NLE Choppa launched a blistering lyrical assault on NBA YoungBoy together with his shock single “KO,” a venom-laced diss over 2Pac’s “Hit ’Em Up” instrumental that paints the Baton Rouge rapper as a poisonous drive in Hip-Hop. The Memphis native, now performing underneath the identify NLE The Great, unleashed on YoungBoy, accusing him of damaging the […]

NLE Choppa launched a blistering lyrical assault on NBA YoungBoy together with his shock single “KO,” a venom-laced diss over 2Pac’s “Hit ’Em Up” instrumental that paints the Baton Rouge rapper as a poisonous drive in Hip-Hop.

The Memphis native, now performing underneath the identify NLE The Great, unleashed on YoungBoy, accusing him of damaging the tradition.

“You poison the youth, nothin’ positive you do/You the reason n##### beating b###### thinking that it’s cute,” he raps within the observe, which dropped Friday (October 31) alongside intense visuals.

The cowl artwork pulls no punches both, exhibiting NLE gripping what seems to be YoungBoy’s severed head—a symbolic picture that matches the tone of the track’s lyrics.

NLE opens the observe with a declaration of objective: “Yahweh sent me to decease em/So I’m the reaper to greet em,” casting himself as a divine drive despatched to purge rap of dangerous influences.

He additionally takes direct intention at YoungBoy’s persona with traces like: “YoungBoy what? This the big boy league/I put one up in your gut under the Jesus piece/Last thing that I heard was Jesus please, had me looking at the devil like this is your king.”

The video for “KO” provides one other layer, that includes NLE channeling cultural icons together with 2Pac, Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Prince and Michael Jackson.

He reportedly labored with Jackson’s choreographer, Travis Payne, and even wore the late pop star’s precise footwear throughout filming.

The single marks a pointy transformation for the rapper, who lately shaved his head and embraced a brand new identification as NLE The Great.

While YoungBoy has but to reply publicly, NLE’s message is evident: he sees himself as a voice of accountability in a style he believes is dropping its method.

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