It's been open season on French Montana, with everyone from 50 Cent, to Fivio Foreign to Wiz Khalifa to Swae Lee putting dirt on his name.

Kodak Black may have been ahead of that trend four years ago when he shot the "Lockjaw" video with French in Kodak's ancestral homeland of Haiti.

According to French, Kodak didn't even bother to talk to him with words during the shoot and instead communicated with him through guttural sounds.  [Jump to 3 minutes.]

" Me and [Kodak] didn't have one conversation when we shot the video.  I just looked at him and he growled at me.  Shout out to my dog.  We was getting lit, we was drinking.  He was geeked.  He was living that rock star life.  Free Kodak.

Kodak could benefit from some freedom.  Yesterday there was a report that he was beaten and sexually assaulted by seven prison guards.