Chapter 1: What does Tekashi 6ix9ine think about his past and faith?
i don't think i'm going to heaven i think i failed god i think i failed the church i'm up because i'm living in a thing where i'm trying to keep everything together my family's happiness my happiness me being me me wanting to seek more and more and more and god is saying when are you gonna get enough what do you want i don't know
What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford Podcast. I'm Bryce, and today I got a special guest with us today. We got Tekashi69. Not the best. The best of the best. I've never seen teeth like yours before. You have some great teeth.
Yeah, just go to Columbia and you see a... A thousand pairs of these. Are they, so how long have you had those teeth? I think I renewed it in like 2022. Wow.
They look very like clean and white. I like it. Thank you. Hygiene is very important. Do you use a tongue scraper? Like, you know about that? I know it's so random. A tongue scraper? Yeah. Have you ever heard about that? Dude, I started, I'm not even kidding. I started tongue scraping. It like changed my life. I'm satisfied with the toothbrush. Okay. Amen. Amen. Well, thanks for coming on.
I appreciate you giving us some time. Yeah. You know, before we get into, you know, questions and stuff like that. Back when I was in middle school, I didn't grow up on rap. I grew up on country. I'm from the country. Where are you from? I'm from Georgia. I'm from a small town. I'm from north of Atlanta, about an hour. I didn't grow up listening to rap. But there was one rapper I listened to.
Oh, for real? Yeah. Before I was a Christian, when I was in middle school, and my alarm on my phone was Gooba. Oh, yeah? Yeah. How old are you? Back in middle school. I'm 22 now. I was back in middle school, but... Back in middle school? Yeah. That's five years ago, bro.
Wait, how old are you? Wait, how old are you?
Skip the question.
Yeah, it was only five years ago. I'm 29, but if you were in middle school during Gooba, Gooba came out 2020.
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Chapter 2: How has Tekashi 6ix9ine's upbringing influenced his beliefs?
It came out May 8th of 2020. Probably a different song. Was it 2020? No, because Gooba was my alarm. Yeah, so Gooba... Are you sure? Yeah, bro, I made the song... Yeah, that was the first song I came home when I got released from prison. I released Gooba. That was my first single. How many times have you been to prison? Because I know you're about to go back to prison.
Yeah, I'm going back to prison like seven days. Well, today's Tuesday. I'll be in prison next Tuesday. So how many times have you been to prison before this? Like seven times, I believe. Not including this country, right? I've been to prison in other countries, too. What other countries have you been to prison in? Dominican Republic. No way. Yeah. What would you go to prison there for?
And I think, did I go to jail in Europe? I don't even know. Yeah, I think you did one year. One year. Wow. Yeah. So what does that, like, what does that kind of do for you, like, when you're in these settings? Like, is it, is it, is it dangerous for you? Are you kind of like, is it hard? I mean, what, what, what is prison like?
It's life. I don't feel like anything is dangerous. Like, don't get me wrong. Yeah, a lot of shit is dangerous. Like, we're doing an interview on, we're doing an interview on the 50th floor right now. This is pretty dangerous. Yeah. I don't look at it as like, oh, am I in danger? Am I in fear for my life? Because that's not living. You know what I mean? It's stupid, but it's not.
I don't think I'm in danger. I look at it as God saving me from something.
that i can't like stop you know what i mean you don't know if if something bad was going to happen to me between january to april you know what i mean so i i just take it as a blessing and you mentioned god you mentioned god do you have a faith do you believe in anything i'm a i'm a full committed christian i don't want to you know use god's name in vain or use um
Anyway, because I'm a God-fearing man, I know I'm not walking the right paths of the Lord, but I try every chance that I get using my platform to... tell everyone that, you know, Jesus is King and that, you know, he's gonna one day, you know, come and, and, and rescue his church.
And where, where did this like kind of upbringing of like believing in Jesus come from for you?
Well, my mom used to, uh, my mom converted to Christianity. I believe in 2002 or 2001, I was five or six. And, uh, we went to church every day. We went to church. We went to church Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays twice. So the only days that there wasn't no church was Mondays and Wednesdays.
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Chapter 3: What has been Tekashi 6ix9ine's experience with prison?
Yeah, we would go and church seven days a week.
Yeah. And so, like, where do you feel like you're at now with Jesus and faith?
I feel like Jesus has been calling my name. You know what I mean? Jesus has been saying, hey, it's time to come home. But I think Jesus is going to use me to bring a lot of souls to the church. He's going to make me spread his word. And I feel like as a kid, they always told me,
Like, the Lord is going to make you bring a lot of, you know, because, and I said this a lot of times, but I honestly strongly believe that Jesus uses his strongest, I mean, not his strongest, his most broken heart. People. Yeah. People, identities to show the world that he can use, you know, I, and let me finish before, because people clip this and cut it off. You know what I mean?
Like Jesus will use a crackhead. Jesus will use, you know, a, a, a, a gambling addict. Jesus would use, you know, someone so broken and he would use that person as an instrument to bring, uh, people to, to, you know, to, to his church.
And like I said, if you look at it from the, from the, the darkest, the darkest in the, in the past times, I feel like Jesus is the only way it literally is the only way, you know, and I'm strongly believing that. And I hate to like use this. I hate to use this as an example, but it's probably the best example I could, I could give, um, Like, look at Tekashi69. Look at Daniel Hernandez.
Look at Tekashi69. How much chaos, how much drama he, the persona has caused. And I'm still alive to sit here and talk to, you know. to Bryce on December 20 or 30th, December 30th of 2025. Look how many rappers and, and just human beings done passed away on, on not looking for no bull problems or anything.
And I say that in the most humblest way to show that Jesus Christ has a, has, has a, has a, um, He has a purpose with me, you know?
If you were to die right now and stand before God on a scale of one to ten... I don't think I'm going to heaven.
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Chapter 4: How does Tekashi 6ix9ine describe his relationship with God?
Like he loves you so much that he gave his only son to like... You know, because he wrote and I could be mistaken. I'm a strong believer in Christianity, but Jesus wrote 10 commandments, right? The only way you make it into heaven. He knew, he knew that no human can make it into heaven. without breaking those 10 commandments.
So what he did was he sent his only son through human flesh to die on the cross for our sins. And that's the reason we even get the chance to go to heaven.
So when you were talking about like that feeling of calling home, people running up to you and targeting stuff like that, what do you think is stopping you from taking that step of like running into his arms?
Because I'm not, I don't, I'm a God-fearing man. And if I'm not ready to like, right now, like, Like in the Bible, if I'm not mistaken, it says you should not have sex before marriage. Like I'm sitting here drinking alcohol. If I'm preaching the word of the Lord and I'm going against it, why would I say, Lord, I'm ready.
So just in case if I die right now, I say, remember, Lord, you said you are forgiving God. You are this. I'm lying to the Lord and I'm lying to myself.
Yeah.
So that's why people come up to me and say, listen, the Lord is calling you.
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I think you hit the nail on the head. You know, Scripture even says that even the demons believe. And I've been reading that and reflecting on that.
Yeah, the devil was an angel.
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Chapter 5: What does Tekashi 6ix9ine say about his purpose and calling?
I mean, sorry. Good and bad. So what do you think that means for you? You know, I mean, like we... I'll tell you a little bit about my story. I grew up in the South. I grew up going to church. I went to a private Christian school.
But I had a big problem with Christianity when I was growing up because there were a lot of people that said that they loved Jesus, but their actions were the opposite of Christianity. And they were forcing me how to live my life, but they were doing the total opposite. And so I had issues with that. There was hypocrisy I saw.
There was a pastor in my hometown who had cheated on his wife, stole money from the church and ran. And then I remember when I was in the eighth grade, my grandfather had passed away to pancreatic cancer and I blamed God for his death. And so I just had developed depression and anxiety for years and was felt hopeless despair.
I've never drank, I've never done drugs or anything, but I had a porn addiction. I had an addiction set people pleasing. I tried to find my identity in sports, all this other stuff. And when I was 17, I was going to take my life on Christmas Day of 2020. And that night when I was going to take my life, I had a supernatural encounter with Jesus where he stopped me from taking my life.
And the reason I'm bringing up the story is because there was a large portion of my life where I convinced myself, even though I knew I didn't like God deep down growing up, Well, I go to a private Christian school, so that means I'm a Christian. Well, I go to church on Sundays occasionally. I'm there for Easter. I'm there for Christmas, so I'm a Christian.
And I think that's where I'm at with this, like, even the demons believe, you know, because even if the demons believe, Jesus says on that day, on Judgment Day, people are going to stand before him and say, Jesus, did you not see the great things I did for you? I prophesied in your name. I cast out demons in your name. I healed the sick. Let's rephrase it. I went to church. I read devotionals.
I did good things. And he's going to look at them and say, Depart from me. I don't even know who you are. And so that, as me, convicts me. And on that night when I was 17, I prayed a prayer and asked Jesus to take away my depression and anxiety. I haven't had it since that day. It's been over five years. And so when I read that scripture, I'm like, man, I want to know
what is going to make me different than the demons, right? Because I'm of more value than the demons. I'm of more value than the birds. I'm of more value than the turf, the grass, you know, because I'm a human being made in God's image. And I'm a God-fearing man like you. I fear God. But I think fear does one of two things, right? I think fear can do one thing where it says,
the the bible psalmist david writes in psalm 25 he says the friendship of the lord is for those who fear him right so there's some people who say well i fear god so i'm gonna run to him i'm gonna run to him and build a relationship with you it's like a a deep reverent love like i respect you but i also love you and i like that that's where like i think some people go when they fear god i think other people fear god and they and they and they run and they say well i'm not ready for that i'm not i'm not doing this i'm not doing that and
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Chapter 6: How does Tekashi 6ix9ine view his identity beyond fame?
We're talking about him right now. That's my thing. I love it. But more than just my thing, I believe Jesus is going to come back.
Yeah, and it's prophesied. I feel like Jesus is going to come back for his church. And like I said, I live with that truth of saying, You know, have I done enough? You know, have I been honest? Being honest with yourself. Being honest with... And I'm cursing right now because I'm speaking like... Be honest. With no... You know, just full transparency. With no, you know, remorse or cautious.
I feel like the Lord, you know, has... Like, we live in a world of sin. Like, if you look down right now and you look behind us, right? This was all created in the world of sin, of prostitution, of drugs, of alcohol, you know? Immorality. All of it. So have I done enough, you know? And we don't deserve the grace of God, you know what I mean? I think the Lord is coming soon.
Not only is he coming soon, he needs his church to come home, you know? Yeah. just look look at the prophecy right look look at all the things that's happening with Israel and and and and and like the Islamic right I feel like God loves Islam God loves Israel right those are his chosen people but I feel like God loves his creation where whether you're Muslim whether you're you know
His chosen people, which is the, you know, the Jewish people. I feel like God loves us because we're his creation. The devil didn't create the Muslims. Right? I feel like we are all his children and we need to repent. Right? We need to... There's one God. Right? The Holy Trinity, which the one God is God, his son, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. And we are all... meant to serve
Eternity in heaven You know what I mean We shouldn't You know No one deserves to To To serve their rest of their life In hell You know what I mean But that's our choice And you said you feel like If you died right now That you wouldn't Be with Jesus Yeah I'm honest with myself Yeah so I I just took two shots of alcohol Before this interview I think like And I did that And I'm continuing to sin.
I'm not perfect, but... Do you want to stop? Yeah, I can't use that excuse. When I'm in front of the Lord, when I'm in front of God, I can't say, yo, well, I have this problem. I have this thing. Because you know that little thing that tells you don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it? That's not just me. That's literally... The Lord.
Yeah.
And I'm going against that.
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Chapter 7: What role does gratitude play in Tekashi 6ix9ine's life?
I'm very particular, very particular. And I've been praying for you for years. And so when we were able to sit down, I wanted this to be a priority because, yeah, I mean, yeah, it's a podcast. People are going to listen. I think people want honesty.
No, I think the demons won't let them listen, but they're conscious to say, go back and watch this interview. And people want to hear me say, yo, this guy, that guy, this, right?
But the demons don't want them to hear this because they're like, what does 6ix9ine, the Gooba 6ix9ine, the Gummo 6ix9ine, the Billy 6ix9ine, the guy who just walked out, Jake Paul, the guy that would be with Steve would do it, the guy that would be streaming with Aiden. Is this fearful of our Lord, of our Jesus? Yeah. Bro, Jesus is real, bro. He's very real.
You know what I mean?
And not only this, bro. Look at me. I pleaded guilty to 47 years of life. People look at snitching, cooperating, like, oh, well, that's what that that's what stenches get. They get a reduced sentence. A lot of people are going to ignore these facts, but do you know that everyone doesn't get the opportunity to cooperate with the federal government? If they want you, they got you.
They don't give you a chance. So you might joke about it. You might laugh about it and say, oh, well, Jesus gave you an opportunity to snitch. No, Jesus has what Jesus has for you. No one can take from you. And not meaning my cooperation, meaning I have something written for you until it fulfills. I won't take it from you.
I think people really want to know how you're doing. How are you actually?
I'm f***ed up.
I'm f***ed up because I'm living in a thing where I'm trying to keep everything together. My family's happiness, my happiness, me being me, me wanting to seek more and more and more. And God is saying, when are you going to get enough? What do you want? Exactly. What do you want? I don't know. And that's living without a purpose. And that's the scariest thing.
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Chapter 8: What message does Tekashi 6ix9ine want to share with his audience?
It's me doing stuff. It's me, you know. Trying to do the right things. And, but does it bring me happiness? One, no. Two, I'm like, yeah, I'm going to jail. Should I spend more time with my family? My house just got invaded. Is my mom okay? Is this, this? But then I'm like, I'm the one keeping the household. I'm the one paying the bills. I'm the one doing this. But you know what?
When you're right with God, none of this matters.
Yeah, you're right. So I feel like, you know, I don't think it's coincidence, right? We've been working for a while to try to sit down with you and have a conversation and get to chat. And I know to you, it might be like, oh, you know, this is work. You know, this is professional. We're sitting down. But to me, I'm like, man, God wants to speak to...
danny you know i i know you say hey i know you you they they all call you danny because they know you and you know you're takashi to the world but really you're danny yeah you know and and to me when i'm talking to you i don't feel like i'm talking to the six nine that i used to listen to in middle school before i was following jesus i feel like i'm talking to danny right now yeah and and and i and god loves you i love you man i think god's really is after your heart and i know you say you hear that a lot but it's just the truth and it is no coincidence
That you're still here, that you're still alive, that God's gracious. It's no coincidence that you're getting a shorter sentence than normal. You know what I mean? Like, there's no coincidence.
I didn't even tell him that. In anything. Like, I definitely got a shorter sentence because if you look at the docket sheet at my transcript, the judge said I was ready to give you the maximum, which is nine months.
But you got a shorter sentence.
And I got a shorter sentence. And that's off, you know, for our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
But there's this thing that I think we all need to live with, and it's that urgency, right? And as like your brother, as someone that loves you, even though we just met, and I'm like, man, I love you. I'm here for you. I would do anything for you even though we just met. Sincerely, that's how I feel. I would do anything for you even though we just met. I want to see...
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