Walk Em Down
by NLE Choppa (featuring Roddy Ricch)

Album: Top Shotta (2020)
Charted: 38
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Songfacts®:

  • "Walk Em Down" is a menacing track in which NLE Choppa warns an adversary he's going to chase them down and shoot them. He is joined on the song by Roddy Ricch, who contributes a more good-humored verse where he talks about his fondness for lean. A mixture of codeine cough syrup and soda, the recreational drug features prominently in hip-hop lyrics.
  • This is the first collaboration between NLE Choppa and Roddy Ricch. Choppa revealed to Genius News that Ricch laid his verse down the same night he asked him to be on the record.
  • CashMoney AP and LosHendrix's production originated as a joke video on Instagram. LosHendrix explained to Genius: "I wrote a random guitar bit for the joke. [AP] was playing the guitar [in the video], but it wasn't him playing, it was me, then you see the camera roll back to him and he's holding up the middle finger."

    Their video went viral online and on the producer blogs, so AP decided to sample it. He made a beat over LosHendrix's guitar from the clip and sent it to Choppa.

    "By noon, it was done, and he sent me the beat," LosHendrix continued. "At 3 o'clock, he sent it to me with Roddy Ricch and NLE Choppa on it. [Laughs.] It was within 24 hours. It was crazy. It was the fastest turnaround I've ever seen in my life. That beat didn't even have a chance to live on my hard drive at all. I sat on that s--t for like 9 months, but from I knew it was a go, it was the same day."

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