His explorations are distinctly black in that they are influenced by his identity and are then mutated by interactions with whiteness. Kodak’s music explores how his blackness and community affect society’s perception of him by sharing his personal experiences and stories. When he reveals his raw humanity as an artist, I can’t turn away. It’s easy to discard Kodak as a rapist, a criminal, but I’m complicit as a listener in the cycles of oppression that entrap him. While I write this, he’s being held in solitary confinement. A Google search provides as many of his mugshots as his mixtape covers. He’s been in and out of jail and the court system since I was a high school freshman. Please someone help me.Dieuson Octave is Kodak Black, a 20-year-old Broward County rapper, two years older than I am. If they kill my son, I’ll kill myself, too. “I want to make sure my son is OK!,” she said. His mother wailed during the news conference. The attorneys say any civil rights lawsuit remains on hold until they can see their client. attorney and an FBI agent told the newspaper that Black fought with a corrections officer, got pepper-sprayed, and squeezed the guard’s testicles to the point where his abdomen and intestinal wall were breached.
The Herald reported that the Federal Bureau of Prisons and employees at the detention center declined to comment, but an assistant U.S. Shortly after, he got into a fight with an inmate. Black claimed he was “laced with an unknown substance.” After an out-of-body experience and feeling like being possessed, he said, he went to the corrections officers’ office for help, but was denied medical attention. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)īlack’s Instagram post offers his side of what happened before, during and after guards intervened in a fight between him and another inmate in October. The 22-year-old admitted in August that he falsified information on federal forms to buy four firearms from a Miami-area gun shop on two separate occasions. The rapper has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison after pleading guilty to weapons charges stemming from his arrest just before a scheduled concert performance in May. 27, 2017 file photo, Kodak Black arrives at the MTV Video Music Awards in Inglewood, Calif. “That’s why they won’t let me see him.”įILE – In this Aug. “They don’t want my son happy,” Simmons said. The Miami Herald reported that his mother, Marcelene Simmons, said that when she tried to see him before Christmas, she was falsely accused by prison officials of having contraband. In a mid-December posting on Black’s Instagram account, he went public with allegations that he had been abused at the Federal Detention Center. He also faces drug, weapons and sexual assault charges in other states, and has had several previous arrests. The rapper admitted in August that he falsified information on federal forms to buy four guns from a Miami-area gun shop on two separate occasions. He was arrested just before a scheduled concert performance in May. The 22-year-old rapper, whose real name is Bill Kapri, was sentenced in November to more than three years in federal prison after pleading guilty to weapons charges. “Their refusal to let him see his counsel is, in and of itself, a constitutional violation.” “They knew we were coming out here, they knew we were doing this today,” Jacob said. Jacobs said he had emailed and called the Bureau of Prisons to tell them they were coming to the detention center Wednesday. (Broward County Sheriff’s Office via AP, File)Īttorneys Benjamin Crump, Devon Jacob and Sue-Ann Robinson said they haven’t been able to see the rapper in weeks. 18, 2018 file arrest photo provided by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, Fla., shows Dieuson Octave, also known as the rapper Kodak Black.
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