6ix9ine

6ix9ine (2018)

6ix9ine (pronounced: six-nine ), occasionally Tekashi69 , real name Daniel Hernandez (born May 8, 1996 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American rapper .

biography

Daniel Hernandez was born in Bushwick , Brooklyn to a Mexican mother and a Puerto Rican father. He never met his father, but grew up with his mother and stepfather. In the 8th grade he had to leave school. When he was 13 years old, his stepfather was murdered. He started working at a young age, but also sold marijuana and heroin to support his mother.

His rap career began in 2014 when he released various tracks and videos on FCK THEM, a Slovak independent label . He used excerpts from anime for his videos . His eye-catching appearance with rainbow-colored hair and grillz as well as eye-catching face tattoos quickly made him a well-known internet meme . He describes his crew as Scumgang, whereby the acronym Scum stands for “Society Can't Understand Me” (“Society can't understand me”).

After his first successes, mainly through Soundcloud , he became known to the general public in October 2017 through his debut single GUMMO . The song rose to number 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and went platinum. At the end of 2017, the second single Kooda followed . In 2018 he released the song Keke with Fetty Wap and A Boogie wit da Hoodie . FEFE was published in July 2018 together with Nicki Minaj and Murda Beatz . His second album Dummy Boy was released by his management on November 27, 2018. It was supposed to be published on November 23, 2018, but Daniel Hernandez was in custody at that time. The album peaked at number two on the Billboard 200.

He has two children with two wives.

Criminal proceedings

In October 2015, he pleaded guilty to sexual acts against a 13-year-old woman and was sentenced to two years probation. He had previously published a video of the act on Instagram . The admission of guilt was part of a deal with prosecutors to avoid jail time. In an interview in November 2017, however, he denied some of the allegations and alleged, among other things, that he was under 18 at the time of the crime and did not know that it was a minor. Part of the deal, however, was that he took a General Educational Development Test , which he failed. It was also announced that he has been arrested twice since then, once for allegedly strangling a 16-year-old and a second time for attacking a police officer. Since he had thus committed a criminal offense during his probation, another trial took place in October 2018, in which he was sentenced to four years probation.

On November 18, 2018, Hernandez was arrested along with some members of his crew on charges of illegal possession of weapons and involvement in an armed robbery. The judge denied a requested bail of $ 2 million combined with house arrest for Hernandez.

He faced more than 47 years in prison. On December 18, 2019, he was sentenced to only two years in prison as part of a plea bargaining . 13 months of pre-trial detention were counted towards this. He testified extensively about other gang members and, among other things, confessed to domestic violence over a period of 7 years. The mother of one of his children stated in an article that she had suffered 7 years of domestic violence and rape by 6ix9ine. After 20 months in prison, he was released from prison for his asthma in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States . He is allowed to spend the remaining four months of his detention in house arrest with a GPS tracker . His house arrest ended on August 1, 2020.

Music genre

6ix9ine combines in his music elements of the old-school rape and the Crunks with modern elements of the traps and the cloud rape and the Lo-Fis .

Discography

Mixtapes / albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2018	Day69	DE44 (2 weeks) DE	AT39 (1 week) AT	CH20 (1 week) CH	UK20th silver (5 weeks)UK	US4th gold (28 weeks)US	First published: February 23, 2018 Sales: + 645,000
	Dummy boy	-	AT35 (8 weeks) AT	CH30 (15 weeks) CH	UK30th silver (13 weeks)UK	US2 platinum (26 weeks)US	First published: November 27, 2018 Sales: + 1,070,000

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2017	Gummo Day69	-	-	-	-	US12 × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US	First published: October 11, 2017 Sales: + 2,130,000
	Kooda Day69	-	-	-	-	US50 gold (8 weeks)US	First published: December 3rd, 2017 Sales: + 500,000
2018	Keke Day 69	-	-	-	UK98 (1 week) UK	US43 gold (8 weeks)US	First published: Jan 14, 2018 Sales: + 500,000; with Fetty Wap & A Boogie wit da hoodie
	Gotti Day69	-	-	-	UK95 (2 weeks) UK	US99 (1 week) US	First published: April 21, 2018
	Tati Dummy Boy	-	-	-	UK100 (1 week) UK	US46 platinum (5 weeks)US	First published: April 21, 2018 Sales: + 1,000,000; feat. DJ spinking
	Fefe dummy boy	DE16 (13 weeks) DE	AT14 (13 weeks) AT	CH10 (13 weeks) CH	UK17th gold (11 weeks)UK	US3 × 8 Eight times platinum (20 weeks)US	First published: July 22, 2018 Sales: + 8,760,000; feat. Nicki Minaj & Murda Beatz
	Bebe dummy boy	DE77 (2 weeks) DE	AT75 (1 week) AT	CH15 (9 weeks) CH	UK67 (2 weeks) UK	US30th platinum (5 weeks)US	First published: August 31, 2018 Sales: + 1,060,000; feat. Anuel AA
	International gangstas	DE5 (5 weeks) DE	AT11 (4 weeks) AT	CH8 (2 weeks) CH	-	-	First release: September 21, 2018 with Farid Bang & Capo feat. Sch
	Stoopid dummy boy	DE57 (2 weeks) DE	AT48 (2 weeks) AT	CH28 (2 weeks) CH	UK34 (4 weeks) UK	US25th platinum (9 weeks)US	First published: October 5, 2018 Sales: + 1,000,000; feat. Bobby Shmurda
2020	Gooba	-	AT3 (11 weeks) AT	CH2 (13 weeks) CH	UK6th silver (10 weeks)UK	US3 platinum (10 weeks)US	First published: May 8, 2020 Sales: + 1,235,000
	Trollz	-	AT8 (3 weeks) AT	CH8 (4 weeks) CH	UK12 (5 weeks) UK	US1 gold (4 weeks)US	First published: June 12, 2020 Sales: + 500,000; with Nicki Minaj
	Yaya	-	AT53 (1 week) AT	CH46 (2 weeks) CH	UK87 (1 week) UK	US99 (1 week) US	First published: July 3, 2020
	Punani	-	-	CH84 (1 week) CH	-	-	First published: August 2, 2020
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2018	Billy Day69	-	-	CH93 (1 week) CH	-	US50 gold (8 weeks)US	Chart entry: March 4, 2018 Sales: + 590,000
	Rondo Day69	-	-	-	-	US73 gold (1 week)US	Chart entry: March 10, 2018 Sales: + 500,000; feat. Tory Lanez & Young Thug
	Kika dummy boy	-	AT31 (2 weeks) AT	CH13 (6 weeks) CH	UK9 silver (10 weeks)UK	US44 platinum (6 weeks)US	Chart entry: December 2nd, 2018 Sales: + 1,200,000; feat. Tory Lanez
	Mama dummy boy	-	AT40 (1 week) AT	CH23 (3 weeks) CH	UK29 (4 weeks) UK	US43 gold (4 weeks)US	Chart entry: December 2, 2018 Sales: + 500,000; feat. Nicki Minaj & Kanye West
	Tic Toc Dummy Boy	-	AT39 (1 week) AT	CH28 (3 weeks) CH	UK43 (2 weeks) UK	US53 gold (3 weeks)US	Chart entry: December 6, 2018 Sales: + 500,000; feat. Lil baby
	Waka dummy boy	-	-	-	-	US51 gold (3 weeks)US	Chart entry: December 8, 2018 Sales: + 500,000; feat. A boogie wit da hoodie
2019	Mala dummy boy	-	-	CH80 (2 weeks) CH	-	-	Chart entry: January 6, 2019 feat. Anuel AA

Guest Posts

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2018	Gigi (Zkittlez)	DE6 (8 weeks) DE	AT18 (5 weeks) AT	CH29 (5 weeks) CH	-	-	First published: August 3, 2018 Gringo feat. 6ix9ine
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2019	Swervin Hoodie SZN	-	-	CH95 (1 week) CH	UK27 gold (21 weeks)UK	US38 × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US	Chart entry: January 5th, 2019 A Boogie wit da Hoodie feat. 6ix9ine

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Denmark 2019: for the single kick 2019: for the single Fefe 2019: for the album Day69 2019: for the album Dummy Boy 2020: for the single Swervin 2020: for the single Billy  France 2018: for the single Fefe 2020: for the single Gummo  Italy 2018: for the single Fefe 2019: for the single Bebe 2020: for the single Gooba  Canada 2018: for the single Keke 2018: for the single Kooda 2018: for the album Day69 2018: for the single Billy 2018: for the single Tati  Mexico 2018: for the single Gummo  Norway 2018: for the single Billy 2018: for the single Fefe 2018: for the album Day69  Sweden 2018: for the album Day69

Platinum record  Italy 2019: for the single Mala  Canada 2018: for the single Gummo 2018: for the single Fefe  Mexico 2018: for the single Bebe  Netherlands 2019: for the single Bozoo  Sweden 2018: for the single Fefe 3 × gold record  Mexico 2018: for the single Fefe 2 × platinum record  Spain 2019: for the single Bebe 2019: for the single Mala

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Denmark (IFPI)	-	6 × gold6th	-	200,000	ifpi.dk
France (SNEP)	-	2 × gold2	-	200,000	snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	3 × gold3	platinum1	135,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	5 × gold5	2 × platinum2	360,000	musiccanada.com
Mexico (AMPROFON)	-	2 × gold2	2 × platinum2	180,000	amprofon.com.mx
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	gold1	-	15,000	nztop40.co.nz
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	-	platinum1	40,000	nvpi.nl
Norway (IFPI)	-	3 × gold3	-	25,000	ifpi.no
Sweden (IFPI)	-	gold1	platinum1	60,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Spain (Promusicae)	-	-	4 × platinum4th	160,000	elportaldemusica.es
United States (RIAA)	-	9 × gold9	18 × platinum18th	22,500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	4 × silver4th	2 × gold2	-	1,320,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	4 × silver4th	34 × gold34	29 × platinum29

Web links

Commons : 6ix9ine  - collection of images

• Official presence on Facebook
• 6ix9ine at Discogs (English)
• 6ix9ine at laut.de
• 6ix9ine at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} No Jumper: The 6IX9INE Interview. YouTube , July 24, 2017, accessed August 15, 2018 . 
2. ↑ 6IX9INE: color? In your face! (No longer available online.) Arte Tracks , January 12, 2018, archived from the original on August 15, 2018 ; accessed on August 15, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Donnie Kwak: Meet 6ix9ine: The First Rap Star of 2018 Is Easy to Hate, Impossible to Ignore. In: Theringer.com. March 1, 2018, accessed August 15, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Top 100 Songs | Billboard Hot 100 Chart. In: Billboard.com. Retrieved July 27, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Gold & Platinum. In: RIAA.com. Retrieved July 27, 2018 . 
6. ↑ US charts. Billboard, accessed December 20, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Katharina Kunath: Shitstorm against Nicki Minaj - because she licks ice cream with 6ix9ine! In: noizz.de , July 26, 2018.
8. ↑ Rich Juzwiak: Details in Child Sex Complaint Against Rapper 6ix9ine Contradict His Public Comments. In: jezebel.com , December 14, 2017.
9. ↑ Nick Mojica: New Details in 6ix9ine's Sexual Misconduct Case. In: XXLmag.com. Retrieved July 27, 2018 . 
10. ↑ After attempting to strangle a supposed fan - police are looking for 6ix9ine. In: boutblank.com. Retrieved September 7, 2018 . 
11. ↑ 6ix9ine: Does he have to go to jail? In: bravo.de . August 14, 2018. Retrieved August 15, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Tekashi 6ix9ine sentenced to two years in prison . In: BBC News . December 18, 2019 ( bbc.com [accessed June 27, 2020]).
13. ↑ US rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine sentenced to only two years in prison! In: bild.de. Retrieved December 20, 2019 . 
14. ↑ 6ix9ine Admits to Domestic Violence in Plea Deal. Retrieved June 27, 2020 (American English). 
15. ↑ Tekashi 6ix9ine early released from prison for coronavirus. In: Rolling Stone. April 3, 2020, accessed on April 5, 2020 (German). 
16. ↑ Dav Dav: 6ix9ine free from Saturday! In: deinupdate.de. July 30, 2020, accessed August 4, 2020 . 
17. ↑ 6ix9ine drops single “PUNANI” and is said to have impregnated girlfriend Jade. In: bigfm.de. August 4, 2020, accessed August 4, 2020 . 
18. ↑ 6ix9ine at laut.de . Retrieved August 15, 2018.
19. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: Germany Austria Switzerland UK US