Napoleon Da Legend - 15 Square Feet

[Napoleon Da Legend verse 1]
Troll nation we get triggered by the news
Men’s heart stop to pump when the trigger finger moves
Garbage interview with clichés thrown at you
When they shoot bullets ricochet and go right back thru
Got me triggered like this whole world is rigged
Dreaming of living in the third world off the grid
No cellphone WiFi internet or emails
A roof over my head a garden and a sexy female
Cause really what I need is not much oxygen in my lungs
Good food, then bust a few nuts
2 or 3 good friends a sun tan and a mattress
A laptop a mic so I can talk about what’s happening
Cause stress kill when it builds, even if u dressed to kill
Exercise rest and build honestly the rest is Nil
Sometimes u gotta disconnect so u can reconnect and feel
Whether u in silver spring Little Rock or Ebetts field

[Napoleon Da Legend hook x2]
They’ll try to tear u down distract wear you down
If not about where u from
What counts is where u now
Straight up and down
We ain’t come here to fuck around
We came to break every single rule and shut it down

[Napoleon Da Legend verse 2]
15 square feet where I record and I sleep
Headphones on my dome on the rhythm when I speak
I don’t got to hyperbolize my lifestyle
I personalize and keeping it true for the right now
No shock value needed cause the real’ll shock you
It’s planet of the apes don’t let these gorillas spot you
This is as real as possible don’t get caught up in a killa’s costume
Cause when they pull ya coat they gonna mop you
This is a live from the block view where survival is hourly
This is not a place for the heart and mind of the cowardly
I refuse to let the beast devour me beat the fuck out the odds
That’s what happens when u stuck out of a job
And little to no options I was too proud to beg
I’m not TLC had no couch and no bed
Just these bars in my head that would wake me up when I slept
I was making classic records while my neighbors upset

[Napoleon Da Legend hook x2]
They’ll try to tear u down distract wear you down
If not about where u from
What counts is where u now
Straight up and down
We ain’t come here to fuck around
We came to break every single rule and shut it down

Napoleon Da Legend - Biography

Bilingual, Hip-Hop/Afrobeat artist, Napoleon Da Legend transferred his skills on the basketball court to the wax. Before that, he had to teach himself English. He kept his ears glued to the radio.

Paris-born, to the Comoros Islands, then Washington DC raised, the son of an immigrant family, Napoleon is a Brooklyn-based artist who uses his voice as weapon of hope, social-critique, conquest, and joy. After an untimely split, his parents left the U.S. and went their separate ways leaving the 16 year old to fend for himself in the DC / Maryland area, which helped him develop his hustle, instinct and work-ethic. NDL’s song “Black Privilege” led him to be featured at the Essence Festival in 2017. He was then invited to perform live on FOX 5’s Good Day DC.

NDL’s message of empowerment, community, and self-determination through music doesn’t stop there. He also works regularly with youth, running hip-hop workshops in Brooklyn’s toughest schools and Rikers Island’s juvenile programs.

Following the release of his “Steal This Mixtape” series in 2016, Napoleon headlined his “Steal This Mixtape” European Tour. He’s been featured on Statik Selekta’s Show Off Radio Show and Sway Calloway’s Sway in the Morning. To top all this, he graced the stage at the final Rocksteady Crew’s 40th Anniversary show at SummerStage in Central Park. In 2019, NDL performed in Europe’s biggest Hip-Hop Festival Hip-Hop Kemp in Czech Republic as Supa Kaiju with rapper/producer Sicknature.

2018 was yet another prolific year, without a doubt. Napoleon released 10 projects- including four albums, four mixtapes, and two EP’s released through various indie labels (Chopped Herring, Media Pop, Copenhagen Crates and Tuff Gong Records). This was followed by eight appearances in 2019 at Harlem Week’s main stage. He then became recognized for his fusing the world’s of Hip-Hop and Anime with albums Dragon Ball G (Dragon Ball Z), Bronze Saints (Saint Seiya) and King of the North Star (Fist of the North Star) in a feature article on Bandcamp (How Napoleon Da Legend Made Anime-Inspired Rap an Artform).

Since then, NDL has released 12 more projects, including the afrobeat/hip-hop fusion projects, “Afrostreet” & “Afrostreet 2”. After creating a few anthems (“Poulet Maafe”), which became popular with his French speaking audience, NDL decided to put his French powers into high gear. In September, 2019, he gave his first in interview in French with Mediapac (Watch it here), garnering over 100,000 views in less than a week. In May 2020, NDL featured on elite French rapper Akhenaton’s (IAM) “Asteroïde” project, trading verses in French and English on the innovative song “Storytellers”. In 2021, NDL was invited to adapt Akhenaton’s 19 minute song “La Faim de leur Monde” in English. They later collaborated on a 3-part EP series called “The Whole in my Heart” produced by Akhenaton on his label La Cosca.