Hip Hop Uncensored Podcast

Tekashi 6ix9ine’s former manager Shotti will be sentenced by a judge this week and prosecutors want him locked up for 15 years. According to court documents obtained by The Blast, prosecutors are laying out their case prior to Shotti’s (real name: Kifano Jordan) sentencing, which is scheduled for September 6. Shotti was arrested on federal charges around the same time Tekashi was locked up for the same crimes. In their motion they argue, “The defendant was a high-ranking member of the racketeering enterprise known as the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods (“Nine Trey”).” It seems that there is a big difference between JAY-Z the rapper and Shawn Carter, the kid from Marcy Projects. And within that space between those two realities, a philosophy of what causes police brutality has emerged from the RocNation head honcho. Depending on who you ask, this mindset is the undercurrent that supports his new controversial and complicatedly secret partnership with the National Football League. It is also why so many people ha