Judge Paul A. Engelmayer ordered the artist, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, to spend an additional five years behind bars after handing him a two-year prison sentence that could have potentially brought him decades if he had not testified at trial against the violent gang. Till then he remained behind bars. Known as the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.

The Manhattan judge said the five violations of probation rules included failing to show up for a drug test, traveling from his Florida home to Las Vegas without permission and lying to his probation officer “Tell me loud and clear That you don’t believe the rules “apply to you.”

He questioned whether Tekashi 6ix9ine, 28, thought he was above the law “Maybe because you’re a famous and rich rapper.”

“But the same rules apply to you,” Engelmayer said.

Before the judge announced the prison sentence, Tekashi 6ix9ine asked for mercy, saying he was disappointed in himself for having to face him again just half a year before his probation was to end.

“I’m very sorry,” he said. “I am not minimizing my actions. I take full responsibility. I disappointed myself. I disappointed my family. Give me a chance to clear things up.”

He said he did not want judges “to think I’m a bad person or that I’m a bad person,” and he stressed that “I don’t go out of my way to break the law.”

After his prison term ends, Tekashi 6ix9ine will be subjected to one month of home confinement, one month of home detention, and one month of curfew, in addition to a one-year extension in his probation period. He also will not be allowed to travel internationally and will face electronic monitoring.

In April 2020, Tekashi 6ix9ine was granted compassionate release from prison several months before the end of his sentence because asthma made him vulnerable to the coronavirus, which was spreading in the country’s prisons and jails.

He was arrested on 29 October and has spent the past two weeks in solitary confinement, a particularly harsh detention which the judge described as a reason why he did not impose a three-month prison sentence.

In 2018, Tekashi 6ix9ine was arrested and accused of joining the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods before trying to incite others to commit violence against their perceived enemies.

Engelmayer said that the singer’s parole violations were not “grossly serious”, but that they were a “profound” violation of the trust of the court.

He also said that Tekashi 6ix9ine has “repeatedly flown too close to the flame” as he cited two instances in which he was arrested in the Dominican Republic for speeding at 136 mph in a 65 mph zone. There was a speeding violation to go.

“Your repeated disregard for the law underlines the need to convey this message to you,” the judge said.

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