Prologue · The Code
One name.
One crew.
One Vegas locker room.
Code Black didn't start as a brand. It started as a name on a group chat — a tag five Bishop Gorman freshmen put on themselves before anyone outside Las Vegas knew their names. CBA. Code Black Athletics. Code Black Worldwide. Cxdeblvck. Same crew. Same code.
What came out of that locker room is now public record. NFL Draft picks. Heisman finalists. Power Five starting jobs at UCLA, USC, Miami, Oklahoma, Colorado, ASU, UNLV, and Hawaii. World championship medals in track. Permanent CBA tattoos on D1 athletes still wearing the ink today.
And the music ran in parallel — a freestyle catalog, the cover art, the merch, the videos, the cosigns from Snoop Dogg's family, Warren G, Nate Dogg's family, Muhammad Ali's grandson. The Vegas crew that the city raised, that the West Coast adopted, that the pipeline kept feeding.
This page is the receipt. Not opinions. Not a pitch. Documented moments. Every photo is anchored — manually verified by DAJAI, every face named.