Napoleon Da Legend - Brooklyn Brexit

〈Napoleon Da Legend verse〉
Antonio Gramsy fam anti-colonial
Local business supporter sometimes I'm anti-social
Quasi-bi-costal eyes open on the fuck shit
It's king Po I'm bringing the smoke like box of dutches
That's the repercussions smacking up ya weak productions
And ready to set it on all unauthorized reproductions
When I get drunk I'm self destructive otherwise I'm more productive
Don't judge me that's so reductive
These rappers is so redundant
My bank account abundant
Real product bout to link with Shotta down in London
We spot rushers the way my luck work, God love us
On the low from under covers they won't stop nothing
Box office numbers in the rap form though
Quasimodo with a chip on my shoulder it's on my back though
Facts thought, this might be club flow but fuck no
Chuck No-rris you know this Harry what up tho?

〈Harry Shotta verse〉
What up bro, my G Napoleon we stay cutthroat
Trailer load of material bring in by the truckload
Crazy that’s there no comparison, how we shotting this uploads
Hesitant never cleverly represent to the utmost
I never shy away from the truth I want honesty
These fake apologies are a mockery all there policies
Pandering never genuine but I’m hip to hypocrisy
Raised on this Hip Hop & not philosophy’s of Socrates
Prophecy’s prophesying I’m possibly hottest property
Profits of pound sterling monopolise the monopoly
Robbing me not an option, I’m opposite to the status quo
Never the standard keep it independent watch the papers grow
Organically still buzzing off this blank canvas
Like Jermaine Lamar Cole in up his campus
A journalist like Dream Hampton
Stronger than Samson they can’t revamp us
Empower the people like Fred Hampton did with the panthers

〈Napoleon Da Legend verse〉
This the future renaissance movement
High potent kerosene with some embalming fluid
That Pharaohgamo music that bomb atomic INS flip
My dialect sick might buy a Lexus
Internet clicks Brexit that I am legend
Napoleon my highest self is diametric
They might die before mention my name that's blind hate
My mind great I'm lining up a blind date with my fate
Since 98 been a higher mental primate
Mastered elemental climate detrimental monster
Po is constant, consistent, confident and gifted
Competent with wisdom intercontinental business
Don slickness on the Nebulon frigate, Tony Robbins
Capone Mobsters I can cold box ya
Po Sinatra, Cobayasha, Baba Yaga
Target practice Antifada

〈Harry Shotta verse〉
Yo I been actively practicing target practice
Since I was hiding that weed from my family in my matresss
I been actively active in taking tracks and holding em captive
For years and with BPMs I’m adaptive
So when we talk about codes of the game
I cracked em and the fact is
I’m classic like a Premier track with the scratches
A flipping ninja and this ain’t tinder but if it was were sonically superior so you won’t find no matches
I’m never jaded I’m keeping creative native
Tongue I talk in back to rap is basically back to my basic
Instinct, and my intuition in tuned with the the very basis
Foundation I base my life on while serving them Master aces
Complacent I’m never that I’m adjacent to all these cases
Phirosenucs all on the scene no evidence no traces
Abrasive evasive eloquent phrases on these pages
And we won’t fall like Empires did in the Middle Ages

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.