Talk about unlikely prison pals.
Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine bragged Friday about getting captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro to sign his “jailhouse” SpongeBob SquarePants doll inside a Big Apple federal lockup.
The 29-year-old musician was released from Brooklyn’s notorious Metropolitan Detention Center early Friday and celebrated by flashing Maduro’s purported John Hancock along with multimillion-dollar bling.
Video posted on Tekashi’s Instagram page shows him holding a stack of papers in one hand and the Nickelodeon toy in the other as he emerged a free man following his latest stint behind bars.
“Look, Maduro signed it,” he said, excitedly showing his pals the signature. “Maduro, second of April, Venezuela forever.”
Maduro has been housed at MDC since January when he was captured in Caracas by US forces.
Tekashi, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, reported to MDC in January after he violated the terms of his probation by assaulting a man and stashing MDMA and cocaine in his bedroom.
He was originally sent to the clink in 2019 for his involvement in the violent Nine Trey Gangsta Blood gang – but was cut loose early because of COVID.
The flamboyant musician’s lawyer and the Bureau of Prisons both confirmed to TMZ that he was released Friday morning predawn.
As he stepped back into freedom, he was gifted a nearly 400-carat chain that weighs more than four pounds, according to the outlet.
Tekashi claimed on the Instagram post the necklace cost more than $2 million.
“Fresh OUT THE FEDS $2,200,000 on my neck. GOD IS THE GREATEST. MY LORD AND SAVIOR,” he said before adding, “MADURO SIGNED MY JAIL HOUSE SPONGE9INE.”
The federal jailhouse has held a who’s who of federal inmates over the years, including alleged CEO shooter Luigi Mangione, Diddy, R. Kelly and Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as Maduro and his wife.
The couple are facing charges of drug-trafficking.
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