Tekashi is like that annoying little fly that just keeps coming back and you can’t quite seem to get rid of. Apparently now he wants his credit for manipulating the chart system first.
6ix9ine is calling out Billboard for changing their rules about merch album sales and claiming he was the reason for change in the first place. On Thursday (May 4), Billboard reported the Billboard albums charts will be counting a limited number of “fan packs” a merch bundles with physical album sales for the Billboard 200 chart. This rule will go into affect on June 30. This is a revision to a previous rule that was stopped in 2020. 6ix9ine took exception to the rule change, blasting Billboard on social media and alleging they initially changed the rule because of him in the first place.
“I’m the reason you guys got rid of this rule,” 6ix9ine wrote on his Instagram Story on Friday (May 5). “You guys did everything and anything just to not see me win. Bringing it back because y’all artists can’t sell without it.” The rainbow-haired wonder then doubled down in the comment section of a blog post about the update.
“The rule got changed in June/July of 2020,” he wrote. “I sold over 3,000,000 dollars of bulged merch for gooba. The nicki and Travis thing was in 2018 for Queen because I promoted it. The industry changed rules and laws just to blackball an artist that’s how I know I’m really him. Get mad all you want but this is facts.”
6ix9ine is referencing the time in 2018 when Travis Scott’s ‘Astroworld’ album beat out Nick Minaj’s ‘Queen’ for the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 chart. Nicki Minaj lashed out, claiming Travis only beat her due to merch bundles he sold with his album, which were counted at the time. In 2020, following a rule change, Big Sean’s Detroit 2 album debuted at No. 1 over 6ix9ine’s TattlesTales after Billboard removed 100,000 units off Tekashi’s tally that were deemed inedible because they accompanied merch sales.
6ix9ine’s latest rant comes after he went on a diatribe about hip-hop fans being biased against Spanish rappers. I’m just a little lost on what his point is with this particular rant. I’m absolutely sure he was one of the reasons Billboard made the change, he was manipulating the hell out of the system… but hey, shouldn’t he be happy it’s coming back in some form?
