NLE Choppa – ‘Top Shotta’ review: Memphis bad boy softens up on compelling studio debut

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“We know some good pussy make a n**** say (Oh uh uh oh / Uh uh oh / Uh uh oh / Ah ah)”), ‘Make Em Say’ is only a good trap-twerk song, but could have been so much more.The second half of ‘Top Shotta’, though, is outstanding, demonstrating 17-year-old Choppa’s miraculous maturity.

He’s now a father and is evidently realising his huge platform, with tracks such as ‘Made It Happen’ and ‘Gamble With My Heart’ breaking down his deep apathy; on the former he confesses “I done really seen tragedy / But I still made it happen”.Here, as on similarly reflective album tracks ‘Paranoid’ and ‘Depression’, NLE speaks to his fans intimately; on the latter he insists he’s “a real street n***a”” but admits “I got depression”.He had an astronomical.