Tekashi 6ix9ine has said it before and has said it once more: if you really doubt that he's about that life, then step up to him and find out for yourself.
"I'm not gonna sit here and pretend, like, you know what I'm saying? Like I said, when you see me in the street you be like, oh, is all this gang s**t real or is it just something for fun? And I tell people, come up to me and test it. Test my gangster," 6ix9ine told DJ Self on Wednesday, December 6. It was a challenge that the Scum Gang rapper's followers on Instagram have seen him make from behind the wheel as he whipped through the streets of Bushwick not too long ago. And it is one that he is apparently prepared to continue making to defend his controversial image.
As the fast-rising hit "Gummo" continues to impress on the Billboard charts and its follow-up single "Kooda" generates views at an incredible pace in its first week, the Brooklyn rapper is experiencing that time in an artist's career when fans just being exposed to the music get to know the artist. While there are some who already 'get' who the man born Daniel Hernandez is stylistically, his vibe has had to grow on others. But then there are those who didn't need a second glimpse at his tatted up/ multi-color grill/ rainbow-haired swag to know that they weren't feeling him.
6ix9ine is just coming on to the radar of the greater hip-hop audience and in addition to his involvement in a sexual assault case involving a minor he's already had to survive a number of rumors revolving around his sexuality. Ultimately, the overwhelming degree of hate that he has received has proven to be a thing of the internet, 6ix9ine told DJ Self. He says that whenever he's been recognized in public, the feedback has been positive.
"No one has ever come up to me and been like: 'Yo that s**t look gay.' Not one person in my life," he says. "Like, I swear to god, nobody ever came up to me and said, like, yo, f**k you. Like, I don't like you. Because I get so much hate, but it never happens in my face."
