Tekashi 6ix9ine has surrendered for a three-month jail sentence.
The rapper, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, was sentenced for probation violations following a plea deal in his federal racketeering and firearms case.
Hernandez gave himself up to the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn to begin his prison stint.
The facility is the only federal jail in New York City, and currently houses Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, as well as Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing health insurance boss Brian Thompson.
The event was live-streamed by Hernandez’s friend, internet star Adin Ross, as reported by Rolling Stone. During the nearly two-hour-long stream, the rapper was surrounded by friends.
“Thank you guys so much, see you in 3 months,” he wrote in an Instagram post of the clip.
The sentence is the second time Hernandez has been ordered back behind bars, and stems from a pair of incidents the artist was involved in last year while still under supervised release following his involvement in a New York gang case.
In 2018, Hernandez was arrested on racketeering and firearm charges related to his involvement with the Nine Trey Bloods gang. After initially pleading not guilty, Hernandez, facing 32 years to life in prison, entered into a plea deal in February 2019 and pleaded guilty to nine charges, admitting that he had ordered a Nine Trey member to shoot at someone in a rival gang.
The rapper, who took the internet by storm in the late 2010s as a major streaming act, has been embroiled in a long list of controversies and legal issues for the past decade.
