.
Read the full New York Times interview here.
I’m black, college educated. Since back in the day, I always called the cops. And I rap too. Bottom line for me is, I never signed my name on the dotted line saying I’d adhere to the street code for life. Niggas is suckers. Niggas will play games with you. Niggas will set you up. I have no problems getting law enforcement involved. You can listen to my shit. I was never gangster in my raps. I was on some backpack rap type shit. Takashi is wack musucally. But I don’t knock his hustle.
Personally, I try to avoid getting the authorities involved in all situations!! They complicate matters and often result in fatalities!!!
I handle matters accordingly and if and only if, things get out of track, then I call a friend that’s an officer, do he can advise me on the second step!!
I do not just pick up the line and dial 911.
I meant “mouth”
This woman is deluded asf, why all these wack rappers say they just like Pac? He changed the Game
Ok this has gone on long enough, jokes over. Never put 2pac and SixNine in the same sentence ever again. 2pac was a real nigga til the day he died. SixNine was a fraud and a snitch since day one. One is definitely not like the other. One is a legendary MC and a pivotal revolutionary leader. The other is the rat king, wear rainbow hair, trolls people but doesn’t do anything. Pac was respected and fear by his peers and rivals. SixNine is laughed at and sneered at by all his peers and his idols. Pac had bodyguard around but most the time, the bodyguard was there to restrain him. While SixNine has The Feds imbedded deep in your security guard detail undercover that if anyone even breaths wrong on him, they’d catch an indictment. These are known FACTS.
They have more in common than you think. Both want attention and money. Difference is PAC had a message. I don’t like 69. I liked pac. Remember, pac was a great actor. A lot of his thing was an act. Look up some facts before you speak. In 95, Big and PAC had an interaction after all the dissing started when Big yelled at him “what are you doing? We were friends.” PAC replied “Trying to sell records!” None of these rappers are gangsters. Its all an act. Carry all the guns you want, once you sell some records, you don’t wanna go to jail. It’s sad how many people believe these guys are “gangsters.” They copied Italians. The Godfather. Scarface. They are SALESMEN. Sure pac was deep and had a message. But if being gunned down makes you think he was real, think again. Come back to reality.
TRYING TO SELL RECORDS… Suge Knight was there when that happened and he even confirmed Pac never yelled that at Biggie. This was also confirmed by multiple members of Death Row Security including Reggie Wright Jr.
There are no similarities whatsoever… You’re embellishing your point too much, back in the 90s you had to be authentic to even be accepted in hip hop. Rappers were actually beefing unlike today’s lame social media rappers. As far as the situation you mentioned between Tupac and Biggie, it’s questionable since you got that from a damn VH1 Behind The Music episode about Biggie. Another lame point you brought up was Tupac’s acting, you guys always try to dilute the man’s image by using that same rhetoric, but fail to realize that a lot of things he was going through were real and not an act. I doubt an “actor” would constantly get in trouble with the law or shoot a gun at two police officers and say it was all an act. No actor would be that dedicated to go to that extreme, he wouldn’t have gained anything from it, and aside from that he was still a young black man making mistakes like a human being and trying to figure life out. Quit hating since all you fake Pac fans always say you “liked” his music etc. All you fake fucks all sound the same in different sentences.
Never watched VH1 in my life. I read that in the Source back when it was credible. I said I liked pacs music. Never viewed him as a god like you fanboys do. Was never in my top 5. Not even in my top 20. Same with Biggie. If you guys wanna trust Death Row security and Suge Knight, ok. If you believe he didn’t really say this stuff then you must not believe Snoop when he said pac wanted to stop the beef and leave Death Row. He was there. And you talk about the 90s when rappers “really beefed” and “had to be authentic.” You really believed DMX when he said he was the “only rapper walking around with 4 felonies”? Believe the Dogg Pound with all the bodies they claim? All the millions some of these guys made selling coke? It’s entertaining but hardly real.
Who said he was a God? Shut up before you start spewing bullshit, that wasn’t from The Source at all, it was from the Behind The Music Biggie episode and his mom was quoted saying the same bs you did. As far as authentic, yes back then you at least heard about rappers getting beat up like when Mase got his jaw broken by Ghostface’s friend or when Biggie was setup by E-40 and they almost did something to him in Oakland. Homie nobody said anything about these rappers and their lyrics, but these rappers were out doing some fighting and getting involved in all sorts of situations. If you’re not familiar with DMX robbing people to feed his crack habit back then you need to start researching some of the things these rappers in the 90s did. Seeing as how you know about the Source being the bible of hiphop you should know some of these stories. If you’re like me you’d appreciate the artists from back then more than the ones now. Compared to everything back then today’s rappers seem too fabricated. Peace.
That was my point exactly too but dude was way too delusional to get it. Way to shut him down tho lol
Man, please go back to your original post. You sound like a fanboy. You make it hard to deny you think he’s a god. He was not a revolutionary leader. You claim he had bodyguards to hold him back. No, they were for protection. And if you check sources, they were ex and off duty cops. Not only do I know all about the stuff you just said, I was around some of it in the 90’s. Rappers live the lives they saw other people live growing up. Some of them really did some shit but few and far between. Please don’t tell me I don’t know. The original post was the 2 have more in common than you want to believe. I stick by that.
That was a reply to truth. This site sucks for posts
Obviously you’re all over the place with your latest comment… Where did I say he was a God you dummy? You can believe what you want from what I said, everything I’ve said holds more weight to what you’ve stated. Re read my entire 2nd comment I never mentioned bodyguards, neither did I talk about 2Pac before going into facts you “claim” you know about rappers from the 90s. Bro just shut the fuck up and go sit your tired ass down somewhere, you’re done. Stick to whatever weak narratives you wrote down, your recent comment along with your other two comments are also weak in comparison to what I’ve said.
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Na pac was in the hoods all around knocking niggaz out not an act if you livin it it in real life not just the screen he was a thug simple as that he never banged no set on wax but his own shooting at cops is no act neither is stopping out a real crip check your facts
That’s what I was saying. Pac was real. SixNine wasn’t. Read fully before commenting
Guess reading complete sentences is still on his bucket list for 2020 cuz even I saw that lol
Take a seat, Rainbowbright. You have Jussie Smollet ahead of ya! He’s the gay Tupac. You’re the second gayest.
First off ,fuck your bitch and click you claim …?
He and Rick Ross are talented but theyre snitches. Thus I cant buy or listen to their shit. I cant have their beliefs or rat whisker vibes in my life.
Dude needs to be banned from LA for being so disrespectful rat
“The streets is a myth,” the words of a wise man and revolutionary leader. King is Tupac re-incarnated with a crown on his head and more. Long may he reign.
Dude took a picture with white fluid gushing down his face.. Rainbow hair, tight ass clothes.. This nigga a hoe
First off, this nigga is DISRESPECTFUL from the rip for even having his and 2Pac name in the same sentence, let alone comparing the two!!! For two, the government was trying to shut him out from speaking the message that came out in his music! And for three, 2Pac was a REAL ass nigga, and bitch you a snitch, and then to top it off, you came home and bragged about it, like you proud that you a snitch, in ya music video!!! Bro stop ya shit, you will NEVER be like 2Pac, sit down somewhere and figure out who you gone snitch on today you RAT ass nigga!!!
This kid starting to look civil to me. At least he ain’t lying and denying. Just stop going down on that nastyass fetish!! Yukkkkk bruh!
There’s only one difference.. Tekashi ain’t going to die broke. He has already made like 10x the money Pac made alive. We all know that Pac died with empty bank account, poor as shit.
Shut the fuck up bitch how the fuck pac die broke in the middle of his death row deal?and this bitch 69 gonna be broke and dead in a year cuz he won’t sell any records and that security he paying for he won’t be able to afford.
Never heard of him but from what I read and saw, he’s too douchey to live.
He’s like Kanye. An overinflated ego because chance gave him a career his talent does not warrant.
Tell me your style is invented to please a demographic.. Tell me love songs are propaganda. Tell me celebrity relationships are made up business relationships for PR.
Then you can call yourself an artist.
Till then you’re just the latest bs