(Source: AP)

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine has struck a deal to end his current prison term, agreeing to serve a month behind bars for violating the terms of his release after a felony conviction, prosecutors said Wednesday.

The settlement with federal prosecutors was described in a letter approved in part by a federal judge in Manhattan. It is requested that the artist be sentenced to one month in prison, followed by one month of house arrest, one month of house arrest and one month of curfew. He would also be subject to electronic monitoring.

Judge Paul A. Engelmayer said he would sentence the performer, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, immediately after he admits to the violations at a Nov. 12 hearing. He said he will ask each side to explain why a sentence of one month in jail followed by three months of home confinement, detention or time served is sufficient for repeated probation violations.

The terms of the agreement also require Tekashi 6ix9ine to submit to supervision by the court’s Probation Department for an additional year.

Tekashi 6ix9ine, 28, was months into being released from court supervision when he was arrested on October 29 after his probation officer complained that he had not followed the rules of obtaining a travel permit beforehand and that he failed drug tests. .

In 2019, Engelmayer sentenced him to two years in prison in a racketeering case after the musician pleaded guilty that same year to charges that he joined and led violence in the gang known as the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.

In April 2020, Tekashi 6ix9ine was released months early from his prison sentence after it was complained that his medical conditions made him particularly susceptible to the coronavirus, which was spreading through the nation’s jails and prisons.

Engelmayer, expressing dismay at the artist’s apparent failure to follow the rules, noted at a hearing last month that he had granted him compassionate release during the coronavirus crisis.

The rapper apologized and told the judge he was “not a bad person”.