Pretty sure a mob of 3 or 4 armed with guns doing an ambush will work against anyone, gangsta or not.
Which is why I don't get the whole culture of wearing it as a badge of honor and pride
Lemme break down this guy because it was bound to happen to him. We all saw this coming.
Tekashi69 has built up a reputation of being "gangsta" and untouchable. Since he got on in November 2017 with Gummo he's had this persona of a Mexican/Puerto-Rican New York gangsta who's a member of the Bloods who can taunt others and cause problems with no repercussions. It just so happened that he's talented and had the music to back it up. So as he dropped music, his antics grew from having a Breakfast Club interview where he downtalked everything they said (Charlamange even brought a preacher in to pray for him at the end of the interview) to him taunting everyone in hip-hop, him trolling online, him taunting the Princes (from Houston aka J Prince the guy who stopped the Drake/Pusha beef), to hanging with 50 Cent and so on and so forth. He threated people to get him and no one did anything, he said said once that if he's not dead in 72 hours then people are scared. He even hungout with Chief Keef's baby mama to piss off Keef, bought her things and felt on her a bit, all to piss off and troll. One reason some people think others haven't done anything to him is due to the people backing Tekashi paying people off.
And he's been saying for months that he dares people to "test his gangsta" which is where this comes in today. His gangsta's been tested. Actually for the past few weeks from him being locked up to going back to court tomorrow and now this, all of the stuff he's done, karma's finally coming back on him. So we knew it would happen, all of us have seen this happen numerous times but Tekashi's like 22-23 and his generation hasn't seen anything like this yet, it was bound to happen.
But the thing about wearing gangsta, toughness as a badge of honor I wouldn't say that's mostly on hip-hop, that goes back to the days when we all were in school. You remember the thing about "good guys want bad girls" and "girls always love the bad boys", people are drawn to the badder side of things, when they see people breaking rules they love that. The older we get we see it's wrong but when you're young that's something that pulls people in. Hip-hop is a young genre so a lot of that stuff came with it but the older emcees get they usually change from that lifestyle, usually around the 24-26 year old range.
Most people in hip-hop these days that are older don't talk about that type of gangsta. To them, the Kendricks, Drakes, Coles, even older the Jay-Z's and Nas's even, gangsta is changing from your old past and providing for those you love and becoming someone who others look up to the right way. That's the main reason why they talk about financial freedom, helping others, stuff like that.
Just so happens that Tekashi's not seeing that kind of gangsta yet. He's gotta learn and this is one thing that needed to happen honestly.