Napoleon Da Legend - Devil's Playground

〈Napoleon Da Legend verse 1〉

Behind every fortune there’s a game of devil courtship
Where they pimp the poor and export the culture by the pints
Blood suckers mix martial art gut punches
On they ranch duck hunting and feasting on slut muffins
By the time they get called out already balled out
Black Kabal Route you better Saul now
Don’t bring the salt out it’s too late,I play my cards like a statistician and put in work with sado-masochist visions
My asset is living from the casket I risen
Masses listen moving according to math I’m efficient
T 7000 artificially connected with
Intelligence from chips scientifically invented
So while you watching the net, the net is watching you
It’s psychographics studying behaviors and ya moods
Choose ya own adventure who’s controlling all ya actions
They can tell who you are based on all your interactions
And when u take another turn, reality is fractured
For calling out their fallacies the Calvary attacks ya
And it’s a domino effect cause others find ya
And follow cause you woke up the dormant light inside ya

〈Napoleon Da Legend verse 2〉

Secret password "Liber Null Psychonaut"
The bodyguard let me in thru the door behind the clock
Short wop ears looking like Spock vintage wine bottles
Business men conference in those Game of throne brothels
Blood oaths and contracts Japanese whiskey
And It’s risky they knew about the dirt I did in Sicily
The girl frisked me, she felt the piece on my hip
Shotti so big, felt like pulled out a piece of my rib
Told em chill give me back the grail I’ll let ya live
Only then did I understand how grimy this shit is
Simultaneously they took a pill out they pocket and swallowed
They rather die than give up on a trail that we can follow
12 bodies on the ground lifeless
Looking around seen a glass case surrounding a crown
I break it hold it to the light above my head
Lay it on my dome and everything I see is red
Felt like i stepped thru a portal seldom seen by the mortals
An alternate forum where perceptions are distorted
And the morals is skewed and the timeline bounces
One minute inside of Sparta then drinking tea up in China
Presiding over wars collecting all sorts of trophies
Influencing minds in manners that they don’t see
That’s when I threw the crown against wall
Unzipped my pants and pissed on it like a stall

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.