A rapper with 9.6 billion streams, NLE Choppa is now making his moves to movies.

Friday’s “Black Heat” is a murderously long night for far too many souls who will never live to see the sunrise. A couple (Jason Mitchell and Tabitha “DreamDoll” Robinson) are on a mission to rescue their 15-year-old daughter from sex trafficking. Certain she’s being held in a prison-like apartment complex where every room’s a brothel, they shoot their determined way along.

Down one block, over to another, leaving bodies behind.  Choppa’s King David rules this roost – until he doesn’t.

For Choppa, 22, acting has always been a goal.

Movies, he said in a Zoom interview, “are just as important as the music. Because what happens is when you give birth to the goals of you wanting to be a superstar, you have to do the things that superstars do. I feel like by being versatile, we solidify the legacy of NLE” – pronounced En-El-E which stands for his company as well as his name, No Love Entertainment.

“As an artist, I just love to be able to show my range. Doing the movies is one of the ways I can do that. I’ve been praying for this.

“I started to go to movies, a lot of movies that come out. I’d say, Man, I want to play in this movie and realized I had a passion for it right then. This is after my career has blown up tremendously.

“So I started to say things of that nature, started to just put it out in the universe.”

That meant when “Black Heat” was proposed, “It was a no brainer. This was just a perfect time. It just made sense, the role of King David.”

Yes, he’s the villain, but for Choppa, “I feel like the character in the movie is like a lot of Black boys in America today. I feel like I was representing a generation that’s looking for that thing called love.”

When he was a boy, “I wanted to be an athlete, like every Black boy’s dream in America. Then I found music and it started to help me express who I was. It gave me a voice, empowered me.”

He was 14.

“I started to just jot down how I felt, just put rhymes together. Wrote poems, poetry, and just went to the studio to vent. I loved how the process helped me to release whatever I was going through.

“So, at the age of 14, depression started to creep on me. And music was my outlet! And even now, along the way, God has opened many more doors. That music door was the first one I walked in, but He gave me more doors.”

“Black Heat” is in theaters Friday