In the world of 6ix9ine, things may not be what they seem.
The controversial rapper, who is now releasing music again, hacked it up with TMZ Live on Tuesday when asked about the latest clips of him showing off heaps of money around the internet. After calling himself the “King of New York” in an Instagram post last week that boasted what appeared to be $2 million in cash, high-end watches and a handful of sports cars, 6ix9ine now says that the money was intentionally fake.
“I don’t have it right now, I don’t have it,” 6ix9ine said. “And that was prop money, like I said, I don’t have it. Like I said, I’m an entertainer and of course we talk about it, so I’ve done a pretty good job of entertaining people. You know you have a law degree, I have an entertainment degree.
In a court filing in early March over a lawsuit he is facing following the robberies of Seketha Wonzer and Kevin Dozier, 6ix9ine claimed his accountant “knows exactly what my existing assets and sources of income are” and that he was “struggling to make ends meet.” get”. unsure if he would “order the kind of advances I was paid before my arrest and my career stalled.”
TMZ reports that 6ix9ine owes $1 million in his case. “If the court awards the compensatory and punitive damages sought by the plaintiffs in this investigation, it will surely bankrupt me in a way from which I will never recover, to the permanent detriment and distress of the family members who rely on me will,” reads the file.
Wonzer, aka Skyy L. Daniels, a victim of 6ix9ine’s 2018 robbery of the office of 50 Cent’s website This Is 50 office, made an exclusive offer to Complex on Tuesday. “The money that [6ix9ine] shown, I can’t prove if it was fake or real. But I can prove that all civil lawsuits have been honored in my favor. I can prove I’m the woman he robbed at gunpoint and sent five of his closest friends to do his dirty work. [and] he testified against her in court,” said Skyy, who had already won a civil lawsuit against 6ix9ine over the robbery; the lawsuit is now in the punitive phase. “He owes me that he shows millions of dollars. I want every penny of it, fake or real. … I need all those watches that he showed, I want all those cars. I want my entire judgment paid in full with interest. And I won’t stop until victory and justice come to this rainbow rat. And it was Skyy, a woman, who took all his cheese.”
6ix9ine also addressed King Von in the TMZ discussion, asking why he “has to diss me now that he’s dead.” On his new song GINÉ, 6ix9ine raps “Your man got shot, he not coming back,” which has been taken as Tekashi’s revival with Lil Durk. Von mentions 6ix9ine by name on the posthumous track “Facetime” from his 2022 album What It Means to Be King, stating that if he was “caught” he would “make the time,” unlike 6ix9ine.
“Why not crucify his management, his label, his team and say, ‘Listen, why carry on with the beef when your artist died of beef?'” wondered 6ix9ine.
On the latest episode of DJ Akademiks’ Off the Record podcast, Tekashi also shared that he felt the late Pop Smoke, King Von and Nipsey Hussle were “missing.” He claimed that all three rappers fatally shot “died lost.”
“Everyone will say they could have, could have,” he said as he appeared to be trying to defend his decision to cooperate with authorities. “My respects to the West Coast… you never lack, do you? So what happened to the ni***as that missed it? Let’s bring up Nipsey Hussle. You think he said, ‘Yo, n***as will never come to me.’ … Yo, bro, that’s what happened to the best of ’em.”
The same Instagram video with the fake cash caught the attention of other MCs as some thought 6ix9ine was shooting at Fivio Foreign with his “King” comments. But as 6ix9ine tells TMZ, his plan was never to “not attack anyone,” just “drop music” and “come out positive.”
“I want to be very clear,” he said. “I came out, I didn’t mention anyone. Fivio was the first to jump out of the window, he could have stayed put. I know a lot of people don’t want to hear it, but the moment Tekashi responds, he’s like, ‘Oh my god, he’s chasing influence.'”