Tekashi 6ix9ine defied the US State Department and flew to Russia, and in a new video, the New York native can be heard making disparaging remarks about the basketball player.
The rapper began by welcoming and shouting out to his buddies, "You know us out here," he added, beaming in an all-black ensemble as he stood in a sparsely populated downtown plaza. "Sh** is crazy," he added.
As 6ix9ine got closer to the camera, he put up his huge sunglasses to reveal his entire face, grinning after coming in close to mumble "F*ck Brittney Griner."
Britney gets caught up in a geopolitical power struggle in which the Russian government is using her to push the US government to release deadly Russian prisoners from US prisons.
And while stars like Dennis Rodman have offered to fly overseas and campaign for his fellow athlete's liberation, the Chicago Bulls alumnus was eventually discouraged from doing so - and was told to leave it to the legal experts who have been working relentlessly to reunite Griner with her family.