Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine testifies that Cardi B and Jim Jones are both members of the Bloods
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The strange saga of rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine got a just little bit stranger today, as the rapper—convicted on numerous felony charges after taking a plea deal earlier this year, and now cooperating as a federal witness against some of his former friends—alleged that musician Jim Jones was a member of the gang he’s also admitted to being a member of, the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods. He also testified that Cardi B was a member of the wider Bloods organization.
(To be clear, by the way, we’re talking about the rapper Jim Jones from The Diplomats, not the popular cult leader and murderer.)
Per Pitchfork, 6ix9ine gave his third and final day of testimony in the trial of Anthony “Harv” Ellison and Aljermiah “Nuke” Mack today. Among other testimony, he identified a voice on a tape recorder suggesting that he “got to get violated” in relation to some of the comments he’d made about the gang as Jones. (He also threw some legal shade, describing Jones—who put out an album this year—as a “former rapper.”)
As to Cardi B, 6ix9ine was asked about her by defense attorneys, possibly hoping to suggest that he’d only associated with the gang in order to crassly enhance his music career. The “Bodak Yellow” rapper has been open about her associations with the Bloods in the past, although her label, Atlantic—which was quick to issue a statement today noting that she’d never been associated with the Nine Treys—probably wasn’t thrilled that its superstar went on Twitter to clarify that she was actually associated with a different chapter of the Bloods. (Said alleged tweet has since been deleted.)
It’s worth noting here that Tekashi 6ix9ine is a notorious shit-talker, which is how you get amazing legal back-and-forths like this one:
At one point, one lawyer asked the rapper to give examples of him “trolling.” When 6ix9ine pondered the question and failed to answer promptly, the lawyer loudly asked, “Did you tell others to suck your body parts?”
“Yes,” 6ix9ine replied, his voice low.
“Which ones?”
“My dick.”
That being said, he’s clearly hoping that cooperation in these cases will remove time off his sentences, which, if served consecutively, will end up taking up the next 47 years of his life. (There’s also the fact that he alleges that at least one of the men on trial, Anthony Ellison, came very close to murdering him when the Nine Treys began splintering into smaller rival groups.)
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Yeah, but which side would Jimmy Buffett join in?
Now, do you mean the rapper Jimmy Buffet or the hard-drinking cheeseburger enthusiast?
Either or they’d kill everybody else and rule solo
Good luck with that, you kriffing nerfherder!
Yes
Don’t sleep on Buffett’s streed cred:“I’ve done a bit of smuggling / I’ve run my share of grass /
I made enough money to buy Miami / but I pissed it away so fast”
I mean, Jimmy Buffett realized probably 20 years before anyone else that there was such a thing as a lifestyle artist and said lifestyle should revolve around Caribbean vacations. Like Ibiza for boomers.
Ibiza IS Ibiza for boomers.
The Heinz 57’s.
The white supremacist one.
He also testified that Cardi B was a member of the wider Bloods organization.
Thank you for the clarification about which Jim Jones you were talking about. I’m a lot more familiar with Guyana Jimbo, so I was thinking that was one of the more interesting posthumous Jim Jones revelations I’ve heard.
Also, editor talking here, but I feel like “popular” is a poor choice of words to use for Jim Jones. Is he really a popular cult leader or, you know, an infamous one?
Oh, he’s very popular, Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, Bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads—they all adore him. They think he’s a righteous dude.
He always brings fun, spiked beverages to parties, too. . . . Real considerate guy!
+1 day off
So is Rap the new Wrestlemania?
Man, the balls on this dude.
But are we sure Peoples Temple leader Jim Jones wasn’t a Blood? He was a communist, so red would have been his color, and like many rappers, he was fond of inexpensive drink mixes.
He was also down with the urban demographics. A lot of the early success of the People’s Temple was from courting congregants from black churches in and around Indianapolis.
He actually did a lot of good in his early days, feeding the poor and running busses to get people out to vote in poor black neighborhoods.. If he hadn’t spiralled the way he did, he might’ve been seen as an important figure in civil rights today.
I want you to give my eulogy.
Speed and ego are a helluva drug.
♫♪ There ain’t no party like a Jim Jones party,‘cause a Jim Jones party don’t ♫♪
Needs more stars.
SixNine is going to get Epsteined in prison real fast.
I had a definite old man moment here, because I could have sworn this guy was dead. I must have mixed him up with XXXTentacion.
Give it a few months ^^
It’s fine. There’s really no need to differentiate one soundcloud rapper from the next. Just avoid anything Lil and you’ll be happier.
Grouchy, but not bad. Looks like it was made before things got really, really strange with the lil and yung crowd
It’s masta ace, of course it’s grouchy 😉 but more funny than anything, I love lyrics with a gimmick. And yes, it’s pre-soundcloud trap methinks. But anytime anyone mentions how there are a million Lils, it just makes me think of it.
I truly know very little about this dude or his ilk but I’ve dismissed his as trash culture that should be disregarded if not discarded.But then I think that this is exactly how my parents generation felt about Run-DMC, Public Enemy and a bunch of other rap/hip-hop shit that was always artistically viable, yet dismissed out of hand by my elders for myriad reasons. No… it’s the children who are out of touch, I’m sure of it.
Every time I read about this stuff I feel like Abe Simpson
Yo, fuck them slobs!
This is a part of the pop culture world that I am mostly unfamiliar with, but what are the chances this man is going to be killed?
Passed around like a flesh light, then killed.
I…um…people pass around fleshlights? Pardon me while I go vomit forever.
My knowledge of prison etiquette is limited to none.
He’ll be fine, on account of his ability to blend in with a crowd.
Low.If they haven’t hit him or his family members by now, when they could prevent or frighten him into not testifying, it won’t happen now.If he gets taken out, it will be by a wannabe or clout-chaser.
When I get a minute, I’m going to check out the Vegas line on this shitstain. The over/under is obviously six weeks, but I’ll be looking to play exotics beyond circumstance of death (probably stabbing–but number of wounds is up for play) like what is found in his rectum/who takes credit for it/who makes the first hit track about the act/how high that hit charts. Find me over at Deadspin.
There’s a pretty good history of these people being protected, at least until the news stories have passed. If people regularly got murdered in witness protection programs, no one would snitch anymore.
The Pere Ubu guitarist?
I don’t think they’r going to renew his membership when it comes up.
There seems to be a typo in the headline. It should read “Rapist Tekashi…”. Silly mistake.
(To be clear, by the way, we’re talking about the rapper Jim Jones from The Diplomats, not the popular cult leader and murderer.)Oh thank god. For a minute I thought you were talking about the main guy in My Morning Jacket, and he’s not even named Jim Jones!
I see stitches in your future Mr. 6ix9ine.
SHAGGY: It wasn’t me6IX9INE: Yes it was(credit: Joe Proctor)
What I love about only seeing this name in print and never actually hearing it spoken aloud is that in my head it is pronounced “Teh-KAH-shee Six-IX-nine-EEN”.
See also: Ecks-ecks-ecks Ten-tah-see-OWN.
I think you’re right about XXX
What would you do when your life is over?
While you sitting in your jail cell sober,
All you wanna do is be home in the sofa
You’d probly drop some names when they say “who told ya”?
But if them names get dropped it mean you aint a soldier
behind Bars, hard to keep your composure
Fed lawyer look you in the face and ask “why”
and You’ll say “I thought it was cool at the time”
http://indegenius.net/6ix-9ine