August 4, 2023 • 33 mins
You don't want to miss the episode of the Pulse as Stormy talks to local super star Bryson Lashun Potts, widely known as NLE Choppa. Did you know that he has a non profit organization that help put a basketball court in the Frayser area of Memphis TN. He has a children's book coming out and more. Tap in now to check it all out.
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First thing you said to me whenyou walked in was I was saying I
grew up listening. All right,hey everybody, thanks for joining us for
the Pulse and we were talking tosomebody really special today. I'm Stormy,
thank you for being here in le Chappa. Do they say it like
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that when you come out on stage? They do? Okay, you like
that. We see you a lotin the city of Memphis, or I've
seen you a lot in the cityof Anything you want to say first before
we get started, No, okay, just ready to roll. So um,
I've seen you a lot on socialmedia talk about well, come to
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Memphis and do stuff that you've beendoing in the city of Memphis. How
does it feel, because you tellus about how you got started with your
career. I simply got started offjust knowing like that I was going through
certain things that it was hard forme to voice and just have talks about.
So I began to just write themdown and write them down into songs
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or poems and went to the studiowith it. And the beginning become like
my therapy or like how to releasewhat I was feeling on the a side,
or how to talk to someone butsomeone was just a microphone. How
old were you out fourteen? Fifteen? Wow? So you grew your following?
Was it on social media before yougot signed social media? So what's
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that like? Because I know fora lot of artists, a lot of
them look forward to look forward tobeing signed by somebody. Yeah, do
you feel like you have more creativecontrol over what you do because of how
you started and how popular you werebefore you signed a deal? Yeah?
For sure. It gave me moreleverage. When I was to sit down
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with labels and I let them knowwhat I wanted, they couldn't lowball me,
short me because it's like I don'treally needs y'all, you know.
Yeah, So it got to thatpoint, and once it got there,
you could use them for what shewanted to use them for, and it
could help you. You know,they can only add to what I had
on the momentum. So yeah,you think you learned all that from your
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mom? A lot of it wasfrom my mom was just being patient through
the process. I feel like wewere both learning a lot of things during
that time because it was all newto us. But you know, she
I feel like if she wasn't there, I probably would have not you know
what I'm saying, held out aslong as I did to get the best
deal for sure. Yeah. Butyeah, your mom's doing a lot of
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businesses and she's just in it likethat. So you got a lot of
that from her, the business smartsfrom your mom. Yeah, since I
was living. Oh really okay,So when you do have these big deals,
who's the first person you call?Mama? Dad? Oh, mom,
and um someone else that helps herwith management? I call both of
them. Okay, okay, Sohow did your mama feel about that?
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Feel good? Overwhelming? But youknow she feel good about it. Yeah.
Yeah, she's seen you come fromUM started from the bottom count Womb
literally came from the bottom. Yeah. Yeah, you're gonna write a song
about it. Yeah, I gota lot of songs. Yeah yeah.
Listen. So okay, I reallywanted to talk to you because I know
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how your your stardom in Memphis.This is where you're from, and a
lot of people in Memphis know you, and not just here. Everybody is
getting to know n L. E. Chop On. How does that feel?
It feels good? You know,I feel like I've always, like
um prayed for like a Michael Jacksonlevel of stardom and just knowing like what
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it comes with, and wanting andknow how I need to be able to
handle it, and knowing like thatI still have a job to do,
even with a lot of people lookingup to me, listening to me,
just being able to change the worldand inspire, you know, I just
want a big task and I wantto be used as an instrument by God
and just keep changing other people's liveswhen I get that. Yeah, you
said something to your mom a momentago. If you don't mind me bringing
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it up, you said you talkto God about it. Yeah, yeah,
we had conversations. I feel Iwant you to bid a relationship with
them anything as possible. You knowwhat I'm saying. That's it's my best
friend. I'm an introvert, youknow, if I ain't talking to nobody,
I talked to guy before I talkto anybody. Okay, Okay,
do you think a lot of peoplesee that side of you from social media?
A lot of people do if theyfollow me, you know, if
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they're fans of me, they knowhow spiritually rooted I am. I'm very
vocal about it. I don't reallyhad it. Okay, how do you
feel I've seen some of the celebritieson social media, like Chloe and Hallie
talk about being a celebrity and howthey have to kind of shield themselves from
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social media because sometimes it can becool watching comments and listening to stuff like
that. How do you handle thatkind of thing? I'd like to handle
everything, but just with a grinthemself, you know what I'm saying,
Like, take a constructive criticism.I also know, like somebody just hating
or you know what, right?I like that. I like that view
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at all. I feel like thetype aura I have, the type of
person I am. I called myselfto everything man, because I can take
in everything. I can do iteverything, like I love to be a
part of everything because at the endof the day, we are everything,
you know what I'm saying. SoI like it being tact. But you
just also had to have a discipline, um and just the type of calmness
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over your body to be able tohandle everything that you want to know.
Yeah, I'm Stormy. It's thepost. We're checking in with N.
L. E. Chopper straight outof Memphis. Thank you for coming by.
We're actually during the interview in RoyalStudio. So how does it feel
to be inside of a studio likethis. It's a beautiful thing, you
know, It's just you can lookaround. I was just looking around saying
all the history here. Um,I was uninformed that Al Green recorded a
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lot of his hits here. Sothat's a cool thing. Okay, beautiful
thing it is. It's a beautifulthing. Yeah, he did. And
so there's a lot of history inthis room that probably a lot of people
that are from them really don't know. Sometimes it's the people that's in the
city, you know that where alot of the greatness happens that don't know
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some of the things that happen here. Maybe people don't even know the Royal
Studios. Boue Mitchell is two timeGrammy winner. You probably know that.
And the fact that he has hadBruno Mars and Mark Ronson and a little
bit of everybody off in here inthe studios. It's crazy. He's working
with his son, he's working withhis intern We just heard some music by
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one of his interns a second ago. Yeah, that's pretty powerful, she's
yeah. So there's a lot ofgreatness in this build. Now you're in
this building, how you feel aboutthat? I feel like, um,
I'm a big firm believer, likeyou don't go nowhere about no reason,
Like you know, everything's kind ofmiss So whenever I go somewhere that I
feel like the grace were, it'slike I feel like, okay, He's
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like I'm in that same category,Like okay, you know what I'm saying.
I feel that's how I take this. Yeah, yeah, now you've
you've got your nonprofit organizations. That'sone of the reasons I really wanted to
talk to you because I know Isee the passion that you have for this
city, and a lot of peoplehave seen a lot of the things that
you've done in Memphis. What's beenone of your proudest moments or achievements that
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you've done or been able to doin the city that you come from.
Just tap in and connect with theyouth, going to schools and encouraging them
on giving kids challenges like reading challengesand stuff of that nature. Anything to
do with the youth is one I'mmost proud of because the end of the
day, it's like we look atthem as like the children, but I
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feel like once we start to lookat them as like our future of the
city. Yeah, that's what itreally make us want to tap in and
really you know, make sure thatthey're on the right path. And that's
what I admired the most. Yeah, yeah, where you get all this
wisdom from? That's just been helpful. Yeah. I talked to a lot
of people and yeah, some people. Yeah, so it's yeah. I
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mean the way you're talking, it'sbeyond your years. I think, yeah,
thank you, Yeah it is itis. Now you're a dad.
What does that feel like? Feelgood? You know what I'm saying.
Um, Like I said, Ilove the kids, so being able to
have my own as you know,a different type thing, you know,
not only like get to go homewith them, need to spend time with
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them, teach them things, teachthem where I went wrong, just you
know, just be a role model. I feel like that's one of the
most beautiful things about life. Ifeel like that's what God put us here
for. You know, if noone have a purpose on their life,
Um, I know one thing thatit has purpose, and that's procreative.
Yeah. Yeah. Get to seea young person that grows up, looks
like you, starts to talk andlike me, like you too too much?
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Like man, Okay, so tellme this what would be one of
the things that you would say toa young person today if they came to
you and he said, Hey,Nlie, I just need some advice about
trying to be a father. Rightnow. I'm trying to be the best
dad that I can be. Canyou give me some advice? What would
you say? UM? Personally?Like what I would do? You know
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what I'm saying if I was totalk to myself. You know, I
just always want to make sure thatI'm a friend to my child before anything,
because I feel like, you know, we're lay up all day until
our friends, our darky secrets,our deepest serious before we even tell a
parent. So I feel like,you know, if you come off as
like the friend a person that UMis trustworthy enough to you know, hold
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the secrets and being able to workwith you through them. UM, that's
what I want to be first,because you know, I never feel I
feel like the child, never feellike it's something they can't tell you.
And that was one of the thingsI feel like as a as a child,
I was dealing with like I waslike, I don't want to say
this. I don't want to youknow, tell my parents this or that.
But I go and tell my friendsanything, like, you know,
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I think we all go through that. Yeah, because I went through that
as a kid. There's some stuffI wouldn't dare tell mama. You know
what I'm saying growing up, ButI felt like there was some safe spaces
and for some of us, wefeel we keep it all in because she
said, you're an introvert. Iwas an introvert when I was younger.
Now I'm not so much of anintrovert. But back then I kept everything.
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I didn't even tell my friends alot of stuff. There was some
stuff they knew. My cousin wasmy best friend, though, so she
knew a lot of stuff because shewas with me when a lot of stuff
happened. But I didn't, youknow, I just so, how's it
like now, do you get achance to be in that space with your
parents where you can share? Ohyeah, this is like an open book,
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Okay, from the dirtiest stuff tothe cleaning. Wow, I wonder
how your mama handles that. Sheused to it. Mama's actually in the
room, you guys. Oh wow. So okay. Now with your nonprofit
work, you say you get achance to get out and talk to the
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kids. I guess what's one ofthe favorite things you get to say when
you talk to young folks, umMan really like the power of just prayer,
which just goes to like the powerof keeping God first, the power
of faith and what I'm saying,seeing what your heart when your eyes don't
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see it's just being patient within theprocess because you know, everything is not
instantly gratified. And then like thelast thing is just teaching them discipline,
you know, stand down, saying, focus towards the goals they want to
achieve, and then within them threethings, whatever you want has already done.
It's just in due time. Sowow, is that pretty much how
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you stay grounded with being in umI guess the career, the industry that
you're in. Yeah, for sure, Like you know, there's a lot
of people that's not gonna believe inwhat you're gonna believe in and or see
the vision that God instilled, don'tyou, So it's up to you to
make them, like make that visionthat he's showing you just come true.
And you know, my mom alwaysbasically just saying that a few minutes ago,
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like how we could present a visionon the platter and other people's like
I show you you don't have tobe a part of what I'm doing.
But I know it ain't came tomy thoughts for no reason, Like,
Yeah, I'm gonna hit the groundrunning, I'm gonna put the work in,
I'm gonna go hard, and we'llwork towards it every day until we
look up and it's in everybody's face. Yeah. I mean that's pretty powerful
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too, because you don't actually,I don't talk to a lot of young
people your age to talk like that. And I think that's something that if
we could spread the word around thecommunity for you know what I'm saying,
we get a chance to talk tomore young people and share with them and
tell them things like that, Ithink it really would really help. Maybe.
So you see a lot of stuffthat's happening in the city of Memphis.
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What do you think about all ofthe stuff that's happening, the negative
stuff that you hear and see aboutyoung people in this city. It's one
of those things. It's very unfortunate, and I feel like the thing about
it is too, It's like,and this is a scary truth. I
feel like I can only be avoice to people that wants to hear it.
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Yeah, and I know that sometimesit's some people that's probably far gone.
Yeah, and like you know,they might have to you know,
figure out situations on their own oryou know. And I was that person.
So it is faith for those peopleLike I had a hard head,
like you told me to go righton going left, Yeah, like you
know what I'm saying. I wasalways that type person. But it took
me one day to look myself inthe mirror and really say, Okay,
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like the person I am right nowis not a person I want to be,
and I want to get away fromthis space and better myself. How
old were you when you came tothat realization? Seventeen? And it was
because I had a door it onthe way, Like I found out I
had a door it on the way, So I was like, and this
was well into your rap career.So you know, I feel like a
lot of people you just gotta kindof just pray for them and let them
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hope that they find their way.And I was one of those people.
Like it was nothing my mom couldsay tell me, it was nothing Pops
could tell me, Like I reallyhad to wake up one day and say
I'm making a change, and that'swhen you will realize like, okay,
it'd be a better place. Likeit's nobody else's fault while you feel a
way, it's nobody fault. It'snot the white man, it's not the
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black man. Man, it's whoyou are. Yeah. So once I
realized that, m I figured outwe we are the problem. We are
our enemies. So you know,yeah we can, we can rise out
of what we're in. Sometimes itjust takes us to change our mind like
you did. Yeah, change yourmind. You went through Frasier and you
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were part of the new basketball courtin Frasier. How did that feel to
be a part of doing that?I felt very good. Just to be
able to do something with a positiveinfluence is always gonna, you know,
make me happy. Um. Justto be able to get the kids something
to look forward to, probably likeout the school or you know, something
to do during the summer. Um, it's always a beautiful thing. Yeah,
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there's a lot of telling in Memphis, especially you know, sports wise.
It's just a beautiful thing to havein the city, especially with my
name attached to it because I knowhow many young fans love me out here.
Yeah, it's Stormy. You guys, thanks for joining me for the
posts today I am talking to inl e Choppa straight out of Memphis.
What's next for your because um withyour nonprofits? Dude, can you tell
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us? Um, I don't evenknow real or whatever? Like you know,
I think that's some way hit thedrawing boys with and think of.
But you know whatever, Like,um, I'm down for anything, like
literally anything, the most impossible thingsto the most possible. So I want
to do whatever. Okay, Sowhat if what's one of the greatest things
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you feel like that's happened in yourcareer thus far? Um, ready to
have musically or just in life,just in gen wherever you want to go?
Oh my children? Sure, Igot a son on the way,
so you know, I got adaughter currently she's three, and the sun
that will be here probably in afew days. So wow, would it
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be a father? You know,it's a beautiful thing to me. Okay,
now musically musically, um, justI feel like the most beautiful thing
of my career is just to know, like I ain't even I'm not even
on my second leg. Okay,I'm still on my first one. I'm
still like on an appetizing Okay,that's the most beautiful part. So who
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if you could work with somebody inthe industry, who would it be that
you haven't uh that you want towork with? Um I always say this,
I wish from I could find likea Tupac verse that he didn't use
and got the blessing and the honestto be able to use it. It
would be a beautiful thing. AndI also want to work with Drake.
Oh really, Okay, now thatcould happen. Yeah, it's possible.
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You guys haven't run into each otherin Memphis or anywhere in the in the
industry. No, not yet.I got a song with Little An so
that that's very Yeah. And thenyour song on was it fast X?
Yeah? Yeah, that is crazy. How did you feel about that when
you heard it? When you sawit the movie? And that's a pretty
good movie by the way, didyou like it was? Yeah? It
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was good for sure. It's abeautiful thing. Just to be a part
of Fast and Fierish, knowing thatI grew up watching it and just being
a part of the soundtrack was abeautiful day. Yeah. So you're seeing
a lot of moments, I guessin your life where they're like things that
are coming into fruition that you probablynever even or did you think? My
God showed me my whole life beforeI even did. It's funny he showed
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me anything I was a part of, or um that impacted me as a
kid, or even just rubbed mea certain way as a kid. Is
like I'm in that vicinity now I'min that space. Um, He's always
showed me what I was gonna dobefore I did it, you know what
I'm saying. Wowever, he broughtme to places before I was there.
I remember going to Greece the Games, watching Rudy gay O, J Mayo,
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Mike cry, Marcusolz Randolph and thenlike now I'm performing at the Grizzly
Games. So yeah, he's alwayswalked with me to like, oh,
you just don't even know Yello daddyright here one day. Like that's how
I feel like he's always washed overin my life, like yeah, you
don't even know, like look atthis, but she don't even know what
I'm gonna do for you. Andlike now it's like that now I understand
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as a right now he still doesthat with me, and now I know
where I'm going because I know,like the atmospheres he brings me. I
say that, this is like Iwas in the vicinity of a billionaire before,
and I was like, I hadconversations with him, talk to him.
I was like, man, guys, just showing me what I'm gonna
be just I'm want be in tenyears. So you know, it's a
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beautiful thing. Okay, Okay,you got a chance to um not long
ago. You were part of theopening acts for the BET Awards. You
did the pre show and then youpicked some Memphis dancers to go with you.
Yeah, academy, lad that's mygirl. Yeah, So it was
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good to see all Memphis up thereon stage. When I talked about it
on the radio, that's what Imentioned. And she told me too that
all the dancers with her were fromMemphis and that she would not have had
it any other way. For sure. It was really good to see y'all
on that stage. Yeah, thatwas really good. A good look for
Memphis, good look for you,good look for uh Lattia. I know
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she's happy about that. And youyou danced with a lot of the kids.
So how does that feel to beable to give back to those kids?
Um Man. It's funny because Isuck. I suck at what they're
great. And you know what I'msaying, they look at me. You
can't dance, No I can't.I can't. I can do my own
thing, but I can't do whatthey do. Yeah, you know they're
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cold. Yeah, it's really good. It's funny because I go to the
Academy and they'll be teaching me theright way, younger than me. Um,
they look up to me, andI gotta look up to them the
same way. I gotta show themthe same respect. I gotta get in
there and act like you know,they're a superstar. That's when I'm in
there because it's like I'm gonna holdnew territories. So it's a beautiful thing.
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It's also just let you know,like how humble you should be,
because you know what I'm saying,it's certain things that they probably look at
you that you're doing. But yeah, there's certain things I'm looking at them.
I'm like, imured. Wow.Yeah, giving back to the youth
of memphisis I think that's pretty positivefor anybody to do it, you know
what I'm saying. And I knowthe parents. Those parents are like blown
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away. Yeah, it's always funwith them too. Yeah. Do you
ever get a chance to talk tothe parents and they say, you know
what, I just want to saythank you? Yeah, all the time
for sure. Yeah. You geta lot of fan mail. Oh yes,
really, emails get addressed there,get the address. Wait a minute,
you get letters, mam wall getnews in the mail. It would
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come all through the to the email, it'll come through the address. The
house address is crazy. So yeah, it's a beautiful thing. You though,
So you on that level now whereyou have to kind of watch your
back kind of Yeah, I alwaysdo. Yeah, I always do.
Yeah, you have to really becareful. Yeah. I almost got arrested
in the mall in Miami because thewhole mall literally was following me, like
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behind me. We had to runin the store. They had to lock
the the Gucci store set up likea barricade in front of the store because
the fans was just all over themall that was in the top of them
all, And the police came andtried to arrest me for disorderly conduct what
like it was crazy. I waslike the same thing you just said.
I said, what it was crazy? I feel profile and some most stuff,
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but it's it's a regular, butbut you're getting too. Yeah,
it's it's probably gonna be like thatother places too, because that's you know,
people are seeing you all over theplace, all over social media,
shade room, everywhere you like aplace like when I go overseas, it's
the same way like real places whereI think that I wouldn't be known.
Um, there'd be beating on thecars, like don't bust the windows out
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and stuff like did you see that? I see that guy. Sometimes he
shows you a glimpse, but hedon't show you anything. And that was
one of those things. I'm like, Okay, I just praised to get
a regged deal. He showed melike okay, I'm gonna give you this,
and then something so like okay,I never put a limitation on your
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dreams. Okay. So now thatyou are legitimately a business man, um,
what would be your advice to Iguess a young person maybe that's following
in your footsteps, or a personout there that has a business that's trying
to move forward, what would youtell them? I feel like the number
one thing is make sure that thepeople you're running into business with right there.
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It goes from who you who youwant to be take this the YEO
route with the smallest thing to like, who's working for you? Just make
sure that everyone is aligned and hasthe best interest in the same at least
almost the same amount of passion youhave. Um, because I feel like
that's the biggest part of the business, is just to make sure that every
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link is strong and there's no weaklinks, and um, that's what makes
a successful business. Have you evercome across the situation in your personal life
where you have to say goodbye tosomebody who I said a goodbye to?
Everybody? Like like me, Ijust know, like how life works.
If it ain't mean for you tobe on the path, I'm not gonna
force it. Yeah, Like,um, I can't hinder you because it's
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gonna block what God got for me, because he knows if he give it
to me, you might mess itup. So you know, I'm always
always asking God to you know,people out of my circle, let me
know, give me the strongest intuitionabout who I work with, who I
have around me. Um, it'sjust all of those things. Wow,
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Okay, I tell I tell bloodrelatives who whomever, I don't matter,
Like, if you're not you're notcouldn't. But that's got to be tough
though, because you got to goto the family reunion and see them again.
He used to be tough until Irealized, like, it's just like
if you don't do it, it'sgonna bite you someway. So I'd rather
just get away or you know,get the other person away before they come
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back and bite me in the longrun. Never know, like that can
end up lose indivisions, you canend up in jail, or you can
end up and dead. Yeah,messing the wrong people, saw don't.
I don't play with that. Yeah, that's pretty incredible because it takes some
people in their forties to get tothat, to that space, you know
what I'm saying, forties, fifties, sometimes sixties, maybe seventies to get
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to a space like that. Youknow, I think that's one of those
those places where a lot of peoplewish they could be they but they don't
know how because love, you know, just pouring into yourself. Yeah,
just um using. I'm never uncomfortablewith U not being isolated. I don't,
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don't get me wrong. I hatebeing alone, Like I hate feeling
lonely. Yeah, but I knowwhen I am isolated. It's something that
God is separating me from. See, that's something that a lot of people
can't take though. Isolation is atough place to be if you don't know
how to mentally handle it, youknow what I'm saying. But like all
the greats, it was isolated.Jesus was isolated. Yeah, everyone has
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to have an isolated stage before theytransform, you know, to the next
level that they have to go,because sometimes everybody or everything that you're trying
to carry cannot go. Yeah.It's literally like a weight capacity on going
up mountain. Like I'm saying,you gotta shake, keep shaking weight as
you go. And so a lotof people say the top lonely, Like,
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look, it's lonely at the top. I was gonna say that it's
lonely at the top. It reallyis. Yeah. For whatever you're praying
for, you gotta always make space. Yeah, yeah, this is how
it is. Keep God first,keep Him in the forefront, and that
helps you in the isolated seasons.Yeah, for sure. Pray. Just
pray every day every day you wakeup, pray the middle of the day,
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pray before you go to sleep,pray and and every and every one
of those prayers. I always actuallyunderstanding of why. Yeah, they say,
don't ask God why, but I'man ask because you actually shall receive.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying. I always ask. Asking is
good, Yeah, is always good. Yeah, just so many reasons you
might not always get the answer.You won't. Yeah, but asking is
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good. So do you have apastor here in Memphis? M M No,
I'm not really like religious or likechurch base. I don't know if
that makes sense. It's just likemore so I'm I know it's a god.
I know he's not in the sky. I know he lives within me,
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and I know that prayer is oneof the most the best thing you
could do. And after that,um, just pay attention to to the
storm he sends you after you pray. Like I've always said, I pray
for discipline and get tested with temptation. So like some people, Wow,
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that's deep, but that's real,that's so yeah. Yeah. And even
in the isolated moments, it's likeI was listening to something today and whatever
it was I was listening to,they were talking about how they did not
run from the storms of life,how they actually embraced the storms of Actually
it's a it was a scripture.Somebody sent me a scripture this morning.
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I was like, Lord, havemercy helped me to be like that,
because I think that is a It'sa second Corinthians. And he said,
unto me, my grace is sufficientfor THEE. For my strength is made
perfect and weakness most gladly. Thereforewe uh, I rather glory in my
infirmities, that the power Christ mayrest upon me. My strength is made
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and weaknesses like the strongest part.Yeah, you know your lows is where
you sometimes find your most strength topull through the So yeah, is that
what's happening with you? Yeah,I've been through. That's to the points
of like whatever it hit me,I know I'm good because I've already been
through like a space to where um, it wasn't no lower you could go.
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And if I made it from there, I used to always say,
like, I feel like the toughestthing to do is make it out of
Memphis, but like it replaced it. Like the toughest thing to me is
like now is like to win thebattle on the inside. I'm saying so.
Joycee Meyer wrote a book about itfor real. Yeah, Battlefield of
the Mind. You might want toget that when you get you, because
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it is I think that that's theSometimes your enemy is in you. Yeah,
or how did dd Jake say enemy? The enemy sometimes is in me?
Yeah. Yeah, And that's atough thing man, because you fight
at me too. I used togo to church at the Potter's House.
That was my pastor for a longtime. Yeah yeah, but yeah,
sometimes the enemy sometimes. Um,And I've heard Tyrese say this, Um,
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get out of your own way.Sometimes you are in your own way.
Sometimes it's the way you think.Ye that's keeping you from being everything
you want to be. That wasme, Yeah, that was me.
It just took me, like,um, two or three weeks ago.
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So I feel like that I wasjust just all the way completely out of
my head really like I've always beenlike just, um, I gotta be
thirty percent of my head seventy percentlike it ain't good. But now it's
more so like I'm on the ninetynine tip right now last two weeks because
I just been I don't know,it's I get it's something the way that
the stars lining up. I thinkit's got something to do with astrology.
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It's just I'm breaking free from alot of mental likeog isn't just man,
Okay, you got a children's bookI heard you working on. Can I
tell? Can I say that?Okay? Can I say? Because I
did? Is it okay? Mama? Is it okay? Yeah? Man?
So you pumped about that? Yeah? Excited? What's the next book
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or what's the next after that?I don't even know. Like I think
it would be dope to do anaudio book behind it and then create like
a music video how I do withsongs. There's so many beautiful things you
could do. Which crazy is howfast I wrote it. And what's even
crazy is that I wrote it likeit was similar to like writing a song.
It was like real beautiful, man, everything came together as if like
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about I always say this like Ididn't write it. It came from like
I know I couldn't have done it, like I've always give all the praise
and surrender to the most high,like because it's something that I just know
that's not me. It's just alreadydone. I could see you doing an
audio book. Have you read WillSmith's audio book? When you get time,
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you might want to check it out. I think it's really good.
Um and all of this he wrote, it, of course before the situation
of the oscars. I won't talkabout that, but he wrote it before
that. But that audio book isprobably one of the best audio books I've
ever heard, because not only ishe sharing his story, but he's he's
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he's adding theater to it. It'slike art. I could see you doing
a book like that, and nownow I can see that. Come on
with it. We want it.Let's get it. Hey, this is
Stormy. It is the Pulse talkingto Nli Chopper. Thank you for chopping
it up with me. Thank you? What you get? Your name?
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What you How did you come upwith? That name came from something I
name? Um it was just likea Brandon like label, recollect like I
made like the label when I waslike four scene and branded and chilbl was
just like a you know, childnickname. So okay, all right,
well, thank you so much,and thank you to your mom for making
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this possible. Thank you. AndI know you want to send any shout
outs before we go, because Iknow your dad works with your mom,
works with you, your family.You got it's a family after your account,
shout out to everybody. I don'twant to miss out nobody. So
shout out to everybody just listening.All right, thank you again. Any
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message for the young folk before wego, Oh yeah, man once again
to reiterate on keep going first,keep your faith high, and with faith
comes patience, and after that,stay disciplined. The sky ain't even a
limit to eat. So I likethat. It's the pulse. I'm stormy.
Thanks for joining us, and thankyou to our studio audience for being
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a part of this today and ourengineer today, Thank you so much.
And Boo Mitchell, thank you,Boo Jay Boo Mitchell. All right now,
all right n L E. Chopof ladies and gentlemen. We will
see you next week, same time, same station. God bless you have
a great week.
First thing you said to me whenyou walked in was I was saying I
grew up listening. All right,hey everybody, thanks for joining us for
the Pulse and we were talking tosomebody really special today. I'm Stormy,
thank you for being here in le Chappa. Do they say it like
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that when you come out on stage? They do? Okay, you like
that. We see you a lotin the city of Memphis, or I've
seen you a lot in the cityof Anything you want to say first before
we get started, No, okay, just ready to roll. So um,
I've seen you a lot on socialmedia talk about well, come to
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Memphis and do stuff that you've beendoing in the city of Memphis. How
does it feel, because you tellus about how you got started with your
career. I simply got started offjust knowing like that I was going through
certain things that it was hard forme to voice and just have talks about.
So I began to just write themdown and write them down into songs
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or poems and went to the studiowith it. And the beginning become like
my therapy or like how to releasewhat I was feeling on the a side,
or how to talk to someone butsomeone was just a microphone. How
old were you out fourteen? Fifteen? Wow? So you grew your following?
Was it on social media before yougot signed social media? So what's
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that like? Because I know fora lot of artists, a lot of
them look forward to look forward tobeing signed by somebody. Yeah, do
you feel like you have more creativecontrol over what you do because of how
you started and how popular you werebefore you signed a deal? Yeah?
For sure. It gave me moreleverage. When I was to sit down
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with labels and I let them knowwhat I wanted, they couldn't lowball me,
short me because it's like I don'treally needs y'all, you know.
Yeah, So it got to thatpoint, and once it got there,
you could use them for what shewanted to use them for, and it
could help you. You know,they can only add to what I had
on the momentum. So yeah,you think you learned all that from your
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mom? A lot of it wasfrom my mom was just being patient through
the process. I feel like wewere both learning a lot of things during
that time because it was all newto us. But you know, she
I feel like if she wasn't there, I probably would have not you know
what I'm saying, held out aslong as I did to get the best
deal for sure. Yeah. Butyeah, your mom's doing a lot of
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businesses and she's just in it likethat. So you got a lot of
that from her, the business smartsfrom your mom. Yeah, since I
was living. Oh really okay,So when you do have these big deals,
who's the first person you call?Mama? Dad? Oh, mom,
and um someone else that helps herwith management? I call both of
them. Okay, okay, Sohow did your mama feel about that?
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Feel good? Overwhelming? But youknow she feel good about it. Yeah.
Yeah, she's seen you come fromUM started from the bottom count Womb
literally came from the bottom. Yeah. Yeah, you're gonna write a song
about it. Yeah, I gota lot of songs. Yeah yeah.
Listen. So okay, I reallywanted to talk to you because I know
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how your your stardom in Memphis.This is where you're from, and a
lot of people in Memphis know you, and not just here. Everybody is
getting to know n L. E. Chop On. How does that feel?
It feels good? You know,I feel like I've always, like
um prayed for like a Michael Jacksonlevel of stardom and just knowing like what
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it comes with, and wanting andknow how I need to be able to
handle it, and knowing like thatI still have a job to do,
even with a lot of people lookingup to me, listening to me,
just being able to change the worldand inspire, you know, I just
want a big task and I wantto be used as an instrument by God
and just keep changing other people's liveswhen I get that. Yeah, you
said something to your mom a momentago. If you don't mind me bringing
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it up, you said you talkto God about it. Yeah, yeah,
we had conversations. I feel Iwant you to bid a relationship with
them anything as possible. You knowwhat I'm saying. That's it's my best
friend. I'm an introvert, youknow, if I ain't talking to nobody,
I talked to guy before I talkto anybody. Okay, Okay,
do you think a lot of peoplesee that side of you from social media?
A lot of people do if theyfollow me, you know, if
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they're fans of me, they knowhow spiritually rooted I am. I'm very
vocal about it. I don't reallyhad it. Okay, how do you
feel I've seen some of the celebritieson social media, like Chloe and Hallie
talk about being a celebrity and howthey have to kind of shield themselves from
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social media because sometimes it can becool watching comments and listening to stuff like
that. How do you handle thatkind of thing? I'd like to handle
everything, but just with a grinthemself, you know what I'm saying,
Like, take a constructive criticism.I also know, like somebody just hating
or you know what, right?I like that. I like that view
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at all. I feel like thetype aura I have, the type of
person I am. I called myselfto everything man, because I can take
in everything. I can do iteverything, like I love to be a
part of everything because at the endof the day, we are everything,
you know what I'm saying. SoI like it being tact. But you
just also had to have a discipline, um and just the type of calmness
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over your body to be able tohandle everything that you want to know.
Yeah, I'm Stormy. It's thepost. We're checking in with N.
L. E. Chopper straight outof Memphis. Thank you for coming by.
We're actually during the interview in RoyalStudio. So how does it feel
to be inside of a studio likethis. It's a beautiful thing, you
know, It's just you can lookaround. I was just looking around saying
all the history here. Um,I was uninformed that Al Green recorded a
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lot of his hits here. Sothat's a cool thing. Okay, beautiful
thing it is. It's a beautifulthing. Yeah, he did. And
so there's a lot of history inthis room that probably a lot of people
that are from them really don't know. Sometimes it's the people that's in the
city, you know that where alot of the greatness happens that don't know
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some of the things that happen here. Maybe people don't even know the Royal
Studios. Boue Mitchell is two timeGrammy winner. You probably know that.
And the fact that he has hadBruno Mars and Mark Ronson and a little
bit of everybody off in here inthe studios. It's crazy. He's working
with his son, he's working withhis intern We just heard some music by
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one of his interns a second ago. Yeah, that's pretty powerful, she's
yeah. So there's a lot ofgreatness in this build. Now you're in
this building, how you feel aboutthat? I feel like, um,
I'm a big firm believer, likeyou don't go nowhere about no reason,
Like you know, everything's kind ofmiss So whenever I go somewhere that I
feel like the grace were, it'slike I feel like, okay, He's
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like I'm in that same category,Like okay, you know what I'm saying.
I feel that's how I take this. Yeah, yeah, now you've
you've got your nonprofit organizations. That'sone of the reasons I really wanted to
talk to you because I know Isee the passion that you have for this
city, and a lot of peoplehave seen a lot of the things that
you've done in Memphis. What's beenone of your proudest moments or achievements that
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you've done or been able to doin the city that you come from.
Just tap in and connect with theyouth, going to schools and encouraging them
on giving kids challenges like reading challengesand stuff of that nature. Anything to
do with the youth is one I'mmost proud of because the end of the
day, it's like we look atthem as like the children, but I
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feel like once we start to lookat them as like our future of the
city. Yeah, that's what itreally make us want to tap in and
really you know, make sure thatthey're on the right path. And that's
what I admired the most. Yeah, yeah, where you get all this
wisdom from? That's just been helpful. Yeah. I talked to a lot
of people and yeah, some people. Yeah, so it's yeah. I
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mean the way you're talking, it'sbeyond your years. I think, yeah,
thank you, Yeah it is itis. Now you're a dad.
What does that feel like? Feelgood? You know what I'm saying.
Um, Like I said, Ilove the kids, so being able to
have my own as you know,a different type thing, you know,
not only like get to go homewith them, need to spend time with
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them, teach them things, teachthem where I went wrong, just you
know, just be a role model. I feel like that's one of the
most beautiful things about life. Ifeel like that's what God put us here
for. You know, if noone have a purpose on their life,
Um, I know one thing thatit has purpose, and that's procreative.
Yeah. Yeah. Get to seea young person that grows up, looks
like you, starts to talk andlike me, like you too too much?
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Like man, Okay, so tellme this what would be one of
the things that you would say toa young person today if they came to
you and he said, Hey,Nlie, I just need some advice about
trying to be a father. Rightnow. I'm trying to be the best
dad that I can be. Canyou give me some advice? What would
you say? UM? Personally?Like what I would do? You know
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what I'm saying if I was totalk to myself. You know, I
just always want to make sure thatI'm a friend to my child before anything,
because I feel like, you know, we're lay up all day until
our friends, our darky secrets,our deepest serious before we even tell a
parent. So I feel like,you know, if you come off as
like the friend a person that UMis trustworthy enough to you know, hold
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the secrets and being able to workwith you through them. UM, that's
what I want to be first,because you know, I never feel I
feel like the child, never feellike it's something they can't tell you.
And that was one of the thingsI feel like as a as a child,
I was dealing with like I waslike, I don't want to say
this. I don't want to youknow, tell my parents this or that.
But I go and tell my friendsanything, like, you know,
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I think we all go through that. Yeah, because I went through that
as a kid. There's some stuffI wouldn't dare tell mama. You know
what I'm saying growing up, ButI felt like there was some safe spaces
and for some of us, wefeel we keep it all in because she
said, you're an introvert. Iwas an introvert when I was younger.
Now I'm not so much of anintrovert. But back then I kept everything.
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I didn't even tell my friends alot of stuff. There was some
stuff they knew. My cousin wasmy best friend, though, so she
knew a lot of stuff because shewas with me when a lot of stuff
happened. But I didn't, youknow, I just so, how's it
like now, do you get achance to be in that space with your
parents where you can share? Ohyeah, this is like an open book,
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Okay, from the dirtiest stuff tothe cleaning. Wow, I wonder
how your mama handles that. Sheused to it. Mama's actually in the
room, you guys. Oh wow. So okay. Now with your nonprofit
work, you say you get achance to get out and talk to the
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kids. I guess what's one ofthe favorite things you get to say when
you talk to young folks, umMan really like the power of just prayer,
which just goes to like the powerof keeping God first, the power
of faith and what I'm saying,seeing what your heart when your eyes don't
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see it's just being patient within theprocess because you know, everything is not
instantly gratified. And then like thelast thing is just teaching them discipline,
you know, stand down, saying, focus towards the goals they want to
achieve, and then within them threethings, whatever you want has already done.
It's just in due time. Sowow, is that pretty much how
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you stay grounded with being in umI guess the career, the industry that
you're in. Yeah, for sure, Like you know, there's a lot
of people that's not gonna believe inwhat you're gonna believe in and or see
the vision that God instilled, don'tyou, So it's up to you to
make them, like make that visionthat he's showing you just come true.
And you know, my mom alwaysbasically just saying that a few minutes ago,
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like how we could present a visionon the platter and other people's like
I show you you don't have tobe a part of what I'm doing.
But I know it ain't came tomy thoughts for no reason, Like,
Yeah, I'm gonna hit the groundrunning, I'm gonna put the work in,
I'm gonna go hard, and we'llwork towards it every day until we
look up and it's in everybody's face. Yeah. I mean that's pretty powerful
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too, because you don't actually,I don't talk to a lot of young
people your age to talk like that. And I think that's something that if
we could spread the word around thecommunity for you know what I'm saying,
we get a chance to talk tomore young people and share with them and
tell them things like that, Ithink it really would really help. Maybe.
So you see a lot of stuffthat's happening in the city of Memphis.
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What do you think about all ofthe stuff that's happening, the negative
stuff that you hear and see aboutyoung people in this city. It's one
of those things. It's very unfortunate, and I feel like the thing about
it is too, It's like,and this is a scary truth. I
feel like I can only be avoice to people that wants to hear it.
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Yeah, and I know that sometimesit's some people that's probably far gone.
Yeah, and like you know,they might have to you know,
figure out situations on their own oryou know. And I was that person.
So it is faith for those peopleLike I had a hard head,
like you told me to go righton going left, Yeah, like you
know what I'm saying. I wasalways that type person. But it took
me one day to look myself inthe mirror and really say, Okay,
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like the person I am right nowis not a person I want to be,
and I want to get away fromthis space and better myself. How
old were you when you came tothat realization? Seventeen? And it was
because I had a door it onthe way, Like I found out I
had a door it on the way, So I was like, and this
was well into your rap career.So you know, I feel like a
lot of people you just gotta kindof just pray for them and let them
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hope that they find their way.And I was one of those people.
Like it was nothing my mom couldsay tell me, it was nothing Pops
could tell me, Like I reallyhad to wake up one day and say
I'm making a change, and that'swhen you will realize like, okay,
it'd be a better place. Likeit's nobody else's fault while you feel a
way, it's nobody fault. It'snot the white man, it's not the
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black man. Man, it's whoyou are. Yeah. So once I
realized that, m I figured outwe we are the problem. We are
our enemies. So you know,yeah we can, we can rise out
of what we're in. Sometimes itjust takes us to change our mind like
you did. Yeah, change yourmind. You went through Frasier and you
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were part of the new basketball courtin Frasier. How did that feel to
be a part of doing that?I felt very good. Just to be
able to do something with a positiveinfluence is always gonna, you know,
make me happy. Um. Justto be able to get the kids something
to look forward to, probably likeout the school or you know, something
to do during the summer. Um, it's always a beautiful thing. Yeah,
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there's a lot of telling in Memphis, especially you know, sports wise.
It's just a beautiful thing to havein the city, especially with my
name attached to it because I knowhow many young fans love me out here.
Yeah, it's Stormy. You guys, thanks for joining me for the
posts today I am talking to inl e Choppa straight out of Memphis.
What's next for your because um withyour nonprofits? Dude, can you tell
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us? Um, I don't evenknow real or whatever? Like you know,
I think that's some way hit thedrawing boys with and think of.
But you know whatever, Like,um, I'm down for anything, like
literally anything, the most impossible thingsto the most possible. So I want
to do whatever. Okay, Sowhat if what's one of the greatest things
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you feel like that's happened in yourcareer thus far? Um, ready to
have musically or just in life,just in gen wherever you want to go?
Oh my children? Sure, Igot a son on the way,
so you know, I got adaughter currently she's three, and the sun
that will be here probably in afew days. So wow, would it
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be a father? You know,it's a beautiful thing to me. Okay,
now musically musically, um, justI feel like the most beautiful thing
of my career is just to know, like I ain't even I'm not even
on my second leg. Okay,I'm still on my first one. I'm
still like on an appetizing Okay,that's the most beautiful part. So who
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if you could work with somebody inthe industry, who would it be that
you haven't uh that you want towork with? Um I always say this,
I wish from I could find likea Tupac verse that he didn't use
and got the blessing and the honestto be able to use it. It
would be a beautiful thing. AndI also want to work with Drake.
Oh really, Okay, now thatcould happen. Yeah, it's possible.
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You guys haven't run into each otherin Memphis or anywhere in the in the
industry. No, not yet.I got a song with Little An so
that that's very Yeah. And thenyour song on was it fast X?
Yeah? Yeah, that is crazy. How did you feel about that when
you heard it? When you sawit the movie? And that's a pretty
good movie by the way, didyou like it was? Yeah? It
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was good for sure. It's abeautiful thing. Just to be a part
of Fast and Fierish, knowing thatI grew up watching it and just being
a part of the soundtrack was abeautiful day. Yeah. So you're seeing
a lot of moments, I guessin your life where they're like things that
are coming into fruition that you probablynever even or did you think? My
God showed me my whole life beforeI even did. It's funny he showed
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me anything I was a part of, or um that impacted me as a
kid, or even just rubbed mea certain way as a kid. Is
like I'm in that vicinity now I'min that space. Um, He's always
showed me what I was gonna dobefore I did it, you know what
I'm saying. Wowever, he broughtme to places before I was there.
I remember going to Greece the Games, watching Rudy gay O, J Mayo,
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Mike cry, Marcusolz Randolph and thenlike now I'm performing at the Grizzly
Games. So yeah, he's alwayswalked with me to like, oh,
you just don't even know Yello daddyright here one day. Like that's how
I feel like he's always washed overin my life, like yeah, you
don't even know, like look atthis, but she don't even know what
I'm gonna do for you. Andlike now it's like that now I understand
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as a right now he still doesthat with me, and now I know
where I'm going because I know,like the atmospheres he brings me. I
say that, this is like Iwas in the vicinity of a billionaire before,
and I was like, I hadconversations with him, talk to him.
I was like, man, guys, just showing me what I'm gonna
be just I'm want be in tenyears. So you know, it's a
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beautiful thing. Okay, Okay,you got a chance to um not long
ago. You were part of theopening acts for the BET Awards. You
did the pre show and then youpicked some Memphis dancers to go with you.
Yeah, academy, lad that's mygirl. Yeah, So it was
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good to see all Memphis up thereon stage. When I talked about it
on the radio, that's what Imentioned. And she told me too that
all the dancers with her were fromMemphis and that she would not have had
it any other way. For sure. It was really good to see y'all
on that stage. Yeah, thatwas really good. A good look for
Memphis, good look for you,good look for uh Lattia. I know
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she's happy about that. And youyou danced with a lot of the kids.
So how does that feel to beable to give back to those kids?
Um Man. It's funny because Isuck. I suck at what they're
great. And you know what I'msaying, they look at me. You
can't dance, No I can't.I can't. I can do my own
thing, but I can't do whatthey do. Yeah, you know they're
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cold. Yeah, it's really good. It's funny because I go to the
Academy and they'll be teaching me theright way, younger than me. Um,
they look up to me, andI gotta look up to them the
same way. I gotta show themthe same respect. I gotta get in
there and act like you know,they're a superstar. That's when I'm in
there because it's like I'm gonna holdnew territories. So it's a beautiful thing.
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It's also just let you know,like how humble you should be,
because you know what I'm saying,it's certain things that they probably look at
you that you're doing. But yeah, there's certain things I'm looking at them.
I'm like, imured. Wow.Yeah, giving back to the youth
of memphisis I think that's pretty positivefor anybody to do it, you know
what I'm saying. And I knowthe parents. Those parents are like blown
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away. Yeah, it's always funwith them too. Yeah. Do you
ever get a chance to talk tothe parents and they say, you know
what, I just want to saythank you? Yeah, all the time
for sure. Yeah. You geta lot of fan mail. Oh yes,
really, emails get addressed there,get the address. Wait a minute,
you get letters, mam wall getnews in the mail. It would
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come all through the to the email, it'll come through the address. The
house address is crazy. So yeah, it's a beautiful thing. You though,
So you on that level now whereyou have to kind of watch your
back kind of Yeah, I alwaysdo. Yeah, I always do.
Yeah, you have to really becareful. Yeah. I almost got arrested
in the mall in Miami because thewhole mall literally was following me, like
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behind me. We had to runin the store. They had to lock
the the Gucci store set up likea barricade in front of the store because
the fans was just all over themall that was in the top of them
all, And the police came andtried to arrest me for disorderly conduct what
like it was crazy. I waslike the same thing you just said.
I said, what it was crazy? I feel profile and some most stuff,
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but it's it's a regular, butbut you're getting too. Yeah,
it's it's probably gonna be like thatother places too, because that's you know,
people are seeing you all over theplace, all over social media,
shade room, everywhere you like aplace like when I go overseas, it's
the same way like real places whereI think that I wouldn't be known.
Um, there'd be beating on thecars, like don't bust the windows out
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and stuff like did you see that? I see that guy. Sometimes he
shows you a glimpse, but hedon't show you anything. And that was
one of those things. I'm like, Okay, I just praised to get
a regged deal. He showed melike okay, I'm gonna give you this,
and then something so like okay,I never put a limitation on your
(22:32):
dreams. Okay. So now thatyou are legitimately a business man, um,
what would be your advice to Iguess a young person maybe that's following
in your footsteps, or a personout there that has a business that's trying
to move forward, what would youtell them? I feel like the number
one thing is make sure that thepeople you're running into business with right there.
(22:56):
It goes from who you who youwant to be take this the YEO
route with the smallest thing to like, who's working for you? Just make
sure that everyone is aligned and hasthe best interest in the same at least
almost the same amount of passion youhave. Um, because I feel like
that's the biggest part of the business, is just to make sure that every
(23:17):
link is strong and there's no weaklinks, and um, that's what makes
a successful business. Have you evercome across the situation in your personal life
where you have to say goodbye tosomebody who I said a goodbye to?
Everybody? Like like me, Ijust know, like how life works.
If it ain't mean for you tobe on the path, I'm not gonna
force it. Yeah, Like,um, I can't hinder you because it's
(23:38):
gonna block what God got for me, because he knows if he give it
to me, you might mess itup. So you know, I'm always
always asking God to you know,people out of my circle, let me
know, give me the strongest intuitionabout who I work with, who I
have around me. Um, it'sjust all of those things. Wow,
(24:00):
Okay, I tell I tell bloodrelatives who whomever, I don't matter,
Like, if you're not you're notcouldn't. But that's got to be tough
though, because you got to goto the family reunion and see them again.
He used to be tough until Irealized, like, it's just like
if you don't do it, it'sgonna bite you someway. So I'd rather
just get away or you know,get the other person away before they come
(24:22):
back and bite me in the longrun. Never know, like that can
end up lose indivisions, you canend up in jail, or you can
end up and dead. Yeah,messing the wrong people, saw don't.
I don't play with that. Yeah, that's pretty incredible because it takes some
people in their forties to get tothat, to that space, you know
what I'm saying, forties, fifties, sometimes sixties, maybe seventies to get
(24:42):
to a space like that. Youknow, I think that's one of those
those places where a lot of peoplewish they could be they but they don't
know how because love, you know, just pouring into yourself. Yeah,
just um using. I'm never uncomfortablewith U not being isolated. I don't,
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don't get me wrong. I hatebeing alone, Like I hate feeling
lonely. Yeah, but I knowwhen I am isolated. It's something that
God is separating me from. See, that's something that a lot of people
can't take though. Isolation is atough place to be if you don't know
how to mentally handle it, youknow what I'm saying. But like all
the greats, it was isolated.Jesus was isolated. Yeah, everyone has
(25:26):
to have an isolated stage before theytransform, you know, to the next
level that they have to go,because sometimes everybody or everything that you're trying
to carry cannot go. Yeah.It's literally like a weight capacity on going
up mountain. Like I'm saying,you gotta shake, keep shaking weight as
you go. And so a lotof people say the top lonely, Like,
(25:48):
look, it's lonely at the top. I was gonna say that it's
lonely at the top. It reallyis. Yeah. For whatever you're praying
for, you gotta always make space. Yeah, yeah, this is how
it is. Keep God first,keep Him in the forefront, and that
helps you in the isolated seasons.Yeah, for sure. Pray. Just
pray every day every day you wakeup, pray the middle of the day,
(26:11):
pray before you go to sleep,pray and and every and every one
of those prayers. I always actuallyunderstanding of why. Yeah, they say,
don't ask God why, but I'man ask because you actually shall receive.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying. I always ask. Asking is
good, Yeah, is always good. Yeah, just so many reasons you
might not always get the answer.You won't. Yeah, but asking is
(26:33):
good. So do you have apastor here in Memphis? M M No,
I'm not really like religious or likechurch base. I don't know if
that makes sense. It's just likemore so I'm I know it's a god.
I know he's not in the sky. I know he lives within me,
(26:53):
and I know that prayer is oneof the most the best thing you
could do. And after that,um, just pay attention to to the
storm he sends you after you pray. Like I've always said, I pray
for discipline and get tested with temptation. So like some people, Wow,
(27:15):
that's deep, but that's real,that's so yeah. Yeah. And even
in the isolated moments, it's likeI was listening to something today and whatever
it was I was listening to,they were talking about how they did not
run from the storms of life,how they actually embraced the storms of Actually
it's a it was a scripture.Somebody sent me a scripture this morning.
(27:38):
I was like, Lord, havemercy helped me to be like that,
because I think that is a It'sa second Corinthians. And he said,
unto me, my grace is sufficientfor THEE. For my strength is made
perfect and weakness most gladly. Thereforewe uh, I rather glory in my
infirmities, that the power Christ mayrest upon me. My strength is made
(28:03):
and weaknesses like the strongest part.Yeah, you know your lows is where
you sometimes find your most strength topull through the So yeah, is that
what's happening with you? Yeah,I've been through. That's to the points
of like whatever it hit me,I know I'm good because I've already been
through like a space to where um, it wasn't no lower you could go.
(28:25):
And if I made it from there, I used to always say,
like, I feel like the toughestthing to do is make it out of
Memphis, but like it replaced it. Like the toughest thing to me is
like now is like to win thebattle on the inside. I'm saying so.
Joycee Meyer wrote a book about itfor real. Yeah, Battlefield of
the Mind. You might want toget that when you get you, because
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it is I think that that's theSometimes your enemy is in you. Yeah,
or how did dd Jake say enemy? The enemy sometimes is in me?
Yeah. Yeah, And that's atough thing man, because you fight
at me too. I used togo to church at the Potter's House.
That was my pastor for a longtime. Yeah yeah, but yeah,
sometimes the enemy sometimes. Um,And I've heard Tyrese say this, Um,
(29:12):
get out of your own way.Sometimes you are in your own way.
Sometimes it's the way you think.Ye that's keeping you from being everything
you want to be. That wasme, Yeah, that was me.
It just took me, like,um, two or three weeks ago.
(29:33):
So I feel like that I wasjust just all the way completely out of
my head really like I've always beenlike just, um, I gotta be
thirty percent of my head seventy percentlike it ain't good. But now it's
more so like I'm on the ninetynine tip right now last two weeks because
I just been I don't know,it's I get it's something the way that
the stars lining up. I thinkit's got something to do with astrology.
(29:56):
It's just I'm breaking free from alot of mental likeog isn't just man,
Okay, you got a children's bookI heard you working on. Can I
tell? Can I say that?Okay? Can I say? Because I
did? Is it okay? Mama? Is it okay? Yeah? Man?
So you pumped about that? Yeah? Excited? What's the next book
(30:18):
or what's the next after that?I don't even know. Like I think
it would be dope to do anaudio book behind it and then create like
a music video how I do withsongs. There's so many beautiful things you
could do. Which crazy is howfast I wrote it. And what's even
crazy is that I wrote it likeit was similar to like writing a song.
It was like real beautiful, man, everything came together as if like
(30:42):
about I always say this like Ididn't write it. It came from like
I know I couldn't have done it, like I've always give all the praise
and surrender to the most high,like because it's something that I just know
that's not me. It's just alreadydone. I could see you doing an
audio book. Have you read WillSmith's audio book? When you get time,
(31:07):
you might want to check it out. I think it's really good.
Um and all of this he wrote, it, of course before the situation
of the oscars. I won't talkabout that, but he wrote it before
that. But that audio book isprobably one of the best audio books I've
ever heard, because not only ishe sharing his story, but he's he's
(31:27):
he's adding theater to it. It'slike art. I could see you doing
a book like that, and nownow I can see that. Come on
with it. We want it.Let's get it. Hey, this is
Stormy. It is the Pulse talkingto Nli Chopper. Thank you for chopping
it up with me. Thank you? What you get? Your name?
(31:48):
What you How did you come upwith? That name came from something I
name? Um it was just likea Brandon like label, recollect like I
made like the label when I waslike four scene and branded and chilbl was
just like a you know, childnickname. So okay, all right,
well, thank you so much,and thank you to your mom for making
(32:09):
this possible. Thank you. AndI know you want to send any shout
outs before we go, because Iknow your dad works with your mom,
works with you, your family.You got it's a family after your account,
shout out to everybody. I don'twant to miss out nobody. So
shout out to everybody just listening.All right, thank you again. Any
(32:30):
message for the young folk before wego, Oh yeah, man once again
to reiterate on keep going first,keep your faith high, and with faith
comes patience, and after that,stay disciplined. The sky ain't even a
limit to eat. So I likethat. It's the pulse. I'm stormy.
Thanks for joining us, and thankyou to our studio audience for being
(32:55):
a part of this today and ourengineer today, Thank you so much.
And Boo Mitchell, thank you,Boo Jay Boo Mitchell. All right now,
all right n L E. Chopof ladies and gentlemen. We will
see you next week, same time, same station. God bless you have
a great week.
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