6ix9ine and Trippie Redd have been beefing for years.
While the pair were initially collaborators and friends, their relationship devolved after their April 2017 song, “Poles 1469.” Later that year, after a video surfaced of 6ix9ine appearing to grope a 13-year-old, Trippie denounced the rapper and called him a “pedophile.”
That didn’t sit well with Tekashi, ultimately leading to him having people attack Trippie at the Gansevoort Hotel in New York in November 2017.
“The people who beat up Trippie, that was us,” 6ix9ine told DJ Vlad when asked about the incident, adding that he “pled guilty to this shit.”
“The n***a has a music video. I get the call. ‘The n***a's here.’ I said, ‘All right, bet. I'm on my way,’” 69 added, describing what happened.
“I follow the n***a. He in a big ass sprinter,” he continued. “He stops in front of his hotel. N***as jump out. … All his mans, they fake Bloods from wherever the fuck they at. When a n***a see Trippie, remember Trippie's in the midst of…30 people. It's four of us.”
“N***as rocked Trippie's grills out his mouth, like his grills flew 10 feet in the air,” 6ix9ine described. “That n***a went through the revolving doors. He came in spinning and left spinning. I'm serious,” he recalled, comparing the moment to an episode of the Tom & Jerry cartoon.
“N***as rocked him, bro. Like I said, people don't like me ‘cause it's facts. Cool. Now they're going to say, ‘Look, there he go snitching.’ These is facts,” 6ix9ine said.
Vlad then showed a clip of Trippie detailing the attack on Instagram Live, and a video of 6ix9ine telling Trippie to “stop snitching.”
In 2019, during the “Gummo” rapper’s federal racketeering case, he testified to orchestrating the attack on Trippie. “We attacked him at his hotel,” 6ix9ine said of the incident in court, per Vulture.
He explained that Trippie’s manager called and said they wanted to “squash the beef” and “online verbal attacks," but 6ix9ine was still “upset.” Regardless, Trippie’s manager invited him to the video shoot, and 6ix9ine took it as an opportunity to exact his revenge.
The racketeering trial ended with 6ix9ine pleading guilty to nine counts of racketeering, conspiracy, and weapons-related offenses. He was later sentenced to 24 months in prison.