Kodak Black Faces MDMA Trafficking Charges in Florida

Rapper Kodak Black has been arrested in Florida on charges of drug trafficking.

The “Super Gremlin” artist (born Bill K. Kapri) was booked Wednesday (May 6) by the Orange County Corrections Department, according to official records reviewed by Billboard . He’s charged with trafficking MDMA, the drug often known as molly or ecstasy.

Kodak’s lawyer, Bradford Cohen, tells Billboard Thursday that his client’s arrest was a “coordinated surrender” following a November 2025 incident in which police discovered a bottle of prescription cough syrup while searching a car. The rapper was not in the vehicle and the bottle did not have his fingerprints on it, Cohen says.

Though he says such evidence was not enough to charge Black with simple drug possession, Cohen says prosecutors “doubled down and filed it as a trafficking charge” – part of what he claimed is a pattern of aggressive targeting of his client. “We look forward to yet another fruitful resolution to another case that should have never been filed,” Cohen says.

Billboard has reached out to the Orlando Police Department for comment.

Kodak broke out in 2014 with hit singles such as “Skrt” and later topped the Billboard 200 with his 2018 album Dying to Live , which featured the hit track “ZEZE” that reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 . But he has repeatedly faced legal troubles over his career, including charges for armed robbery, weapons possession and sexual assault.

In March 2020, Kodak pleaded guilty federal charges of lying on background check forms while buying firearms and was sentenced to 46 months in prison. But his sentence was later commuted by President Donald Trump. Black has been arrested multiple times since, including for trespassing , drug possession and probation violations .

_Originally reported by [Billboard](https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/kodak-black-arrested-drug-trafficking-charges-1236241400/)._