According to Cuban independent news outlet 14ymedio, the rapper started throwing the bills from a car in front of the hotel. Other outlets reported that he threw the bills from a hotel window.
While condemning the act and calling it “shameful,” Cuban official outlet Cubadebate also remained open to the possibility that someone impersonating the musician might have been to blame.
Soon after the incident, internet users started experiencing problems with their connections, 14ymedio reported. Cuba’s state telecommunications company confirmed the service disruption but did not sаy what caused it. The service was restored several hours later on Thursday evening.
On Friday, the rapper published an Instagram story suggesting the money might not have even been real. He shared a video of a man saying, “I ain’t go no money, that money you be seeing me with on Instagrams that be fake money, props.”
In any case, Cuban authorities do not seem to have liked the stunt, as the Cubadebate article suggests. Their readers left several comments criticising the gesture of throwing money – common among rappers – as “humiliating” to the Cuban people.
It is unclear which license if any Tekashi 6ix9ine is using to visit Havana. File photo: WireImage
Hernandez, 26, a New York rapper of Mexican heritage, was sentenced to two years in prison in the US in 2019 for crimes he committed while he was a member of a violent gаng. He was charged with cоnspiracy to murԀer, аssаult with a dangerous weapon, racketeering and carrying a fireаrm. He faced several years in prison but accepted a plea and cooperated with US authorities to get a reduced sentence.
