"I didn't know how to manage my money" - 6ix9ine opens up about how he ended up owing $8M to the IRS and still has $2M to pay back

Rapper Daniel Hernandez, also known as 6ix9ine, appeared on Deshae Frost’s stream recently, during which he shared his financial problems.

During the stream, Daniel showed Deshae around his place and then took him to the basketball court, where the rapper’s car was parked. After seeing the colorful basketball court, Deshae asked about his liking for colors. He said:

“I mean it's always been part of my brand, bro. Always been part of my brand.”

When asked how many cars he had, the rapper said he only kept one because of his issue with the IRS. For the uninitiated, the Internal Revenue Service raided his house earlier this year and auctioned away most of the items later because he allegedly failed to pay the taxes. Meanwhile, he told Deshae that he was trying to get his life together following the incident.

Discussing signing his "biggest deal," 6ix9ine said:

“When I signed my biggest deal post prison, right, I signed a $13 million deal. I was like, ‘Yo, damn. All my taxpaying dollars is going to there, you know.’ I did something that I didn't know. I didn't know how to manage my money.”

6ix9ine explained that he had issues with the IRS even after making payments. He said he had already paid around $6 million but was told he still owed another $2 million, bringing the total to $8 million. He shared that he didn’t even know where all that money was going, but realized he needed to be smarter with his finances.

6ix9ine on paying taxes from prison and living with his mistakes

6ix9ine also felt that he was treated differently from others and that the IRS wanted to make an example out of him. Still, he said he was fine with it as long as he was free and with his family, and he planned to pay what was owed.

He also said that in 2018, he paid $2.1 million in tax, and a year later, he paid $1.9 million, despite being in prison. Daniel recalled that while he was in jail, his accountant called him and said he needed to pay $1.3 million to the IRS, to which he asked his accountant to go ahead with the payment. 6ix9ine went on to say:

“So, all in all from 2018 2019 I paid $3.4 million. And that sh*t just went to the IRS. So, all taxpaying dollars go to police officers, school teachers, you know, public schooling, people who clean up the streets, you know what I mean? Like that all taxpaying dollars go to that.”

Deshae asked Daniel if he felt more problems because he was rich, to which the rapper said that it was because he was being himself. The streamer asked how he lived such a life with so much happening, and 6ix9ine asked the camera person to show around the place.

As the camera showed the entire place, Daniel said this was his life, and it was no Airbnb but his abode. He accepted that he had made mistakes and needed to live with that.

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