Shotti | |
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Birth name | Kifano Jordan |
Also known as | Tr3yway CEO [1] |
Born | Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago [2] | April 14, 1982
Origin | Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, U.S. |
Occupation | Record executive |
Kifano Jordan (born April 14, 1982), better known as Shotti, is a Trinidadian-American convicted felon and record executive. He is the founder of Tr3yway Entertainment, a record label that signed then-unknown American rapper 6ix9ine in 2017. During their tenure, Shotti provided interludes on his singles such as "Billy" and "Blood Walk". He is also a known member of the Nine Trey Gangsters, a set of the larger United Blood Nation which is the East Coast branch of the Bloods gang.
Kifano Jordan was born on April 14, 1982, [3] in the Caribbean island of Trinidad, in the nation of Trinidad and Tobago, and later moved at a young age to the United States, settling in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City. [4]
Jordan has stated that he met 6ix9ine through a mutual friendship with Maino before their musical careers. In April 2018, Jordan was sentenced to 7 months of community jail after being ruled as a person of interest in a Barclays Center shooting. He has affiliation with the street gangs United Blood Nation's set Nine Trey Gangsters. [5] [6]
In late 2018, Jordan was tied to a series of felony assaults, including 3 shootings and multiple drug and firearm charges. [7] Jordan has also served as a co-defendant for 6ix9ine's November 2018 racketeering trial. [8] On March 28, 2019, Jordan pled guilty in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York to multiple charges with a sentencing possibility of up to 15 years to life in prison. On September 6, 2019, Jordan was sentenced to 15 years in prison. [9]
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