Track two, “I Wanna Live,” is a short but exciting two-minute track on the luxuries that Kodak wants in life similar to the themes of your average braggadocious rap song. The album has a couple of other notable moments. Suppression of emotions is another challenge Kodak has had to go through while in jail, feeling numb over the many times he’s been through this. Along with reminiscing, Kodak raps about the hard decisions he’s had to make, such as picking the side of his friend after he robbed Kodak’s own cousin. Even without ever saying how he truly felt in any of these scenarios, it’s easy to imagine the moment.
He does that here very well by listing times in his life that the listener surely doesn’t remember, but are brought to empathize with. Kodak has a tremendous talent of relaying feelings and emotions without ever having to waste many words in describing it. Remember first time when we got tried? Ever since then, ain’t seen them guys … Remember the way I felt inside? I was in that cell, Lil Boobie had died” are some of the moments he lists off in the chorus. “Remember how I felt when E got shot? I was ridin’ with the heat ‘round town. The intro track to the album, “Remember the Times” confirms this intention right off the bat with the song being dedicated to all of the hard times he’s faced in the past few years being in and out of jail and witnessing the loss of friends. Being a figure for those of his hometown in Broward County, Florida and those stuck in the revolving systematic oppression of jails all over the country, his words and perspective stand out amongst his peers in importance. However, it retains its importance for keeping true to Kodak’s career mission: highlighting the perspectives of the institutionalized. Kapri) and his dedication to his religion under the Black Hebrew Israelites.īill Israel is a top-heavy album and surely not one of Kodak’s best. The 11-track album is an ode to both Kodak’s new legal name (Bill. Last week the first of these projects, Bill Israel, arrived to hold fans over. Although he will be in prison until at least 2022, nothing has stopped his team from releasing projects from many of the leftover songs he recorded in advance. Claiming he was beaten by guards over and over, placed in isolation and not allowed to speak to his family and legal counsel, he was quickly moved from his Florida penitentiary to one in Kentucky, where the same struggles continued. For the past 18 months, he’s been locked up in prison for firearms charges, facing worse brutality from conditions and guards than he’s ever seen before. Unfortunately, ever since that release, Kodak’s faced hard times with the same trend of legal troubles that have plagued much of his career. It’s been two years since Kodak Black dropped Dying to Live, arguably his best and most personal work.