Napoleon Da Legend - Android 16

〈Napoleon Da Legend verse〉
Bubble goose weather swiping the loose cheddar
Imagine a player dominant like Shaq but I shoot better
Got the newsletter? Po killing em
Give me that old feeling back and taking no prisoners
See the kid shining? Road of success zip lining
Digging deep like fertile African soil, big diamonds
Big dollar contracts I’m on that moving unpredictable
I say it to ya face, no subliminals
Stepped on the scene and raged against the machine
Hitting the gym hard been god giving strength to my dreams
With the gem star, cutting thru the noisе new toys
W Dubois back for more fuck u thought?
Bruce Lеroy, Captain Ice, I’m ice cold
Peep the price sold, run that I.S.O., I make it hype though
Fireworks and light shows for nose bleeds fans
Jersey sitting on the rafters like Kobe’s Man

〈Napoleon Da Legend hook x2〉
No two days alike like Snowflakes
The devil is alive he takes no breaks
Keep my clientele fed like Ghostface
I’m a still! be standing when the smoke fades

〈Napoleon Da Legend verse2〉
Consummate pro monsoon with the flow
Hit the spot looking fresh with a confident glow?
Noam Chomsky, Gramsci on skies no ponzi
Kalonji, Chamberlain I'm basically on Don speed
Big shot Billups Chauncey, Kaio kanji
I just sat back observed like Mahershala Ali
Paid for and powered by the people
My whole tribe is lethal in this game, seen many types of evils
Manifested with thirst and greed u know the birds and bees
Everything ain’t what it look like on this earth it seems
Every now and then you’ll get a glitch in the circuitry
And every single piece of puzzle’ll fit perfectly
Black Hercules a goddess gave birth to me
Bitch made goons try to retrograde my mercury?
I’m here to generate urgency
You can be gone tomorrow ya life will end and that’s a certainty

〈Napoleon Da Legend hook x2〉
No two days alike like Snowflakes
The devil is alive he takes no breaks
Keep my clientele fed like Ghostface
I’m a still! be standing when the smoke fades

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.