NLE Choppa explains why he dissed NBA YoungBoy
NLE Choppa has gone into detail about why he dissed NBA YoungBoy in his latest single, which was released last week.
Choppa, who is now known by his new stage name, NLE The Great, dropped ‘KO‘ on October 31st to coincide with Halloween.
The track flips Tupac Shakur’s classic ‘Hit ‘Em Up‘ and takes shots at YoungBoy throughout each of the verses. In the cover art and music video, he also holds the Baton Rouge rapper’s severed head.
While the song isn’t the first time he’s dissed YoungBoy, this one holds a deeper meaning than the others. During an interview with Rolling Stone, he explained how the vision for the diss came to him from a “higher power” in a dream.
“I was awakened out of my sleep with a vivid dream,” he said. “The dream was me holding a young boy’s head in my hand, and I was bringing the head to my father in the dream – my dad. And when I woke up from my sleep, I wanted to pray about the dream, and I started to seek what the dream meant. And going into that space of prayer, I knew it was time.”
When asked about his issues with YoungBoy, he said, “It’s not him personally. It’s what’s controlling him exoterically and esoterically. I’m a firm believer that sometimes it’s not us for real, but it’s still things that we choose. And my thing was I’ve heard interviews from him that he’s vocalised, that he’s conscious of what he’s doing.”
NLE isn’t concerned about this diss track escalating things between them, stating that things have already been bad enough.
“In the past, it’s already been escalated,” he said. “Personally, if I was to speak outside of what I’m ordered to do, personally, we’ve already had issues. But I can’t say that these issues have zero reason as to why I made this record. But some of the things that were said, and we had a conversation earlier about this, it’s more so can be viewed as personal.”
He added, “It can be viewed as like, ‘Oh yeah, I don’t fuck with you. I don’t like you. This, that, whoop.’ But it’s more so speaking to something that’s controlling him. It’s speaking to what has possession of him.”
Since its release, the music video for ‘KO’ has earned over four million views on YouTube. The song also has 650,000 Spotify streams.