NLE Choppa

CTL-E-5750 · Person · musician · 2002–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07016 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5750.

NLE Choppa, born Bryson LaShun Potts on 1 November 2002 in Memphis, Tennessee, and raised in the Parkway Village neighborhood, is an American rapper. Freestyling from age fifteen, he broke through with "Shotta Flow" in January 2019, which reached No. 36 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified platinum by the RIAA. After an initial UnitedMasters partnership he formed a Warner Records joint venture for his No Love Entertainment label. His releases run from the EP Cottonwood (2019) through Top Shotta (2020), which reached No. 10 on the Billboard 200, to Cottonwood 2 (2023); he was a 2020 XXL Freshman. The "Slut Me Out" remix (2023) became his highest Hot 100 entry, in the top 30, and in 2025 he rebranded publicly as NLE the Great and opened on Lil Baby's WHAM World Tour.

The record

• Also known as: Bryson LaShun Potts, NLE the Great, YNR Choppa

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 1 — 747 Program, Wave 7; first packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no NLE Choppa entity in the live graph at 3,443 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5750 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 231 (Rappers list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American recording figure. Vital status: LIVING — announced as an opener on Lil Baby's WHAM World Tour, 18 February 2025; active under the NLE the Great billing in 2025. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): "Shotta Flow" reached No. 36 on the Billboard Hot 100 and is RIAA platinum; Top Shotta peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard 200 (2020) — Wikipedia/RACC, accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons and label/press photography of this subject exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5750-nle-choppa.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject; the three catalog string-hits for "Ne-Yo" resolve to Nina Simone and John Coltrane rows, not Ne-Yo billings); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio; the subject's recordings are third-party copyrighted material). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings are third-party )

Sources

• Wikipedia, "NLE Choppa" — born Bryson LaShun Potts, 1 November 2002, Memphis; "Shotta Flow" platinum, No. 36; Top Shotta No. 10; Warner/No Love Entertainment — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLE_Choppa (build store)
• RACC Trusted biography — independent corroboration of birth, breakthrough and Top Shotta No. 10 — https://www.racctrusted.com/c/nle-choppa/biography/ (primary source · build store)

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