{"id":50518,"date":"2025-10-30T23:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/30\/on-ko-nle-choppa-channels-the-grim-reaper-of-rap\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T23:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:43:06","slug":"on-ko-nle-choppa-channels-the-grim-reaper-of-rap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/30\/on-ko-nle-choppa-channels-the-grim-reaper-of-rap\/","title":{"rendered":"On ‘KO,’ NLE Choppa Channels the Grim Reaper of Rap"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\tOn his surprise single \u201cKO,\u201d NLE The Great<\/a>, the Memphis rapper formerly known as NLE Choppa<\/a>, delivers a scathing record that doubles as a gut-check for the culture. Built on a flip of 2Pac\u2019s \u201cHit \u2019Em Up,\u201d the track arrives amidst a larger conversation about hip-hop\u2019s influence. This week that, for the first time in 35 years, there are currently no rap songs in the Top 40<\/a> of the Billboard Hot 100. NLE fashions himself a hip-hop Grim Reaper of sorts, sent to lay waste the current crop of rappers in order to push the culture forward. \u201cYahweh sent me to decease em, So I\u2019m the reaper to greet em,\u201d he raps. <\/p>\n

\n\tNLE also mentions one the current era\u2019s biggest acts<\/a>, NBA YoungBoy, by name, rapping \u201cyoungboy what this the big boy league \/ Put one in the gut under the Jesus piece \/ last thing that I heard was Jesus please, had me looking at the devil like this is your king.\u201d The bars further the theme of NLE as a figure sent to cleanse the rap world of allegedly negative influences. \u201cYou poison the youth \/ Nun positive you do,\u201d he raps. \u201cI\u2019m in love with the art \/ He tearing people apart.\u201d The song\u2019s cover art features NLE holding the head of what would appear to be YoungBoy himself. <\/p>\n

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