“What’s good! We out here!” The first time he left New York was to come here. One of 6ix9ine’s earliest tracks was a guest appearance on Dalyb’s group Haha Crew’s “ Rolling Stones.” “Slovakia!” he shouts on the track. In reality, on its way to making him huge, the internet first had to bring 6ix9ine to Bratislava. And it’s true he’d never exist without the internet. It feels like 6ix9ine was dreamt up by an overheated viral hive mind. Armed with shouty street rap and rainbow-colored hair and a Jigsaw Jesus piece, he was a trollish cartoon villain. Born and raised as Daniel Hernandez in Bushwick, Brooklyn, 6ix9ine became a streaming superstar in late 2017 on the back of a public persona carefully cultivated to, above all, engender reaction. He’s also the person who discovered the now-imprisoned Brooklyn rapper 6ix9ine, when 6ix9ine was still a mostly anonymous teenager posting on YouTube. Yaksha, 33, is, effectively, Bratislava’s Sean “Puffy” Combs. This particular batch was fermented at home, by the Slovak rap star Dalyb’s father. I say yes and stemmed bubble glasses appear, as does a clear bottle of Slivovica. “In Slovakia, when some guests come, we invite them on a shot. Behind us hangs a portrait of a samurai, rendered in neon, with a passing resemblance to Mikhail Gorbachev.
“Sorry, I forgot,” Yaksha tells me, in the Bratislava headquarters of his indie rap label FCK THEM.
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