| Days After Mixed Verdict on
Drill Rapper Kay Flock Courthouse
Rap Book Contrasts 6ix9ine
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
March 22 – Two
days after the mixed jury
verdict in US v. Kevin Perez,
the Bronx-based drill rapper
known as Kay Flock, a book was
published about the trial,
"Courthouse Rap." On Amazon here.
It
compares this 2025 trial to
the previous trial involving
Tekashi 6ix9ine as a
cooperating witness, before
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Paul A.
Engelmayer. Inner
City Press covered both cases,
as it is covering that of Sean
Combs and others. The book
begins:
In outlaw music there is
always the question of
authenticity. Daniel Hernandez
became Tekashi 6ix9ine and
hooked up with the Nine Trey
Gangsta Bloods to shoot a
video. Then he became their
cash cow, and some of them
became his muscle, shoot-out
in a Barclay's Center hallway.
They turned
on Tekashi and he became a
cooperator against them,
returning to SDNY on
violations of supervised
release then back out on the
concert tour.
For drill
rapper Kay Flock it was
different. He really was from
Sev Side, 187th Street. He
wasn't an appendage to his
group: he was central to it.
When with seven he was
indicted, he did not
cooperate. He took it to
trial.
Inner City
Press covered both cases.
While the Tekashi 6ix9ine
trial was covered by other
journalists, there was only
one media in the courtroom for
US versus Kay Flock, born as
Kevin Perez. His mother came
each day, and three dozen
supporters from the
neighborhood.
The author [Matthew Russell
Lee] knows, or knew, the
neighborhood well, having
lived there for years: first
car on Beaumont Avenue, first
storefront on Courtlandt then
Washington Avenues. Now after
a stint at the UN ending in UN
gangsters ousting, covering
the SDNY courthouse for these
trials. This book starts with
the just-completed Kay Flock
trial, then compares it to
Tekashi 6ix9ine. Should music
be on trial? Should
authenticity?
E-book on
Amazon here,
with audiobook and paperback
coming soon
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