Drake helped him. Trump pardoned him. Who is Black spring break headliner Kodak Black?

Mona Moore
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Florida rapper Kodak Black is the headliner for this year’s Black spring break in Biloxi.

The four-day event brings thousands of students from historical black colleges and universities across the US to the Mississippi Coast for music, food, fun dancing and the beach.

Black spring break visitors will start arriving tomorrow and traffic is expected to be heavy along Highway 90 in Biloxi, especially near Edgewater Mall and the Coast Coliseum.

Saturday’s Kodak Black concert at the Coliseum starts at 8 p.m. and tickets start at $80 per person. Nardo Wick, Est Gee, Fynesse 2 Times and Gloss Up will also perform.

Who is Kodak Black? Here’s everything you need to know.

  • Kodak Black was born Dieuson Octave in Pompano Beach, Florida on June 11, 1997. He legally changed his name to Bill Kahan Kapri before adopting the stage name Kodak Black.

  • As part of his first rap group, Brutal Youngnz, Black started rapping. The elementary school student was 12 years old.

  • Kodak’s charitable work includes financial assistance to the families of fallen officers, donating $100,000 to Nova Southeastern University’s library, donations to the families of the 17 victims of the Parkland school shooting.

  • Last September, Kodak paid off the rest of the year’s rent for 28 South Florida families who were facing eviction.

  • In December, he teamed with police departments in New York, Atlanta and Pompano Beach to give holiday gifts of bikes, toys, air pods, iPads and leather coats, “I feel better when I make other people happy, make other people smile.”

  • Kodak’s most popular pose is him pointing at his teeth.

  • With the help of Drake, Kodak signed with Atlantic Records at 18.

  • In January 2021, on his last day in office, President Donald Trump issued a presidential pardon to Black for a weapons charge. Black had lied on an application to buy a gun in Florida.

  • Kodak Black refers to Trump as Uncle Trump.

  • Released in 2022, Kodak’s “Super Gremlin” sold more than 4 million copies in the U.S.

  • Kodak has been nominated for seven awards — including a 2017 MTV Video Music Award for best new artist, an American Music Award for favorite hip-hop song in 2022 and two Grammys in 2018 and 2023 — but has never won.

  • One of Kodak Black’s business ventures is Kodak’s Wings. For a portion of the proceeds, he will lend his name and image to existing restaurants to sell wings via a food truck, brick-and-mortar or Doordash. He’s accepting partnership applications.

  • Black tattooed his lawyer’s name, Brad Cohen, on the side of his left hand.

  • Black is 5’6” tall.

  • According to bitcoinist.com, Drake once gave Kodak $250,000 in bitcoin for no reason.

  • Kodak has a Kodak Black version of Chucky, complete with tattoos, gold grill and his signature hairdo

  • Kodak’s previous hairstyle originated in South Florida. The style is known as wicks, bonks or globs.

  • Kodak Black temporary tattoo sets include exact matches of many of Kodak’s face tattoos, but not all of them.

  • June 11, 2021 was proclaimed Kodak Black Day in Broward County, Florida.

  • In February 2022, Black was shot in the leg outside a Hollywood, California restaurant while attending a Justin Bieber after party.

  • Black’s eyelids are tattooed in red and say “red rum,” a reference to “The Shining.”

  • In October 2015, Black was charged in Pompano Beach with robbery, battery, two counts of false imprisonment of a child under 13, three counts of false imprisonment of an adult, driving with a suspended license and possession of marijuana.

  • Kodak Black’s video for “Patty Cake” includes an animated Kodak, complete with gold grill and cross tattoos.

  • Black’s criminal record includes committing battery on a Miami strip club bartender while he was supposed to be on house arrest charges of neglecting a child with no bodily harm.

  • Kodak Black’s Instagram has 12.7 million followers.

  • A wings and fries dinner from Kodaks Wings will run you about $21.

  • Saturday isn’t the first Black spring break with Kodak as a headliner. In 2017, he had to cancel his concert “due to an unforeseen incarceration.”