Napoleon Da Legend - Chapter 3

〈Napoleon Da Legend Verse 1〉
Coming fresh off the boat pockets full of hope
Masked up, anonymous about to pull a Ghost
Navigating inside rooms, that’s full of G.O.A.T.s
If you talking from the side of grill they gonna pull your coat
At a point, where pressure situations got comfortable
You get one life, that heartbeat is not refundable
Kiss my momma on forehead yo I got this
Watch this, put on a show regardless
Aura colossus, paparazz(i) photographers
My prerogative was nothing but to body this
Rock the house and then I’m out of there
We grabbed the bag and then we dipped out without a care
Skittles inside my pockеt like Trayvon
Hit up the after hour spot my song camе on
African Chain on, the African James Bond
Stand behind it with my life, what I put my name on
Broke thru the matrix in ‘86
U can see my destiny, written on my face since my baby pics
I ain’t afraid of it though
I let the game come to me, I ain’t chasing no more

〈Napoleon Da Legend Hook〉

This is chapter 3
Right after the first two when I mastered me
In the land of the blind grab the cash like it’s free
Any less is blasphemy
Chapter 3
Right after the first two when I mastered me
In the land of the blind will we ever be free?
I guess only in time we’ll see

〈Napoleon Da Legend Verse 2〉
Older heads misleading the younger heads
The old getting older while the youngins is dead
Staring at them hungry looking dumb at the fence
The whole system is rigged 120 percent
Had to get smarter fast, a self-starter
Had to learn to barter instead of using cash
Instead of big bangles and chains studied the angles of the game
The star spangled built out of the blood of our veins
With culture drained out of our bones our DNA and chromosomes
Ten thousand miles away from home
Hard to survive being born, got us worshipping death
Feel like our self-worth took off on a jet
And said “I’m leaving, on a next plane
I don’t know when I’ll be back again”
Now we coming for our shit like the Jacobins
You ain’t gone see us getting laid on our backs again
Coming for the gusto
Didn’t know till I was drunk... now they out of luck though
Turn the page on them ... flip the game on them
Take it to the bank, stamp it with my name on it

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.