NLE Choppa disses NBA YoungBoy and severs his head in music video
NLE Choppa has taken shots at NBA YoungBoy in his new diss track, ‘KO’, which was released on October 31st.
Produced by Charley Cooks and Aaron Mattes, the song flips Tupac Shakur’s classic ‘Hit ‘Em Up‘, and finds Choppa rebranding as NLE The Great and performing a brutal takedown of YoungBoy.
In the lyrics, he raps, “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?’/ Ain’t no fun, when the rabbit got the gun, you run/ You just a pawn on the Devil chessboard, you done.”
Later in the song, he spits, “You poison the youth, nothin’ positive you do/ You the reason n*ggas beating bitches thinking that it’s cute/ You send n*ggas to do what you wouldn’t even do/ Role model, you will never fit the shoe/ Just a n*gga with emotion, a breastfed bitch/ Yo’ aura give me the ick, n*ggas like you make me sick.”
The single cover for ‘KO’ shows Choppa holding YoungBoy’s severed head. Then, in the music video, he’s seen cutting off his head and running down the street with it.
Choppa dances his way through the video, which pays homage to Michael Jackson, Prince, Muhammad Ali, and Mike Tyson.
Fittingly arriving on Halloween, he describes himself as the hip-hop grim reaper. He raps, “This shit get deeper than rap, can give a fuck ’bout the streets/ Yahweh sent me to decease ’em so I’m the reaper to greet ’em.”
‘KO’ is his second release as NLE The Great, following ‘Messiah (Devil’s Diss)’ in July. The change of stage name has also coincided with him shaving his head.
The song it samples, 2Pac’s ‘Hit ‘Em Up’, is famously known for dissing various East Coast rappers such as Biggie Smalls.