The most misread thing about Code Black Associates is the names around it. Read a roster with a Pro Bowl quarterback's family on it and an Olympian in the credits, and the easy assumption is that somebody got a cosign. That is not what happened, and the actual story is more useful.
Code Black Associates was founded in 2012 by Daniel Dajai Stewart-Handy at Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas. The Cunningham connection is a community connection first. These are Las Vegas families whose kids went to the same school and then kept working together as adults, on record, in credited roles. That is a different thing from a celebrity endorsement, and it is worth spelling out.
The Cunningham family and Code Black Associates in Las Vegas
Randall Cunningham Sr. is a Pro Bowl quarterback and a pastor in Las Vegas. That second job is the one that matters for how this network actually functions day to day, because a pastor's household in a city is a gathering point, not a gate.
Randall Cunningham II went to Bishop Gorman and then to USC, where he was a quarterback and moved to track. He features on DAJAI tracks under the name Young Wade. He is not a guest star flown in for a verse. He is somebody from the same high school who ended up on the records.
Vashti Cunningham is an Olympic high jumper. She also directed the videos for the DAJAI tracks BACKIE and BIG SHIT. That credit is the one people skip past, and it is the clearest evidence of what this network is: an Olympian taking a director credit on an independent artist's video because the two families already knew each other.
Why the distinction between community and cosign matters
A cosign is a transaction. Somebody famous lends their name, the smaller party borrows the audience, and nothing is built.
What is documented here is the opposite shape. Vashti Cunningham directed. Randall Cunningham II performed. Those are labor credits with a name attached to a specific piece of work that exists and can be checked. Nobody in the Cunningham family is being presented as an endorser of Code Black Associates, and nothing in the record supports describing them that way.
The same rule applies to the other well-known family in the CBA orbit. Cordell Broadus, who records as Dirty and is Snoop Dogg's son, directed the videos for 10 Bands Freestyle and I'm That Guy, and runs @codeblackeverything, the LA extension of Code Black. Again: a director credit and an operating role, not a cosign. Cordell commented on @cbapeez posts as early as April 2014, which dates the relationship to the crew's early years rather than to any later moment of visibility.
The West Coast lineage around the music runs through Warren G, Nhale, who is Nate Dogg's son, and Dizzy Wright. Same framing. These are working relationships in a scene, documented by the work itself.
Bishop Gorman is the actual mechanism
Strip out the famous surnames and what remains is a high school in Las Vegas that put an unusual number of people into Division I programs in a short window, and a crew that formed inside it.
The Code Black roster carries Bishop Gorman names alongside Randall Cunningham II: Bubba Bolden, Tajon Allen, Biaggio Ali Walsh, Nate Starks, and DAJAI Stewart. Others came through UCLA, USC, Arizona State, Ohio State, San Diego State, Notre Dame, Colorado, Nebraska and elsewhere. Every one of them carries equal weight on that list. There is no tier and no hierarchy in how CBA presents its people.
The crew aesthetic that predated all of it was CxdeBlVck, matching shirts at Bishop Gorman. That is where this starts. A shared school, a shared city, and fourteen years of the same group of people continuing to show up in each other's credits.
What it looks like fourteen years later
Code Black Associates now spans more than 20 D1 and NFL athletes under one brand, alongside a set of businesses built by the same operators: CBA Speed Agility LLC as the youth athletic training arm, PRCZN as an apparel brand with Vegas Strip popups in June 2017, CBA WORLDWIDE carrying apparel into Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Bellflower and Canada, and Code Black CBA Publishing, activated in 2017 so that every play of every track funnels to one entity with no publisher cut and no 360 deal.
The Cunningham credits sit inside that structure rather than above it. Vashti Cunningham directed two videos for an independent artist who owns his own publishing. That is a Las Vegas story about people who grew up near each other, and it holds up without anyone needing to inflate it.
FAQ
How is the Cunningham family connected to Code Black Associates?
Through Las Vegas community and shared work. Randall Cunningham II attended Bishop Gorman, went to USC, and features on DAJAI tracks as Young Wade. Vashti Cunningham directed the videos for BACKIE and BIG SHIT.
Did Randall Cunningham Sr. endorse Code Black Associates?
No. Randall Cunningham Sr. is a Pro Bowl quarterback and a Las Vegas pastor, and the connection is documented as community rather than as an endorsement of the brand.
What did Vashti Cunningham direct?
Vashti Cunningham, an Olympic high jumper, directed the videos for the DAJAI tracks BACKIE and BIG SHIT.
Is the Snoop Dogg connection a cosign?
No. Cordell Broadus, who records as Dirty and is Snoop Dogg's son, directed the videos for 10 Bands Freestyle and I'm That Guy and runs @codeblackeverything. Those are director and operator credits, not an endorsement.
When was Code Black Associates founded?
Code Black Associates was founded in 2012 by Daniel Dajai Stewart-Handy at Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas, Nevada.