Tekashi 6ix9ine then addressed the judge in a more typical manner, saying that his failure to submit to several drug tests was “just a misunderstanding, Your Honor.” He insisted that he had never used drugs and that this was the result of a drug test that detected methamphetamine. Prescription drugs that contain traces of the substance.

At another point, he told Engelmayer: “I’m not a piece,” before apparently pausing to choose the right words and saying: “I’m not a bad person.”

The judge acknowledged that some of his actions may have been justified, but said he felt the rapper was “getting off on the hook.”

After the hearing, the rapper’s attorney, Lance Lazzaro, said in an email that his client was charged with three “technical violations” of his supervised release and was “confident that every specification will be denied.”

The musician’s next hearing will be held on November 12.