Boosie Badazz, Kodak Black and Rod Wave were among those reportedly in attendance at the White House’s 2025 celebration of Black History Month.
Despite their dismantling of DEI programs across the country, Trump and his administration held the event on Thursday (February 20). According to the AP, Tiger Woods was confirmed to be present, while the outlet only knew of invited guests including the aforementioned rappers as well as former ESPN host Sage Steele and former NFL player Jack Brewer.
“Today, we pay tribute to the generations of Black legends, champions, warriors and patriots who helped drive our country forward to greatness. And you really are great, great people,” Trump said.
Kodak’s attendance was later confirmed in a post from the White House, who shared a picture of the rapper and captioned it, “@KodakBlack in the People’s House.”
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Boosie also confirmed his attendance with a few posts from the meeting, including an Instagram Story he captioned, “Just looking for justice.”
Boosie Badazz, Kodak Black and Rod Wave are not the only artists in the Hip Hop community to back Donald Trump.
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Just last month, Snoop Dogg, Rick Ross and Soulja Boy all performed at the first ever Crypto Ball, which was a party thrown to welcome the incoming Trump administration. Days later, Nelly performed at his inauguration.
Boosie’s inclusion comes as little surprise as the rapper has been pleading for a pardon from Trump on his gun case for months.
Moments after Trump won the election in November, Boosie turned to X in an attempt to seek a pardon from the then-president-elect. And when he didn’t receive an answer, he tried again after Trump officially began his term in January.
Kodak has also been a supporter for years after Trump commuted his three-year prison sentence for falsifying documents to buy guns on his way out of the White House in 2021.
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However, the “No Flockin” rapper appeared to distance himself from him back in September following his wild claims about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
On September 23, footage emerged of Kodak — who himself is of Haitian heritage — taking issue with Trump’s baseless comments that were made in his debate with Kamala Harris.
“If I wanted to eat a cat, that’s what I’m gonna eat,” he said. “I’m Haitian, homie. I was Haitian before it was cool to be Haitian. I ain’t prejudiced, I ain’t biased and I ain’t racist. I love Israel, I love all countries. I love everybody because I’m a warrior of Christ.
“Whatever a muthafucka’s appetite is, that’s their appetite […] Y’all ain’t never saw a muthafucka eat a cat before. When y’all seen a muthafucka eat a cat? Even if you have eaten a cat, so what?”
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Yak then suggested that he would no longer be supporting Trump in the election: “We ain’t voting for nothing. I ain’t gonna lie, Haitians, we came too far, bro. We came too fucking far, homie […] We ain’t taking no Haitian slander.”
Looks like he’s since changed his stance, however.
