Tekashi, Tekashi, Tekashi — that’s the only name that seems to be popping up since the polarizing rapper made his return on Friday (May 8) with “GOOBA.” The 24-year-old Brooklyn native knows it too.
“GOOBA” broke a YouTube record for most streams within a 24-hour period and his Instagram Live session reeled in a record-breaking 1.9 million viewers. With all eyes on him, 6ix9ine took it upon himself to call out Billboard and let them know he’s watching.
“@billboard We’re watching this very closely,” he wrote in a since-deleted post. “The world is watching very closely, we love you and always supported the charting. On every platform we are dominating by a LANDSLIDE. The numbers are there and to be looked at. WITH NO RADIO WE ARE DOMINATING THE STREAMS.
“I will hate to believe that people pay for their spins on the radio and making manipulating bundles to manipulate the chart. Again it’s still early Im just making it clear that the world is watching.”
Bundles have caused issues in the past. Nicki Minaj went nuclear on Travis Scott after her 2018 album Queen debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and Scott’s Astroworld landed at No. 1.
During a 2018 episode Queen Radio, she dubbed Scott the “Hoe nigga the week” and insisted Queen was the No. 1 album — despite what Billboard reported.
“What we’re not gonna do is have that Auto-Tune man selling fucking sweaters telling you he sold half a million albums, because he fucking didn’t,” she said. “You stupid fuck. You got your fucking homeboy talking for you and you got your girlfriend selling tour passes. Stop it. Knock it the fuck f.”
Nicki Minaj Calls Travis Scott “Stupid Fuck” On Top Of His “Hoe Nigga The Week” Award
She cited the bundles Scott was selling — which included a meet-and-greet with Scott’s former girlfriend Kylie Jenner and their daughter Stormi — as the primary reason Astroworld took the coveted spot.
“When Travis] comes along and sells a tour pass that has nothing to do with his fucking music and says he’s sold more than Kanye West and Nas — no you fucking didn’t, keep it the fuck real,” she added. “I know I’m that bitch, I know I’m Number 1.”