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NLE Choppa - Champions - Live Session | Vevo Ctrl During a visit to a performing arts high school last fall, NLE Choppa summed up his artistic approach with a confession. “I wasn’t good at expressing myself or talking to people about my problems so I started to use [music] as my escape.” On the surface, the Memphis rhymer’s hard-hitting street yarns don’t point to that kind of social trepidation; on his massively successful ‘Cottonwood’ and ‘Top Shotta’ albums, the 20-year-old paints a portrait of himself as a fearless hood general. But that’s just a requisite part of the game these days. As he leaves his teens behind, Choppa is grabbing his machete and hacking his way through a forest of complicated relationships. “Say that you love me, it’s really a scheme,” he raps on “Do It Again,” which finds the Southern trap dude experimenting with club rap - a punchy genre that’s exploding around Philly and Jersey. 2Rare is one of the genre’s young stars, and he also shines on the track. Both rappers’ schedules
