Talk about unlikely prison pals. <\/p>\n
Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine bragged Friday about getting captured Venezuelan dictator Nicol\u00e1s Maduro to sign his \u201cjailhouse\u201d SpongeBob SquarePants doll inside a Big Apple federal lockup.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old musician was released from Brooklyn\u2019s notorious Metropolitan Detention Center early Friday and celebrated by flashing Maduro\u2019s purported John Hancock along with multimillion-dollar bling.<\/p>\n
Video posted on Tekashi\u2019s Instagram page<\/a> shows him holding a stack of papers in one hand and the Nickelodeon toy in the other as he emerged a free man following his latest stint behind bars. <\/p>\n Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine holding a signed SpongeBob toy. Instagram\/@6ix9ine<\/p>\n \u201cLook, Maduro signed it,\u201d he said, excitedly showing his pals the signature. \u201cMaduro, second of April, Venezuela forever.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n Maduro has been housed at MDC since January when he was captured in Caracas by US forces.<\/p>\n Tekashi, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, reported to MDC in January after he violated the terms<\/a> of his probation by assaulting a man and stashing MDMA and cocaine in his bedroom.<\/p>\n He was originally sent to the clink in 2019 for his involvement in the violent Nine Trey Gangsta Blood gang \u2013 but was cut loose early because of COVID.<\/p>\n He was released from prison Friday. Instagram\/@6ix9ine<\/p>\n The flamboyant musician\u2019s lawyer and the Bureau of Prisons both confirmed to TMZ<\/a> that he was released Friday morning predawn.<\/p>\n As he stepped back into freedom, he was gifted a nearly 400-carat chain that weighs more than four pounds, according to the outlet.<\/a><\/p>\n Tekashi claimed on the Instagram post the necklace cost more than $2 million.<\/p>\n \u201cFresh OUT THE FEDS $2,200,000 on my neck. GOD IS THE GREATEST. MY LORD AND SAVIOR,\u201d he said before adding, \u201cMADURO SIGNED MY JAIL HOUSE SPONGE9INE.\u201d<\/p>\n Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. Getty Images<\/p>\n The federal jailhouse has held a who\u2019s who of federal inmates over the years, including alleged CEO shooter Luigi Mangione, Diddy, R. Kelly and Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as Maduro and his wife.<\/p>\n The couple are facing charges of drug-trafficking.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t