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Tekashi 6ix9ine's beef with Trippie Redd is well-known, but now he's opening up about the gritty details about the former collaborators' downfall.
In an interview DJ Vlad posted on Saturday, September 20, the controversial rapper told the story of how he first connected with Trippie on their 2017 song, “Poles 1469.” Their friendship lasted a few months before a video surfaced online that seemingly showed 6ix9ine groping a 13-year-old girl. Trippie called the New York rapper a pedophile in a viral video. 6ix9ine responded by dissing Trippie in his breakthrough hit "Gummo," and admitted he stole the beat from him.
"You know 'Gummo' is a Trippie Redd diss right?" 6ix9ine said about the Pi'erre Bourne-produced track. "I stole that s**t. That's what I do."
The song dropped a couple of months after 6ix9ine ordered his friends to beat up Trippie Redd. The infamous attack happened in front of the Gansevoort Hotel in New York in November 2017. 6ix9ine explained that he got a call about Trippie Redd being in the area and proceeded to follow him to his hotel. He said he and three others pulled up on Trippie, who was surrounded by 30 people, some with cameras.
"The people who beat up Trippie, that was us," 6ix9ine explained. "I was there. I was on the court. I pled guilty to it."
“N***as rocked Trippie's grills out his mouth, like his grills flew 10 feet in the air,” he continued. “That n***a went through the revolving doors. He came in spinning and left spinning. I'm serious."
6ix9ine testified about the incident during his racketeering trial in 2019. At the time, he explained that Trippie's manager invited him to a video shoot so that they could squash their beef, but 6ix9ine had other plans. Watch him tell the story in his own words below.