Legal disputes and criminal charges in the hip-hop community often cannot be resolved through out-of-court settlements and typically result in long-term incarceration for those involved.

“There is no pleading out. It's either life or you beat it.”

He argues that rappers should work with media instead of acting tough to avoid negative consequences and to control their own public narrative.

“I tell artists like the art mad artists want to be like play card and that who appears to not deal with the media. I talk to people play card all the time. Every artist who who act like they're not on the internet, they know how to deal with the media in a roundabout way.”

Tekashi 6ix9ine is unlikely to face significant additional jail time for his current violations because he is classified as high-profile and will be kept away from the general prison population.

“No. he's going into federal um he going to go up there high power wherever that is and he's already classified so they're not going to throw him anywhere around uh you know where the active politics is going on like the last time he was there”