Welcome to the New York Times Pop Gas, you are 201st Tattoo of music news and criticism.

I'm your host John Carmelica.

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You know who that's, you know who's screaming.

You know who that is. That's Takashi. That's 6-9.

We have previously talked about 6-9 on the podcast and have felt, to be

felt, to be frank, unsteady about it, because Takashi has been accused of,

or pled guilty rather, to a pretty heinous charge from when he was

younger of use of a child in a sexual performance and despite all of the things that

have been sacked against him continued to grow in popularity over 2018.

And here we are at the end of 2018 at a sort of very poignant and unexpected turning point,

which is Takashi is maybe as famous as he has ever been on a musical level, but he is also sitting behind bars.

A couple weeks ago, he was arrested as well as a lot of the folks who work with him who are allegedly gang affiliated

on federal racketeering charges, weapons charges, among others.

And so there's a lot to unpack about Takashi. It has become kind of an emblematic

hip-hop story of 2018. So to talk about it today and talk about what's been happening with Tashi musically, but also what's been

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