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Chocolate Droppa Spits Bars and Jokes at NPR Tiny Desk

Kevin Hart’s rap alter ego, Chocolate Droppa, hit the NPR Tiny Desk stage with punchlines and punchy bars—proving even April Fools' jokes can have a fire beat.

In a moment that will go down in history right next to Beyoncé’s Coachella set and that time Fergie sang the national anthem like a drunk aunt at karaoke night, Chocolate Droppa has officially entered the Tiny Desk chat. That’s right — Kevin Hart’s rap alter-ego has touched the sacred stage of book stacks and succulent plants with bars so intense that they caused Tiny Desk interns to file emotional damage reports.

“Y’all not ready, man,” Droppa growled within moments of his entrance, fresh in all black. “At the end of the day, I’m dressed like this because it’s a funeral. It ain’t mine — it’s theirs. You know who I’m talking to.”

Well, we really don't know who he's talking to, but it's Kevin, or Droppa, so we're just gonna listen.

The set began with Droppa briefly launching into what we think was a song — it was giving "spoken word meets protein shake commercial" — before he abruptly cut the beat and laid out his mission statement like a rapper turned motivational speaker at a Ted Talk in the trap.

“At the end of the day, it’s headshots,” he declared, finger guns blazing. “If the target fits, wear it.” Honestly, Shakespeare could never.

And that's how you do April Fools'. Hats off to NPR.

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