New Delhi, India

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine has struck a deal to get out of jail. He’s agreed to serve a month behind bars for violating the terms of his release after a felony conviction. The prosecutors revealed that he struck a deal in a letter partially endorsed by a Manhattan federal judge. 

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The letter states that the entertainer has asked for a sentence of a month followed by a month of home incarceration, a month of home detention and a month of curfew. He has also agreed to become subject to electronic monitoring.

Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said he will sentence the performer right after he admits to the violations at a November 12 hearing. Rapper Tekashi was born as Daniel Hernandez. He said he would require each side to explain why a one-month jail sentence followed by three months of home incarceration, detention or curfew is sufficient for repeated violations of probation.

According to the letter submitted, Tekashi has also agreed to submit to supervision from the court's Probation Department for another year.

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Tekashi 6ix9ine recent arrest

Tekashi 6ix9ine was arrested on October 29 after his probation officer complained that the performer wasn’t following rules about obtaining permission in advance to travel. The rapper had also failed drug tests. It had just been a few months of him being free from court supervision. 

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It was in 2019 when Tekashi was sentenced to two years in prison in a racketeering case after the musician pleaded guilty that same year to charges accusing him of joining and directing violence by the gang known as the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.

In April 2020, Tekashi 6ix9ine was freed months early from his prison sentence after complaining that his ailments made him particularly susceptible to the coronavirus. The coronavirus pandemic had started spreading all around the world with people falling sick fatally. 

Meanwhile, Tekashi has since then failed to comply with the court’s rules. At a hearing last month, Engelmayer, expressing dismay at the artist's failure to follow the rules even though he was granted compassionate release to him during the coronavirus crisis.

The rapper apologised and told the judge he was “not a bad person.”