This decade in New York, Bobby Shmurda’s music was presented by prosecutors as evidence of real-life crimes in Los Angeles right now, Drakeo the Ruler is awaiting a potential retrial after being acquitted on murder charges that stem from a 2016 shooting. There is, of course, a long and sinister history of rappers’ creative work being used against them in court. Prosecutors have asked Hernandez about the lyrics in “Gummo,” and have argued that his music contains evidence of organized crimes and gang conspiracies.
Named rapper Casanova as a member of a rival Blood set. Referred to the legendary Houston record label Rap-A-Lot as “not a fucking gang” (“they’re like, a wannabe mafia kinda thing”). Admitted that he had ordered a shooting of Chief Keef - who he named as a member of the Chicago gang Black Disciples - in June 2018. Alleged that Cardi B was a member of an unspecified Blood set. Called Jim Jones “a retired rapper” and claimed he was a member of Nine Trey. 
Claimed that the Ohio rapper Trippie Redd, whom he had attacked along with other Nine Trey members, belonged to a different Blood set. Alleged that his former manager, Kifano “Shotti” Jordan, was a prominent member of Nine Trey and was also involved in criminal activity. Implicated the defendants in various violent acts, including assaults and kidnappings. Pointed out for prosecutors the gang members who appeared in the videos for his songs “Gummo” and “Kooda”. At various points during his testimony, he: Hernandez testified in a racketeering case against two alleged Nine Trey members, Aljermiah “Nuke” Mack and Anthony “Harv” Ellison, the latter accused of kidnapping Hernandez in July 2018. (Last year he avoided jail time and the sex-offender registry in that case by pleading down.) All of which made it inevitable that his testimony from this month, in which he implicated a number of former friends, famous peers, and associates in an attempt to reduce his own sentence, became a media circus. Hernandez’s fame had always seemed more like a nexus of various controversies than it did traditional music fandom: His Instagram stories were covered more dutifully than most of his songs, and a 2015 sexual-misconduct case involving a minor became central to his public identity. He faces the possibility of life in prison. 
The arrest was rushed due to investigators’ worries that Hernandez’s former associates were planning to attack him.
His arrest was part of a joint investigation by the NYPD the Justice Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Department of Homeland Security. Last November, Hernandez was arrested on federal racketeering and weapons charges stemming from his alleged involvement with the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.
Hernandez is better known as the Brooklyn rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, who shot to fame in the latter half of 2017 thanks to his breakout hit, “Gummo,” and to his constant, immutable trolling on social media and in press appearances. If you’ve made it this deep into the internet, you’re at least vaguely aware that Daniel Hernandez, a 23-year-old with long, colorful hair and innumerable tattoos on his face and body, testified last week in Manhattan federal court. Photo: Jefferson Siegel/NY Daily News via Getty Images
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