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Rapper 6ix9ine has had a $200,000 (£163,000) donation to a children’s charity rejected.

The No Kid Hungry campaign said it has a policy of rejecting funding from donors who do not fit with its values.

The rapper, who was recently in prison for crimes he carried out as part of a violent gang before making a successful comeback, called the decision “cruel”.

The Brooklyn rapper had evaded jail time on previous charges, including child sex offences in 2015.

In a now-deleted Instagram post, 6ix9ine, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, announced he was donating $200,000 to the campaign, which seeks to solve problems of hunger and poverty in the US.

But Share Our Strength, the non-profit organisation that runs the campaign, told the BBC it had declined the controversial rapper’s offer.

“We are grateful for Mr Hernandez’s generous offer to donate to No Kid Hungry but we have informed his representatives that we have declined this donation,” it said.

“As a child-focused campaign, it is our policy to decline funding from donors whose activities do not align with our mission and values.”

The rapper responded on Instagram that he had “never seen something so cruel”. He has since deleted the post.

6ix9ine has been making headlines in the last week for an explosive return to the spotlight after being released from prison early as part of a nationwide effort to stem the coronavirus outbreak in US jails.

He broke the all-time record for an Instagram live stream, with more than two million people tuning in at one point. His new track Gooba has racked up 120 million views on YouTube in just four days.

Last year, the 24-year-old pleaded guilty to a series of gang robberies and shootings.

At his 2019 trial, the rapper initially denied the charges against him but entered a plea bargain, giving evidence against other gang members in order to get a reduced sentence after potentially facing a maximum of life in prison.

He testified against former members of Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.

The offences 6ix9ine was charged with include racketeering, carrying a firearm, assault with a dangerous weapon, and conspiracy murder charges.

In 2015 he pleaded guilty to an incident involving a “sexual performance” with a 13-year-old girl and was ordered to serve a four-year-probation sentence following legal problems that followed the case.

Source: bbc.com

Fresh out of prison and in home confinement, rapper Tekashi69 destroyed the Instagram live viewership record, as two million users watched him sound off, diss the haters and promote a new song.

It was a birthday party rant of sorts for the braggadocious star who turned 24 Friday, weeks after his early release from prison due to the rapidly spreading coronavirus.

Tekashi was sentenced in December to two years in prison on racketeering, firearms and drug trafficking charges. He is serving the remainder of his sentence, up in August, under government surveillance at home.77

That didn’t stop the artist known for his face tattoos and technicolor braids from jumping on Instagram to push his first post-prison track “Gooba,” while flaunting his jaw-dropping testimony against former gang associates.

“Y’all could never cooperate with the government and come back — I’m a living legend,” the blinged-out rapper said as viewership of the live hit the two million mark.

He shattered previous Instagram records held by Drake and Tory Lanez, who amassed over 310,000 viewers in March, and an R&B battle between Babyface and Teddy Riley that pulled in some half a million last month.

“A rat like me to come home and do more numbers than you? I would be mad too,” said Tekashi, whose lawyer had dubbed him a “target” for reprisal attacks from associates furious that he “snitched” in court.

The young American rapper born Daniel Hernandez received a lenient sentence after agreeing to a plea deal that required him to take the stand against members of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.

The artist pinned his fame — he went viral after release of his debut single “Gunmo” in late 2017 — to street cred over his gang involvement.

He rapped with Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods wearing trademark red bandanas in the video for “Gunmo” — but turned on his former associates as a star witness in the sweeping trial.

During three days of testimony Tekashi casually detailed everything from gang attacks to the organization’s leadership web and the gang affiliations of other rappers including Jim Jones and Cardi B.

His cooperation spared him a possible life sentence.

The notion of witness protection was floated considering the furor his testimony stoked among gangs — but Tekashi appears set on picking up where he left off.

This week, a giant billboard with his image went up in Times Square — deserted as most of New York is ordered to stay home amid the pandemic — to promote “Gooba” and its accompanying video that sees him show off his ankle bracelet.

In his rant Tekashi defended his decision to cooperate with federal authorities and thanked the judge for letting him come home.

He closed the record-breaking live by saying that “I appreciate every little thing and i didn’t do nothin’ wrong.”

“I didn’t need all that beef,” before returning to his confident airs with an expletive flex: “I’m the biggest artist in the… world.”

Source: france24.com