Kodak Black
Bill Kahan Kapri (born Dieuson Octave; June 11, 1997), known professionally as Kodak Black, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He gained initial recognition following the release of his 2014 songs “No Flockin” and “Skrt”, both of which led him to sign a recording contract with Atlantic Records. The former received double platinum certification by the Recording Industry of America (RIAA), while the latter received platinum certification; “No Flockin” marked his first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 two years later as a sleeper hit.
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| Birth name | Dieuson Octave |
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| Born | June 11, 1997 Pompano Beach, Florida, U.S. |
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| Discography | Kodak Black discography |
| Years active | 2009–present |
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His 2017 single, “Tunnel Vision” was met with further success at number six on the chart and preceded the release of his debut studio album Painting Pictures (2017), which peaked at number three on the Billboard 200. His first commercial mixtape (and fifth overall), Project Baby 2, was released that same year and peaked at number two on the chart, also spawning the triple platinum-certified single “Roll in Peace” (featuring XXXTentacion). His second album, Dying to Live (2018) yielded his furthest commercial success and peaked atop the Billboard 200. It spawned the single “Zeze” (featuring Travis Scott and Offset), which peaked at two on the Billboard Hot 100, received sextuple platinum certification by the RIAA, and remains his highest-charting song.
Kodak Black’s career has been marked by periods of mainstream success, as well as public controversies and legal issues. His legal troubles began in middle school and spiked crucially throughout the late 2010s. Black was accused of rape in 2016 and faced the charge of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in South Carolina. He was given a plea bargain in 2021 to the lesser offense of assault and battery and was sentenced to probation. In 2019, Black was arrested for making false statements to possess weapons and was sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison; his sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump in 2021.
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While incarcerated, he released his third album Bill Israel (2020), which saw less promotion and commercial orientation. His 2021 single, “Super Gremlin” saw a commercial resurgence, peaking at number three on the Billboard Hot 100. It was included on fourth album, Back for Everything (2022). His fifth and sixth albums, Pistolz & Pearlz and When I Was Dead, were both released in 2023.
Early life
Kodak Black was born Dieuson Octave on June 11, 1997, in Pompano Beach, Florida, the son of Haitian immigrant Marcelene Octave. He later legally changed his name to Bill Kahan Kapri. Kodak Black was raised by his mother in Golden Acres, a public housing project in Pompano Beach.
Kodak Black started rapping in elementary school and began to go to a local trap house after school to record music. He spent his youth reading thesauruses and dictionaries to further his vocabulary. Kodak Black frequently participated in brawls and breaking and entering with his friends. He was expelled from school in the fifth grade for fighting and was arrested for auto theft while in middle school. About his upbringing, he said that he was given two options: “sell drugs with a gun on his hip or rap”.
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From the age of six, Kodak Black used the nickname “Black”. He also used the nickname “Lil’ Black”. When he joined Instagram he chose the username “Kodak Black”, “…’cause you know Kodak, that’s pictures and all that.” This later became his stage name when he started to rap and is the name favored by his fans.
Personal life
In 2014, Kodak Black stated that he was working towards his high school diploma at Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach.
During his incarceration, Kodak Black began to identify as a Hebrew Israelite after a priest who conducts prison ministry studied scripture with him. He later filed to change his name to Bill Kahan Blanco, with Kahan supposedly being an alternative spelling of kohen, a term used in Judaism to refer to priests who descend from the prophet Aaron, the brother of Moses. On May 2, 2018, he legally changed his name from “Dieuson Octave” to “Bill Kahan Kapri”.
In June 2017, he wrote on Instagram about his preference for light-skinned women over those with dark skin. He also stated in an interview that actress Keke Palmer was “straight”, but that he “don’t really like Black girls like that”. Some Twitter users responded negatively, provoking Kodak Black to delete both his Instagram and Twitter accounts. Kodak Black also stated that light-skinned women are easier to break down, black women are “too gutter”, and that he does not like his skin complexion.
In June 2018, Kodak Black earned his GED while in prison.
On February 6, 2021, Kodak returned to social media with a new hairstyle and a slimmer figure. The same day, he posted a video to Twitter where he and his lawyer Bradford Cohen said that they had informed the FBI in Miami that Kodak would cover tuition costs for the two children of late FBI agent Laura Schwartzenberger and the child of late FBI agent Daniel Alfin, both of whom died on duty.
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On February 12, 2022, Kodak Black was shot during a fight outside a Los Angeles Italian restaurant where Justin Bieber was hosting a Super Bowl-week party.
Kapri endorsed the Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign, releasing the single “ONBOA47RD” with New York rapper Fivio Foreign in support of Trump.
Philanthropy
On October 1, 2018, Kodak Black donated $10,000 to the Jack and Jill Children’s center, which is a provider of early children’s education. In November 2018, Kodak Black announced that he was building a school in Haiti.
On December 20, 2018, Kodak Black donated enough money to Paradise Childcare in Broward County, Florida, to provide gifts for 150 children in the area. In addition, he also donated $5,000 for the organization’s annual Christmas party.
In late 2018, he donated $2,500 to South Carolina police officer Terrence Carraway, who was killed in a shootout on duty. On May 3, 2019, Kodak Black donated $12,500 to a girl named Paige Cook, the girl’s goal was to give pencils and notebooks to give to all 7,600 students in the Cleburne Independent School District in Texas, a low-income district. In 2018, Paige raised enough money to buy over 40,000 pencils.
In the wake of the 2019 STEM School Highlands Ranch shooting, Kodak Black’s lawyer reached out to the family of Kendrick Ray Castillo, who was shot and killed after lunging at the attacker, on May 11, and offered to pay for Castillo’s funeral and set aside an annual $10,000 scholarship for any student wishing to go to college for science or engineering. His lawyer stated that the family had not yet responded.
Kodak also allegedly donated $50,000 to Gekyume, the son of late rapper and collaborator XXXTentacion. Kodak and XXXTentacion were friends up until his death in 2018.
Musical style
Kodak Black’s music is frequently about “previous and future criminal misdeeds”, and he stated that he has been influenced by rappers Boosie Badazz and Chief Keef.
A writer for The New Yorker magazine described his “manifestly youthful voice” and “mutinous sound”, and stated “Kapri joins other young rappers who have rejected an old-school emphasis on lyrical variety, individualism, and personal catharsis”.
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In 2016, a music critic wrote in The Fader that Kodak Black “articulates the constant state of affliction that living in a poverty-stricken environment can mean. He makes emotionally intelligent observations in a manner reminiscent of teenage artists of the ’90s, such as Mobb Deep and Lil Wayne, whose voices were valued as genuine illustrations of life in their corners of America.”
Kodak Black has been frequently described as a mumble rapper.
