Fresh off of his headline-making performance at Atlanta Black Pride in support of his LGBTQ+ fans, NLE Choppa is gracing the pages of Paper Magazine.
The rapper graced the 40th-anniversary edition of the spread and dished on his hit single ‘Slut Me Out 2, his upcoming mixtape ‘Slut SZN,’ his love for the gay community and the speculation after standing in his allyship with his gay fans, and more.
Check out some of the snaps and some of the interview highlights below.
You’re definitely inspiring people to be comfortable in their skin, to be confident, to strut and to show up how they want to every day.
And be yourself. I feel like somewhere along the lines, we’ve been taught as males to be so overly masculine. Everyone has masculine and feminine energy. The right side holds the masculine and the left side holds the feminine, and you’re supposed to make them one. Once people realize that, they’ll learn to love themselves and create a balance.
After releasing the song, you received a lot of support from the LGBTQ community and some people began to speculate about your sexuality. What are your thoughts on that?
It’s a beautiful thing, because the amount of people who had something to say is what fuels me to stay deeply rooted in my purpose. The beauty of it is that it gave me an opportunity to say, “Oh, y’all feel like I’m this way? Okay, let me give y’all some more reasons to feel that way, even though I know I’m not. Let me show more love to the people that y’all are saying I’m aligned with because we are all humans at the end of the day.” Everyone is fighting for some type of acceptance, and I think the most important part is accepting yourself first.
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Check out the full interview HERE!
Following the release of the interview and snaps, he returned to social media on Thursday to drop some behind-the-scenes flicks from the photoshoot.
The shots included shots of the wardrobe looks and some semi-nudes with the teasing caption “I M C O M I N G O U T …..”
Get into it below.
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Check out some more footage from his Pride performance last weekend.
