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The staging to make Adam 22 and the two TreyWay gang members look like saints hurt the credibility of the series. These people have done awful things yet they are presented to us in an unfairly favorable light.

They used Adam 22 to be a "voice of reason" for the show, where he discusses how gross Daniel's (6ix9ine) sexual assault was. However, Adam 22 has credible rape allegations of his own.

All of that being said, I do appreciate the documentary for exposing Daniel.

The most compelling part of the series to me was Sara (Daniel's ex). I truly admire her strength in sharing her story. I believe that her accounts are the most explanatory of Daniel's behavior and play an absolute crucial role in the series. It is one thing to hurt gang members you've only known a year or two, but it is a totally different story when you abuse the person you've been the closest to since MIDDLE SCHOOL. It shows the true depth of Daniel's selfishness. He does not care for anyone but himself, and the "misunderstood, secretly nice guy" was a total act.

Recently I was watching Andy Samberg's 2016 movie, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping and it almost seemed predictive to this "supervillain." I kept thinking this guy needs to be on medication as he must surely be manic.

And in the last hour, showing his music sales decreasing, I found myself wondering how he will fare, even in the near future. Another hour should be made to continue the story, probably in about 5 or 10 years. I suspect he may end up in jail if he is not medicated. He may not even live that long.

I did find it interesting and I get that going with the supervillain stuff was to get attention. But acting as if he was methodical or calculating with everything he did is a joke. You're giving him way way too much credit. Sure people watched because of the outrageousness of it all but to think he had some grand plan in it all is just stupid. And to think he was cool with all the hate he got is wrong as well. He's like millions of other teens in America he got a taste of being famous then went to any lengths to make it continue until it all caught up with him. If it was as calculated as this doc portrays he would've never ended up where he did.

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 .

This "documentary" in my opinion is skewed to the negative, only showing the bad ways Tekashi 6ix9ine hustled to become famous, never showing anything positive. It shows how he changed his look then combined it with his street & gang life on social media to inspire a massive following. It also shows how the FBI used those same social media posts against him and his fellow gang members in court. There is no human angle to this doc, all we see is disdain for the super-snitching super-villain. He had a great Dad, so is he a good dad? Does he visit his Mom, take her to lunch? Does he visit his Dad's grave? He can't be this turnt guy 24\7, there has to be more, Danny Hernandez (6ix9ine) deserves a better doc. He may have done or is doing "bad things", but he is a human who made choices. Were those choices possibly based on his childhood or does he have a mental illness? Would have liked to seen a deeper side to this series. Those who say he has 0 talent can not dispute he has a talent for getting money!

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.

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.

"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.

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.

Can you honestly blame him? Getting money at a young age, doing whatever the hell he wants to do, and literally speaking his mind with no filter whatsoever.. I can't say I wouldn't have done the same thing and really letting it all go to my head. I'd like to think I would have "stopped" at a certain point.. but you never know until you get a taste of power and success At the same time, I know I wouldn't be cursing dead homies and such. Dude seems like he's really putting his neck out there and at the rate he's going, someone's gonna do something about it. Not trying to jinx it but he's giving out that energy.. we'll see how this review ages in the very near future..

For some reason, 69's persona gives off the Tony Montana quote from Scarface vibe: "What you lookin' at? You all a bunch ****** *ssholes. You know why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be. You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." So.. what that make you? Good? You're not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. So say good night to the bad guy! Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you. Make way for the bad guy. There's a bad guy comin' through! Better get outta his way!"

This was unbearable to watch and this guy is a non-factor which they even say at the end that it's more about how he has no talent and just does extreme looks and things with his whacky hair and tattoos etc, which makes me worry about what role models kids are looking up to these days. Why did this loser even get a documentary? Come on Showtime. You can do better than this. Do not waste your time on this. Also do not let your kids listen to or watch this guy he's a total loser. It opens up with him telling us to suck his (explicit) what garbage filming is this. We do not care about him or what his family has to say about his life growing up, his heroin father. *eyeroll.

So I went head on into this thinking is was mockumentary on the vacuity and fatuity of YouTube Influencers/Rappers/Gangsters. I was excited about seeing who I thought was the professional football phenom, Tyrann Mathieu a.k.a. the Honey Badger, play the lead villain/anti-hero. 13 minutes in I realized this was real, well, you know, in the sense that is an actual documentary.

Never heard of the dude before. But I have the kind of taste in music that ensures I'll never have to Van Gogh an ear. Here's my take after watching it, like a rainbow trainwreck, in its entirety. I think, long before the facial tattoos and Rainbow Brite hair, some acne-constellated, bodega boy, sex-offender was flipped, tapped as an informant by the feds, and used to infiltrate NYC gangs. And, hey, it worked on a massively successful level. Madison Ave. genius marketing acumen coupled with the typical image and style over substance, dumb it down lyricism and persona that Americans will always fall for hook, line and stinker. So eager to be baited...much like the gang bangers that rallied around their manufactured meal ticket. Lemming meet cliff. Now chase your waterfall.

There is something to be said about 6ix 9ine being so abhorrent and loathsome that he makes hardcore, heartless gang bangers seem almost adorable, yet he does. It kind of makes you wish they all flipped and testified against him. At least a few of them had some raw talent. Both Billys in particular. Easy to see the co-dependency though. Street cred bartered for easy $.

In the end, I felt really bad for his baby's mama, she's hot and emotionally honest. She deserves better, even if she made a cool mil or so (I hope) from this poseur. I also feel bad for the loyal DJ who speaks from the gut and shoots from the hip. He was the architect of the sound and probably helped rake in some of those clams two-handedly. I left this appreciating the self-made, innately talented, substance over style, no gimmick types like Kool Keith, Tim Dog, Chuck D., Tuff Crew, Big Daddy Kane and the Weeknd even more. I added 2 stars to the review solely based on the villainous narration of the great Giancarlo Esposito. Good call!

Starts off okay...

well lets start there. hes fusing punk with rap... if you know anything about punk, they dont really care about the establishment. he embodied punk + rap, in everything he did. Same as how Drake embodied R&B and Rap...

they say hes a bad buy, essentially saying Punk and Rap have no business being together. They are saying rap can never be united with punk and thats just wrong, just because they are trying to promote the no rat scenario. Trying to perpetuate the civilian, gang member scenario.

Punk is anti-establishment, if anything, hes showing you can do whatever you wanna do.

No one can lie that his first 6 songs didn't smash...

This docu-series is so slighted