NEW YORK (AP) — Rapper apologizing Tekashi 6ix9ine was sentenced Tuesday to 45 days in prison by a federal judge who said repeated probation violations after his cooperation against a violent gang earned him leniency in a criminal case that shows he did not follow the system’s rules enough judicial.

Judge Paul A. Engelmayer ordered the additional time to be spent behind bars five years after giving the performer, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, a two-year prison term that likely would have been decades behind bars if not testified at the trial against the violent gang. known as the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.

The Manhattan judge said five probation violations, including failing drug tests, traveling to Las Vegas from his Florida home without permission and lying to his probation officer, “tell me loud and clear that you don’t believe the rules. it applies to you.”

He asked if Tekashi 6ix9ine, 28, thought he was above the law “maybe because you’re a famous and rich rapper.”

“But the same rules apply to you,” Englemayer said.

Before the judge announced the prison sentence, Tekashi 6ix9ine pleaded for mercy, saying he was disappointed in himself for having to face him again just half a year before his probation was up.

“I’m very sorry,” he said. “I do not minimize my actions. I take full responsibility. I was disappointed. I let my family down. Give me a chance to clean things up.”

He said he didn’t want the judge to “think of me as ill-mannered or a bad person” and insisted he was “not going out of his way to break the law”.

Upon completion of his prison term, Tekashi 6ix9ine will be subject to one month of house arrest, one month of house arrest, and one month of restraining order, in addition to a year of extended probation. He will also not be allowed to travel internationally and will face electronic monitoring.

In April 2020, Tekashi 6ix9ine was released from prison months before his sentence was due to end because his asthma made him susceptible to the coronavirus, which was spreading through the nation’s jails and prisons.

He was arrested on October 29 and has spent the past two weeks in solitary confinement, a particularly harsh detention which the judge described as the reason he did not impose a three-month jail term.

In 2018, Tekashi 6ix9ine was arrested on charges of joining the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods before attempting to persuade others to commit violence against his perceived enemies.

Engelmayer said the singer’s parole violations were not “severely serious” but were “profound” breaches of the court’s trust.

He also said that Tekashi 6ix9ine “repeatedly flew very close to the flame” as he cited two instances where he was arrested in the Dominican Republic and a speeding violation for allegedly going 136 mph in a zone of 65 mph.

“Your repeated brushes with the law underscore the need to get this message across to you,” the judge said.