A rapper with 9.6 billion streams, NLE Choppa is now making his moves to movies. Friday’s “Black Heat” is a murderously long night for far too many souls who will never live to see the sunrise.
A couple (Jason Mitchell and Tabitha “DreamDoll” Robinson) are on a mission to rescue their 15-year-old daughter from sex trafficking. Certain she’s being held in a prison-like apartment complex where every room’s a brothel, they shoot their determined way along. Down one block, over to another, leaving bodies behind.
Choppa’s King David rules this roost – until he doesn’t. For Choppa, 22, acting has always been a goal. Movies, he said in a Zoom interview, “are just as important as the music.
Because what happens is when you give birth to the goals of you wanting to be a superstar, you have to do the things that superstars do. I feel like by being versatile, we solidify the legacy of NLE” – pronounced En-El-E which stands for his company as well as his name, No Love Entertainment. “As an artist, I just love to be able to show my range.
Doing the movies is one of the ways I can do that. I’ve been praying for this. “I started to go to movies, a lot of movies that come out.
I’d say, Man, I want to play in this movie and realized I had a passion for it right then. This is after my career has blown up tremendously. “So I started to say things of that nature, started to just put it out in the universe.
” That meant when “Black Heat” was proposed, “I.
