The reasons behind 6ix9ine's absence from the public eye

One day in the summer of 2017, Daniel Hernandez, better known as the rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, appeared outside a Brooklyn row house to shoot the video that would make him a star, and eventually ruin his life. Against the menacing strains of his viral hit “Gummo,” he and a crowd of men in red bandannas danced, waved guns and made cryptic symbols with their hands. In his brief career, Tekashi 6ix9ine captured America’s attention with an escalating series of provocations and controversies. And there are a lot of things the rapper has done that either put him in jail for a really really long time.