NLE Choppa built a name for himself as a rapper, but after a life-changing discovery of meditation in 2020, he’s planning to leave it all behind in favor of herbalism.
On Tuesday (July 6), the popular 18-year-old Memphis singer revealed on Twitter that he wants to buy out his recording contract with Warner Records in order to pursue a career as a herbalist.
“Finna buy out my contract and become full time herbalist,” he wrote. “Forget the music stuff about to help my people.”
NLE Choppa was signed by Warner Records in July 2019 when he was 16 years old, and his first album Top Shotta was released in August 2020, followed by the From Dark to Light mixtape in November 2020.
NLE Choppa has his own health and wellness firm, appropriately titled NLE Health & Wellness, and is no stranger to pharmacognosy. He said on June 8 that he’s as much of a herbalist as he is a rapper, and that he’s the only artist who can do both.
“I’m really a rapper and a herbalist,” he said. “Only rapper to ever sale healing herbs to help they people and at the same time balance putting music out. That’s huge in my eyes and I feel it can be world changing.”
NLE Choppa claimed two days later that he helped heal a girl’s cancer by including fragrant flowering plants into her diet.
“Wow man just was informed I helped cure someone from cancer,” he said. “This Major To Me. ThankGod. It’s funny cause some people think I’m lying, which is understandable but that’s nowhere near the case. Curing disease is simple, it takes a meatless, dairy free, sugar free diet. Implant herbs, Sea mosses, black seed, neem, and other herbs. My mugwort was included in her diet.”
He added, “I don’t just sell this items to sell them. I know the impact and what they can do for the mind, body, and spirit. I’ve healed people of allergic reactions in my own house, helped Unc with diabetes, and now cancer. Beyond blessed we here to help and heal.”
