Rapper NLE Choppa, formerly known as YNR Choppa and born Bryson Lashun Potts on November 1, 2002, is from Memphis, Tennessee.
His 2019 single “Shotta Flow,” which was platinum by the RIAA and reached the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, launched him to popularity. Cottonwood, his debut EP, was also released in 2019.
He was born to a Jamaican mother and an African American father. He was born and reared in the Parkway Village neighborhood of Southeast Memphis, Tennessee, and attended Cordova High School, where he participated in basketball.
At the age of 15, he started freestyling with his boyhood pals Austin, Gino, and Charlie. At the age of 16, he began really studying music.
He is an American citizen and of African-American origin.
NLE Choppa had a daughter as his first kid on June 20, 2020. I realized I needed to change and improve for my daughter, he stated.
NLE Choppa started a YouTube channel named “Awakened Choppa” in August 2020, where he shared videos on his holistic lifestyle, which included gardening and going vegan.
NLE Choppa served time at a juvenile prison facility for an unspecified period of time.
He later said that his time there inspired him to behave better. In one of the episodes of his YouTube series The Rise of NLE Choppa, he said that going to jail had been “eye-opening” and beneficial.
NLE Choppa was detained on March 29, 2021, on suspicion of burglary, drug use, and firearm possession. Over the popular SpotemGottem “Track Box” beat, he recorded a freestyle titled “First Day Out.”
NLE Choppa and his friends got into a fight in Santa Monica, California, on May 3, 2021.
NLE Choppa claimed on June 9, 2021, that he had assisted in the cancer cure of a young girl, despite the lack of any supporting documentation.
On March 6, 2022, NLE Choppa made the announcement that he and his then-girlfriend Marissa Da’Nae had miscarried and lost their newborn child “Seven.”
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