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NLE Choppa at Rolling Loud

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Key Takeaways:

• NLE Choppa’s new id, NLE The Great, alerts a shift in mindset and picture.
• His new monitor, “Messiah (Devil’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 Great — is getting 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 monitor dropping later that night time. Fans lastly bought what they’d been ready for with “Messiah (Devil’s Diss).”

Channeling his inner 2Pac, NLE Choppa dropped the tune alongside a video of himself rapping instantly into the digicam. Shirtless and carrying a Death Row Records chain, he dished out strains like, “Martin Luther King died for some s**t like this / Malcom X had to cry for some s**t like this / Tell Rosa Parks she can ride in thе Cullinan.”

Interestingly sufficient, NLE Choppa later referenced 2Pac’s “Picture Me Rollin’,” although not earlier than name-dropping a number of A-listers. “So cocky, I’ll tell Beyoncé I’on need her / So cocky, I’ll preach a sermon to the preacher,” he rapped earlier than mentioning Justin Timberlake and Justin Bieber. Take a take heed to “Messiah (Devil’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 more than Fat Joe,” he unloaded in reference to Terror Squad’s “Lean Back” earlier than persevering with, “I’m big dawg, you tad pole, pat-pat, yo’ dad home.” In case anybody was curious, Clarissa Shields, Nicki Minaj and Shawty Lo had been additionally talked about within the latter half of the tune.

Speaking of NLE Choppa’s determination 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 “past self.” The “Walk Em Down” hitmaker penned, “Thank you, your efforts didn’t go in vain in any way, shape or form. Your hard work towards getting in alignment is the reason why I am able to write this as of now.” See the publish beneath.