American hip-hop artist, Kodak Black, has acknowledged reverting to substance use amid increasingly unpredictable conduct that has raised alarms among his supporters.
Black went live on Instagram while at a football match, confidently proclaimed he’s not in recovery after a fan remarked that she enjoys when he is.
“Bitch, I ain’t clean. Do I look clean? I’m never clean, bitch,” he responded. “For what? For what? Look at this dough. Check out all this cash. Clean for what? I’m too young to pass away clean.”
He then passed the phone to a friend and proceeded to leap over a fence.
As part of Kai Cenat’s ongoing 30-day “Mafiathon 2” livestream, Kodak Black participated earlier this month and sparked worries for his well-being after appearing disjointed, even seemingly taking pills on camera at one occasion.
One notable moment depicts him seemingly attempting to “trickshot” a pill before collapsing on the ground, a maneuver that troubled Cenat as well as viewers.
At another instance, the Florida rapper interacted with fans in the Twitch chat while excessively sweating and rambling.
Back in April, Kodak Black confessed that his dependency on Percocet had escalated to the level where he was consuming dozens of tablets each day until he managed to control his habit.
“I recall a period in my life when I was chewing a lot of Percs,” he said on Instagram Live. “I’m proud of myself. I’ve never felt this joyful in my life. I don’t know where this originated from, what the heck is happening.
“I ain’t even going to claim I’m against Percs. I haven’t taken a Perc since I been home. But my intake is so minimal that I can’t believe it myself. Man, I’m telling y’all, bro.”
“Before I just went to jail — I can discuss this because it’s my story, ain’t no shame in my game — I was consuming at least 100 Percs. My average was 40 Percocets… to the extent where I look at this and think, ‘What the heck was wrong with me, bruh?’”
He even conveyed remorse for rapping about intentionally ingesting a fake Percocet tablet on his hit track “Super Gremlin” and vowed to never perform the song again.
Despite his efforts to get clean, however, Kodak seemingly relapsed from his sobriety months later in July when he recorded himself swallowing multiple tablets, telling viewers he’s “about to glitch right quick.”