Tekashi 6ix9ine’s ‘Gangster Image’ Is Entertainment, Not Criminal, His Lawyer Says
The lawyer representing Tekashi 6ix9ine in his federal armed robbery and racketeering case is arguing that his client is an artist who is being misconstrued as a criminal due to the image he embraced as a means of marketing his music in the rap genre.
Within 24 hours of granting XXL an interview in which he insisted that the six counts Tekashi is facing constitute “an over-charge by the U.S. Attorney’s Office,” Brooklyn-based attorney Lance Lazzaro put out a release declaring his confidence that the 22-year-old rapper is innocent, and that he will be proven so once the time comes to argue fact versus fiction.
“An entertainer who portrays a ‘gangster image’ to promote his music does not make him a member of an enterprise,” Lazzaro contends in a statement that Rolling Stone published in part on Wednesday, November 21.
