6ix9ine Shares Why Homeless Father Won't Be Getting Any of His Money

In a conversation with DJ Akademiks, Tekashi 6ix9ine has said that he refuses to give money to his estranged father, who also happens to be homeless.

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In a conversation with DJ Akademiks, Tekashi 6ix9ine has said that he refuses to give money to his estranged father, who also happens to be homeless.

6ix9ine is known to flash his cash, constantly flaunting his wealth in front of fans and critics alike, but the controversial rapper’s dad hasn’t seen any of it. Earlier this month the rapper’s father Daniel Hernandez, who shares the same name as his son, said that he was frustrated he had not received support from 6ix9ine.

“I don’t have no… apartment,” he said. “He don’t know that I’m in the shelter. Now he’s gonna know… I’ve been here for, what, two years already? … [You’d] think he’d come up and hook me up with something. He gives money to everybody—here, here, here, here.” 

In 6ix9ine’s latest chat with DJ Akademiks, 6ix9ine explained his reasoning for not providing funds to his father. "Everybody knows I was abandoned at birth. Everybody knows that my biological father abandoned me at birth," explained 6ix9ine. "Right now, he's in a shelter smoking crack. The story of me not giving money to a crackhead who abandoned me at birth is getting more publicity than the positive things. Why? Because it's a trend to hate me."

He suggested that the story of him not giving money to his father was spurred by people’s desire to hate him, or as he put it: “It’s like a trend to hate me.”

Hernandez made a brief appearance during 6ix9ine’s long-winded trial in 2019, which the rapper says was also the last time he saw him. “[He was] trying to help me for what?" said 6ix9ine. "So I could be free and give him money? The narrative will always be, like, let's make Tekashi 6ix9ine like the worst human being in the world but just look at it the way [they] want to look at it… Like, ‘Oh my god, his father is in the shelter, and Tekashi doesn’t give a fuck about him and just gives money to everybody else but his dad."

After it was reported that Tekashi 6ix9ine’s father was struggling to make ends meet, the rapper’s rival Lil Reese chimed in with a since-deleted tweet. “Where his daddy at I give him some money,” wrote Reese, who has been going back and forth with 6ix9ine for years at this point. As recently as May, the rainbow-haired rapper took aim at Reese after he was involved in a shooting in a Chicago parking lot.

Watch the interview with 6ix9ine above.

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