After allegedly testing positive for fentanyl while awaiting trial on a drug trafficking allegation, a judge in Florida ordered rapper Kodak Black to spend 30 days in a drug rehabilitation facility.
According to The Miami Herald, Broward County Judge Barbara Duffy granted the performer’s request to remain free until March 7 so that he may take the stage at the Rolling Loud festival in Los Angeles this weekend.
Earlier, Judge Duffy had issued an arrest warrant for him.
A court-ordered drug test for the 25-year-old performer was skipped on February 3, and he later tested positive on February 8. He was arrested in July on suspicion of trafficking oxycodone, and is now awaiting trial. He entered a not-guilty plea.
Bradford Cohen, the singer’s attorney, suggested during the hour-long hearing that a star-struck drug test technician might have jumbled up the sample or paperwork.
That is feasible, the technician who took the sample acknowledged.
The defense, however, objected when Judge Duffy proposed the singer have a hair sample analysis done.
Unlike the few days that urine and blood tests normally record, a hair test might identify drug use back 90 days.
The rapper was given a three-year federal prison sentence in January 2020 for faking documents to purchase weapons, but at the time, US President Donald Trump shortened the sentence.
Half of Black’s sentence had already been served.
Kodak Black has sold more than 30 million songs and is vying for the iHeartRadio Music Awards’ hip-hop artist of the year award. He has had huge successes like Super Gremlin, which peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 last year.
