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NLE Choppa sits down with his daughter Clover for Billboard Family — and she’s not letting him off easy, pressing him to pick a favorite song (“Walk Em Down”), revealing her own pick (“Champions”), and putting him on the spot about his dream collaboration (he says Drake). The conversation bounces from funny rapid-fire moments (favorite dessert is chocolate chip cookies, favorite colors are pink/yellow/gold, Clover’s unstoppable Madea and SpongeBob love, and her Jamaica vs. Disneyland verdict) to real heart-to-heart family talk, including what he loves most about their “good crazy” household and what he misses when she’s not with him (“the magic you carry”). Choppa opens up about the inspiration behind “Light It Up,” sharing how his faith helped him let go of perfectionism, why he chose to get baptized, and how that shift impacted him beyond music — plus Clover tries to recruit him for new music together, pitching a song “about the city” (LA).

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00:00I love my guns.
00:01They're my babies, too.
00:04Throw those guns away.
00:06Why?
00:07I want to keep one.
00:09You have too many.
00:10You used to be like, ah, ah, it's Anneli Chopper that dude.
00:15Like, bro, shut up.
00:17Yo, what's up? I'm Anneli Chopper.
00:19What's up? And my name is Clover.
00:22And this is the Billboard family.
00:23We're the Billboard family.
00:25Welcome.
00:34What's your favorite song that you ever made?
00:37Hmm?
00:38Trapians?
00:39Nah.
00:40I'm gonna be honest.
00:42I think, like, that question is, like, you asking me who was my favorite child.
00:50I got too many kids. Too many songs.
00:53I love all of them equally. I can't pick one.
00:56Just pick one, Dad.
00:57If I had to choose one that I would favor to a little bit more, I'd say Walk Em Down.
01:04Walk Em Down.
01:06Walk Em Down.
01:07Walk Em Down.
01:08Walk Em Down.
01:09What's your favorite song that I made?
01:12That you ever made?
01:13Yeah.
01:14I would sing...
01:16Champions.
01:17Champions.
01:18Okay.
01:22Who is your dream collaboration?
01:26Who is my dream collaboration?
01:29I think Drake is a dream collaboration.
01:33Okay.
01:34Yeah.
01:34I think that's a dope collaboration.
01:36What you think?
01:39Like, Michael Jackson?
01:40He, he, he.
01:46He, he.
01:47He, he.
01:48What inspired light it up?
01:50Jesus.
01:55I was going through a phase in my life where I felt like I needed to be perfect.
02:04And, um, I came into closure with, um, Christ because he helped me to understand that we don't have to
02:13be so perfect after all.
02:14Cause he's already walked that light for us.
02:18So, I accepted him in my life and, um, just wanted to kind of do a song that somewhat embarked
02:26on my new journey.
02:27Is that why you got baptized?
02:31Because of Jesus?
02:33Yes.
02:34Because I saw a video of you getting baptized.
02:37Yeah.
02:41Um, praises, thank you, Jesus.
02:43Thank you, thank you, thank you.
02:44How did that affect you of being an artist?
02:48I think it affected Bryson more than me being an artist.
02:52I got, um, everlasting, eternal life with the creator.
02:57Imagine that.
02:59Like, as an artist, it's beautiful.
03:14I'm trying to have a heart-to-heart.
03:15Like, I'm about to, like, I was trying to pull it out to you.
03:19You know, you're a kid though, I get it.
03:22Yeah.
03:23That's so cute that y'all could just, like, just be in that mode and not even, like, yeah.
03:29You just don't know how it's an event.
03:31What goes into your writing process?
03:35Come on.
03:36I'm going to say it when I feel like you really want to hear it.
03:40Cause I don't feel like you want to hear it.
03:42I do.
03:44I know.
03:46Stop being a baby.
03:48I do want to hear it.
03:50I'm ready to move on to the next question.
03:53Now, come on.
03:55Are you working on new music?
04:02Um, yeah, I am.
04:04I'm working on some new music.
04:06With me?
04:06With you.
04:07Yeah.
04:08With you.
04:09You want some new music?
04:10You want me to work on some new music with you?
04:13What type of song you want to make now?
04:15About the city.
04:16About the city?
04:17Yeah.
04:18What city?
04:20This city.
04:21This city, LA?
04:22You want to make a California love?
04:24Yeah.
04:25Yeah.
04:25You know what California love is.
04:27You know what California love is by Tupac.
04:30California love.
04:32And Dre, I'm going to play it for you.
04:34We can make something like that.
04:36Okay.
04:37What is your favorite dessert?
04:39My favorite dessert?
04:40Yes.
04:41You know what my favorite dessert is.
04:43Salmon?
04:44Cut.
04:47Ice cream?
04:48Chocolate soup?
04:48Chocolate soup cookies.
04:49Oh.
04:50You didn't know that?
04:51I forgot.
04:52You know what?
04:53What?
04:53That hurts.
04:54But it's okay.
04:55I forgot.
04:56Alright.
04:57What's your favorite dessert?
04:59You want me to try to guess it?
05:01Because you be doing a lot of different stuff.
05:03I ain't going to lie.
05:03It start, uh, uh, uh.
05:08Ice cream?
05:09Yes.
05:09Of course.
05:10What's my favorite color?
05:12Red and blue.
05:14You want me to guess your favorite color?
05:15What's my favorite color?
05:16Yeah.
05:17That's what I'm saying.
05:18I put you on a spot.
05:19You got to put me on a spot.
05:20Okay.
05:20I have three favorite colors.
05:23No, you don't.
05:24I actually do.
05:25Well.
05:27Gold.
05:28No.
05:29It's pink.
05:30First.
05:31Pink, yellow, and gold.
05:33What's your favorite color?
05:34Pretty much pink though, right?
05:36Yeah.
05:37Cause, that bunk bed, I had a pink one at the top.
05:42So I like that one.
05:43I sleep at the top one.
05:45Because it's pink.
05:46What do you love most about our family?
05:49Everybody crazy.
05:51Like, like, good crazy though.
05:53Like, we good people, but we just-
05:54Crazy.
05:54We just all unique.
05:56We're all superstars.
05:57You know what I'm saying?
05:58Like, we all are the it factors.
06:00You know?
06:01Like, you an it factor.
06:04What does that mean?
06:04That mean you a billion dollars.
06:07Times ten.
06:09Times ten.
06:09Do I look like money?
06:11No, but you look like gold.
06:14My skin is not gold.
06:16It is gold.
06:17My skin is brown.
06:19I'm brown.
06:20Okay.
06:21It's gold and brown.
06:23I mix with white and black.
06:27What?
06:28What?
06:30Who's white?
06:38What's your favorite city?
06:40Whatever city you're in, I'm okay.
06:42I like Jamaica.
06:43Jamaica.
06:44You're right.
06:44Yes, because it has, like, water parks.
06:48Yeah.
06:49Fruit.
06:49The beach.
06:49The fruit too would be fine.
06:51The mangoes.
06:52The mangoes, yeah.
06:53I forgot what the thing called.
06:57Mangoes.
06:58What about the jerk chicken?
07:00Boston.
07:01It be too spicy for you though.
07:04Yeah.
07:05You trying to go back to Jamaica?
07:07Nah, I'm trying to go back to Disneyland.
07:11What you miss most when I'm not with you?
07:15That's a great question.
07:17You're actually so cute.
07:20Yeah.
07:20You're a very beautiful girl.
07:22I miss, like, the magic you carry.
07:26Magic?
07:27It's a certain type of twinkle that you carry.
07:30It just lets me know that you are truly sent in my life for a divine reason.
07:37You always know how to make things feel better.
07:40I remember one time when I was, like, crying and then I was just feeling the way you walked up
07:49to me.
07:49And you grabbed my hands and you said, Daddy, let's pray.
07:53You was three years old.
07:57I swear to God.
07:58I don't even remember that.
07:59I know.
08:01I know.
08:01You grabbed my hands and you said, Daddy, let's pray at three years old.
08:05And you led me through a prayer.
08:09Wait.
08:10I cried even more because it was so beautiful.
08:14Wait.
08:14See, I'm trying to have a heart to heart with you.
08:16Wait.
08:17Who?
08:18Who has said the prayer?
08:20Who has said the prayer?
08:21I said the prayer at three.
08:23You led me through a prayer when I was feeling low in my life.
08:28You prayed with me.
08:30I didn't ask you to pray.
08:32I didn't tell you to pray.
08:34You seen that I was going through something and you walked up to me as a three-year-old giant,
08:40grabbed both of my hands and said, Daddy, let's pray.
08:45Okay.
08:45You an angel, bro.
08:48All right, next question, please.
08:50She too pee for me.
08:52Man.
08:53She ain't trying to get emotional.
08:55What is your favorite restaurant?
08:57You want to know my favorite restaurant?
08:59Yes.
08:59My grandma kitchen.
09:00What's your favorite restaurant?
09:02Let me guess.
09:03I know a certain age, I wasn't giving it to you, but you was head over heels about McDonald's.
09:12You still be eating McDonald's?
09:14Mm-mm.
09:15No, I like my Hummer Breeze.
09:17I don't eat McDonald's.
09:19No more.
09:21What's your favorite thing to do in L.A. and Memphis?
09:24Ooh.
09:25My favorite thing to do in L.A.
09:29Is record music.
09:30And then my favorite thing to do in Memphis.
09:33Um, is it to go out to eat or what?
09:37Just being next to my firearms.
09:40My arms?
09:42My guns.
09:42I love my guns.
09:43You know they my babies too.
09:48Throw those guns away.
09:50Why?
09:51Only keep one.
09:53You have too many.
09:55I don't.
09:56Only keep one of your favorites.
09:59You know what I used to do with my guns before it was conceived?
10:02What?
10:02I used to take my gun.
10:05I used to lay it down beside me.
10:08And I used to get the cover and tuck it in like a baby.
10:13And go to sleep beside my guns.
10:15Throw those guns away.
10:16Only have two of your favorites.
10:18Then throw the rest of them away.
10:20Okay.
10:21I want to ask where's your favorite place to go?
10:24Can I be honest?
10:26Yeah.
10:27Within myself.
10:28Go within myself.
10:29Find parts of me that I'm either hiding or running away from.
10:33I pray hard about it.
10:36So I can be the best version I can be for you.
10:39And for the ones who love me the most.
10:42My favorite place to go.
10:44Is within my own self.
10:46You know we be hiding anger in the liver and resentment.
10:48And the liver.
10:50What's your favorite place to go?
10:53You know me.
10:55So I like to go to the playground.
10:57Everywhere.
10:58Everywhere.
11:02To the gym.
11:04Wherever you can just be young.
11:07The gym.
11:08Yeah.
11:08Okay.
11:09The gym.
11:10Yeah.
11:10You like to go to the gym too.
11:12Yeah.
11:12I be getting buff sometimes.
11:14I get swole on them folks.
11:15You know.
11:16You know we do out the autism.
11:18Yeah.
11:19It's somewhere else you like to go.
11:21Outside.
11:22Like a mug.
11:24Can we go outside?
11:26I'm gonna go around the neighborhood.
11:27And then collect them the little stuff that we see.
11:30Yeah.
11:30I bring like a little bucket with me.
11:32A little bucket.
11:33And then I be on my little scooter.
11:35A little scooter.
11:36With my two wheels.
11:38The one that you bought me.
11:39Yeah.
11:40Clock that.
11:40And that's the one with the training wheels.
11:42But I still don't know how to ride that one.
11:44It's okay.
11:45We get to it.
11:45With the training wheels.
11:47And then.
11:49Like we have the bucket.
11:50And then I get my little.
11:55Yeah.
11:56You know.
11:59Scooter.
12:00Scooter.
12:01Scooter.
12:02My scooter.
12:02Then.
12:03When I see something I like.
12:04I get off my scooter.
12:06I stop it.
12:07You stop at it.
12:07And what you do?
12:08Then I pick up the stuff.
12:10Like leaves.
12:11And you don't care what it is.
12:12It could be a dead cicada.
12:13You don't do what to it.
12:15Keep it.
12:16And then sometimes.
12:17What I always see is like a worm.
12:20Yeah.
12:21She pick up like the dead worms and stuff.
12:23Which I don't agree with.
12:25But hey.
12:26But hey.
12:27Guess what though.
12:27This is what I was going to say.
12:28Pick me out.
12:28Hold it.
12:30Like when you get.
12:31When she.
12:31I ain't going to say nothing to me.
12:32Yeah.
12:34Listen.
12:34I got you.
12:36When we get home.
12:38I ain't going to say nothing to me.
12:39You expecting me to.
12:41Just come on.
12:42I'm going to put in the next question already.
12:44Why are they so in a rush?
12:45Just come on.
12:47What's your favorite TV show?
12:50Spongebob.
12:51Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba.
12:54Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba.
12:56You said Minions?
12:57Yeah.
12:57You said Minions.
12:59I said Spongebob.
13:00Oh.
13:01Ha ha ha.
13:04Ha ha.
13:04Ha ha ha.
13:07Ha ha ha.
13:09Ha ha ha.
13:11And this is my favorite movie.
13:14Madea.
13:15For real?
13:17Did the boy.
13:18When he had burned down.
13:20When he had.
13:21Got burnt.
13:22With the grits.
13:24Cool.
13:25The one where he was trying to make the biggest fire?
13:28No.
13:29I don't think.
13:30That's not the one we're talking about.
13:31I'm talking about something else.
13:33I like all of them of these movies.
13:36When we had watched the one.
13:38That grew up.
13:39The one that he had.
13:42Burnt himself.
13:43Grandma was laughing so hard.
13:45That's what I'm saying.
13:45You talking about the one where she threw the grits on her dude.
13:48The water.
13:48I can't think of the one.
13:49When he burnt the soap.
13:50Which one is that one?
13:52The one when he.
13:53When she had sprayed the water on him.
13:56Oh.
13:58And then.
14:00The boy said that he was gay.
14:03That one.
14:15You are so.
14:20Come on.
14:22What was it like being famous as a child?
14:25No.
14:25If I was to.
14:27Go back in time.
14:29I never felt like I was a child around that time.
14:33I never felt like a child.
14:35Be the one that be like.
14:36I'm grown.
14:37I'm an adult.
14:38You're not an adult.
14:39But I had grown man responsibilities though.
14:41I did.
14:42I did.
14:43I did.
14:44Like in my opinion I was.
14:47I felt like I wasn't a child.
14:48Okay.
14:48What was the question again?
14:50What was it like being famous as a child?
14:52Yes.
14:53Oh yeah.
14:53You already knew it.
14:54Oh yeah.
14:55All right.
14:56Next question.
14:56No, no, no.
14:57Let me cook.
14:59Let me cook.
14:59All right.
15:00Go ahead.
15:01All right.
15:02So for one.
15:03Right.
15:03Hold on.
15:04Hold on.
15:04Hit me out.
15:05Hit me out.
15:06Imagine this right.
15:08Imagine.
15:09Okay.
15:09I hear you.
15:10Listen.
15:10Imagine.
15:11Just imagine.
15:11Like imagine this though.
15:14All right.
15:14So imagine you going to school.
15:16And like people already know your potential at school.
15:18But they don't like.
15:19Just fully know the potential that God has ordained over your life.
15:23Right.
15:23Bruv.
15:24Tell me why.
15:25When I blew up.
15:26And I went back to school.
15:28Like.
15:29It was like a concert.
15:31Like.
15:32Everybody was in my face.
15:33The whole school.
15:36But before I blew up.
15:38Like when I went to school.
15:39Same.
15:40Right.
15:40It'd be like that.
15:40Yeah.
15:41Because some of my friends know me.
15:43It's like a lot of people that know me from school.
15:46Yeah.
15:46Like.
15:47They know me from TV.
15:49They be always following me.
15:51I say.
15:51You is not in my class.
15:53And you.
15:54Do not put to be in my line.
15:57So you already.
15:58I forgot.
15:59You already feel what I'm feeling.
16:01Cause I.
16:01You a superstar yourself.
16:03Mm-hmm.
16:04So you.
16:04Yeah.
16:05You understand what I'm saying.
16:06You go to school.
16:07Then people be like.
16:08They just be all in your face.
16:09You used to be like.
16:11Ah.
16:11It's the only childhood idea.
16:14Like bro.
16:15Shut up.
16:19Yeah.
16:20But.
16:20Yeah.
16:21That's kind of how it was.
16:22A lot of people was.
16:23Yeah.
16:25So I thought that was kind of cool.
16:29You silly bruh.
16:32I did not.
16:32Yeah.
16:32Don't.
16:32Maybe I didn't know why.
16:33Maybe I'm doing ch texture for so many things.
16:33Maybe while we're getting older.
16:33I'm even maintain my focus part of the Person it's not just THOMG.
16:33Can you do this idea of today?
16:34You

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