Key Takeaways:

• A disturbing dream impressed NLE Choppa’s diss observe “KO,” which he says got here to him with non secular readability.
• The third verse of “KO” calls out NBA YoungBoy for being a damaging affect.
• Despite the diss, NLE says he holds no private grudge and would nonetheless collaborate with YoungBoy.

Though the world won’t have been on his facet when it dropped, NLE Choppa — who now goes by NLE The Great — says his NBA YoungBoy diss “KO” got here to him via a “vivid dream.”

In a music/music-features/nle-the-great-interview-diss-track-1235458168/”>Rolling Stone interview printed Monday (Nov. 3), the Memphis rapper described the “gruesome” imaginative and prescient that impressed the tune and the way he initially thought it was a nightmare. “[It] was me holding a young boy’s head in my hand, and I was bringing the head to my father in the dream,” he defined.

“It was like flesh hanging off the skull, mosquitoes and gnats, and biting at his flesh as it was deteriorating,” NLE continued. “And it was very vivid. And it was so vivid I can remember the smell and the [whole] dream.”

After waking up, he admitted he “didn’t know what to interpret” from the dream, so he prayed, and from there, the “steps were ordered.”

NLE went on to speak in regards to the third verse of “KO,” the place he rapped, “You poison the youth, nothin’ positive you do / You the reason n**gas beating b**ches thinking that it’s cute.” Though he acknowledged he isn’t good himself, the rapper mentioned that a part of the observe was about “bringing awareness” and holding YoungBoy “accountable.”

Elsewhere within the interview, NLE mentioned that regardless of their historical past, he doesn’t maintain something private in opposition to YoungBoy. “I would love to shake hands with that brother, I would love to make music with him personally, but how could I if he won’t?” he mentioned. The Cottonwood artist added that he’s not apprehensive about issues escalating, since “they already had issues” and the Baton Rouge rapper has “bigger fish to fry.”

“KO” was the musician’s second launch below the moniker NLE The Great, following July’s “Messiah (Devil’s Diss).” Both tracks drew inspiration from the late Tupac Shakur, with the more moderen file sampling “Hit ‘Em Up.”