Kodak Black Says He's Not Mad at Slavery, Blames African Kingdoms




The Florida rapper, born Bill Kahan Kapri, argued in the clip that West and Central African kingdoms like Dahomey and Ashanti sold war prisoners to European traders from the 16th to 19th centuries. Historians note about 12.5 million Africans endured the brutal Middle Passage to meet European labor demands in the Americas. Critics called his phrasing insensitive to slavery's horrors like family separations and trauma, while some defended the historical point but stressed Europeans industrialized the system; Black, a 28-year-old pardoned by Trump in 2021, has not responded publicly.