Kodak Black D.A.R.Es Kids To Stay Off Drugs: “They Too Good, Y’all Gone Like ‘Em And Go Crazy”

Kodak Black issued a hood reimagining of the D.A.R.E. program as he recently told the youth to stay away from drugs. On Wednesday (Aug 7), XXL shared a video of the viral encounter between the rapper and a little league football team in Florida. Black is a bit blunt in his delivery, but he keeps it honest with the kids, seemingly speaking from experience about drug use.

“Say no to drugs,” the “Super Gremlin” artist told the children. “They too good, y’all gone like ’em and go crazy. Y’all gotta go to school, play football, gotta have an education…Ain’t nan one of y’all, no matter how raw y’all is, nobody is bigger than the team.” Later in the video, Kodak then gifts one of the players, RJ, his chain and drapes a bandana on him as the kid’s teammates and coaches hype him up as the next Lamar Jackson.

While some may knock Kodak for attempting to tell children to stay off drugs when he has struggled to, well, stay off drugs, the rapper’s history with substance abuse validates his message that much more.

Yak recently talked about his addiction to opioids during a show in Los Angeles in June. He detailed how he took “100 Percs a day” and regretted rapping about using fake Percocets on his single, “Super Gremlin.”

“It’s sad though, bruh, because it’s like that sh*t—the bar came to mind so quick. I’m like, ‘Damn, I don’t wanna say this sh*t, but I know this bi**h gon’ go in.’ But we ain’t gon’ play like that, bruh,” he said. “When I was at my stage, chewing on them Percs, I ain’t gonna say I popped them bi**hes. But when I was at my stage, I was chewing like—bruh, I swear to God, and my ni**as will vouch—I was chewing 100 Percs a day, man. Average like 40. Average!”

“Bruh, I say that, I’m explaining myself now,” he continued. “I don’t want y’all to hear that and take that and feel like it’s okay to do that sh*t, ya feel me?”

The rapper continued this same energy in July, posting a video of himself to social media swearing off “Super Gremlin” and vowing never to perform that song. Yak insisted that he “was scared to be sober” when he recorded that song, but he’s now “sober for the most part.”

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