Napoleon Da Legend - Champs Elysées

〈Napoleon Da Legend verse 1〉
J’men fou du bain douche moi je suis là tant les seins bouge
Black Gainsbourg mon rap c’est du pain pour les Bourges
Arc de Triomphe, jfais la sieste avec Céline Dion
Tes un petit pion, fâché dans tes raps tout mignons
Et tes faux gun, rap shogun à la choucroute
Flow brousse Bruce lee j’ai des roots a Mulhouse
Belle baraque, pelouse vertes pour le hip-hop j'suis une bouffé d’air
Ces rappeurs photocopié y sont tous éphémères
Meme les célèbres prend l’trone comme Rockefeller
Apres Kobe j’hésite à prendre des hélicoptères
Black millionaire, j'ai joue l’joker visage poker
Comme shiryu j’ai la colère, marketing et commerce
Drug dealer j'peins des images comme Steven spielberg
C’est la franchise! J’suis l’même frangin, le franc-tireur
Satan petit coeur, pourquoi il fait si peur?
Logo sur sticker black leader marteau piqueur
Pas pour le mineur dynamiteur, dénominateur en commun
Pour tous ce qu’y est bon, toi t’es anodin
Un peu raciste anti sémite, tu manque d’éthique
J’suis tombé dans une potion d’lyrics comme Obelix
En flagrant deli comme DMX dans Belly
Grand penis qui s’est embellit dans temps grand Phénix
Avec une belle hollandaise sur une péniche, on boit du champagne
Aware comme jean Claude Van damne

〈Napoleon Da Legend refrain x2〉
Ta vendu ton âme ? Ouais on sait on sait
Toute ta clique s’fait defoncé on sait
Ta plus fric, et bien t’es fauché okay
On joue l’jeu au bal masqué oh eh oh eh

〈Napoleon Da Legend verse 2〉
Ma jeunesse cetait Teophiline et arterophilie
Ca ma donné l’feeling toujours droit au but comme Platini
Sur la platine, Hit Machine, le black king
J’frappe Bim! A l’époque je mangais sardine
Maintenant c’est couscous tagine, imagine toutes les plages clean
Pendant que l’systeme veux tous nous baiser sans vaseline
Rend moi le trône, tes pas digne tu m’fatigue
J’fait ça big, depuis l’temps des jeans baggy
Arôme Pilao Basmati ta go se maquille
Avant l’concert, ça va l’faire d’ici à Paris
Lorelle et Hardi, sur Ardisson, fiston
C’est rappeurs n’ont pas grandit, suce encore l’bibron
J’suis un bison, énorme sur la scène avec des cornes je déchaîne
Champs Elysee le guarde du corps de l’eden
Atteri a Roisy odeure moisie
On m’a choisit des l’enfance pour être un
Grand comme à Noisy

〈Napoleon Da Legend refrain x2〉
Ta vendu ton âme ? Ouais on sait on sait
Toute ta clique s’fait defoncé on sait
Ta plus fric, et bien t’es fauché okay
On joue l’jeu au bal masqué oh eh oh eh

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.