6ix9ine, once famously a cooperating witness in a racketeering case, has some thoughts about Young Thug's recently unearthed interrogation tape, believing it should be met with far more criticism than it is.
Earlier this week, two-year-old audio leaked where a man who appears to be Young Thug is asked by police about a series of reported crimes that his associates or former associates were allegedly involved in. During the nearly two-hour clip, he name-drops multiple people, including Peewee Roscoe, who was accused of shooting at Lil Wayne's tour bus in 2015.
In the aftermath of the audio seeing the light of day, Thug has had both supporters (including Roscoe himself, who downplayed the audio) and detractors, but many Atlanta rappers have not yet commented.
That alone was enough to set off 6ix9ine. On Friday (August 29), he unleashed a series of Instagram Stories about the situation. He was upset, among other things, about the fact that he had faced so much criticism for testifying in 2019 against Nine Trey Blood members who he felt had wronged him ("I never told on my friends," he explained — a difference, in his view, from Thug); while few stars have so far criticized the YSL leader.
"Why everybody so quiet?" 6ix9ine asked, tagging Lil Baby, Future, and 21 Savage. "When all the songs coming out calling ya man Spider a rat?"
"Where all the energy from the rap community?" he continued. "Y'all waiting and hoping this to blow over? Hoping and praying people forget?"
He elaborated on those ideas in several videos.
"The Young Thug situation, I stood quiet two days just watching it play out," he began. "Watching what excuses the people come up with. Every time a n***a come out, y'all move the goalposts further."
He continued: "Where's all the energy at? Why's everybody quiet?"
When it comes to testifying against fellow gang members, 6ix9ine explained, "I wear my shit. I wore my shit from day one. Yeah, I did it. And what? I'm outside."
For more about the case in which 6ix9ine testified, check out the book Complex Presents Dummy Boy: Tekashi 6ix9ine and the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.
