
Tekashi 6ix9ine’s ‘GOOBA’ became the most-watched hip-hop video on YouTube in a 24hour period.

You’ve gotta respect it – obviously I don’t respect him… actually, I don’t want to get into that, but I respect when it comes to what he’s done with the music.” “He has so much hype around him that it makes sense he would be getting 200 million-plus views on YouTube. “Everything he does is attention-grabbing,” says KSI, a YouTube star with more than 30 million subscribers across two accounts on the platform, who recently reached Number Two in the UK charts with his hip-hop album ‘Dissimulation’. The rapper later told his 21 million followers, in extreme close-up, that it was delayed until this Friday (June 5). Two weeks after ‘GOOBA’ was released, 6ix9ine shared an Instagram post in which he promised, a kitten in each hand, that his next single and video would “break the internet”. Because social media plays into that so much, the entire scenario reads like a continuous Twitter thread – you’re always tuned in even when the music isn’t there.” “So much of that is the story element around him. “6ix9ine had been building momentum for what that moment would be,” says Kathy Iandoli, a New Jersey-based hip-hop writer whose book God Save The Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-hopwas published by Harper Collins last year. At the time of writing, the YouTube views of ‘GOOBA’ stand at more than 279 million. In a brief but telling jump cut, acknowledging that he outraged members of the hip-hop community by ‘ratting’, he transforms into a cartoon rodent. On May 8, 43 million people tuned in to see the face-tatted social media celebrity, on house arrest and fresh from prison after an astonishing and highly publicized legal case that saw him offer authorities information on a New York gang, flash his ankle bracelet and give an obnoxious grin. The typically nonsensical track is one-part generic trap song and three-parts Fatman Scoop, and its video – 6ix9ine leering at paint-splattered women in a bland studio somewhere – duly became the most-watched hip-hop video on YouTube in a 24-hour period. Last month saw the rapper, whose criminal record makes for truly depressing reading and who is better known as Tekashi 6ix9ine, release the gaudy comeback single ‘GOOBA’. International Business Times couldn't independently verify the information.At just 24 years old, Daniel Hernandez is most hate-watched man in the world. Meanwhile, an eyewitness said that he was "drunk, he was inebriated, and he was out of control." "He was heavily intoxicated and interrupting other guests' experience," an unnamed source told Page Six. Over the weekend, Tekashi faced another controversy after he got booted out of the LoanDepot Park baseball stadium in Miami because of causing a disturbance among fans and being "heavily intoxicated." Though his ankle monitor got removed, Hernandez still had to serve 300 hours of community service. He was required to inform a probation officer if he was to leave a state of the country, including travels and work-related ventures such as recording sessions, another TMZ report stated. In 2020, the rapper was freed from probation and put on a five-year supervised release. A year later, he was released on probation after a judge called him a "model prisoner." Federal Reserve System - to ensure that he gets protection after his prison sentence was shortened due to his cooperation with federal officials to imprison his gang member cohorts back in 2019.Īt the time, Hernandez was sentenced to two years in prison, facing nine criminal charges, including racketeering, drug trafficking, and firearm offenses concerning his involvement with the Nine Trey Bloods gang, according to Variety. Lazzaro also revealed that he plans to approach the federal reserve police - a law enforcement unit under the control of the U.S.

But the outlet noted that he also sustained injuries to the jaw, ribs and back.

It remains unclear if Hernandez is still in the hospital. Authorities and the emergency medical services (EMS) were immediately called to the scene, and the rapper was transported to a local hospital via ambulance. Hernandez's attorney Lance Lazzaro told the outlet that the "MALA" rapper tried to fight off the assailants but struggled because they were too many. I'm going to be famous."Įlsewhere in the video, the "MALA" rapper was approached by a fan before he walked out of the gym, suffering from several cuts and bruises, most notably on the face. One man could also be heard saying, "Take a picture. The video showed two men kicking Hernandez's body and pulling his hair.
