The Bryce Crawford Podcast - The Tekashi 6ix9ine Interview (EP 176)

Episode Date: January 19, 2026

In this episode, Bryce interviews Danny Hernandez, aka Tekashi 6ix9ine.

I don't think I'm going to heaven. I think I failed God. I think I failed the church. I'm faked up because I'm living in a thing where I'm trying to keep everything together. My family's happiness, my happiness, me being me, me wanting to seek more and more and more. And God is saying, when are you going to get enough? What do you want? I don't know.

What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Bryce Crawford podcast. I'm Bryce. And today I got a special guest for this today. We got Takashi 6-9. Not the best. The best of the best. I've never seen teeth like yours before you had some great teeth

Yeah just go to Columbia and you see a Thousand Pairs of these are they so how long have you had those teeth? I think I renewed it in like 22 wow they look very like clean and white I like it thank you Hygiene is very important yeah or do you use a tongue scraper like you know about that I know it's so random but you're a tongue scraper yeah have you ever heard about that dude I started I'm not even kidding I started tongue scraping it like changed my life I'm satisfied with the toothbrush okay amen Amen. Well, thanks for coming on. I appreciate you. Giving us some time.

Yeah. You know, before we get into questions and stuff like that, back when I was in middle school, I didn't grow up on rap. I grew up on country. I'm from the country. Where you from? I'm from. I'm from Georgia. Like, I'm from a small town. I'm from north of Atlanta about an hour. I didn't grow up listening to rap. Yeah. But there was one rapper I listened to. It was Akashi 60. Yeah, before I was a Christian when I was in middle school. And my alarm on my phone was Guba. Oh, yeah? Yeah. How old are you? Back in middle school. I'm 22 now. I was back in middle school.

Back in middle school, that's five years ago. Wait, how old are you? Wait, how old are you? Skip, skip the question. Yeah, it's only five years ago. I'm 29, but if you were in middle school during Gooba, Guva came out 2020. It came out May 8th of 2020.

Probably a different song. Was it 2020? No, because Google was my alarm. Yeah, so. Are you sure? Yeah, bro, I made the song. Yeah, that was the first song I came home when I got released from prison. I released Guva.

That was my first single. How many times you've been to prison? Because I know you're about to go back to the prison. Yeah, I'm going back to prison like seven days. Yeah, so how, today's Tuesday? I'll be in prison next Tuesday. So, so how many times have you been to prison before this next? Like seven times, I believe.

So, not included in this country, right? Like, I've been to prison in other countries too. What other countries have you been in prison? Dominican Republic. No way? Yeah. What would you go to prison there for? And I think, did I go to jail in Europe?

I don't even know. Wow. So what does that, like, what does that kind of do for you? Like when you're in these settings, like, is it, is it dangerous for you? Or are you kind of like, is it hard? I mean, what is prison like? It's life. I don't feel like anything is dangerous.

Like, don't get me wrong. Yeah, a lot of shit is dangerous. Like, we're doing an interview on, we're doing an interview on the 50 floor right now. This is pretty dangerous. I don't look at it as like, oh, is it, am I in danger? Am I in fear for my life? Because that's not living. You know what I mean?

It's stupid, but it's not. I don't think I'm in danger. I look at it as a God saving me from something. something that I can't like stop you know what I mean you don't know if if something bad it was going to happen to me between January to April you know I mean so I just take it as a blessing and you mentioned God you mentioned God do you have a faith do you believe in anything I'm a I'm a full committed Christian I don't want to you know use God's name in vain or use any way of because I'm a God fair man

I know I'm not walking the right paths of the Lord but I try every every chance that I get using my platform to tell everyone that, you know, Jesus is King and that, you know, he's gonna one day, you know, come and rescue his church. And where did this like kind of upbringing of like believing in Jesus come from for you?

Well, my mom used to, my mom converted to Christianity I believe in 2002 or 2001 I was five or six and we went to church every day we went to church we went to church Tuesdays Thursdays Thursdays

Fridays and Sundays twice so the only days that there wasn't no church was Mondays and Wednesdays and somewhere around the year there was church Mondays on Wednesdays where they call it Embahelico I don't know what that means in English

But I don't know either Yeah we would go in Church seven days a week Yeah and so like Where do you feel like you're at now With Jesus in faith I feel like I'm Jesus has been calling my name

You know what I mean? Jesus has been saying Hey it's time to come home But I think Jesus is going to use me to bring a lot of souls to the church. He's going to make me spread his word. And I feel like as a kid, they always told me, like, the Lord is going to make you bring a lot of, you know. And I said this a lot of times,

but I honestly, strongly believe that Jesus uses his strongest. I mean, that is strongest. His most broken People Yeah, people Identities to Show the world That he can use

You know I And let me finish Before because people Clip this and cut it off You know what I mean? Like Jesus will use a crackhead Jesus would use

You know A gambling addict Jesus would use You know Someone's so broken And he would use That person as an instrument To bring

people to you know to to his church and like I said if you look at it from the from the darkest the darkest in the past times I feel like Jesus is the only way

it literally is the only way you know and I'm strongly believing in that and I hate to like use this I hate to use this as an example but it's probably the best example I could give like look at Takadi 69 look at danio hernandez then you hernandez look at tkajas 69 how much chaos how much drama he

the the persona has caused and i'm still alive to sit here and talk to you know to bryce yeah on uh december 20 or 30th december 30th of 2025 look how many rappers and and just human beings done passed away on on not looking for no bullshit problems or anything and i say that and the most humblest way to show that Jesus Christ has a has a has a has a he has a a purpose with with with me you know if you were to die right now and stand before God on a scale of one to ten I don't think I'm going to heaven I think I think I failed God I think I failed the church I think I failed my my uh the reason I was I was I was created does that scare you it does I'm a godfaring man Sometimes you get a chill, like when I'm driving and I see a homeless person, right?

And something like, it's the Holy Spirit, right? The Holy Trinity, which tells me stop. Do a reversal. It's that guilty conscious. What makes us human is conscious, right? You have a soul. Like, because we all share the same skin. We all get up, pee, shit, eat.

What makes it so different is our soul, our conscience, our beliefs, you know, our faith in God. So I think I need to, you know, start aligning myself with the Lord. You know, you mentioned like a few minutes ago how you feel like God's calling you home, but you just haven't taken that step. And I'll give you an example. Like people come up to me in Target, Walmart said Jesus is getting tired. They say that. To you, like saying Jesus is getting tired.

Like a random stranger said, listen, the Lord is calling you home like he's getting tired. And you know, Jesus doesn't punish people, but Jesus loves us. You know what I mean? He's a jealous God. You know what I mean? Like he loves you so much that he gave his only son to like, you know, because he wrote. And I could be mistaken. I'm a strong belief in Christianity, but Jesus wrote 10 commandments, right?

The only way you make it into heaven. He knew that no human can make it into heaven without breaking those 10 commandments. So what he did, he sent his only son through human flesh to die on the cross for our sins. And that's the reason we even get the chance to go to heaven. So when you were talking about that feeling of calling home, people running up to you and targeting stuff like that, what do you think is stopping you from taking that step of running into his arms? Because I'm not, I don't, I'm a God-fearing man. And if I'm not ready to, like right now, like in the Bible, if I'm not mistaken, and say you should not,

should not have sex before marriage. Like I'm sitting here, drinking alcohol. If I, if I, if I'm preaching the word of the Lord and I'm going against it, why would I say, Lord,

I'm ready. So just in case if I die right now, I have, I say, remember Lord, you said you, you are forgiving God, you are this.

I'm lying to the Lord and I'm lying to myself. Yeah. So that's why people come up to me and say, listen, the Lord is calling you. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, I think you hit the nail on the head. You know, scripture, scripture even says that even the demons believe. And I've been reading that and reflecting on that. The devil was an angel. And I think to myself, man, even if the demons believe, then what does that mean for me? What makes me and you different than the demons?

And if there, because so many people say the same thing. Oh, I believe, I believe, I believe. So I'm like, what makes us different than the demons? And I think that's obedience. Well, listen, I've seen this a lot of times. And I say this one of myself. When you have demons inside of you, right? And I'm speaking to that.

There's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. There's nine of us out here. You might not notice it, right? But when you see, like, we scroll on Instagram every day. We scroll on TikTok every day. When you see something message God and you scroll up real fast, is that's the demon in you. When we hear something that's that people talk about God, right?

And Jesus, The demon puts its head down. The demons inside you ignores it. So what I'm trying to say to you is that even the demon believes in God, but the devil doesn't like it. So he sends his demons to like make you neglect the word. Well, no, that scripture in particular is literally talking about the demons of hell, right? And so even Satan and the demons, they believe in God. And so, you know, we, I think in America, we-

Well, if you believe in God, I tell this, you know, to my girlfriend on time. If you believe in God, right? You can't pick and choose. You can't. If you believe in God, then you have to believe in the devil. There's good and bad, right? There's not only good. Yeah.

So it's like if I, and I'll explain it to some autistic or retort that doesn't want to understand, right? If you believe in Pepsi Cola, you believe in Coca-Cola. Right? and it's the most honest I could get because people want to be like oh what do you mean what do you mean no if you believe in Jesus Christ there is a devil that does

is dark and evil I mean sorry good and bad so what do you think that means for you you know I mean like we you know because I'll tell you a little bit about my story like I grew up I grew up in the South I grew up going to church I went to a private Christian school but I had a big problem

with Christianity when I was growing up because there were a lot of people that were that said that they loved Jesus, but their actions were the opposite of Christianity. And they were forcing me how to live my life, but they were doing the total opposite. And so I had issues with that. There was hypocrisy I saw. There was a pastor in my hometown who had cheated on his wife, stole money from the church and ran. And then I remember when I was in the eighth grade, my grandfather had passed away to pancreatic cancer,

and I blamed God for his death. And so I just had developed depression and anxiety for years. and was felt hopeless to spare. I've never drank. I've never done drugs or anything, but I had a porn addiction. I had addiction set people pleasing. I tried to find my identity in sports,

all this other stuff. And when I was 17, I was going to take my life on Christmas Day of 2020. And that night, when I was going to take my life, I had a supernatural encounter with Jesus where he stopped me from taking my life. And the reason I'm bringing up the story is because there was a large portion of my life

where I convinced myself, even though I knew I didn't like God deep down growing up. Well, I go to a private Christian school, so that means I'm a Christian. And well, I go to church on Sundays occasionally. I'm there for Easter. I'm there for Christmas, so I'm a Christian. And I think that's where I'm at with this like even the demons believe, you know, because even if the demons believe, Jesus says on that day, on judgment day,

people are going to stand before him and say, Jesus, did you not see the great things I did for you? I prophesied in your name. I cast it out demons in your name. I healed the sick. Let's rephrase it that I went to church. I read devotionals, I did good things, and he's going to look at them and say, depart from me, I don't even know who you are. And so that, that as me, convicts me on that night when I was 17, I prayed a prayer

and ask Jesus take away my depression and anxiety. I haven't had it since that day. It's been over five years. And so when I read that scripture, I'm like, man, I want to know what is going to make me different than the demons, right? Because I'm of more value than the demons. I'm of more value than the birds. I'm of more value than the turf.

the grass, you know, because I'm a human being made in God's image. And I'm a God-fearing man like you. I fear God. But I think fear, just one of two things, right? I think fear can do one thing where it says the Bible, Psalmist David writes in Psalm 25. He says, the friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, right? So there's some people who say, well, I fear God. So I'm going to run to him. I'm going to run to him and build a relationship with you. It's like a deep, reverent love. Like I respect you, but I also love you. And I like that's where like I think some people go when they fear God. I think other people fear God and they and they run and they say, well, I'm not, I'm not ready for that.

I'm not doing this. I'm not doing that. And man, I could tell you I was I was not ready at all that night that Jesus called me. In fact, I was the most broken, the most lost, the most confused, the most upset, the most angry, the most prideful, the most immoral. I've ever been in my life all in that thing. but I was the most honest. And Jesus says, Blessed are the pure and heart for they shall see God.

And Jesus says the reward for being honest with God is him. Yeah. You know? And so I think, like, I have been just fired up about this thing. Yes, I love Jesus. I love talking about him. That's my thing. We're talking about him right now.

You know, like, that's my thing. I love it. But more than just my thing. Like, I believe Jesus is going to come back. Yeah, and it's prophesized. I feel like Jesus is going to come back for it. church and like I said I live with that truth of saying um you know uh have I done enough you know have I been honest being honest with with with yourself being honest with and I'm

cursing right now because I'm I'm speaking like be honest with no with no trend you know just full transparency with no yeah you know uh remorse or cautious uh I feel like the Lord you know, has, like, we live in the world of sin. Like, if you look down right now and you look behind us, right? This was all created in the world of sin of prostitution, of drugs, of alcohol, you know? Immorality. All of it. So, uh, have I done enough, you know? And I don't, we don't, we don't, you know, we don't deserve the grace of God.

You know what I mean? Where, I think the Lord is coming soon. Not only is he's coming soon, he needs his church to come home. home, you know? Yeah. Just look, look at the prophecy, right? Look at, look at all the things that's happening with Israel and, and, and, and like the Islamic, right? I feel like God loves Islam. God loves Israel, right? Those are his chosen people, but I feel like God loves his creation. Whether you're Muslim, whether you're, you know, his chosen people, which is the, you know, the Jewish people. I feel like God loves us because he's.

he we're create where here's creation the devil didn't create the muslims right i feel like we are all his children and we need to repent right we need to there's one god right the holy trinity which the one god is god his son jesus and the holy spirit and we are all meant meant to to to serve uh eternity in in heaven you know what mean we we we shouldn't you know no one should deserve to to um to serve their rest of their life and in and in hell you know what I mean but that's our choice and you and you said you feel like if you died right now that you wouldn't be with Jesus and yeah I'm I'm honest with myself yeah so I just took two shots of alcohol before this interview I think like and I did that and I'll continue

And like I'm continuing to sin. I'm not perfect. But do you want to stop? Yeah, I can't use that excuse. When I'm in front of the Lord, when I'm in front of God, I can't say, yo, well, I have this problem. I have this thing because you know that little thing that tells you, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it. That's not just, that's not just me. Like my, that's literally the Lord.

Yeah. And I'm going against that. Yeah. I mean, dude. And you can say you fighting you're fighting it, but what you said, when you go in front of the Lord Jesus Christ and you said, hey, look at all the stuff I've done. Look all the stuff I've done. Look this, look at this. And what Jesus will say, I don't know you. Yeah, yeah. And when the prostitute was selling, when the prostitute, I forgot who it was, she was selling herself. And everyone was judging her, right? What Jesus said. Anyone without sin? If whoever didn't sin,

May they speak up, right? He was drawing on the floor. Yeah. He said whoever, he was drawing with his finger. He said, whoever didn't sin, may you speak up now. And everyone's sin. So who are you to judge? It's one Jesus Christ.

Yeah. Yeah, for sure. You know, I've been, I mean, dude, for years, I'm very particular with who I like to sit down with and have conversations. I'm very particular, very particular. And I've been praying for you for years. And so when we were able to sit down, I wanted this to be a priority. because yeah, I mean, yeah, it's a podcast.

People are going to listen. I think people won't honestly. No, I think the demons won't let them listen, but they're conscious to say, go back and watch this interview. I think. And, and, and people want to, people want to hear me say,

yo, this guy, fuck that guy, fuck this, right? But the demons don't want them to, to hear this because they're like, what does, what does 6-9, the Guba 6-9, the Gummo 6-9, the guy who just walked out, Jake Paul, the guy that would be with Steve

would do it, the guy who'd be streaming with it. Aiden, is this fearful of our Lord for our Jesus? Yeah, I think. Bro, Jesus is real, bro. He's very real. And I think, you know what I mean? And like, but you know, to be honest.

And not only this, bro, look at me. I pleaded guilty to 47 years of life. People look at snitching, cooperating. Like, oh, well, that's what that's what stenches get. They get a reduced sentence. A lot of people are going to ignore these facts. but do you know that everyone doesn't get the opportunity to cooperate with the federal government? If they want you, they got you.

They don't give you a chance. So you might joke about it, you might laugh about it and say, oh, well, Jesus gave you an opportunity to snitch. No. Jesus has, what Jesus has for you, no one can take from you. And not meaning my cooperation, meaning I have something written for you until it fulfills, I won't take it from you. Do you, I think, I think people really want to know, like, how you're doing. Like, how are you actually? I'm fucked up.

I'm fucked up because I'm living in a thing where I'm trying to keep everything together. My family's happiness, my happiness, me being me, me wanting to seek more and more and more. And God is saying, when are you going to get enough? What do you want? Exactly. What do you want? I don't know. And that's living without a purpose.

And that's the scariest thing. You know, today, driving here, I said, what am I doing? Like, I got a, I got a, I got a stream. I got an interview with you, right? I have to do it. It's just completely professionalism, right? Well, I think, I got to stream with Steve. I got to stream with Aiden.

I got to go to studio with Shlomi. Who do I cancel? And who will do this? What is my purpose? What I'm doing? I'm going to jail in seven days. Well, I even think, I know you said that like, oh, I've got to do this, right? Yeah, got it.

But even you and I would say, well, it's no coincidence that it finally worked out, that we finally got to sit here. We've been talking to Chris for a minute, but now it's here today. While I'm talking about Aiden, he's calling me right now. And shout out to Aiden, but I had to cancel on him because I'm like, it's responsibility. It's me doing stuff. It's me, you know. Trying to do the right things. And, but does it bring me happiness?

One, no. Two, I'm like, yeah, I'm going to jail. Should I spend more time with my family? My house just got invaded Is my mom okay? Is this this? But then I'm like, I'm the one keeping the household I'm no one paying the bills

I'm no one to do this But you know what When you're right with God None of this matters Yeah, you're right So I feel like, I feel like You know, I don't think it's coincidence Right, we've been working for a while

To try to sit down with you And have a conversation and get to chat And I know to you it might be like Oh, you know, this is work You know, this is professional We're sitting down But to me I'm like, man God wants to speak

to Danny. I know you say, hey, I know you, they all call you Danny because they know you and you know, you're Takashi to the world. But really you're Danny. You know, and to me when I'm talking to you, I don't feel like I'm talking to the 6-9 that I used to listen to in middle school before I was following Jesus.

I feel like I'm talking to Danny right now. And God loves Danny, but I love you, man. I think God really is after your heart. And I know you say you hear that a lot, but it's just the truth. And it is no coincidence that you're still here, that you're still here, that you're still alive, that God's a gracious, it's no coincidence that you're getting a shorter sentence

in normal. You know what I mean? Like there's no coincidence. I didn't even tell them that. In anything. Like, I definitely got a shorter sentence because if you look at the docket sheet at my transcript, the judge said, I was ready to give you the maximum, which is nine months. But you got a shorter sentence. And I got a shorter sentence. And that's off, you know, for our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. But there's this thing that I think we all need to live with. And it's that urgency, And as like your brother, as someone that loves you, even though we just met, and I'm like, man, I love you. I'm here for you. I would do anything for you even though we just met. Sincerely, that's how I feel.

I would do anything for you, even though we just met. I want to see everyone I love, which is anyone that breathes oxygen, be with Jesus. And I mean, dude, you've been to jail seven times. You understand it. You understand. You've pled guilty to stuff. You stand there. They read off the list of your crimes and they read your sentence.

But the only way that you can receive the forgiveness and grace of God, is if you just let it happen. And that's what forgiveness is. It's canceling the debt that we owe God. That's like you getting read the craziest sentence of your life. Imagine the craziest stuff you've ever done in your life compiled onto a sheet. And a judge was about to send you away for life. And then he goes, actually somebody else is going to do your sentence for you.

You can walk free. They canceled the debt that you owed people with your crimes. And everything that you've ever done. And I know, I haven't done enough. What have I done? What have I done? And, you know, I know we've been talking about that. But really, that's the fact.

I have not done enough. And I love Jesus and I do my best to follow him every day. You will never do enough. You haven't done enough. And there will never be enough things that you can do the same thing with me. And that's what grace is, right? We have this infinite debt and we're limited finite beings. And let me cut you off right there because just that one thing.

Because when I went to jail last year, when I went to prison last year, and I was with Diddy and I was with President of Honduras. And I was with Sandberg Freeman. and people forget that the word grace. People's like, well, I have grace. I haven't done enough. I have grace. God knows when you, when that conscious speaks.

Yeah. God knows when you say, well, I had grace. I had grace. What about grace, God? What about grace? You can't just use grace. Yeah, as a scapego. As an escape goat.

God knows your heart. God knows that. That's right. I feel like when you're in front of God, God is going to be. Remember this? That little one thought. Because I have it.

That little one thought behind Bryce's head, right? That you're like, damn, what if God brings this up? God knows that thought. God is going to bring it up right here. You know what I'm like, yo, like, you know what I'm like, yo put it side by side? God is going to do that. And he's going to be like, look at that. I knew about that.

I knew that was what worried you. You know what I mean? Yeah. And I feel like, and that's when on Judgment Day when he shows you that. God is going to be like, you didn't use my grace like in vain. Yeah.

Yeah, I do believe God wants to use you in magnificent ways. I think he wants to use you in a powerful way to bring people to him. But it's interesting, the Bible in Corinthians, when Paul writes to the Church of Corinth, the church in Corinth was super messed up, dude.

I mean, they were doing crazy stuff, like all sleeping with each other and like it's just a bunch of debauchery. And he says, hey, you can't drink from the cup demons and the cup of the Lord. It's one of the other. And in the book of Revelation, you know, all about the end times, Jesus says to the church of Laidaecia, who was lukewarm, they weren't cold or hot. They were sitting on the fence. He says, I'll vomit you out of my mouth. I would rather

you'd be cold or hot, not both. And I think that's the urgency that I've got, I think that's what we've got to have. You know, it's like, I want to be all in. What do you think kind of holds you back from being all in? Do you think it's a fear of finances, fear of family, falling apart fear. Exactly. You said it. You said it right there. The first thing you said it was there.

Fear of finances. I said, God, what if I stop being 6'9? How am I going to fend for my family? Are you happy? I heard this quote one time from this guy, George Mueller. He's a famous Christian from a couple hundred years ago. He said, if you're not content with the amount of money you have in your bank account, you would never be content with double the amount of money in your bank account.

And it's interesting that there's a story in Luke chapter 16 where Jesus talks to this man, a rich young ruler. And he goes, hey, Jesus, what do I need to do to enter the kingdom of heaven? Kind of cocky. And Jesus says, well, love the Lord your God with your whole heart, soul, mind, and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself. And he's like, well, I already do that. And Jesus says, okay, we'll sell everything you have and follow me.

And it says that the rich man got sad. And this is where we hear the analogy for it's easier for a rich man, for it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man in the kingdom of heaven. And the man got sad. Now, it doesn't say it's impossible. Okay? And you saw the man got sad.

He says, what seems impossible for man is possible with God. That's what he says. So think about this. There is no such thing as scarcity in the kingdom of God. Now, that doesn't mean when you're becoming a Christian that you're going to be some rich millionaire, billionaire, God trusts people with money. For example, I had a coworker I used to work with years ago who didn't believe in Jesus, but he said, well, if God gives me money when I pray, then I'll believe in him.

and he never got money. But he was a bad steward with money. No, he couldn't be trusted with money. Why would God give him money if it would just crush him? You know what I mean? And he said, oh, God's not real because he's not giving me money. Whereas I know people who are very wealthy people who steward it well and give back and they love Jesus. The point I'm making is, if we really do follow Jesus, he himself says,

if God feeds the birds of the air and gives beauty to the lilies of the field and they're not even made in his image, how much more will God take care of you because you're valuable and made in his image? And I think every day, whether you're 80 years old, 20 years old, 29, whatever you may be, I think the hardest lesson is to trust God. I think, you know, this Jesus thing, it's beautiful because it's more than just a feeling, you know, it's like that Jesus is closer than our skin. Like that's crazy to me. Like he can be in us, he can lead us and he loves us.

And he doesn't just want to like shower us in the feeling of love. He wants to transform us with his love. You know, it's like I don't clean myself up before I go to the shower. I get clean in the shower. I got to bring my junk and be honest with him and because of that, his radical love for me, think about that. God knowing every nasty thing

Danny has done. Everything. And he lavishes his love on you and says, let my love be poured out for you. Because that's what the cross was. That's what his death and resurrection was. Mad love because he knew that was the only way we could be with Jesus in heaven was if he died. That's the most radical love, explanation

of love. People think love is sex. The feeling you get when you smoke, do drugs. You get the booze. It's that unconditional love. That love where, no matter what you do, where his creation, and he created us, he created us, you know, in the form of him where he sent his only son, you know. He gave his flesh, his blood, his, you know.

That's the only way we were making into internal life. How are you mentally feeling about going back into jail, bro i'm ready like that's one thing you're ready like you just want to get it over with no it's not even get it over with like like that's what it is like let's go yeah like a person who knows he has the lord and savior listen and put it like this god has everything written you know that right like everything that's going to happen to you you can't break what god has written for you right now you can't go get a priest of bread and try to choke on it and be like ah bro god's what god knows everything's going to happen God knows that moment where you're about to break.

You know that? Yeah. Like literally God, you can't, right now, if I get up, throw this mic and jump off this shit and say, I never fulfill God's thing. God knows everything you're going to do. So I'm ready, bro. Like, I'm going in there knowing that Jesus Christ is, like, walking beside me. Like, let's knock this out, you know? I love that.

Like, imagine us, like, tonight, leave it here a week from now. You're in jail and you're running in that jail. Not thinking, oh, I'm about to do time. But man, Jesus is working on my heart. I really want to fully give this a shot. This is a mission field, not time. Do you know little Tony? Do you know who that is?

He does a drill rap in Atlanta, but Jesus radically saved him. And he was in jail. He radically came to the Lord. And when he came out, he was just making this big dent for Jesus. Because he was like, man, I'm all. I was in this one thing. And now in the other thing, and you know, the best gauge of someone following Jesus is,

does my life look different before I claim to have been following Jesus until after I claim to follow Jesus? Because Jesus says, in the scriptures that it costs something to follow him. Our comfort, our preferences, are, you know, what we like and sometimes cost things that we love sometimes because maybe it's holding us back, whatever it may be. And he's making this big dent and in jail. He's like praying for the inmates and ministering in them and loving on them because, because again, God sees their heart. And Jesus has done a radical change in his heart and is doing a radical change.

And I think many people are coming to faith right now. I think it's big. I think it's powerful. I think it's necessary. And I think God really does want to use Danny in that. I think he does. But ultimately, aside from being used, your purpose is simply to love God. That's it.

I was designed to love God. You were designed to love God. That's the first commandment, love God. And that's what he says Seek first the kingdom of heaven And all these other things will follow My first priority is I'm gonna love God I'm gonna love God

Everything I do the way I talk the way I walk the way I act I want the way I walk to make someone go Man what does he have that I don't have And it's not it's not some certain tattoos You know it's not it's not it's not It's Jesus Jesus And that's what we want you know And that's what I want for you

You know I want that for you I want you feel empowered and also not alone. You know how hard is to do this stuff alone? Yeah, you know? It's hard. It's so hard, bro. You don't have to be alone. Yeah.

You know? I genuinely love you. Thank you. I used to be the most selfish pride for you. I only cared about myself before I was a Christian. If I told you some of the things I did before I was a Christian, I don't know if we'd be sitting together, you know? But God does miraculous things.

A lot. I really think he's working. on you and tugging on you. Yeah. Well, I feel it. I know it. Yeah. What do you think is kind of like a next step for you in this? I want to, I want to, um, it's a lot of things I want to do, you know, a lot. I'm just not going to, I don't know. It's not that I don't want to speak on it. I just want to, I just want to follow, follow the wherever it takes me. My whole life, I never had a plan. We called it crash and burn. Me and my friends called the crash and burn. We literally caught it crash and burn.

Just go to where the wind takes us. Yeah. And that's my plan. Yeah. I had one random question before I have one final thought, and I want to pray for you. Yeah. Before we end. Random question.

You mentioned earlier that you were in jail with Diddy. Yeah. What was that like? Funny story. Now I'm just going to talk about Diddy. Did he seen me get on my knees three times a day to pray to the Lord. Lord Jesus Christ, right? I prayed in the morning when I woke up before I brushed my teeth.

I prayed in the middle of the day around 6 p.m. And I'll pray right before I go to bed. I did that probably about for seven to seven days and night. I believe about a week, week and a half. And Diddy said, hey, I see you, I see you read a lot of Bible because what I would do, I'll pray in the morning. But on my second prayer at 6 p.m., I'll read, I'll read Psalms 91, Psalms 121, and Daniel 7, I believe, when they put them in the, in the dental lines. I'll read that every day at 6 p.m.

And he says, I see you read a lot of the Bible. I see you very, you know, you, you know, you. get on your knees every day and pray to the Lord, can I pray with you? And I said, yeah, we both, you know, got on our knees and prayed to the Lord. And we said, Lord, we love you. We don't get on our knees to ask you for anything. We actually, we thank you for putting us here. We didn't ask the Lord for not one thing. We just say, hey, take care of our family. Hey, do this, do that. We just say things. And I said, hey, you don't think God gets tired of us asking, asking, how about just give thanks? We're in jail right now, but we're both breathing. We both have two arms that

work, two legs that work, a neck that can move, right, lips that can open, nose that can inhale, eyes that can see, right? Our digestive system works. Everything is functional. Why not give thanks. There's people who can't walk, can't see, can smell, can't talk. So he gave thanks and gifted me a Bible. Wow. Yeah. It's encouraging. Yeah. One final thought I wanted to share with you before I pray for you. Man, Danny, I don't love you and think you're valuable because you've had some hit records and because you have some followers and people like you and because you have some cool jewelry and you got good style. I care about you because I think you're made in God's image

and I think you're valuable because you're a son. And I want to encourage you with that. I want to know anything you need here for you. Grateful for you. Anything you need in prison, prayer, anything, letters after it, anything you need before. I care about you. I think you're incredible and I think you're honest.

And I appreciate people that are honest. And I really respect that. I would love to pray for you before we close that. Yeah, let's do it. Is that cool? Yeah, let's do it. Awesome. Yeah, Jesus, thank you so much for Danny.

God. Thank you for a conversation. God, we just love you. We care about you. Jesus, thank you for honesty. God, would you just keep moving in Danny's heart? Would you keep tugging on it? Make it so undeniable where he just can't push it away.

You know, I do it sometimes too. When you just like, maybe where he can't push it away. When he goes into prison, he's a light, but that light starts tonight. Life starts, you know, today, and that light moves everywhere we go. The way we talk, the way we walk, the way we act, the way we treat people. Would you highlight people to dating and prison to pray for and encourage and love on? In your name, Jesus. Amen.

Amen.