before NLE chapel would release his new a single-shot a flow 5 v sequel to his
2019 single shot a flow before n le choppa would open up about his struggles
with mental health via social media where he stated I just want to be
understood everybody go through depression I suffer from that I think at
the black community that is ignore on my album I got a sound for everybody who
suffer from bipolar depression mental health issues anything I hope it touches
you let you know you're not alone I'm with you before n le choppa would
release his debut EP Cottonwood named after the block he grew up on reason why
I'm around signifies like when I was taught it is who you know life time with
squid I was born on in about a blink of an eye annalee choppa he went from
Memphis high school students a viral music sensation now we may not be able
to vote buy cigarettes or enjoy a bevy attending the clubs he packs full of
paying fans but that hasn't stopped him for pioneering and perfecting one of the
greatest clothes in the hip-hop game now he built his thriving brand from scratch
and he proved himself to be a hard-nosed negotiator in the process now this past
summer he even launched his own imprint label at Warner Brothers dubbed no love
Entertainment now all this to say that his fans they
have good reason to idolize NLE choppa but how did the kid from the East End of
Memphis end up having his song streamed over a billion times across all
platforms well you're gonna find that out in today's video and more what's
going on guys it's boy Michael cretin back at it again with an updated video
and anneli choppa prior to Fame here if you of course have before they're famous
now the first time I cracked it his story was a little over a year ago with
the release of Cottonwood and his single walk them down featuring rowdy rich by
the way we recently just did an update of rowdy wrench.now I thought now would
be as good a time as any to take another look at his story and when we update
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boom NLE choppa was born Bryson LaShawn Potts on November 1st 2002 in Memphis
Tennessee no Bryson had always been mighty
protective and proud of his hometown in fact he told the Memphis flyer earlier
this year so many good artists are in Memphis it's always been a lot of good
artists but we're just kind of underappreciated and while he
unfashionably reps his hometown at every turn
well that doesn't mean it wasn't always the most pleasant place to grow up in
now when asked by complex what he learned at Cottonwood neighborhood well
he replied stating this don't trust nobody
don't be easily letting people in his mom angela was a businesswoman and
taught him from an early age to approach life with the eyes of an entrepreneur
now not only that she seems to have passed down her rapturous and very
Jamaican appetite for fun as well for instance the term shotta
well that's actually when he got from his mom's Giada is really just as
Jamaican thing how'd you make it turn and my mom being from there I was
exposed to that culture but teaching her son the value of a keen business sense
and how to have fun they weren't the only things that she would do from now
once he dedicated himself to making music well she became his manager to
look after him he was still a kid so it makes sense
well usually these guys they end up ditching their mom but I think these two
they're pretty tight I just wanna be a part of whatever makes him happy cuz
this is his dream this is his goal and whatever his
aspirations are I just want to be able to make sure that those get fulfilled
it's about his life his career there was the old brother and father both they
branded pots well they described his childhood as the following worn funny
and crazy and so many words to sum up in one person he's energetic postive and
like to be his own person do his own thing sometimes despite being well cared
for well chop his childhood was humble to say the least
now there was the time in his life when he couldn't even afford junk food
I really wanted to bring the Cheetos to the table for this this reason so what's
cool is people dish you excel as they sell snacks and shit do it school day
and go hang on I was always a nigger didn't ever have like a dollar
goodbye the snacks and I always talking my suit incident you know giving me some
Cheetos or poking out some Cheetos why I had one day I paid somebody some
quarters for some Cheetos night bonus and a bagel 3 dollars and quarter but he
just this is a memory I had his first love growing up was basketball he looked
up to Kobe Bryant and idolized this work ethic no choppa he would later apply
that same level of dedication towards his own craft but when he was a kid he
was applying it to the hardwood no choppy he attended Cordova high school
and he played on their team putting up some pretty nice numbers during his
playing days but he was always getting into too much trouble to imagine a
future as an athlete no job has been pretty open about his past troubles
during interviews but he doesn't like to get into specifics in terms of what
landed him in a juvenile detention center while he was still quite young
ready to tell us what happened boy you gonna talk he admits the choices he made
they got him into trouble but the time he spent in juvie it motivated him to
turn his life around he was an eye-opener it makes me move
way more houses I tried to stand stay out of trouble man because I know my
people ke if I'm in jail so as I look in at 14 years of age will chopping he
began to freestyle with his friends would anyone else care to challenge me
that's what I thought DJ drop a beat he stated Lil Wayne was
pretty much the only rapper I listen to when I was young no choppa he would seek
out new songs from Wayne on YouTube study his vocal patterns and absorb his
charisma but what choppa decided to double down on his music career well he
was at a low point in his life in fact he told complex
I was just down I wasn't really too hyped on religion I don't really believe
in religion like that I just believe that there is a God so I made an oath to
myself that I was gonna make sure I prayed at night that was two years
before I blew up I was doing that about two years straight next thing you know I
started getting visions in my head of me just performing that's a real testimony
so I always tell people keep God first speaking and believing it into existence
help choppa concentrate on his musical journey now before he became NLE choppa
well he went by the name ynr choppa and he uploaded some of his most early work
to SoundCloud under that name Suggs like through the rain and getting money they
showed off his talent but success it was an immediate he told double-xl I was
recording stuff but I guess it wasn't good music no choppa he dropped the ynr
and he added an alley which stands for no love entertainment no as for choppa
well it was just the nickname he had as a kid no love anthem will it became his
first song that really picked up some traction then rapping with his friends
under the collective name of the shot a fan now they released their no chorus
series the third part of which was a breakout moment for choppa know people
all over they started to take notice including the lakes of Birdman the Cash
Money Records founder was so impressed by what
he heard that he did a deep dive in to chop his music and he liked what he
heard Oh an le Chopin explained he had a video of me freestyling to my mom for
Mother's Day from way before I blew up he showed me the video that was still in
his phone from all the way back then no Birdman he would feature chop on the
climactic song of his album just another gangsta and from that point on well chop
what he was off and running that was selling shot a flow it was released in
2018 and this took his rap game to a whole nother level they were originally
freestyle to the beat in the back of a car but recognizing its potential he
then recorded an official version being hanged the whole cast are Roger I'm
gonna be stars on the Sun blue up on dance apps like dubsmash and was
extremely popular on YouTube whereas over 135 million views at the time of
this recording so immediately now the process of writing songs through
freestyle is something that he still does to this day in fact he told complex
I freestyle on my music if I do a song with a chorus and a verse it takes me
about 25 minutes if I do a song with two verses or stretch it out it takes me
about 30 to 35 minutes now this allows them to remain prolific and at present
he reportedly has around 300 unreleased songs now by a 16th birthday chopping he
already had millions of views on YouTube and while his career was undoubtedly
taking off well he did face some backlash due to his love of featuring
firearms in his videos no one pressed on the issue will chop by he likes to
explain that highlighting guns is a result of where he grew up this is
praying big part of me afterlife I wouldn't for me as I wouldn't be what I
am today misses a green grass city miss Haiti Chiapas since pulled back on all
the weaponry in his videos probably because the cops they were onto him and
it wasn't a good look for business
after the successive shot of flow will choppy he dropped out of school and he
began getting glasses at home so that he could focus on his future as a rap
superstar in the making no my man had a record companies knocking down his door
looking to sign him everyone from Interscope to Republic they were
involved in a bidding war for his services that when as high as three
million dollars damn my phone was blowing up I had all these offers but I
didn't get overwhelmed because this is what I wanted this is what I had been
praying for for so long so which one did he choose well it's a bit of a trick
question because he chose none of them yeah my man he pulled a Freddie van
fleet and he decided to bet on himself he turned down the million dollar deals
to remain independent and own his old masters no he signed a distribution deal
with United masters a company owned by hip-hop legend Steve stout and speaking
with billboard stout had this to say record companies are calling the guy and
offering a bunch of money here's the issue
he's already just seen with him owning the rights in us doing distribution he's
earning money on Spotify and Apple music and his song is growing on YouTube what
does he need a record company to do but choppa he wasn't done there now he also
started his own record company called no love entertainment because he wants to
build something big from the ground up in June of 2019 he released the first
single for the label free young boy in reference to rapper and be a young boy
who was arrested at the time I've actually done a versus between these two
kids then we also released the track Camelot that reached the number 37 spot
on the Billboard Hot 200 becoming his second top 40 hit after shot a flow as
for where his future goes from here well I think we'll just gonna have to wait
and see after all this is a show titled before they're a famous
yeah I remember that all right guys what did you think in this updated video what
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