Either way, “Gooba” sounds old on arrival. The chorus - “Are you dumb, stupid, or dumb?” - rehashes a line from the Brooklyn rapper Ronny Godz’s “Are You Dumb” (that Remy Ma made into a catchphrase), which he cannibalized once before on Dummy Boy’s “Stoopid.” Chalk the repetition up to a lack of creativity, or blame Tekashi for banking his comeback single on an outdated saying on the fact that he just came home last month. “Gooba” is more of the same, a two-minute middle finger to haters set to a trap beat that sounds like horror-movie music. What followed was peak Tekashi, a long diatribe about how everyone’s jealous because he’s doing better than them, and everyone is mad at him because he changed the game. On IG, Tekashi danced into the picture to the tune of “Bad Boys” by the Kingston reggae group Inner Circle (best known as the theme to the reality show Cops), sporting gaudy chains and dangling handcuffs in front of the camera. He’s back like nothing happened, counting money, flashing jewelry, flaming people who doubted him, and drawing smoke from other rappers. We have the answer now, as 6ix9ine unveiled his comeback single “Gooba” and returned to Instagram Live to a record-breaking 1.9 million viewers. What do you say after that? How do you show your face in a community that rewarded you for what looked like realness, that despises people who lie for clout and people who cooperate with the cops? In court, he switched up and gave up associates like Kooda B, who was accused of trying to shoot Keef. A statement released by his attorney following the 2018 arrest on federal charges deflated the Tekashi myth in no uncertain terms, calling the rapper “an entertainer who portrays a ‘gangster image’ to promote his music,” who’d done nothing but get mixed up with the wrong crowd. Under the threat of jail time, the Brooklyn rapper, born Daniel Hernandez, said 6ix9ine was merely a character he plays. The 6ix9ine saga jumped through the looking glass last fall when he escaped federal racketeering and firearm charges by pleading guilty and appearing as the star witness for the prosecution during the trial against the Nine Trey Bloods - the set he shouted out throughout his meteoric rise to rap stardom, fueled by the thunderous 2017 hit “Gummo.” The case chipped away at the very idea of Tekashi 6ix9ine, who’d made a name for himself up until that point as the consummate hip-hop troll, a tough guy prone to barking out side-splitting threats in his music and carrying feuds with rivals like Chief Keef out into the streets off record. So conclusively, people who were already familiar with 6ix9ine’s lifestyle knew this is exactly the kind of track he would drop once he got the opportunity to do so. Indeed the title of this song reads as if it is a satirical misspelling of the word “goober”, which alludes to someone, in this case the artist himself, being foolish. Or stated differently, he is acknowledging and in fact celebrating his own foolishness. And for better or worse now he is indeed back and, as stated, one of the most-influential voices in hip-hop.Photo: Courtesy of Tekashi 6ix9ine/YouTube Indeed the way he goes about conducting himself, to some extent cursing any and everyone who had something negative to say about his trial, can potentially attract even more enemies than he already has. Or stated otherwise he is laughing in the faces of those who are publicly “mad” at him. And his rationale is his belief that the reason they are really upset with him is because he’s “back”, as in regaining his status in the music industry, indeed in all honesty even exceeding the popularity he possessed prior to being knocked. So on top of reminding everyone that he is rich and on top of his game, he is also calling out specific haters. No, he doesn’t actually namedrop these individuals, but he might as well. In other words yes, he is bragging. And also he is threatening to shoot his opps. This may sound like an unusual disposition for someone to take right after humbling his way out of jail. But such is exactly the point. Tekashi doesn’t give a f and wants the world to know it.
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