Tekashi 6ix9ine faces life in prison for armed robbery. How did it all go so horribly wrong for the rapper?
Even if you're not the biggest fan of rap, you would have come across the name 6ix9ine aka Tekashi 69 (real name Daniel Hernandez) at least once in the last year. If not for all the good reasons (his breakthrough on the Billboard charts, collaboration with Nicki Minaj, Murda Beatz etc.) you'd have heard of the young rapper for all the wrong ones. It has been less than a year since the meteoric rise of the unconventional rapper who made the rap world stop and take notice and already, 6ix9ine has found himself on the wrong side of the law on multiple occasions.
In late October of this year, 6ix9ine had three different court dates for three different cases in a single week: one for misdemeanor assault of a police officer, one for misdemeanor assault of a teenager. And the most hair-raising: a sentencing in Manhattan, stemming from his 2015 arrest for the use of a child in a sexual performance. He was sentenced to four years of probation (with one year previously served), was not required to register as a sex offender, but he was required to serve 1,000 hours of community service, in addition to refraining from the posting or reposting of sexually explicit or violent images of women or children on social media platforms.