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Tekashi 6ix9ine is utilizing Charlie Kirk (and his assassination) as shorthand.
The rapper has confronted demise threats earlier than.
Plainly he has realized the distinction between a automotive stuffed with followers and a gaggle of shooters rolling as much as wreck his day — or probably finish his life.
So, to reassure two buddies, the rapper invoked Kirk’s title. It set them at east. And it’s all on video.
Rapper 6ix9ine, or Tekashi 69, performs through the Philipp Plein style showw as a part of the Girls’s Spring/Summer time 2019 style week in Milan, on September 21, 2018. (Photograph Credit score: MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Tekashi 6ix9ine has an uncommon method of calming his buddies
This has been a bizarre few days for Tekashi 6ix9ine, and never solely as a result of he’s utilizing “Charlie Kirk” as a verb.
On Tuesday, November 18, the extensively reviled rapper was streaming with Antonio Brown and Adin Ross.
This was outdoors of Tekashi’s Florida residence.
An SUV stuffed with followers (sure, they’ve them) pulled up. It was darkish. The individuals, at first not recognized, known as out for Tekashi.
Everybody visibly tensed up. As you may see within the video beneath, it fell to the house owner to diffuse the stress.
Antonio brown is wild for this 😭😭 “Nobody gonna charlie kirk me” pic.twitter.com/jnMI22RL8C
— Mystic Clips (@ClippedByMystic) November 19, 2025
“What’s up, bro?” the rapper requested, protecting an informal vibe.
In the meantime, Brown and Ross each appeared lower than chill.
Tekashi picked up on the stress, and turned to his companions to reassure them.
“Don’t worry,” he informed them. “We’re not gonna get Charlie Kirk’d,”
Each appeared to really feel reduction. And, positive sufficient, the SUV drove off with out incident.
Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine is seen through the second half of a sport between the Miami Warmth and the Cleveland Cavaliers at Kaseya Heart on November 12, 2025. (Photograph Credit score: Carmen Mandato/Getty Pictures)
So … what did this must do with Charlie Kirk?
On September 10, far-right podcaster Charlie Kirk died from a gunshot wound to the neck.
He had solely simply begun his tour of faculty campuses for the conservative group, Turning Level USA.
What made Kirk’s demise stand out for a lot of was that there have been a number of movies, a few of which have been fairly graphic.
Curiously, many realized for the primary time that folks had seen two radically totally different sides to Kirk.
To many, he represented America’s excessive proper and was an existential risk to freedom. Nevertheless, many others knew of him solely as a self-help advocate and motivational speaker for white Christians. Till his demise, these teams didn’t appear to find out about this “other side” to the person.
Far-right podcaster Charlie Kirk speaks on the opening of the Turning Level Motion convention on July 15, 2023. (Photograph Credit score: Joe Raedle/Getty Pictures)
To be blunt, Tekashi 6ix9ine is utilizing “Charlie Kirk” as a verb. It’s shorthand for “assassinated” on this context.
Or, much more merely, it’s shorthand for “shot.”
Both method, it isn’t one thing that they might need to occur to them.
Tekashi’s life has been in peril a number of instances. Gunmen robbed his residence simply days in the past. And he’s not the one one on the stream who’s seen his share of violence.
All of them know that they might anger the flawed individuals and find yourself paying the value. However that didn’t occur throughout Tuesday’s stream.
Rapper 6ix9ine performs at Energy 105.1’s Powerhouse 2018 at Prudential Heart on October 28, 2018. (Photograph Credit score: Bennett Raglin/Getty Pictures for Energy 105.1)
To be honest, somebody COULD roll up on them and begin capturing
As TMZ has famous, this was the primary sighting of Antonio Brown since his launch from county jail on Thursday of final week.
He had been in custody in Dubai, then confronted extradition again to Miami.
Brown is dealing with a second diploma cost of tried homicide with a lethal weapon.
Allegedly, he tried to shoot one other man at an Adin Ross boxing occasion. (Small world, huh?)
However, as Tekashi 6ix9ine predicted, he didn’t get shot. “Charlie Kirk” is, nonetheless, a fairly tasteless euphemism to make use of on a livestream (regardless of the way you felt about Kirk), and can hopefully not catch on.