New Docuseries Yet Another Hit Piece on Tekashi 6ix9ine

Tekashi 6ix9ine’s roller coaster ride of a life will get yet another scathing, scrutinizing, and incomplete examination in a new, three part docu-series on Showtime. Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine puts the infamous rapper/professional internet troll under the magnifying glass, chronicling everything from his ascent to super stardom to his legal battles.

The director of the docu-series, Karam Gill, recently came out publicly to rail against Tekashi, saying that the rainbow-haired rapper is “truly a horrible human being with no morals or talent — but a social media mastermind with an uncanny ability to spark a reaction.”

“I think viewers will be shocked to realize how hyper calculated the rapper is. I was surprised to find out how much of a social media mastermind [Tekashi] truly was. His understanding of how human beings operate on these platforms is incredible,” Supervillain director Karam Gill told the New York Post. “Tekashi was someone who never did anything online on accident. Every click, word and action online was designed with care to spark a reaction.”

This is now the second major documentary hit piece on the young rapper, following Hulu’s 69: The Saga Of Danny Hernandez – for which I had a very passive aggressive conversation with the director of Vikram Gandhi, and which you can watch below.

And like Gandhi, Gill did not interview Tekashi for a documentary about Tekashi. Unlike Gandhi, whose film features a scene where he sends off an email request for an interview only to be denied by Tekashi’s manager, Gill does not even attempt to reach out to the subject of his film. “I have never met him nor spoken with him,” Gill, whose credits include the rap doc Ice Cold, says. “The interview we have in the film is from unreleased post-prison tapes that our larger production team acquired.”

Tekashi (real name Daniel Hernandez) was sentenced in 2018 to two years behind bars for racketeering and other charges. He is constantly portrayed as a “snitch” for “turning” on the gang members who kidnapped and extorted him, along with one gang member who was having an affair with Tekashi’s girlfriend (and mother of his kid) Sarah Molina during the time of his set up. Upon his release from prison, Tekashi announced his return to music with a Times Square billboard promoting a new single recorded under home confinement. The tune, “GOOBA,” broke YouTube’s record for the most-watched hip-hop video in a 24-hour span.

On Sunday, a long-simmering beef between Tekashi and Philly rapper Meek Mill reportedly nearly came to blows in an Atlanta parking lot, and both parties posted video footage of the incident from their perspectives.

Showtime’s “Supervillain” series debuts Feb. 21 at 10 pm.