Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine

This documentary there is a lot wrongs to it sure tekashi made poor choices let's not forget his baby momma ain't no saint !!! But pushing that away he ain't no evil person in the world like the director and the people involved in this documentary give him this literal caricature sick dude with mentality problems..."" Pointing Danny the person at fault of everything is illogical and ill-minded of these grownups of they hatred or ignorant sentiment whatever derange mind they're on. I SEE MORE SO this EGOISTICAL EGO of a group of individuals carry this ego myth of the streets. Loyalty to streets is inexistent morally really. The people that spoke on this documentary is people that are putting they energy and betting money to degrade this individual these kind of people are the real evil a lot of rappers in the hip hop industry a lot I've done my homework but that's another thing that are real evil and 'we' YALL know of...is in front of our noses but no one says anything due to the fact because they are black individuals that no media would really put out because it will affect the business in being looked as anti black etc..and therefore is not as highlighted in addition leave this kid alone!!! The majority of people he was with like his baby momma, shotti, those that didn't liked him are not at all to defend!! They are people that got envious, greedy, and all in all are the real hypocrites, shady , disloyal persons . On top of that magazines and blogs that spill the tea those are the evil mentality profiting from gossiping and putting content out there changing the narrative get that the narrative, in ( interpreting )get that again, interpreting is the worst you cannot CONSTRUED the logical ramifications of life AND yet is there now that is sick and those are the ones the we should always point out these gossip magazines are malefactors of society as well as documentaries that have ruin people's life's even journalists are such screenslavers THATS evil EVIL is out there RIGHT in front of our or your noses and this guy is not it! YOU JUST DONT LIKE HIM .

"Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine" (2021 release; 3 episodes of about 50 min. each) is a documentary of the phenom that is (was?) Tekashi 6ix9ine. As Episode 1 opens, we are "somewhere in the suburbs... in a heavily guarded house", and we get an audiotape made during his house arrest. We then go to "Bushwick, New York", and we hear from Sara, longtime girlfriend, how she met Danny Hernandez, who at age 15-16 became driven, by anger and by attention-craving, to turn himself into another persona. That persona would become Tekashi 6ix9ine, a self-proclaimed "supervillain" looking for as many followers and likes on Instagram as possible, while he throws himself in the gangsta hip-hop genre...

Couple of comments: this is the latest documentary from director Karam Gill, who has looked at the hip-hop music scene in earlier works. Let me be clear: I personally don't feel much of anything that this guy Tekashi 6ix9ine does or doesn't do. I couldn't care less frankly. His determination to become a manufactured supervillain, as long as it leads to fame, seems senseless, if not outright stupid to me. But "Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine" is worth a try for its social commentary, or certainly its social context. What does it tell you about this country when kids who are asked what they want to become when grown up, their first response is "famous influencer" (as oppose to "doctor" or "lawyer" back in the day), and surely Tekashi 6ix9ine embodies that to the extreme. But more than anything, I can't get over the fact that someone wants to create this artificial lifestyle for the sake of pursuing fame and fortune, and then in essence live two bifurcated lives: when the cell phone camera is on (Tekashi), and when the cell phone camera is off (Danny). The opening scene of Episode 1 seems to indicate that Tekashi is heading for serious troubles in Episodes 2 and 3, which I plan on seeing soon. After watching Episode 1, though, I had to take a break. Binge-watching the 3 episodes in a single setting would be like an overdose or at least food poisoning, not to mention that Tekashi's music (forget the videos) is basically unlistenable.

" Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine" recently premiered on Showtime, and all 3 episodes are now available on SHO On Demand and other streaming platforms. If, like me, you are vaguely curious what drives someone to ultimately become this social freak called Tekashi 6ix9ine, I'd suggest you check this out, and draw your own conclusion.

Either you hate him or love him, one cannot deny his success. He became one of today's most controversial and successful hip hop artists. And he achieved this from the bottom. I believe this documentary is extremely well-executed and even though his story is wild as, this guy did everything to stand out and get out from the hood. When he rose to fame I couldn't stand him for being who he is but then his music slowly grew on me. You cannot argue with the fact that he ratted out his whole crew but he's still here and none of us really knew what happened. Give this series a shot, I'm sure it's going to be something new.

The construct of Superhero/Supervillain is equally as corrosive as the online infamy phenomenon it seeks to explain.

Other than that it is a fair documenting of a wannabe's adventures.

Interesting to hear this perspective but Adam 22 was a poor choice. Watching him act like he has some morale high ground, when he has his own issues was infuriating.

He Didn't want anything to do with 6ix9ine until 69 had a little traction and then all of a sudden he thought he would throw him a crumb and give him an interview. And now that the proverbial ish has hit the fan, adam "looks down" on 69 (his actual words in the film) but not too much to take money to be in this documentary. Trash individual. Hard to take a 40 year old podcaster seriously on this topic.

Overall, the documentary was interesting but seem to serve more as a platform for Adam 22 to express his disdain for 69, and then to dig deeper into the details that made 69 who he is.