You wouldn’t expect a shootout to happen at an event with Jeff Bezos and Leonardo DiCaprio.
But at an afterparty for a Justin Bieber concert, there was a shooting that left four people injured,
including Kodak Black.
Here’s what went down.
On Friday night, Bieber put on a private show for an audience full of A-list celebrities.
The guest list included huge names like Drake, Khloe Kardashian, and Tobey Maguire.
The afterparty was held at a popular Hollywood restaurant called The Nice Guy,
which is where the shooting happened later that night.
Around 3 AM, Kodak, Gunna, and Lil Baby were standing on the street outside of the party.
At first, it looks like everything is cool and they’re all just hanging out.
Then out of nowhere, a fight broke out and Kodak swung at someone.
Seconds later, shots started popping off and everyone scattered.
TMZ posted a video of the fight that shows a dude wearing black
who looks like he’s holding a pistol.
It’s not clear if he’s actually the shooter or who he was there with,
but police are investigating the situation.
Three other people besides Kodak were hit, including a 60-year-old man,
but none of the injuries were life threatening and they’re all in stable condition.
The story is still developing, but according to Kodak’s camp,
he was trying to defend his homie.
A source told TMZ that someone in Kodak’s crew got jumped after they stepped outside the party.
Kodak threw himself into the fight and attacked the dude who jumped his friend,
and that’s when someone started letting off shots.
It’s not clear if the shooter was the same dude who jumped Kodak’s friend or someone else.
But Kodak ended up getting hit in the leg and taken to the hospital.
We don’t know much about his injury but he’s listed in stable condition,
so it seems like he’s gonna pull through.
No one expected something like this to go down at a Justin Bieber party,
but Kodak is no stranger to trouble.
He has a long criminal history that started way before he was famous.
He started rapping in elementary school and used to record his songs at a trap house after school.
He was always getting into fights as a kid and got expelled in the fifth grade.
Plus he was arrested for stealing a car while still in middle school.
But despite how much trouble he was getting into, Kodak had a passion for music.
He later said in an interview that he had two options:
“sell drugs with a gun on his hip or rap.”
So when he was twelve years old he joined a rap group, and a few years later he dropped his first mixtape.
By 2015 Kodak was already building a buzz,
but then his career went to the next level after Drake posted a video of himself
dancing to one of his songs.
When one of the world’s biggest artists cosigns you, people start to pay attention.
The same month Drake posted the video, Kodak signed with Atlantic Records
and the rest is history.
Even though his career was starting to blow up, Kodak couldn’t stay out of trouble with the law.
The same month he signed his deal with Atlantic Records,
he was arrested in Florida for robbery, battery, false imprisonment of a child,
and possession of cannabis, but was later released.
Then in April 2016 he was charged with possession of a weapon by a convicted felon,
possession of marijuana, and fleeing from officers.
Kodak allegedly tried to escape the cops after a drug deal,
and afterwards they caught him trying to throw his gun into a dumpster.
One month later he was arrested again on open warrants for armed robbery and false imprisonment.
In June he was added to XXL’s 2016 Freshman Class, alongside other superstars
like 21 Savage, Lil Yachty and Lil uzi Vert.
But just two months later he was placed on house arrest after pleading no contest
to his robbery, false imprisonment, and marijuana charges.
His lawyer argued that Kodak was trying to turn his life around through music,
so the judge let him tour internationally even on house arrest.
But while he was in jail, police found out he had two outstanding warrants:
one for alleged felony criminal sexual conduct in South Carolina,
and two misdemeanor marijuana charges from Florida.
He pleaded no contest to the drug charges and was sentenced to four months in jail.
After he served his time in Florida,
he was taken to South Carolina to face his criminal sexual conduct case.
He was originally looking at a maximum of 30 years if he was convicted.
But in 2021 he took a plea deal
and the charges were dropped to first degree assault and battery.
So he was only sentenced to 18 months of probation.
During all of his legal issues and controversies, Kodak never stopped working on his career.
He dropped multiple albums and collab’d with big artists like Juice WRLD, Travis Scott,
and NLE Choppa in between stints in jail.
But then in 2018 it looked like the rapper might face serious time
after he was arrested on seven felony charges.
The charges came after an Instagram Live video
showed him smoking weed and holding a gun around a little kid.
He was hit with child neglect, grand theft of a firearm,
possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and more.
Three of the charges were later dropped,
then Kodak pleaded not guilty to the others and was sentenced to 364 days in jail.
After that, things settled down for a while until April 2019
when he was arrested at the US Canada border
after authorities found weed and a gun in his car.
One week later, the FBI searched one of his tour buses
and arrested some of his crew when they found weapons inside.
At this point it was clear that the cops wanted Kodak off the streets.
Just one month later they arrested him right before he was set to perform at Rolling Loud.
He was charged with two counts of making a false statement on a governmental form.
According to prosecutors, Kodak lied about his past criminal record and current indictments
while purchasing guns from a legal dealer in Hialeah, Florida.
Eventually, he accepted a plea deal for 46 months in prison.
In March 2020 he pleaded guilty to the gun case from when he was arrested at the border.
The situation wasn’t looking good for him,
but then in January 2021 he was granted a last minute pardon by President Trump.
Besides all of the legal issues he’s had over the years, Kodak has been in all kinds of other controversies.
In 2017 he was streaming on Instagram Live
and showed himself in a hotel room with a bunch of other dudes
while one female performed oral sex on all of them.
He came under fire again that same year
after he posted on Instagram about how he liked light-skinned women
more than dark-skinned.
He also said in an interview that he “don’t really like black girls like that.”
This would’ve been enough to get people angry,
but then he added even more fuel to the fire.
He said that women with dark skin are “too tough,” and that “light-skinned women,
we can break them down more easy.”
After getting a lot of negative feedback, Kodak deleted his social media accounts.
Then in 2019 he made pretty much the whole industry mad
after he said that he would “wait” to have sex with Lauren London, the girlfriend of Nispey Hussle,
who had just got killed a few days earlier.
Kodak hopped on Instagram Live and said “I’ll give her a whole year.
She might need a whole year to be crying and shit for him.”
There was a massive backlash immediately.
Rappers like TI and The Game called him out,
and fans on social media made it clear they weren’t cool with the comments.
Kodak posted an apology afterwards and said
“If I disrespected you Laren London in any shape or form, I am sorry. Even though I didn’t.”
If I disrespected you Laren London
in any shape or form, I am sorry.
Even though I didn’t.
It ain’t been all bad news for him though.
Over the years, Kodak’s been involved with several philanthropy projects
and obviously likes to give back to his community.
In 2018 he announced he was helping build a school in Haiti.
That same year he helped provide Christmas gifts for 150 kids in his hometown
and donated $5,000 for an annual Christmas party.
He also donated $2,500 to the family of a South Carolina police officer who was killed on duty.
In 2019 he found out about a girl who was trying to give pencils and notebooks
to 7,600 kids in a low-income school district.
Kodak donated $12,500 to the cause and helped raise enough money for over 40,000 pencils.
Even though he was kicked out of school in the fifth grade,
education is obviously important to Kodak.
He earned his GED in 2018 while in prison.
And in 2021, he announced that he would cover the tuition costs
for the children of two FBI agents who were killed on duty.
Kodak has had a crazy life full of ups and downs, and now he’s been involved in another wild situation.
But even though he was shot,
it seems like the injuries ain’t too bad and he’ll be back on the streets soon.
This story is still developing so tap in for updates.