I do a lot of pop culture art, and this series called Icons Unmasked was heavily focused on pop culture. Take me back to the very first Tekashi 6ix9ine piece you did, before you connected with him. Our conversation has been lightly edited for clarity and length. Solis, it should be said, also has a successful career as an artist outside of his work with 6ix9ine. That was the intention of me working on this project, was for the album art.”Ĭomplex caught up with Solis over the phone on Thursday to get the inside scoop about his history with 6ix9ine, and how this most recent picture came to be. “I'm not sure if it’ll end up being the final cover or not. “I think he might use part of this to promote his new album coming out,” he says. Solis says he isn’t certain what the image might be used for, besides 6ix9ine’s Instagram profile, but he thinks it might be tied to a future music rollout plan. That’s the overall message I feel like he was trying to push.” He’s the one that’s going to end up eating the cheese without being trapped. It’s him taking this and embracing these people calling him names. People think it’s a diss, but it really isn’t.
But in reality, he’s ended up getting the cheese. “The idea is that everyone’s calling him a rat or whatever,” Solis tells Complex. His big-eyed, cartoonish animations have become a big part of 6ix9ine’s visual aesthetic.Įarlier this year, while 6ix9ine was in prison, the rapper commissioned Solis for another piece, which became the rat trap image. Alex Solis is a Wisconsin-based artist who was commissioned for the covers for both of 6ix9ine’s albums, Day 69 and Dummy Boy, as well as the cover art for most of the rapper’s singles. That’s because it was done by the same guy. ?”Įagle-eyed fans will notice that the depiction of 6ix9ine is similar to the way he appears in the cover art for his albums and singles.
His bio now reads, “Why everybody callin me a snitch? I'm missing something. On Wednesday night, a newly-freed 6ix9ine continued his trolling ways by changing his Instagram profile picture to an illustration of himself resting in a rat trap, eating a piece of cheese.
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