In another clip, the other man gropes the girl. In the same clip, Hernandez is present as the other man forces the girl to make oral contact with his genitals. In one, Hernandez stands behind the fully nude girl “making a thrusting motion with his pelvis and smacking her on her buttocks,” per the criminal complaint. The charges stem from videos Hernandez circulated on social media in February 2015 in which he appears with an underage girl and a separately charged adult man. Three years ago, the artist born Daniel Hernandez, then 18, pleaded guilty to the use of a child in a sexual performance. Rap is, as Jon Caramanica wrote in The New York Times earlier this year, “a genre in which tolerance of complicated histories tends to be high, and in which skepticism about institutions like law enforcement can reframe someone accused of a crime as an anti-authoritarian folk hero.”įor some, 6ix9ine’s transgressions are impossible to reframe. Nowhere is the “bad men making good art” debate more fraught than in hip-hop, where misbehavior is often celebrated. There are myriad reasons to hate the first new rap star of 2018, but he is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. He is a shameless troll whose power of attraction is woven in his ability to repel. His past includes a guilty plea to a child-related sexual misconduct charge his present has been marred by violence, real and threatened. He is undeniably an artist on the rise, and improbably, the rapper poised to bring New York back.Ħix9ine is also a pariah, an outrage magnet for our outrage culture. 6ix9ine’s debut mixtape, Day69, which dropped last Friday, is projected to land in the top five on the Billboard album chart next week. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100, followed by the equally menacing singles “Kooda” and “Keke,” both of which also charted. Released last October, “Gummo” reached as high as no. 6ix9ine’s performative rage recalls Onyx or M.O.P., though his flamboyant style is born of the SoundCloud era. He has the rainbow coif and face tattoos of his new-school contemporaries but none of their torpid, drug-induced languor. The 21-year-old rapper is of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage and resembles an anime character adopted by Bloods: half killer, half kawaii. The sum effect of the track, at under three minutes, is effortlessly sinister.Īnd then there’s 6ix9ine himself. 6ix9ine’s lyrics aren’t particularly clever, but they are slickly delivered and catchy. While the aggressive threats may seem mundane, the song’s cohesive package-the cold open, the uneven structure, the sparseness of the beat, the darkness of the visuals-shows signs of a confident vision. “Gummo” is a boastful, gun-heavy street anthem from the borough that practically invented the form.

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