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NLE Choppa at Rolling Loud
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Key Takeaways:
- NLE Choppa’s new identification, NLE The Nice, indicators a shift in mindset and picture.
- His new observe, “Messiah (Satan’s Diss),” options daring lyrics and high-profile name-drops.
- A handwritten letter to his previous self reveals deeper emotional themes.
NLE Choppa — who’s apparently altering his title to NLE The Nice — is coming into a brand new period mentally, bodily and musically. On Monday (July 7), the Memphis rapper revealed he shaved his head and teased a diss observe dropping later that evening. Followers lastly acquired what they’d been ready for with “Messiah (Satan’s Diss).”
Channeling his internal 2Pac, NLE Choppa dropped the tune alongside a video of himself rapping instantly into the digicam. Shirtless and sporting a Demise Row Information chain, he dished out strains like, “Martin Luther King died for some s**t like this / Malcom X needed to cry for some s**t like this / Inform Rosa Parks she will be able to experience in thе Cullinan.”
Apparently sufficient, NLE Choppa later referenced 2Pac’s “Image Me Rollin’,” although not earlier than name-dropping a number of A-listers. “So cocky, I’ll inform Beyoncé I’on want her / So cocky, I’ll preach a sermon to the preacher,” he rapped earlier than mentioning Justin Timberlake and Justin Bieber. Take a hearken to “Messiah (Satan’s Diss)” beneath.
NLE Choppa taking a extra lyrical route is unquestionably a welcome change of tempo, particularly within the second verse. “Pockets on fatso, I’m leaning greater than Fats Joe,” he unloaded in reference to Terror Squad’s “Lean Again” earlier than persevering with, “I’m huge dawg, you tad pole, pat-pat, yo’ dad residence.” In case anybody was curious, Clarissa Shields, Nicki Minaj and Shawty Lo have been additionally talked about within the latter half of the tune.
Talking of NLE Choppa’s resolution to go bald, he marked the second with a photograph of what seems to be his chopped-off hair inside a shoebox. Alongside it was a handwritten notice addressed to his “previous self.” The “Stroll Em Down” hitmaker penned, “Thanks, your efforts didn’t go in useless in any method, form or type. Your onerous work in direction of getting in alignment is the rationale why I’m able to write this as of now.” See the put up beneath.