That shooting, he added, occurred in Manhattan. On 2 June last year, he said, he “paid a person to shoot at a rival member of Nine Trey to scare him”. The rapper said he also helped other gang members rob people at gunpoint as part of a pledge by new gang members to commit at least two crimes. He said he also “knew that another member of Nine Trey had a gun and discharged that gun”. “I did this to maintain or increase my own standing in Nine Trey,” he told Judge Paul A Engelmayer. In 2015, he was sentenced to probation for appearing in a video in which a 13-year-old girl performed a sex act on another man.ĭuring the plea, 6ix9ine said he joined the Nine Trey Blood Gang in fall 2017 and helped gang members try to kill a rival last March. He pleaded guilty in Brooklyn to disorderly conduct in connection with a May traffic stop. He publicly identified himself as a member of a street gang. It was a formula, a blueprint I found that worked.But he also seemed intent on ruining his prospects for runaway, entertainment world success. The “gang image,” he said, was beneficial to him because, “That’s what people like. Speaking with Jamel “Mel Murda” Jones, a high-ranking member of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods, Jones criticized Hernandez and said he should be “violated.”ĭuring his first day on the stand, Hernandez spoke at length about his role with the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods, stating that he owed the group his career. Hernandez distanced himself from the gang just days before his arrest in November, a move that apparently angered Jones, judging by a recorded phone called played in court on Thursday.
In addition to Cardi B, Hernandez also identified rapper Jim Jones as being a fellow gang member, the New York Daily News reports.
The United Blood Nation – or East Coast Bloods – is an offshoot of the Bloods, a West Coast gang founded in Los Angeles in 1972 in response to another local gang, the Crips, according to one timeline established by PBS’ “Independent Lens.” It was formed at New York’s Rikers Island prison complex in 1993, one FBI agent confirmed under sworn oath in 2013. Both men, as well as Hernandez, are rumored members of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods - a set, or faction, of the United Blood Nation gang, whose members are primarily located along the East Coast.
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Hernandez has been on the stand now for several days during the trial of two of his former associates, Anthony “Harv” Ellison and Aljermiah “Nuke” Mack. You gotta be at work till 9:30 p.m., and you cannot go to a powwow because you at work. Sometimes these people are gonna expect you to be at meetings when you have a job. “If somebody was to tell me right now, 'I want to join a gang,' I would tell them that it's a waste of your money, it's a waste of your time,” she said. She went on to say that she mentions her gang affiliation because it’s “something that been doing for a long time,” but she wouldn’t recommend that any young people follow in her footsteps. You don't leave.”Ĭardi, whose real name is Belcalis Almanzar, compared gang life to being in a fraternity or sorority, but also said that, “sometimes there is no loyalty,” and members of the same gang will turn on each other. And something that - it's not like, oh, you leave. “And they'd say, ‘Yo, you really get it poppin.' You should come home. “I used to pop off with my homies,” she continued. I didn’t pay attention,” he reportedly said.Īmid long-held speculation, Cardi B confirmed her connections to the Bloods during an interview with GQ last year, admitting that she used to “hang out with a lot of Bloods.” However, Hernandez, who said during an earlier testimony that he included gang members in his music videos in order to build his career, denied that he copied the “Bodak Yellow” rapper by doing so. Speaking in Manhattan federal court under cross-examination on Thursday, Hernandez included Cardi B’s name when listing gang members, Page Six reports. His latest bombshell delivered on the stand? Naming rapper Cardi B as a member of the gang he ran with. The 23-year-old rapper, born Daniel Hernandez, agreed to work with the prosecution after he and other multiple gang members were collared on racketeering and firearms charges, and he spent the past few days outlining his role in the gang - which was that of financial supporter - as well as speaking openly about the group’s illegal dealings during his testimony. During his third consecutive day on the stand, rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine claimed that Cardi B is also a member of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods gang.