For many rappers today, social media antics are more important than music
and there ain't a better example of that trend than 6ix9ine.
Despite taking a break from the spotlight for a minute,
the rainbow-haired rapper is back and more disrespectful than ever.
Most recently, he made headlines for setting up a Lil Durk look-a-like,
then getting punched in the head at a show.
Here’s what’s going on.
On Tuesday, April 26, 6ix9ine posted a clip on Instagram
where he’s standing on the corner with a group of dudes, including a Lil Durk clone.
The look-alike goes by the name Perkio,
and he’s been going viral just for looking like Durk.
In the video, 6ix9ine pulls a jacket out of a bag
and one of the dudes in his crew wraps it around Perkio,
who looks extremely uncomfortable the whole time.
6ix9ine says “We got bro the jacket,”
and the camera reveals that on the back of the jacket is a picture of Durk’s friend King Von,
who was shot and killed in 2020.
Perkio clearly didn’t see the back of the jacket and looks real nervous,
but 6ix9ine tells him “You good, just leave the jacket on.”
He clearly wants to take it off but is surrounded by 6ix9ine’s homies.
Then 6ix9ine doubled down with the caption
“@lildurk I had a gift for the bro @kingvonfrmdao
your n***as ain’t never gon slide but they definitely rep you all day on tshirts.”
Durk and Tekashi have been beefing for years,
and 6ix9ine has used every opportunity to diss him.
6ix9ine really has beef with the entire city of Chicago, including Chief Keef and Lil Reese,
but Durk has always been one of his main targets.
Back in July 2021, Durk and his girlfriend got into a wild shootout
after people broke into their house.
6ix9ine hopped in DJ Akademik’s IG comments and wrote
“YALL thought this man was gangsta.
They sliding on this man every other week DAMN give him a break,”
along with a bunch of laughing emojis.
Then he added “SOMEONE SAID @lildurk not gon slide
till they kill his girlfriend YALL CRAZY.”
Then a month later, 6ix9ine went on Akademik’s podcast with Wack 100
and asked him to set up a fight between him and Durk.
Before you leave Miami, you call Durk and get him in the same room as me,
make it happen you got the phone right there.
And what are you saying?
And what? I can make that call.
You want a head on with them?
Yes and you gonna say-
Hold on wait wait wait,
look at me in my face,
I've been telling you look at my face.
and you telling me you want a head on with Durk?
a head on with Durk, a head on with Durk
I've been doing this in jail.
No cameras? No cameras I've been doing that.
The fight never went down, but their beef is obviously far from over.
Hiring a Durk look-alike to diss your opp is already a weak move,
but Perkio claims he was set up by 6ix9ine
and a YouTuber associated with the Nelk Boys called SteveWillDoIt.
According to him, they reached out on Instagram
and wanted to do a video together.
Perkio says Durk himself had already done a video with them,
so he agreed to meet up and film something.
When he pulled up to the location,
Perkio says they told him something about 6ix9ine
but he thought they were trolling him
and had no idea the rapper was actually gonna be there.
Steve told him they were filming the video upstairs,
so Perkio followed him up,
and that’s when he says 6ix9ine and his crew ambushed him.
After 6ix9ine got the video,
Perkio says he talked to Steve and told him he didn’t want to do any videos with Tekashi.
Perkio is cool with Durk and didn’t want to get involved with any beef,
and you can tell how uncomfortable he was around 6ix9ine.
Then Steve allegedly offered him money to do a video with 6ix9ine,
but Perkio says he turned it down.
During the IG Live session when he aired all of this out,
Perkio also went after 6ix9ine for clout chasing.
Like 6ix9ine, literally bro, you need to man up bro.
Man up and go directly to Durk you feel me?
You can’t be really doing that lame ass ****.
You’re using my face ‘cause I look like Durk.
You’re using my face to disrespect the crew.
That’s really lame.
You’re using my face for clout.
Everything you do is for clout, like you can’t be doing that.”
Akademiks reposted Perkio’s video
and SteveWillDoIt called him out in the comments, saying
“Cap. I wanna see DM. I never messaged him to collab.
Was unaware he existed until today.
He came to do something with 6ix9ine for money. He played himself for cash.”
Then 6ix9ine commented under a different video
“Steve @stevewilldoit didn’t set him up he’s lying look at my story
he knew what he was coming for.”
Then a video surfaced that allegedly shows Perkio counting $7K he was paid
for doing a video with 6ix9ine.
Akademiks also posted a text exchange between 6ix9ine and the @rap IG page
where they set up the meeting between Tekashi and Perkio.
6ix9ine commented on the post and called Perkio out for betraying Durk,
saying “Perkio backdoored OTF for 7 bands is crazyyyyyyy.”
SteveWillDoIt is just a YouTuber who has nothing to do with any rap beef,
and he was mad that Perkio accused him of setting him up.
He hopped on Instagram and called him out, writing
“@ fake lil durk. I never have never experienced anything like this on the internet
and I feel like something viral of someone just making something up about me isn’t right.
I meant it when I said $1,000,000 to him if he has proof me or nelk boys messaged him.”
After it all went down,
Meek Mill’s artist Tafia called Steve out for setting Perkio up.
But then Steve posted a video where he met Perkio in the building lobby
and told him 6ix9ine was there.
This clip makes it seem like Perkio knew what was going down,
but he did say that at this point he thought Steve was just trolling him
and he didn’t think 6ix9ine was really in the building.
A few days later, Steve went on the I AM ATHLETE podcast to air everything out.
I mean for right now I’m not filming or doing anything with 6ix9ine anymore,
If someone does something to me where they like use my name
right, the consequences I got is I'm getting is like death threats,
and I'm looking like this bad guy when I had no ill interest intion
I would cut him off
Steve also said the entire video idea came from 6ix9ine.
According to him, Tekashi reached out with the idea to do a video with Perkio
called “Squashing the beef with Lil Durk.”
Steve says he agreed to the collab,
but had no idea that 6ix9ine was gonna have his crew there to press Perkio
and put him on blast.
He also said that he had no contact with Perkio,
and that someone on 6ix9ine’s team lied to him about Steve wanting a collab.
Perkio was getting hit up by,
whoever,
whoever on 6ix9ine's side, not my side
Saying hey do you want to do a collab with SteveWillDoIt? SteveWillDoIt wants to film with you
He wants to film with you.
And I knew nothing about it.
I didn't want to film with no one, I didn't know who Perkio was, I-
didn't know who Perkio was until I got there
So basically, 6ix9ine used Steve’s name to get Perkio involved,
then surprised them both when he showed up with the King Von jacket and a bunch of goons.
This part of the story has also been backed up by Perkio’s friend,
who shared screenshots with Complex to prove his side of the story.
A Drake impersonator named IzzyyDrake reached out to Complex and told them
“Perkioo was completely setup by an individual named Mike who reached out to me
after noticing we were shooting a music video to establish the connection
between Perkioo and YouTuber vlogger named “Steve Will Do It.’
Nobody knew that rat was going to be there,
they played him and now they’re trying to cover their footprints.”
IzzyyDrake gave Complex screenshots of messages between him and Mike,
which show them trying to get everything set up.
After everything went down, IzzyyDrake told this Mike dude
“I don’t **** w that **** u did,”
and Mike responds “Bro smh I didnt kno that was gonna happen im tweakin.”
Then the fake Drake told him
“You clearly set perkio up
you told me that tomorrow we were all gonna meet up to do the vlog with Steve will do it,
nobody knew this rat 6ix9ine was gonna be there.”
The last message from Mike says
“Ya neither did I bro but alright think whatchu want
lmao he got 5K and hella clout.”
Lil Durk doesn’t seem too bothered by the situation.
He hopped on Twitter and wrote
“Broooooo I just not seen this **** today on the internet this **** crazy
everybody calling and text me we went #1 again thank y’all lol.”
Even though Durk wasn’t pressed about it,
that didn’t keep other big names from calling 6ix9ine out.
42 Dugg wrote “I hate when ***** ass n***as do *** **** to good people
rat ass n***as involving white boys in street ****
n***as be lames and **** n***as could’ve pulled up on so many other n***as
they a pull up on a kid with nothing to do wit nothing.”
6ix9ine shot back and challenged him to a fight,
but Dugg just clowned him for snitching on the Nine Trey Gangsters and said
“I’m playing man I ain’t got nothing against the FBI.
Or nobody that helped them ion condone violence.”
Even Akademiks called 6ix9ine out.
The two of them have been friends for a long time,
but during an IG Live session,
AK said “If you wanna kill Durk, go kill Durk.
Don’t put nobody else in your ******’ beef.
Get out of here, it’s not cool. Don’t put SteveWillDoIt in it.
Don’t put Akademiks in it.
Don’t put nobody in your ******* beef…
Don’t pull up on Perkio. Pull up on Durk.”
Don't pull up on Perkio.
Don't pull up on some other weird ******
Pull up on Durk.
Akademiks even said the whole beef between 6ix9ine and Durk ain't even real.
He said “Man, him and Lil Durk never seen each other in life, you feel me?
They never ever saw each other. Like, this is a make-believe beef.”
The beef between Durk and 6ix9ine might be “make-believe,”
but Tekashi has plenty of other enemies who want to put hands on him.
The day after he posted the Perkio video,
6ix9ine was punched on his way out of a Miami nightclub.
A video shows 6ix9ine walk by with his security and crew,
then someone in the crowd throws a punch from behind him.
It looks like the shot caught him in the back of the head, but 6ix9ine told TMZ
“He scuffed my shoulder by my neck.
He also connected with the shoulder of my security guard.
I didn’t know this guy. There was no prior dispute.”
Rumors started flying that the attack was related to the Perkio video,
but according to 6ix9ine they have nothing to do with each other.
But with all of the wild things he’s done in the past,
there’s no telling why that dude in the club wanted to get at him.
6ix9ine probably has more enemies in the game than anyone in the history of rap.
so it was only a matter of time before something like this happened.
Luckily no one was seriously hurt,
but if that dude used a gun instead of his hands this would be a completely different story.
It’s still not clear exactly what went down between SteveWillDoIt, Perkio, and 6ix9ine.
Steve claims that he never reached out to Perkio,
and the DMs between 6ix9ine and the @rap IG page make it look like
it was all Tekashi’s idea.
In the video where Perkio gets the jacket put on him he looks very uncomfortable,
and then he posted the clip where he was telling Steve
he didn’t want to do anything with 6ix9ine.
But then there’s the footage of him allegedly counting the $7K he got for doing the video.
Perkio is tight with Durk and was even in the video for the track Blocklist earlier this month,
but that doesn’t mean he wouldn’t do a video with 6ix9ine for the right price.
Perkio isn’t a rapper or a street dude,
he’s just a social media star who is famous for looking like somebody else.
He’s not affiliated with OTF,
but when you’re impersonating someone like Durk who has real street beef,
there’s always a chance you’ll get caught up in a situation you didn’t want to be involved in.
Lil Reese also gave his thoughts on the situation,
and he called Perkio out for getting pressed by 6ix9ine.
Reese posted on Instagram,
“tell dude change his name and die his hair pink with the clown face emoji
that's [why] you can't show no love **** em all."
He already challenged 6ix9ine to a boxing match earlier this week
after he found out how much Tyson Fury made for fighting Dillian Whyte,
but he’s gonna have to get in line behind everyone else
who wants to throw hands with Tekashi.
The whole situation is really just a mess that makes everyone involved look bad.
6ix9ine looks lame for getting random YouTubers
and celebrity impersonators involved in his beef,
Perkio looks bad for allegedly crossing the dude who is responsible for his “career,”
and everyone trying to fight 6ix9ine looks dumb for thinking he’ll actually pull up.
6ix9ine already got attacked once this week,
but if he keeps dissing Von and taunting his friends
it’s only a matter of time until something worse happens.
Hopefully, he’ll learn a lesson and stop involving innocent people in his beef.
But knowing 6ix9ine, he’ll probably just keep doing whatever he has to do to stay relevant.
This situation is still developing so y'all make sure to tap in for updates