Watch Kevin Hart Revive His Chocolate Droppa Persona for April Fools’ NPR Tiny Desk: ‘Droppa’s Here to Go No. 1’

Hart released his debut mixtape, ‘What Now?,’ in 2016

Chocolate Droppa is making his comeback.

On Tuesday, April 1, Kevin Hart embodied his rapper alter ego for the first time in years for an NPR Tiny Desk Concert, making for the perfect April Fool’s joke.

“Ya’ll not ready,” Hart, 45, who sported a black hoodie and red backwards cap, said in the opening of the video.

“I’m here with the Band of Brothers and we about to get down. Only time that they have somebody on Tiny Desk with no f—ing track,” he said, before jokingly adding, “Shoutout to the Band of Brothers. I just met them outside, told them I wanted to do this.”

Hart — who released Droppa’s debut mixtape What Now? in 2016 — then addressed his alter ego’s time away from the spotlight.

“I got a story and I’m trying to tell that story. I’ve been gone for a minute and every time I see people… first thing they say is ‘Droppa where you been? When are you going to give us more?’ The question is now I guess. You ask you shall receive,” the Borderlands actor said.

Remaining in character, Hart began his first song, “West Coast,” after referring to himself as a “big dog.”

“Small feel, big heart is what I got/The will to never start, but stop/Yeah now I’m coming and I’ve got that bop,” he rapped.

In the next track, Droppa said he was going to “slow it down” and he had no issue “letting out my emotions on the track” called “Love Song.”

“You know that this was hard for me to do? It was hard for me to come back out my shell, come back out here and give ya’ll a piece of me that I didn’t know I wanted to have, I didn’t know that I wanted to give,” he said, before adding that “Droppa’s here to go No. 1.”

For his last song, he went “off the dome” and asked his band to give him a beat for a song called “Don’t F— with Dem.” To conclude, he cut the music and said an “album is coming soon.”

In 2016, Hart released Droppa’s debut mixtape, which included collaborations with stars like Chris Brown, Migos, Big Sean, T.I. and Nick Jonas.

Following the hiatus, Hart teased his return as Droppa during an appearance in Kai Cenat’s “AMP Freshman Cypher” last summer.