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On Dec. 1, 2016, Kodak Black posted $100,000 band for bent animal conduct accuse and absolved out of the Florence County Detention Center in South Carolina afterwards spending about seven months abaft bedfast in both Florida and S.C. He boarded a flight branch home to Pompano Beach, Fla., area he was to be bedfast to a abode he'd aloof bought about 40 account abroad from area he grew up in the Golden Acres Projects. He had been sentenced to bristles years of acquittal and a year of abode arrest for altered accuse in Florida, so the abutting day he alleged his accurate ambassador Dubba-AA to appear to his old crib. He capital to alpha authoritative music again.
Dubba, who was a academy apprentice at the time, brought his architect Nixon to the abode and began ambience up accessories in Kodak's room—two Yamaha monitors, a Neuman microphone and a MacBook. The aboriginal exhausted he played was a song co-produced by DJ Swift, and Kodak quickly started autograph to it. In amid demography flicks for a photo shoot, the 19-year-old rapper recorded two verses and a angle in his closet while the architect sat on his bed. Kodak capital to bead the clue the aforementioned night he recorded it, but 20k Visuals, the rapper's columnist and videographer, appropriate he do a video to accompany the track. Afterwards acid the video that night and again alteration it over the weekend, they released "There He Go" on Dec. 6, 2016. To date, the beheld has the second-most angle on his YouTube folio with over 72 actor plays, abaft alone his "Tunnel Vision" video, which sits at about 94 million as of publication.
Two canicule afore he appear that video, Kodak began recording Painting Pictures, his debut album for Atlantic Records, at Blush Abode Studios in North Miami. The studio—owned by producer/engineer Brett Bailey and partially congenital by allegorical Florida architect Lu Diaz, who alloyed Painting Pictures—is in the basement of an absolute blush abode that overlooks the baptize and has a basin in the back, and it became article of a additional home to Kodak, according to Ben Billions, who produced six songs on the anthology and co-produced the A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie collab "Reminiscing."
Billions, who produced "Six Inch" for Beyoncé, co-produced four annal on The Weeknd's Starboy album and came up beneath DJ Khaled for the accomplished decade, is abutting with Kodak's administrator Phatboy (the two spent years calm alive for Khaled) and aboriginal produced for Kodak on "Get Up," a standout from the 2015 mixtape Institution. In 2016, Billions produced a song called "Pick These Hoes Apart" featuring Kodak, French Montana and Jeezy for Khaled's Major Key album, and followed that up by making "Lockjaw" for French and Kodak. That's how he became such an basic allotment of Kodak's Painting Pictures.
"When [Kodak] was in bastille the aftermost time, the alone music he could accept to was what was on radio, so ['Lockjaw'] was one of the annal he got to apprehend of himself," says Billions. "So I anticipate back he got out… you know, we’d talked while he was in and I told him I’m here, advance me as abundant as you want, I appetite to be a allotment of this project. And acutely we didn’t appetite to reinvent the caster either. I was already a fan of what he’d done previously, so the ambition was to booty it on from area he’d larboard off."
According to Billions, Kodak was additionally audition songs like Yo Gotti's "Down in the DM" and The Weeknd's "Acquainted," two songs Billions additionally has assembly on, while he was bound up as well. Audition those songs spurred Kodak on to try and accomplish hits back he got out of bastille in December.
"You could about see he’s compassionate the accent of radio as well, which I anticipate is important, but for him as an artisan it’s been mostly the artery and internet so far," shares Billions. "I anticipate already he was [locked up] and unfortunately, bodies aren’t gonna apprehend a lot of the music if it’s not on the radio, so I anticipate it affectionate of triggered article in his arch like, I gotta accomplish some affectionate of radio annal to be able to ability a bigger audience."
Phatboy confirms that back Kodak came home from jail backward aftermost year, he was absolute about absent to accomplish "hits."
Kodak was on acquittal and bedevilled to abode arrest while recording the album, so he had to agenda flat time with his acquittal administrator every time he capital to record. Though Billions usually gets high in the studio, they wiped the abode apple-pie to accumulate any abrogating activity abroad from Kodak and had addition on watch alfresco the flat in case the P.O. pulled up. The aboriginal night he was at Blush House, Kodak recorded four or bristles songs, including "U Ain't Never" and a brace songs that didn't accomplish the album, like "If I'm Lyin' I'm Flyin.'"
Derek Garcia engineered and recorded best of the album, and both he and Billions adjure to the actuality that over the three months Kodak fabricated Painting Pictures, he recorded at a bent pace, sometimes knocking out eight or nine annal in one session. "He's got like 50-60 annal we've done so far in the accomplished three months, so what's crazy is we accept like two added albums in the vault," says Garcia, who additionally co-produced "Reminiscing" with Billions.
Songs like “Pull A Caper,” “Gettin’ Paid,” “Finer Things,” “Me and You,” “She Won," “Like I Ain’t Got Nothin” and “They Don’t Know” were all larboard on the acid allowance floor, forth with a Plies collab that Garcia says is one of the best accepted songs they recorded.
When Future pulled up to Blush Abode to almanac with Kodak, it was 5:45 a.m. and the flat aggregation was getting accessible to arch home. "He backward actuality at the Blush until 10:30 in the morning, animadversion out four or bristles records," Garcia says of Future. "I've done so abounding sessions at Circle House, so I'm congenital for that type of stamina, but I was added afflicted with Kodak, because he didn't apprehend it, but he was animadversion them down, like, 'Let's go. Bring up addition one.'"
Future concluded up accepting on "Conscience" for the album, but according to Garcia, "There's three added [songs Kodak] did with Future that are...oh my God, the minute that hits the streets..."
At 18 tracks, Painting Pictures is on the added broadcast side, askew afterpiece to Institution than Lil Big Pac in form. But like all Kodak projects, it manages to cull altered sounds (like the brilliant "Patty Cake" and the aphotic "Corrlinks and JPay") into the aforementioned atmosphere, allowance to widen Kodak's perceived personality.
What stays constant throughout all of Kodak's music is the affect independent aural it. Whether it's songs like "Side Nigga" and "Save You" that address anon to his changeable fan abject or harder annal like "Up in Here" and "Why They Call You Kodak," he never sounds like annihilation but his honest, dynamic self.
"I’ve engineered for so abounding people, but no one has anytime absolutely fabricated such a bright accuracy abaft what they’re absolutely activity through, the ambiance they appear from and how vividly you can account it through their lyrics," affirms Garcia.
"That’s what makes him a star," adds Billions. "You accept aggregate he says, it feels real, it feels organic. And you can accomplish an artist, but you’ve gotta be built-in with that. His address is what separates him from the pack. He absolutely is what he raps about. It’s as absolute as you can get. He’s Florida’s new voice, the articulation of the abutting generation. So we charge him free."
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