When Nicki Minaj comes through on “Trollz,” her verse, despite being rushed (by her own admission), is a breath of fresh air. The humor and mischievousness that powered his early hits is gone. Instead, all he delivers is laments about people trying to “break me down.” He sings about people who are “crying again” because he’s “fresh out the can,” but there’s no life in it. On TattleTales, though, the energy is gone. 6ix9ine has, since the beginning of his career, been obsessed with nameless “haters.” But that sense of persecution was always balanced with fun and joy, a sort of delight in being outrageous and trolling people. But instead, it mostly gives us victimhood. But for someone whose whole career ascent was based on danger, toughness, and gang ties, to have such obvious lies is distracting.īut that would be a minor quibble if the project had other things to offer. Rappers lie about guns all the time, certainly. ‘TattleTales’ is 13 songs in search of a reason to exist. When he revisits the theme by “rid with a black four-four” at the end of the record on “Ava,” it isn’t any more convincing. 6ix9ine boasts in the opening seconds of “Tutu” that he “tote this pistol when wants to.” It’s an interesting line when you remember that he’s on supervised release for the next five years, and according to its terms, “must not own, possess, or have access to a firearm, ammunition, destructive device, or dangerous weapon.” Even tasers are off-limits (although apparently flamethrowers are okay).
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It makes sense that he used Instagram Live to turn his life and career into a reality TV show.Īs soon as the halfway introspection of “Locked Up 2” is complete, the record’s most glaring issues become apparent. While he eventually bent to music business dictates and put out a project (and later a proper album that ended up being released while he was behind bars) 6ix9ine, as an artist and as a phenomenon, has always been focused on visuals. He recorded songs and made videos for them as fast as he could, sometimes remaking old tracks when he didn’t have new ones ready. The incongruity of someone who looked like a SoundCloud rapper talking Bloody with a bunch of Nine Trey members confused, amused, and angered enough people to make the rapper a near-overnight celebrity.Īfter rocketing to stardom with “Gummo,” 6ix9ine stuck to his plan.
And it was, after all, a video that launched 6ix9ine to stardom. But yo, my videos,” is what his former manager revealed 6ix9ine said to him in their very first meeting (you can hear more of his memories from that conversation here). In his early career, the two were synonymous-there was no such thing as a song without a visual attached. He has always cared about videos far more than music. An album by 6ix9ine, however much hype may surround it, is really an afterthought.
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