NLE Choppa Takes Down 'Fearless' Philosophy, The Selfie Behind 'Slut Me Out 2'

NLE Choppa won't stop until he gets what he wants. The Memphis-born rap star sat down with him Rolling rock's Green Room before a recent show to talk about his rapid rise to success — and the mindset that has allowed him to become one of the most promising rappers today.

“I am fearless. I'm the type of person that if I could go to the person who has my blessings, I'd take the crap out of them and take it,” he said. Rolling rock. “I have great hunger and perseverance. Nothing stops me from what I want. I don't like the word “can't”.

“That's the type of person I am. When you train yourself to be like that, you have to win,” he added. “Even when you lose, you keep trying. I'll keep trying 100 times.”

After the virality of the straightforward “Slut Me Out” last year, Choppa followed the song with a sequel that was enthusiastically received by Choppa's fans, along with LGBTQ users, thanks to its viral line: “If I was a bad bitch , I'd like to be fucked too.”

“I took a selfie in the car. I looked at the picture and said, “If I was a bad bitch, I'd like to be fucked too.” I was dead, too,” Chopa explained of the line. “After that, I realized I wanted to write it into a song. The beat was already there.”

Earlier this year, the musician was praised for thanking the LGBTQ community for “showing so much love” on the track. “IDC what is normalized as a rapper, I was raised to fuck with who fucks with you! So thank you for appreciating my art,” he wrote to X at the time. “My music for EVERYONE. We do NOT discriminate.”

In his Green Room interview, Choppa shared that performing the song is “electrifying,” calling it one of his favorites to perform in front of an audience. “All the adversity that was around me really made me appreciate the shows that much more,” Choppa said. “Seeing everyone rocking with it is a blessing I'm honored to receive.”

Choppa cited Memphis' Blocboy JB as a major influence on his career and reflected on the sampling of Tupac and Nelly in his music, explaining that he “studyes” all genres, including Afrobeats, reggaeton and rock. “I am not a person who discriminates in art. If I don't like it, I'll just say it's not my preference. I go through all the music,” he said. Of his style of music, he said, “I let the beats really speak to me and I'm talking back to that vicious.”

The artist is set to perform in Europe and Australia next month before returning to the US and Canada in September for a handful of shows in Kentucky, Arkansas and Vancouver.