NLE Choppa revealed he had a dream that convinced him it was time to fully address his long-standing tension with NBA YoungBoy, and release the diss track "KO."
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Choppa, who now goes by NLE The Great, remembered waking up from a vivid dream. recalled waking up from the dream and turning to prayer in search of its meaning.
"The dream was me holding a young boy's head in my hand, and I was bringing the head to my father in the dream — my dad," he recalled. "And when I woke up from my sleep, I wanted to pray about the dream, and I started to seek what the dream meant. And going into that space of prayer, I knew it was time."
Choppa said he was initially confused because he believes dreams are one of the ways God communicates with him. However, the gruesome nature of the dream left him questioning its source.
"So when I first got the dream, I thought it was like a dream from not the most high, I thought it was a nightmare or something, because it was so gruesome in the dream," he said. "It was like flesh hanging off the skull, mosquitoes, and gnats, and biting at his flesh as it was deteriorating. And it was very vivid. And it was so vivid I can remember the smell and the dream."
After waking up, Choppa said he immediately prayed for clarity.
"So when I woke up, I went into prayer about what it was," Choppa continued. "And I didn’t know what to interpret at first, so I tried not to lean on my own understanding. Within prayer I got the words and the things I needed to hear. After that it was just execution. I never want to feel like my devotion is questioned. So the steps were ordered, and I did them."
Later in the interview, Choppa also addressed his appearance on Kirk Franklin's Den of Kings that resulted in Jonathan Majors telling him to read the Bible again.
"What I was trying to say in that clip is that God is on a plane greater than any one that has walked before us," he said. "Anything He's created, He's above it. If it took Him six days to create the world and on the seventh day He retreated and rested, that was His creation. And to say that God is someone who walked on creation, I just strongly disagree because why would I create something to return to it? What I was trying to get him to see was that Jesus was a child to God. Jesus walked earth as God’s doings and words, as a manifestation of it, but Jesus was not God."
Choppa admitted that conversations about religion can “get tricky,” but said he simply wanted Majors to understand and respect his perspective.