Rapper NLE Choppa Pushes Back on 'Gaybaiting' Accusations after Playgirl Shoot

Rapper NLE Choppa has been supportive of queer people in the past, but he says his recent photo shoot for Playgirl Magazine is evidence of "perfection" that "got women going crazy" – not gay baiting.

Sportskeeda reported that the rapper "teased his derrière in the photoshoot, which left fans disappointed," and sparked the accusations.

NLE Choppa took to social media to vent his thoughts on the "gay baiting" claims, putting trolls in their place with the declaration that he's "comfortable enough to show off the perfection that God has orchestrated" in him.

"I am not a gay baiter because I posted a selfie in the mirror showing off how beautiful I am," The Express Tribune quoted NLE Choppa saying in the video, which the rapper recorded shirtless in a bathroom.

"I am not a gay baiter if I post a picture showing off how much God has blessed from below the waist with something that got women going crazy," Choppa went on to add. "I am not a gay baiter because, in [my] Playgirl shoot, I show a piece of my ass."

"I can't show a piece of my own ass without being called a name?" the artist went on to ask. "It's my ass!"

"In previous statements, Choppa made it clear that while he supports the LGBTQ community, his romantic interests are exclusively with women," the Tribune noted, recalling that the rapper had no problem standing up to trolls who critiqued "his desire to perform at a Pride event..."

"I'm secure, I know who I am," the article quoted Choppa saying. "Show love, it won't hurt and also you do know women are a part of the LGBTQ community... you gone hate them too?"

If the rapper seems supremely confident in himself, that too is something he's not been shy about expressing. Sportskeeda recalled the lyrics to his popular "Slut Me Out 2," in which Choppa proclaimed his own desirability with the lyrics, "If I was a bad bitch, I'd wanna fuck me too, hmm / I'd wanna suck me too, hmm / I'd wanna slut me too, hmm."

Reports also zeroed in on an X post in which Choppa seemed to take on a culture of self-effacement, declaring, "I understand me being in love with myself as a BLACKMAN is so RARE to the point some people try putting the homosexual jacket on my name but with all due respect I love ALL, but my intimacy lies with women only."