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The Media is Fucking Up the 6ix9ine Story
I’m working on a much longer piece about 6ix9ine right now, but I wanted to take a break from that project to briefly discuss something about recent developments in the Daniel Hernandez/6ix9ine case. Namely: the media has been doing a dog shit job of reporting on recent developments in the Daniel Hernandez/6ix9ine case, and you should not take what you read at face value.
Yesterday afternoon Page Six ran the rather audacious headline “Tekashi 6ix9ine Testifies Cardi B is Member of Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.” This struck me as suspcious for a number of reasons. Firstly, Cardi B has been open about her affiliation with the Bloods in the past, and has talked about her time with them using regretful, cautioning language. The idea that her Blood ties are a “breaking” story is nonsense, but accountable to mainstream ignorance about rap culture.
What really got me wondering about this was simple common sense: Treway is just one of eleven different known suborganizations of Bloods operating in New York City currently. Is it more likely that the Nine Trey Gangstas are a Camorra-esque entity that has the city silently wrapped around their fingers, or that someone didn’t get their story straight? You get one guess as to which one of these is the case in this instance.
