Tekashi 6ix9ine’s comeback was crushed when a judge sent him to prison for drug use and travel infractions

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, will spend 45 days in federal jail after acknowledging that he broke the terms of his supervised release from a previous racketeering conviction.

Court filings state that Tekashi violated five different laws, including failing necessary drug tests, traveling without authorization, and testing positive for methamphetamines. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer chastised the rapper before punishment, saying that the violations showed a conviction that “the rules don’t apply to you.”

Tekashi’s legal background is expanded by this sentence. Tekashi was found guilty in 2019 for his involvement in the violent Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods gang in New York. He cooperated with the prosecution, entered a guilty plea, and was sentenced to two years in jail and five years of supervised release. Despite being released from home confinement early in 2020 because of health issues during the COVID-19 epidemic, he was nonetheless under monitoring when the fresh infractions surfaced.

Given these most recent infractions, the judge prolonged Tekashi’s supervised release period, imposed home-detention and curfew phases after the prison sentence, and stressed that any additional misbehavior could result in even worse punishments.