New York Daily News

Don’t go easy on Tekashi69, say vics

- BY STEPHEN REX BROWN

Two victims of gang mayhem fueled by Tekashi69’s hip-hop beefs wrote that rapper does not deserve leniency one day before he will be sentenced.

Publicist Skyy Daniels and her assistant were robbed at gunpoint in the lobby of a Times Square building by Nine Trey Bloods members in April 2018 as Tekashi filmed from a safe distance. The pair say they were victims of a beef between Tekashi’s crew and the Houston-based Rap-ALot

Records, though neither knew that when they were held up at gunpoint.

“I am extremely frightened and can no longer successful­ly work in the music industry and I have since discontinu­ed taking on new clients,” Daniels wrote in a victim impact statement filed in Manhattan Federal Court.

“My entire career … and lifelong dreams were destroyed as a result of this horrific event. I have been struggling to get back on my feet. Financiall­y, I was ruined, which has caused a great deal of stress. I need counseling but [am] unable to afford it.”

Tekashi posted video of the theft after he filmed it, making it go viral. But the robbery — the Nine Trey gangsters took Daniels’ backpack — was not mere hijinks.

“To add insult to injury, he released the video of me escaping from the clutches of his thugs on social media and it went viral accumulati­ng millions of views as the public laughed,” Daniels wrote.

Her assistant, whose name was redacted from his impact statement, wrote that he did not deserve to be attacked and then “humiliated across multiple social media platforms.”

“Please think about me and think about my life when you sentence this person. Why should this person, who nearly ended my life, be free when I am not free?” the assistant wrote.

Tekashi, real name Daniel Hernandez, will be sentenced Wednesday for gang and drug charges. He could receive a sentence of time served thanks to his cooperatio­n with the government against exfriends in Nine Trey, which prosecutor­s called “incredibly significan­t and extremely useful.”

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