Tekashi 6ix9ine Just Keeps On Snitching, Details Attacks On Trippie Redd

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Tekashi 6ix9ine continued dropping dimes against former assembly Wednesday in Manhattan federal courtroom, outright naming several rappers' purported gang affiliations and detailing attacks on rivals such as Trippie Redd.

The rapper, whose legal name is Daniel Hernandez, was testifying in the racketeering case confronting two purported Nine Trey Gansta Bloods members, Anthony "Harv" Ellison and Aljermiah "Nuke" Mack. Federal prosecutors allege that Ellison kidnapped and robbed Hernandez in July 2018; they too say Mack pushed drugs such as heroin and fentanyl.

Hernandez was asked whether there were beefs with other artists.

"At that place was a lot," Hernandez said, explaining his main rivals as Trippie Redd, Cassanova, Principal Keef, and some Rap-a-Lot Records associates.

He identified Trippie Redd equally a fellow member of "some other gear up of Bloods" — echoing his testimony Tuesday that he was in V 9 Brims. Casanova was also in "another" Blood grouping, whereas Chief Keef was part of the Black Disciples.

He quipped that Rap-a-Lot is "non a f*cking gang. They're like, a wannabe mafia kinda thing."

He then described how his dispute with Trippie Redd spiraled into violence.

While he and Trippie had been on the aforementioned label — fifty-fifty recording a vocal together that "did really well" — jealousy spurred an online dispute.

"Was there violence?" Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Longyear asked.

"We attacked him at his hotel," Hernandez replied thing-of-factly of the November 2017 incident.

Hernandez said he was in a restaurant with former manager Kifano "Shotti" Jordan when Trippie Redd'southward manager chosen.

"Trippie Redd's manager said that he wanted to squash the beef … the online verbal attacks," Hernandez said. "At the time I was upset with him, I was like, 'Naw, I don't want to squash the beef.'"

"He said, 'If you change your mind, here is the address of the video shoot. If y'all take time, stop by, we'll have a picture and let the globe know you're friends once again.'"

Hernandez and Jordan did go to the shoot location in Red Hook.

They spotted Trippie Redd's "sprinter van" — a large vehicle that can concord over 12 people — and waited.

"Nosotros camped out," Hernandez said. "We surveillanced it."

Trippie Redd eventually left the shoot and got into the van.

"We followed him for about an hr and a half, two hours, on the highway," Hernandez said. "We're, like, cutting between lanes."

Trippie Redd'due south sprinter van eventually rolled upward to the Gansevoort Hotel. Ellison also arrived and parked parallel to the hotel.

Kifano, Ellison, and others in their grouping went into the hotel.

"Shotti comes out screaming, 'It's f*cking TreyWey. It's the f*cking mob! Nosotros got that northward- - - -!" Hernandez recounted. "He said that Harv punched Trippie Redd in the mouth."

Hernandez said he and Ellison became close after the incident.

In March 2018, Hernandez said he and other Nine Trey members headed to Radio Urban center Music Hall to face up Trippie Redd at his bear witness — because he didn't bank check in with them later arriving in New York City.

In one case over again, they staked out Trippie Redd's sprinter van.

When the sprinter hitting the road afterward a few hours, Shotti collection to the right side of the van.

"Shotti sticks his hand out and empties his clip," Hernandez said.

1 calendar month after, Hernandez and other Nine Trey members headed to Times Square to confront Rap-a-Lot for disrespecting him at Southward by Southwest.

Hernandez's pals wound upwardly robbing Rap-a-Lot affiliates, stealing a bookbag, a passport, and "some fake jewelry."

Shotti got back in the machine.

They didn't make it two blocks before they heard sirens.

"Shotti starts panicking. 'I ain't going to jail!'"

"He throws the gun on my lap and says 'Bix, get the f*ck out the machine!'" Hernandez said. "I'grand like, 'Bro, I'm f*cking famous at this point.'"

Jordan booted him from the vehicle anyway. Hernandez tucked the gun into his hoodie and went into the subway.

"I saw the turnstile and I was like, Naw," Hernandez said. "If I become on the railroad train right now, someone is gonna recognize me … I've got a loaded gun."

He left the subway station and saw another pal, Crippy, outside.

"We tried to flag some cabs downwards, but they weren't stopping for united states," Hernandez said.

Hernandez passed the gun to Crippy breast-to-chest.

"Proceed your head down," Crippy told him before they got on the A railroad train. "Pull the strings on your hoodie."

Hernandez, who might need witness protection for cooperating confronting 9 Trey, started naming names in his first hours of testimony Tuesday.

He said Jordan showed him the gang handshake, and when he showed jurors the Nine Trey sign he said Mack taught him how to arrive. (The sign, unsurprisingly, features a thumb-and-index finger shaped like a nine digit, with the iii other fingers sticking out.)

Hernandez said he wasn't initiated in Ix Trey but was nevertheless a member. He was supposed to keep "making hits" and bankrolling Nine Trey. In exchange, he got "street cred."

Hernandez is testifying under a plea understanding he made with the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Function; nether the deal, he agreed to nine federal counts and agreed to cooperate with regime.

"The defendant'southward obligations under this understanding are equally follows: That he shall truthfully and completely disembalm all information of the activities of himself and others to the U.S. Attorney's Office and that he cooperate fully with law-enforcement agencies," Banana U.S. Attorney Michael Longyear explained during the plea proceeding in January 2018. "It is understood that the accused'south cooperation is likely to reveal the activities of individuals and that witness protection may be required at a afterwards date."

Tekashi 69 Keeps Snitching, Details Attacks on Trippie Redd