NLE Choppa has lent his time toward serving free food to college students from Kevin Hart’s new plant-based restaurant in Los Angeles.
On Wednesday (October 11), the Memphis artist hosted an event titled “Study Break Sessions,” which allowed local USC (University of Southern California) college students to visit Hart House — a California plant-based restaurant chain that was started by the comedian in 2022 — and receive free food.
For the hour that NLE Choppa was there, 10 percent of the proceeds were donated to LA Promise Fund’s Black College Success Initiative.
In addition to the undergraduate students being able to enjoy a healthy alternative meal, cheerleaders from USC performed some of NLE Choppa’s records including his current single, “College Girls.”
HipHopDX was able to catch up with the “Slut Me Out” rapper as he was dishing out food to the college students and talk about the experience as a whole.
“Man it felt good,” he said. “They ain’t have to come all to register one time like that though. My first day on the job, they see me, there’s a lot of people walking through the door. So, I told them we was out of burgers, and food, and shit.”
This not the first time the fully vegan rap star has partnered up with a plant-based establishment. Back in 2022, the then 19-year-old threw on a uniform and worked a shift at Atlanta’s Slutty Vegan restaurant, helping pass out orders.
“My first day, my first day on the job man I just clocked in,” Choppa said on the restaurant’s Instagram account previously. “We finna do what we do we finna see I’m good at what I’m strong at, and we finna try not to get fired. That’s really about it just trying to not get fired.”
Prior to that, he also opened a vegan food truck in Memphis in 2021 called This Can’t Be Vegan to help decrease the city’s crime rate and increase the amount of people in education.
“Yo, what’s up, it’s NLE Choppa,” he began in a video uploaded to Twitter at the time. “And I’m so, so, so proud to announce what I manifested is up and running. Memphis, I feel like, is a place where vegan food is needed the most ’cause I know, just by getting our hands on better food will change the thought process.”
He continued: “Possibly the crime rate will go down, scholars will go up… anything. Bro, I have a vegan food truck that will be mobile across the city, from hood to hood, suburb to suburb.”
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NLE Choppa has been living a vegan lifestyle since August 2020. During a 2021 conversation with Jermaine Dupri for The Beet, he explained what made him go down that route.
“I meditate a lot, and when I was in the beginning stages of mediation, I peeped how my body would react when I would put certain things in it,” he said in February. “So let’s say I meditate for 30 minutes and come out of the meditation with energy. Now I go eat some chicken or a burger or some shit and I get back to being tired, or my mindset gets back to the state of mind I was in before I meditated.
“So as I started to peep my body, realize how my body was reacting to certain foods, I told myself that I had to go cold turkey – I just cut out meat completely. I found the nearest vegan place in Atlanta and after that, I’ve been vegan ever since.”
