Memphis rapper NLE Choppa dropped his latest single “Slut Me Out 2” on Friday, a sex-positive anthem about being unapologetically in love with oneself. It’s a sequel to his 2022 sleeper hit “Slut Me Out” off his second studio album Cottonwood 2.
“If I was a bad bitch, I’d wanna f*ck me too/I’d wanna suck me too/I’d wanna slut me too” Choppa brilliantly raps on the new track. “If I was a bad bitch, I’d wanna hump me too/I’d wanna trap me too/Nothin’ freaking that I wouldn’t do.”
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The song and its accompanying music video were inspired by Rick James’ song “Give It To Me Baby”, which topped the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart and R&B chart in 1981.
James’ other career-defining hit was “Super Freak,” also released in 1981, that earned him a Grammy nomination and has been sampled by many other artists over the years, including MC Hammer in 1990 and by Nicki Minaj in 2022.
Within hours of “Slut Me Out 2” being released, homophobes pounced on Choppa for his “gay” lyrics. But the 21-year-old was having none of it. He quickly took to Twitter X to shut down the haters and to shout out his LGBTQ+ fans.
“I understand me being in love with myself as a BLACKMAN is so RARE to the point that some people try putting the homosexual jacket on my name,” he wrote. “But with all due respect, I love ALL, but my intimacy lies with women only.”
Choppa followed that up with another tweet.
“I’m noticing the LGBTQ community showing so much love to ‘Slut Me Out 2’ And I Simply Want To Say Thank You,” he wrote. “IDC what’s normalized as a rapper, I was raised to F*ck with who f*ck with you! So thank y’all for appreciating my craft.. My music For ALL we do NO Discrimination.”
When someone called Choppa out for being “gay” for simply showing support for his queer fanbase, the platinum-selling hip hop artist politely told that person to have a whole stadium of seats.
“I’m gay for showing love?” he replied. “Y’all men lost that’s why we killing each other everyday cause y’all can’t show love and whole time yall be the ones that get down like that but be hiding it! Me saying thank you got nun to do with my sexuality busta.”
Choppa first burst onto the music scene with his 2019 single “Shotta Flow,” a top 40 hit that was later included on his debut EP Cottonwood, released in December of that year. Since then he’s released two full length studio albums and several mix tapes.
Watch the video for “Slut Me Out 2” below.
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mildredspierce
The English language is the only thing taking a beating here.
bachy
Wondering if those girl models felt uneasy about the possibility of sxual assault.
Chrisk
Yes it’s soooo brave to explain that he’s only in love with himself and really emphasize that he’s totally not gey. The rest of the talk I couldn’t understand but whatever.
abfab
Nothing new here.
Donston
He does give hyper-sexual pansexual vibes. The type of dude that feels he’s “straight” because the majority of non cis women hookups are with trans women and he’s only had a few conventional homo encounters. And that’s whatever honestly. Of course, you never know someone’s lifestyle, inherent dimensions, preferences, where they are in the gender, sexual, affection, romantic, emotion, commitment spectrum. But he fits that kind of stereotypical black man to a T. While he only talks about and raps about women in hyper-sexual ways.
However, being a black male rapper who steps away from conventions in the least bit often gets you raked through the coals. It’s just hard to see him as “brave”. He promotes just another version of hetero-normalcy while reducing women to sexual objects only. And at this point he’s very much leaning on his sex appeal to remain relevant in whatever ways. So, it only makes sense to hype the queers. He is a likable dude though.