Tekashi 6ix9ine has gone from touching down in cities around the U.S. to shooting videos in the Dominican Republic. While Tekashi isn't necessarily welcomed everywhere he goes in the States, the story is different when told from the perspective of people from such an impoverished part of the greater world. As far as 6ix9ine has been able to tell, the people of D.R. are unfortunately in need - and he's felt very welcome by those who've received him down there.
"Words can’t explain the anger I have right now... I grew up not having s**t in Brooklyn... Everyone knows me for giving back in my community BUT as a Latino I feel the need to help my people," Tekashi wrote in the caption of a recording he put up on Instagram of him handing out cash to a group of townspeople. The half Mexican/half Puerto Rican rapper then went on to say that while he may not be of Dominican descent, he felt a sense of unity and a need to use his power to uplift the people of the island.
In the recording, 6ix9ine confesses that while he's always struggled with knowing himself as someone who was reared in poverty, he didn't actually know what being poor looked like until he spent a day walking past shanty shacks and mingling with folks who have exponentially less access to the things people take for granted while growing up in Brooklyn.
